Scholar Lvl 60 quest worst quest ever?

I have done this stupid fight multiple times and failed everytime. I have a big issue with targetting. I set the targetting to friendlies only and I STILL target the mob, wtf?? I use a controller on my pc. Anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? I've tried just dpsing the boss and killing the adds quickly and failed. I've tried just focusing on leeching the poisons and healing the npcs and still failed. I'm about to give up.

I use the left and right on D-Pad to get to everyone quickly, I did have to adjust my filters and targetting. Damage dealing isn't your major concern. it's using leeches on everyone for everything. They seem to get two debuffs on the NPC, one from the actual boss himself and the other from when the adds come out. I ran out of MP almost because I was taking care of all 3 NPCs

If you've tried just leeching and healing then I'm not sure but I found out it was because there's two debuffs and I was only focusing on one.

Yeah I use my D Pad too and for some reason, even if it's not selected in the targetting settings, I still target the mob and it acts like I locked to him when it's not locked. It won't move to the npcs and I have to manually click with my mouse. It's very annoying. I will try the targetting settings again but it definitely seems like a bug for me. Thanks for your input.

Dps him with your cleric stance from a range so that his targeted aoe won't hit the npcs, and it also helps to set your camera view so that you're looking down at all 3 npcs for easy targeting via mouse. Another thing that worked well for me was to always have all my dots and a bane ready whenever the little adds popped. It killed them instantly and I only had to leeches the npcs once.

Battle ended like 10 seconds after the tonberries arrived

I stayed far away from the NPC's, cleric dps'd, and had Eos by the Npc's and used Eos to heal them with Embrace in between applying Dots. Getting the NPC's hit with the Aoe seemed to be causing the wipes.

Ok thanks for the tips guys. I know I was close to them and yes they did get hit by the aoe at times. I will stay farther out and follow your suggestions. I appreciate it! :)

Yeah I finished this last night and it took a few tries. Basically I had to learn to keep my distance and cycle through the three tanks frequently to leech the debuffs. The ads need to be killed right away, but die quickly with a dot.

As the others said; keep your distance and just leech constantly to make sure non of the timers on any of the npcs (or yourself) reaches max. That includes ALL npcs including the Tonberries that come to help later in the fight.

For some reason when I leech the npc, they don't get cured

Never had that issue.

Bug in a recent patch? Try recording it.

Not only is the targeting crud, I can't see the debuff on my target bar. I focus target Alka Zolka, for instance, and I can see the debuffs on the FT bar, but not on his target bar. I've had this issue on and off for a while (PC version), and have taken to relying on the party list for these kinds of things, which is fine. But that does not work in this quest, and FT only helps with one target. I only got through the quest by blindly leeching all party members until I ran out of MP, then focused on Alka and whomever was tanking the small enemies. It was just a race between boss HP and time at that point. I don't understand why there is a quest that points relies on a weak spot in the UI... The fix is simple: automatically create a party with the NPC you fight with. Then it's an actually useful type of quest for a healer, in fact one we should have more of.

Yeah, that was the main reason why I failed so may times, initially.

If you don't FT or get the debuff yourself, you wouldn't have know that the NPC had status debuff since it doesn't show up in their target bar.

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Originally Posted by Theonekitten

I use a controller

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Found your problem kappa.

Really though, I did think this fight was weird. It doesn't even tell you you have to leech the NPCs.
Course I was too busy laughing at the obvious hentai implications.

http://i.imgur.com/KaXLtyy.png

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I think my reply was eaten o-o
I made a macro to leeche this specific fight as a PS3 User.

At the start of the confrontation, after he is revealed, I marked each other the 3 npcs with Triangle, circle, Square.

/macroicon Leeches
/target <triangle>
/ac Leeches <triangle>
/wait 2.5
/target <circle>
/ac Leeches <circle>
/wait 2.5
/ac Leeches <square>
/target <square>

The only reason I'm having it switch it so that you make sure you cured the important debuff, since there are multiple things that can be Leeched.

1st try here but I do target others outside the party all the time on PS4 so im used to it.

Change filter target settings and it should be fine.

Guess I got lucky then, as I one shot it on the PS4 with the controller.

Did this last night, after my first 2 tries of not knowing what the heck i was doing, i sorta of ragequit in fc chat, then took to the web, to find i was so not alone with hating on this quest. Armed with the knowledge about cleansing all three NPCs who you can't all focus target at once and who you can't easily target and dodge the aoe and cleanse every time those damn plague critters appear, i tried again, and again... and finally won. Five tries total...

i love how great you get at the first part of that picking only the ones that advance to the second part instead of clearing them all like i did my first few tries... For me so much of this game is easy, but then you hit these walls called Duties, and some can be real hair pulling experiences. Guess I am not hardcore.