Quote Originally Posted by File2ish View Post
It was THE hardest Maat fight. I started FFXI fairly late (when WotG was coming out), and I ended up dropping Red Mage for Dancer when I learned of the Maat fight (and some other reasons, like being a relegated to haste/refresh ONLY bot). Some parties wouldn't accept you if you didn't just heal/haste/refresh and would get mad if you did anything else (wouldn't let me skill up elemental...). Dancer was far less stressful lol.
Yeah it was pretty nuts. Players advising other players to fight him on Windsday so your Aero 3 would hit for the most and other silly things like that. What it really comes down to is Maat lets you win, because he can end the fight anytime he wants to. In all honesty, it is a fight against RNGesus, a DPS check, and a heal check.

RDMs weren't always bots. A couple patches prior to your arrival the ABC rule was heavy with them. Then along came ToAU and TP burn parties, and RDM was reduced to a shadow of what it once was. Today's SCH reminds me of yesterday's RDM. I hope the devs have learned.