Before I post, time to say I fixed the comments! Wahoo. No more spam hopefully, which means I might restore the side chatbox ;p
A Malicious Manifest
This week for SML’s random event, we decided to actually do the BCNMs instead of just farming them, in fact we didn’t farm it at all, we wanted to win dangit!
Traded our items to the door and ahead we went, and boy we learned from our mistakes of last time.
The first time we did it, it went terrible, but it was a learning experience as there wasn’t much information about the BCNMs - however I shall share some infos!
The battle is against Tzee Xicu the Manifest + 4x Wind Elementals. Killing these elementals means they’re gone for the rest of the fight, they cannot respawn. This is a good thing, as Tzee can use his 2 hour Astral Flow , however unlike other monsters he doesn’t pop an avatar to flow us with so I’m thinking it’s tied to the elementals (I wonder what happens if he flows with eles up, do they turn into garuda?).
Last time We tried to sleepga the elementals and kill the boss. Elementals came down and raped us. These things are 100% Immune to sleep :p Then we tried to straight tank the NM in the corner while the rest of us kill elementals, aeroga3 spam also ended this for us
So we ended up wiping, once again, no information on the fights really.
This time around we decided to kite it from the get go (we were straight tanking it to start with but found kiting it more efficient, less deaths overall). Setups were : PLD PLD WHM BRD SCH (if a rdm logged in we woulda taken a rdm too :p) , RNG RNG DRK BRD WHM , BLU BLM BLM BLM SCH - to the best of my memory, but I am sure I’m forgetting someone. PLDs kite everything downstairs in the biiiiiiiiig open space, or upstairs if they choose also. Elementals have linked hate to the NM so we had a ranger shadowbind one then BLMs go to town. We also had our BLU stunbutting it nonstop so less chance of it moving around. After all eles died, the fight was a joke, keep kiting it and have Rangers/BLMs eat it alive. End! The Treasure chest pops where Tzee initially spawns.
I didn’t SS both treasure pools, the second pool matched the first one but with even less rare/ex items. Hiss/boo.
Dynamis Tavnazia
Dyna tav was all fun as usual. Today we changed the strat up a bit and finally found our sweet spot. Enough DDs to keep monsters flowing, enough BLM to keep things asleep mostly, enough stunners to keep mobs constantly locked down, enough tanks to not be a burdon! PT setups : PLD/WAR x2 WHM RDM BRD BLU - DRK SAM THF MNK (all /nin) RDM BRD - BLM BLM BLM RNG RNG BRD.
No amazing AF2, but we did get some really nice Hydra pieces! Hydra haubert and brayettes are the two most notable pieces. Xarca AF2 could have only been topped by PUP! We also got 2x -1 legs (not pictured), BLU and DRK.
Screenshot Gallery!
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Tzee Xicu's Elemental being fought
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Tzee Xicu using Astral Flow
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Tzee being fought downstairs
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FAIL
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Dynamis Tavnazia!