Final Fantasy XI Then...

[Darwock]

Tonight? Bloody hell.. well I guess so, anything special needed?

[Tsingtao]

Nothing special meds and food as usual should basically be a rerun of ZM4 but with anticans. For ZM8 after should be the same, depends on how long 6 takes but we could get all the way to being ready for 12 tonight.

Oh and Kerushi says if anyone needs ZM6 in his place he's happy to drop as I think he's already on 12

[bagpuss66]

I'll be on the beta as soon as my Hard Drive arrives,next week i should imagine as i had to order it from the U.S. !!! Bloody Core pack

[Darwock]

Alright!! ZM6 was my favourite fight so far aside from the shadow lord... I dropped to 1 hp and had a Antican paladin as my best pal for most of the fight - sleeps took a few attempts to stick, the plan went out the window.. perfect! Very timely cures tal, cheers! Here we go with the follow ups, not very optimistic I have to say...

[talizker]

and the brave Rargh! party were...

Too Weak



..but only just. We were so close, so very close... Mental note to self, still can't take 1300 damage from Mob WS and live /sigh.

[vwilsonuk]

Anyone know what race Mania is?

[Tsingtao]

Well ZM6 was once again a stirling success for the Jolly band from Rargh. Despite the plan going slightly south and it looking bad at one point things were recovered for an almost comfortable win. ZM8 on the other didn't go quite so well...

The fight itself was handled pretty well but in the end we just ran out of people and magic. Our preparations I think on this one let us down, had we taken reraise items, 3 or 4 ethers per mage and a few potions on each melee we would have won no questions. In the end we must have lost by around 300 - 400hp on the boss thats how close things stood but we just ran out of everything.

Count on one thing we'll be back as soon and kicking his butt soundly, just got to wait for Talizker to ding back up.

RARGH!

[talizker]

Been thinking about ZM8 and where it went wrong. I think Kerushi going down early on was the major blow which made the Hate Reset move pretty much impossible to deal with. Kerushi got hit by the same WS that killed me and took 1103 damage - I didn't see in the logs but is it safe to asume that Utsusemi was down at that point? Was it the mobs Dispel AOE that stripped Utsusemi as it did with our other buffs?

From my personal point of view the battle was going just fine MP wise until the Hate Reset which came shorty after Tsings Invincible. At that point I was close to needing Convert but after getting hate and taking a few hits it was not worth converting due to a. Lowish HP and b. Being too popular with the mob.

After my death and Re-Raise, I fired off a Thunder II which was resisted then after Tsing and Mos went down I was half way through a ES+Blizzard II when I went down again. Wish i'd used the ES on the first shot...

Still, if we can contain the damn WS on the melee's and with maybe a few more meds then i'm sure we can do this next time.

I was kicking myself for the sloppy death in Upper Delkfutt's Tower when Sneak dropped which meant it was Death x 3 for me ><. All being well i'll get Lv61 back tonight so will be good to go again tomorrow?

*oh, and I didnt get chance to say it last night but big thanks to Kerushi for coming along to help with this when he had already completed it. Sorry for the death buddy...

[Darwock]

Hmmm, I feel largely responsible, since I went down without re-raise and had mp remaining. However my MP would have been reduced due to weakness which wouldn't have left me with any decent nukes, so if you reckon he had 300-400 left then I guess that wouldn't have clinched it. At least I hope not.

Guilty of underestimating it here, I didn't expect something as close as our first Holla attempt. When I found out it was a single mob I didn't actually think I'd be able to hurt it at all, so at least I know different now.

[Tsingtao]

I had lots of thoughts about last night as well, if I'd remembered to use my yags straight out it would have helped, may have had enough MP to save me at the end. If after reraise I'd tried to kite while mos got MP we may have won, god only knows why I tried straight tanking.

Hate reset is a mighty pain in the pants but not sure what we can do about it. Have to just try and let the melees refix hate before the next nuke or something. Other than that though we did well I think, so close yet so far. Time for everyone to go get the Delkfutts Keys.

[Tobal]

One of his Special?s negates shadows, and it is a hard fight.

I think wedge and mine setup was unusual, Pld, Pld, Rng, Brd, Sam, Whm. Pld?s tanked between them, I Sata?d between them so hate didn?t move away.

[Darwock]

Have to just try and let the melees refix hate before the next nuke or something.

This had me worried a couple of times, I would be mid-cast on a big one and he'd use that move, there was no way I could get out of the nuke. I don't think it ever caused him to come after me immediately though.

[talizker]

One of his Special?s negates shadows, and it is a hard fight.

That would explain both mine and Kerushi death then. I got hit for 1300 with Stoneskin up which usually does a fine jobn with things like Avatar Prime AOE etc.

That said I am still very happy with how close we came to sucess, especially considering we had a Lv60 and Lv61 which are generally considered to be at least 5 levels too low for these.

With Kerushi, Tsing and Zav all up after the hate reset, that may have been enough to hold attention away from the Mages. I think Convert may have to be synchronised with Invinsible as I need a couple of Cure IV's to get my HP back.

[Darwock]

Incidentally I'm still wondering what happened to ZM7! The part it seems to refer to was what we did in ZM6, so when did it happen? O_o

[Kerushi]

Mania Is hume. Yep My shadows were down, there was no point in casting them cause they would not have gone up. I was reaching for an X-potion I had levt over from ENM runs but his attack rate was faster than the X-potion timer ><. My modem died on me and RR wore a few seconds before I dropped. This thread feels more like a forensics room atm. ZM 7 is placing the crystal fragments in to the headstones. Tal your levels are fine for the battle. Its just we dropped too easily.