The community is about to rip me a new one thread.

[Aegis]

My Maat fight was DRK knight. Essentially a race to 0hp between the two of you.

Prep time : 2.30 (mostly sleeping).
Fight time: <30 secs

My wife's Maat fight was PLD:
Fight time: 3 days (used an exp-item to level midway through for full hp/mp recovery. Cheap, but effective)

[Amberion]

Prep time : 2.30 (mostly sleeping).
Fight time: <30 secs

Pretty much the same for RNG. You only had to hope that blink got Eagle Eye Shot and that your barrage hit with max shot. That way you could go WS -> Barrage -> Shot -> WS -> Icarus Wing -> WS = Maat gives up. Well could remove some of the steps if you had good gear enough.

[Errors]

How do you bring back something that was never in this game?

[Synapse]

What are you talking about OP...

Days of challenging a player to fight a equally skilled NPC in a solo fight is old style archaic method.

I want to log in and relic weapon should drop on my hands.

[Arkista]

I remember beating Maats ass on DRK in 20secs it was great.

[Synapse]

I remember beating Maats ass on DRK in 20secs it was great.

Fess up! u used a daedalus wing! and X pots!

[Tarushade]

Wow I made this post a couple of days ago and haven't been back since. Interesting to see ppl wouldn't mind having a solo skill challenge like Maat makes its way into ARR. I understand that some ppl got him easy, but for me, was definitely a roadblock for a couple of weeks or so. One of my most memorable feelings of gratification in gaming came from that fight. I miss it and want it back, but still enjoying my new home in ARR since launch and will for many years to come.

[Amberion]

What are you talking about OP...

Days of challenging a player to fight a equally skilled NPC in a solo fight is old style archaic method.

I want to log in and relic weapon should drop on my hands.

And then a pop-up should appear that simply say "You win the game!", and then logs you off so you can go back to busy real life stuff. ;p

[Linadae]

This right here. The hardest part (read: time consuming) of any Maat fight was the prep work before hand. Getting the testimony, the gear, skills leveled up etc. The fight itself? Over in 60 seconds or less for most.

I don't know...I think there's still some Red Mages in counseling thanks to that old fart.

I beat him as a dragoon. So Maat didn't know what hit him. Jump-> Hight Jump -> Penta thrust -> two hour -> Jump -> High Jump -> Penta thrust = Maat dead.

My dragoon mentor couldn't make it in game so he was on the phone with me during the fight and the linkshell co-leader showed up and gave a yagudo juice to hold for luck (it was the same one she had on her when she beat Maat for the first time).

When I beat Maat I ended up screeching into the phone and my mentor was yelling "WHAT? WHAT?!" I still get excited and teary-eyed thinking about it.

[FritoBandito]

I'd actually had a video of my Maat fight as RDM but it was nothing exciting. I died the first couple of attempts and finally got it.

When folks say "oh it was easy" and others say "oh you got lucky" what they are probably thinking is that you used the Sleep tactic (it's the only tactic I know of for fighting him) and how successful you were at actually landing sleep on him would depend on that "luck" they're talking about, and also how potent your attack spells were (probably Aero IV, if I remember correctly).

Luck would also kick in to determine how frequently he misses you, how infrequently he lands a critical, etc. If your Sleeps all land successfully, your spells all manage to crit, he misses you a lot, etc, and the fight seemed easy, it's because "you got lucky."