Lets talk Aurum Vale

[Mykll]

My first run of the place was PLD/SCH/SMN/SMN. Only time I've ever seen three arcanists in a group before... We also simply couldn't figure out how to deal with the third boss between the utter lack of meaningful AoE (syncing at 49 is just cruel) and pets dropping to burrs they can't cleanse.

Nothing to do about pets other than to summon them again. As far as SMN AOE they have Bane. Tank needs to tank Mistress a little off to the side so it is obvious to everyone that when she runs to one of her two spots she is about to drop pods. As Mistress is running to her spot start casting your longest lasting DoT first, and proceed in reverse order to the shortest. By the time the three DoTs (I believe at 49) are cast she should have probably dropped her pods. Tank needs to keep her in dead center of her pods. Then with two SMNs Bane, the pods should melt fairly quickly. It works with one SMN, two, and even SCH added, should be even better.

[Sylari]

Nothing to do about pets other than to summon them again. As far as SMN AOE they have Bane. Tank needs to tank Mistress a little off to the side so it is obvious to everyone that when she runs to one of her two spots she is about to drop pods. As Mistress is running to her spot start casting your longest lasting DoT first, and proceed in reverse order to the shortest. By the time the three DoTs (I believe at 49) are cast she should have probably dropped her pods. Tank needs to keep her in dead center of her pods. Then with two SMNs Bane, the pods should melt fairly quickly. It works with one SMN, two, and even SCH added, should be even better.

The issue we ran into there was bad RNG with Bane spreading (Bane has a 3 target cap) and little else to fight the rest of the adds

ended up dealing with it by fastcasting titan-egi after the seeds spawn and bursting them down, then using the mage limit on the rest of the group for the second wave of seeds.

[Narcissus]

Should probably just delete the dungeon.

[Githiun]

I didn't read any of the replies.

I just want to say this Dungeon is a flippin nightmare. It's harder than Coil IMO. Did it last night with a friend for their friend. I started as my Whm who is +1 and 4i90's. Tank was terri-bad...wipe...wipe..wipe...wipe.. So my buddy switched to his +1 Whm, I switched to my Relic'd Pld. and we still got our asses handed to us.

Finally!!! after like an hour we managed to down the damn dungeon. Maybe I don't understand mechancis or something but I freakin hate this dungeon. I did realize something. First boss Next to the exit, there's a group of 3 fruit thats tucked in the corner. Thinking maybe stack casters and healers there instead of out in the open so they can be hit with Medica?? Crazy enough I want to try and do the dungeon again. I don't like thta it was so hard even with 2/4 people pretty well geared.

[Mordermi]

I don't like thta it was so hard even with 2/4 people pretty well geared.

That's exactly the thing I love about the dungeon. Since it syncs your gear down, you can't be over-geared. No matter how decked out everyone is, the dungeon can still be a challenge.

[Githiun]

Crazy thing is I really do want to keep trying the dungeon again. I don't like that it was difficult.

Can the gold lung be silenced or stunned?

[saber_alter]

Crazy thing is I really do want to keep trying the dungeon again. I don't like that it was difficult.

Can the gold lung be silenced or stunned?

no, it's an instant cast. just eat the fruit at 2 stacks.

if your talking about the morbol at the end, it can't be silenced or stunned either.

[Noahlimits]

It's harder than Coil IMO.

I just had to LOL at this comment. If you read any of the previous posts, there's VERY SIMPLE ways to beat every boss. You can stun the orge's 360 swings. You can Cleric stance holy the adds in the third boss. With a blm or bard they can AOE them down easily as well. It's just knowing what to do and not having derpy members.

[bob13bob]

"it was easy" translation: "I got lucky with right group comp AND group had decent gear (uncommon in pre 50 dungeon)."

I just had to LOL at this comment. If you read any of the previous posts, there's VERY SIMPLE ways to beat every boss. You can stun the orge's 360 swings. You can Cleric stance holy the adds in the third boss. With a blm or bard they can AOE them down easily as well. It's just knowing what to do and not having derpy members.

So what do you do if you have ST DPS and a scholar healer? Content that excludes certain groups too hard for lv47 dungeon imho

The 10-tonze swing of the second boss is confusing, it changes randomly between frontal cone and 360 degrees swing... The debuff you get on first and third bosses is worse than the whole of AK combined, AK is simple but when you're synced down full DL gear has trouble with that debuff.

Tank should get boss face away from group. 10 ton swipe can't and hsouldn't be avoided. 100 ton SWIPE is front conal hit and and avoid by running through the boss behind him. 100 ton SWING needs to be stunned every single time are you will probably wipe. No other stuns should be applied due to stun resistance.

First boss fruit should be eaten at 2+ stacks. Final boss fruit eaten at 3+ stacks. If you eat too early you'll probably run out of fruit. Final boss spawn fruit must be killed or seedlings spawn which apply a stack on every attack *ouch*. If seedlings spawn, tank grabs aggro and kites around room until seedlings are dead. have to grab a fruit before boss vines you. stack + vines = death.

[Pupwub]

Yeah Aurum Vale is pretty intense. Definitely one of the most challenging for me looking back (at least via Duty Finder.) First DF attempt we ran out of time. Second DF attempt we finished with only 5 (FIVE!!!) seconds left. Definitely need coordination killing adds and avoiding attacks...

Malboros are annoying in every FF game though, so...yeah. A dungeon filled with them and boss versions of them = ouch.