Order of the Blue Garter: Open Legatus Challenge

[Orophin]

Inspired from the "Vanity Slot" thread, and a couple other posters in this one, try to complete the fight in full Santa/Reindeer gear. No time limit of course. :P

[Pebe]

Can you have sarasta post his blm set please. I would really appreciate it.
I currently sit around 406 int and 495(i don't remember exact value) magic attack potency without calculating the spinel choker +1 and lightning brand, and 470 macc with button and no minuet. So I'm assuming I should push for 515 magic acc without minuet because it looked like he didn't have it the majority of the fight. So I'm thinking of dropping my spinel choker for a mage's choker. And then maybe toss in a magic acc ring which should push me closer to 515. But I lose 18 int and 35 attack magic potency to lightning, is that loss going to be a hindrance to one shotting the meteor with thundaga and freeze to a lesser extent.

Thank you very much for your time.

Oh and Sarasta..../kneel @ you with respect, watching how you executed your role as blm in that fight was inspiring and very informative.

[Tango]

I can tell you from seeing him in game his blm set is 2nd to none:

he has (somewhat guessing from memory):
+63INT on the hat (which already has 5MAP?) Quad meld
+140 crit on his ringband of storm
+55? INT on his lightning brand
+20INT on his legs
+44lightning MAP on his shoes

avg player can't solo those meteor spots that he does, this opens a job formation that 99.9% of players can simply not touch.

He eats button mushroom +1, and I think he kept his accuracy at 500 after food.

[carraway]

But I lose 18 int and 35 attack magic potency to lightning, is that loss going to be a hindrance to one shotting the meteor with thundaga and freeze to a lesser extent.

Thank you very much for your time.

Even when we use two THMs for additional coverage, I don't think I've ever cast Freeze. Thundaga on the slow, high-HP meteors spawned while Nael charges his 2nd megaflare can help, but one-shotting them isn't a concern with what we consider the safe strat: two THMs and a BRD covering those particular meteors.

My THM set isn't anywhere close to Sarasta's, but I can still hold my own as the 2nd THM. For our speedkill, we're using him to one-shot meteors with Thunder under mega-potion of intelligence, but for a general strat, that's nowhere near necessary.

Off the top of my head, I believe I use:
Garuda's Van
Electrum Monocle with x3 INT (+11, +12, +16)
Militia Robe
Mage's Rope Belt
Mage's Halfgloves
Woolen Tights with x2 INT/PIE (+5, +7)
Mahogany Pattens with x3 m.atk (+8, +9, +11)
White Ravens
Spinel Choker +1
Zircon Bracelets +1
Coral Ring +1
Coral Ring +1

And NQ buttons on top of that, which puts me at around 515. If you belong to the Immortal Flames, the Ul'dahn Officer's Overcoat with Sanction is amazing, as long as you keep a Sanction scroll on you in case of mid-fight death.

[Meatdawg]

Even when we use two THMs for additional coverage, I don't think I've ever cast Freeze. Thundaga on the slow, high-HP meteors spawned while Nael charges his 2nd megaflare can help, but one-shotting them isn't a concern with what we consider the safe strat: two THMs and a BRD covering those particular meteors.

My THM set isn't anywhere close to Sarasta's, but I can still hold my own as the 2nd THM. For our speedkill, we're using him to one-shot meteors with Thunder under mega-potion of intelligence, but for a general strat, that's nowhere near necessary.

Off the top of my head, I believe I use:
Garuda's Van
Electrum Monocle with x3 INT (+11, +12, +16)
Militia Robe
Mage's Rope Belt
Mage's Halfgloves
Woolen Tights with x2 INT/PIE (+5, +7)
Mahogany Pattens with x3 m.atk (+8, +9, +11)
White Ravens
Spinel Choker +1
Zircon Bracelets +1
Coral Ring +1
Coral Ring +1

And NQ buttons on top of that, which puts me at around 515. If you belong to the Immortal Flames, the Ul'dahn Officer's Overcoat with Sanction is amazing, as long as you keep a Sanction scroll on you in case of mid-fight death.

I use the same set Carraway uses pretty much and get by with 500 acc.

2 blm are all you should ever need to drop the high hp meteors during his mega flare. As long as the dps is good enough up top and you can skip the fast meteors (which is after 7 i think) 2 blm can alternate easily enough to handle this phase.

The use of the mega int to one shot using a thunder is nice for 10 meteors

I would normally do blizzard -> thunder 1st then thundara 2nd, but if i could one shot them with thunder would make it a lot more efficient.

There are a lot of different setup and positions you can use for 10 meteors so as long as you can get to them reliably experiment and see what works best for your group.

[Jacien]

Out of curiosity, I noticed that Darnus doesn't do the 2x Iron Curtain to Lunar Dyanamo (preceded by "Ahhhh..", "Yeeess..." or "Just so....") like he did in Rivenroad (Normal). Was that pattern removed, or changed up?

[Technyze]

Won't this fight be in after the save point on Nov. 1st? Might see if my linkshell wants to give this a shot after that, not until then though too busy helping other members get relics, white ravens, darklight :P. Maybe some other challenges will come out too :P since there wont be anything else to do.

[Pebe]

Thank you your quick responses guys. I'm sorry it took me so long to respond, was out all day. Looking at your set caraway, it seems I'm basically good to go, just got to grab some +1 coral rings instead of zircon, and i use flame body and hat with sanction instead. Sweet, I'm a little more confident now haha. But Daaaaammmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnn 63 int hat 0.0, 55 int lightning brand... /drool.

[YuriSan]

No one focus's on DPS quite like BG that I can attest to 1st hand. Listen to the video's and hear the number keys getting hammered away shaving thousands of a second on cooldowns. When the whole party has this mentality it all adds up quickly, what BG gives up in survivability on many different encounters they make up for in pure DPS overpowering many situations. This strategy was used for Garuda skipping to clones for the world first kill and again here in P2 skipping the entire Golom phase by going from P2-100% to below 60% before his first port. There is simply no down time ever.

Run a parser its very hard to tell if someone is good or not till you see #'s

Well i was DRG last night and i hit 72ish and the other DRG hit like 82ish from what they said 90ish is
what they hit so i'd say we weren't all that bad.
(I hope to hit bigger numbers today cause that dps was me at like 04:00 am last night)...

We doing better each day though. i'm expecting a win later today!
YARRR!!

[Tango]

Grats on the win last night yuri, figure I post to help and encourage ppl who might not have started doing this fight. By taking full advantage of the strats already posted by BG and watching the 10 meteor parts of the detailed video's linked @ around 9min. in each you could probably take a group through and win in 2-3nights work.

Some tips I gathered from doing Darnus way to much:

phase 1:
-he ports like a mofo from 75-60% just deal with it and push through
-60-35% 2thm+brd same north stair platform just to be safe
-20% 2thm+brd same north stair platform just to be safe
-As soon as he's below 20% DRG run up top, don't wait for port
-when he ports up top pld/whm kite golems and leash near top > rebuff everyone

phase 2:
-hold at 80% for port up top
-When he ports: Stay together below for aoe SS + sangine(when screen flashes), full buff, drg get full TP on golom
-burn 80-59% to avoid goloms
-40% 10 meteor: watch video's at 9min. for thm+brd (south stairs) / thm+whm (north stairs)
-40% 10 meteor: the main whm on the PLD can keep macro on Holy and kill a meteor if 1 slips by, PLD save hallowed ground if this happens so WHM can get MP back up.
-after fast 10 meteor nothing special here, don't go up top for ports just do the golom TP + buff as usual.
-20% 2 thm is enough on north stairs mid platform for alternating frags till win.

10 meteor South Stairs (brd + thm):
-#2 is fast and low => thundara
-#3 is low also => brd combo

10 meteor North Stairs (thm + whm):
-#4 is fast and low (when facing stairs its down to the right) => thundara