Thnaks to Luvbunny for this guide.
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Atmas to have:
The basic set: Ducal Guard (quested), Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin, Gnarled Horn, Stronghold, Future Fabulous, Ultimate
The elemental damage set: Atma of the Cosmos + Banisher (dark), Atma of the Claw (Earth), Atma of Smoldering Sky + Lone Wolf (fire), Atma of the Beyond + Undying (ice), Atma of the Beyond + Sellsword (light), Atma of the Lion + Blinding Horn (thunder), Atma of the Noxious Fang + Tusked Terror (water), Atma of the Gales (wind)
SUMMONING MAGIC - what does it do exactly?
It affect the duration of your Blood Pact ward and its effectiveness, and made it possible to reach their maximum time allowed. ALSO it affect your Avatar Physical and Magical Accuracy by a great deal, a summoner with low level summon magic can still land Predator Claw for those OMG nice numbers, but you will miss a lot by a great deal and your PC won't land all three hits so the number can seems so random with lots of lows and few highs. This one is a royal pain to skill ups, but doing a lot of these small groups NMs hunting will get you a great deal of skill ups.
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Amhuluk - Abysea Misareux
Avatar used: Garuda for wind resist
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
Notes: Extremely easy, healing salve 1 and 2 helps if things get worse, bring dawn mulsum for emergency. Dual with beast master will speed up kill, trio with blm will most likely get you those plus 2 drops.
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Asanbosam - Abysea Misareux
Avatar used: Garuda
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: same as above. Since you are nearby, just try to claim this NM and kill it for another KI for Amhuluk. Easy fight, heal avatar as needed.
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Sedna - Abysea Vunkerl
Avatar used: Ramuh for water resist, also can use Leviathan
BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Thunderstorm, Spinning Dive
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
Notes: Extremely easy, healing salve 1 and 2 helps if things get worse, bring dawn mulsum for emergency. Sedna can't even hurt Ramuh much if you are choosing the Razed Ruin + Ducal + MC combo. If you are bringing blm to proc, take care of hate reset, trio with beast and blm is safer - Sedna hate reset is notorious if you don't have dual pet jobs, it will go after your black mage with vengeance - make sure the BLM has Apoc atma. Yellow proc is rather tricky due to the NM spam its tp moves and magic, dispelling aqua veil is recommended.
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Ironclads family - Abysea Vunkerl, Atthowa, Misareux etc
Avatar used: Leviathan is best here, can also use Ramuh. All Ironclad very weak to Grand Fall. Garuda works too.
BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Thunderstorm, Grand Fall, Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for extra water damage
Notes: Take care with their stun moves, hate resets, and encumbrance. Great to collect those plus 2 on your own. Rather slow to solo, best to duo with other summoners. Unfortunately I found that dancer, thf, monk, plus white mage combo can kill it faster. Duo blms as well. Leviathan is for all magical BP, while Garuda if you wanna go all out physical offensive.
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Iratham - Abysea Tahrongi
Avatar used: Ifrit for fire and ice resist.
BP Rage: Flamming Crush, Meteor Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh
Notes: soloing can be rather long 20mnts or more. Especially if you are going for all out defensive due to Ifrit unable to heal itself. Best to duo with other summoners or beast master and split the plus 2 drops. If you are going all offensive, ducal guard is a must, and make sure have healing salve 1+2 and 4-5 dawn mulsum for emergency, as well all your mp recovery temp items.
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Bennu - Abysea Altepa
Avatar used: Garuda for wind resist or Shiva, Bennu is weak to ice
BP Rage: Predator Claw - Heavenly Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Atma of the Beyond for ice damage, Atma of the Ultimate.
Notes: This one is best to duo with another summoner. Garuda and Shiva will make a perfect combo for this. Have summoner with garuda to go all out defense with the other summoner use shiva for all out damage. Summoner + Beast + Blm can also make a nice trio if you are looking for yellow proc. Best NM to farm if you want to get Coin of Ardor x 3 from yellow proc for SMN Doublet +2
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Dragua - Abysea Altepa (Can be done with the new gear now)
Avatar used: Garuda and Titan for earth resist and petrify resist - Dragua is weak to wind
BP Rage: Predator Claw, Wind Blade
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Atma of the Gales for wind damage, Atma of the Ultimate.
Notes: This one is not to solo, best to trio + yellow proc job. If one of the summoner is fully meriting Wind Blade, have that person set their atma to minikin, gales, ultimate for big damage. The other two summoners should have ducal + razed ruin, and third atma of your choosing: mounted champion, minikin, gnarled horn, sanguine scythe. Bring a good amount of mp recovery. Take care of its AOE attack, since it can be very deadly to a taru summoner. Also beware of its petrification move. Predator Claw may do random amount of damage, keep at it even if you see low damage number. Wind Blade is more consistent if you fully merited and use Atma of the Gales + Ultimate.
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Battlerigged Chariot - Abysea Altepa
Avatar used: Ifrit or Leviathan for fire resist
BP Rage: Flaming Crush - Spinning Dive, Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh
Notes: Not hard to solo, this is not the version to pop Rani, take care of the spikes, should be fine with Ifrit or Leviathan, spikes doing 5-10 damage. May need to resummon, just run back and forth near dominion area, take care not too close to bombs or dolls - magic aggro. Be prepared to get 0 drops unless you can get a thief friend to TH for you.
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Itzpapalotl - Abysea Attohwa
Avatar used: Leviathan for fire resist, can use Ifrit but may need to resummon
BP Rage: Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Noxious Fang, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, can also use Ultimate
Notes:Very easy with Leviathan, but NM's dia move can slowy do damage to Leviathan's hp, bring dawn mulsum if you are not planning to resummon. Easily solo, if you need yellow proc, make sure the blm do it after its hp around 80% or so and your avatar is kept alive throughout the fight. A trio of summoner + blm + thief could also works if you want to maximize the drops, just make sure the thief not to draw too much hate and only there to bring TH. Drop coin of ardor for SMN Doublet +2
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Turul - Abyssea - Konschtat
Avatar used: Garuda for wind resist
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue, Future Fabulous if you want magic defense bonus.
Notes: Duo is best here, spikes can be deadly later on and you may need to resummon. Since you may want to get blue proc, suggest to bring a third to do just that. If your third can proc blue then more power to your set up. Otherwise battle is similar to Amhuluk but with the thunder spells and spikes.
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Battlerigged Chariot - Abysea Altepa
Avatar used: Leviathan - spring water helps a ton or can also use Garuda if you rather Predator Claw it to death
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Spinning Dive, Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion or Stronghold, Minikin for refresh for Tank build, or Noxious Fang, Razed Ruin for damage.
Notes: This one has more hp than its cousin, it is the version to pop Rani, discoid can be deadly if you are too near, just run back and forth near dominion area or the tunnel, dawn mulsum and healing salve handy for emergency. If you need KI, there is 50/50 you may get it without proc if you stand very near to the NM when it's about to die. Obviously if you have a friend who can do red and blue proc for you, you should bring him along.
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Ovni - Abyssea La Theine
Avatar used: Garuda
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold for regen or Minikin for refresh
Notes: Solo is doable, just may be a tad slow. Duo is best. Plus 2 drops is random without proc, can drop 0-2, since its repop is not too bad, it's manageable. Drops plus 2 for SMN feet. Just straight tanking with Predator Claw and Whispering Wind.
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Ulhuadshi - Abysea Attohwa
Avatar used: Garuda for earth resist, whispering wind to heal
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Minikin for refresh, Razed Ruin
Notes: Do take care when it is using a tp move, you do not want to BP Rage after since it will heal it. Watch the damage information, when Garuda does damage, use BP, when it uses tp move, Garuda attack will heal it, 50-70 to 170s critical. May have to resummon eventually, so do take care when you kite back and forth between the worm and eft areas. You will want to proc yellow on this to get twice the amount of plus 2 drops. The nice thing about this NM, only need 2 KIs that easily farmed. Coin of vision for Smn Caller Horn +2. If you managed to yellow proc, only need to pop this 2-3 times.
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Hrosshvalur - Abysea Vunkerl
Avatar used: Ramuh for water resist, also can use Leviathan
BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Thunderstorm, Spinning Dive
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
Seals drop: feet for Smn, Blu, Rng, Bst
Notes: This NM is needed as one of the 2 KI to pop Sedna, does not link with other pupils. It does have hate reset, so please buff yourself and get ready to cure 4, I would have mounted champion on since waterja can be rather bad for taru summoner, overall it's easy fight other than the hate reset. The hate reset can be a bit chaotic, please do not dismiss it, it can kill you if it happens to spam its tp moves. KI is 50-50 chance without red proc.
While you are in the area, you might as well pop the other NM for the second KI set for Sedna
Iku-Turso - Abysea Vunkerl
Same strategy as above. Hate reset is not an issue at all, rather very very easy to kill - can also team up with the soloer who may need some seals from it. Leviathan is your best bet on this battle. With Razed Ruin, Spinning Dive is averaging close to 3k. None of Iku-Turso water based attack deal any big damage. DO NOT come near this NM since it can kill you in one shot when you get hit with its AOE.
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Karkadann - Abysea Vunkerl
Avatar used: Ramuh for thunder resist.
BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Shock Squals
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh
Notes: I would suggest to duo this NM, have one SMN go all out defense atma set up for Ramuh and the other set for ultimate critical damage with Ramuh. Do take care with its 2 TP move that has area effect and hate reset, work it out so the other SMN will BP rage after that to get hate back. Try to get his atma, is a very nice one for SMN Ramuh and Blue Mage. This is another rather easy NM for plus 2, with only 2 KI needed from NMs that no one bother to camp. Ninja and Whm item are 100% drop so you can share it with others. Without yellow proc, plus 2 can be random 0-2.
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Cirein-Croin - Abysea Misareux
Avatar used: Garuda, use whispering wind to self heal
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
Notes: Solo is fine but hate reset can be troublesome, healing salve 1 and 2 helps if things get worse, bring dawn mulsum for emergency when it uses Deathgnash. Recommended to duo/trio to maximize drop rate on plus 2.
Further notes: Leviathan is actually a better tank on this mob, but for some reason spinning dive will miss often and not do as much damage. Cirein Coin tp attack will not do much damage to Leviathan compared to Garuda or Shiva, both took heavy damage. BUT as summoner is atrocious in hate management, using Leviathan while you are trio-ing will make this NM go after your other friend when it does hate reset. Other jobs such as dual BLM/RDM would make a much faster work on this NM.
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Briareus - Abyssea La Theine
Avatar used: Garuda, whispering wind for self heal
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold for regen or Minikin for refresh
Notes: Solo is doable, just may be a tad slow. Duo is best. Helm is 1-2 drops, at least 1 is guaranteed, plus 2 is random so bring thief and blm if you want them both to drop. Do take care when you use Whispering Wind or Healing Salve or Dawn Mulsum - wait a bit after Collosal Slam tp due to zombie effect.
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Isgebind - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Ifrit for ice resist.
BP Rage: Flamming Crush, Meteor Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh. If you plan to use other avatar than Ifrit, make sure to have Isgebind atma for ice resist.
Notes: Not recommended to solo, too slow and can be challenging. Duo is better, or trio if you need blue for weapons and red for atma. Make sure have healing salve 1+2 and 4-5 dawn mulsum for emergency, as well all your mp recovery temp items. Best to have balanced atma and razed ruin is a must otherwise damage would be severely hampered. Take care of the paralysis aura and terror. Other than that, his blizzard spells will do pitiful damage to Ifrit. Do not come near the NM as it about to cast, take extra caution with distance.
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Hedjejet - Abysea Altepa
Avatar used: Garuda and Shiva, Hedjejet is weak to ice and wind, especially Heavenly Strike
BP Rage: Predator Claw - Heavenly Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Atma of the Beyond for ice damage, Atma of the Ultimate.
Notes: This one is best to duo with another summoner. Garuda and Shiva will make a perfect combo for this. Have summoner with garuda to go all out defense with the other summoner use shiva for all out damage. Take care with hate reset move, have another summoner sub scholar for dispel with dark arts to get rid of its attack bonus, poison aura is annoying so make sure you rotate avatars between Shiva and Garuda, kite near flux 3. Take care of petrification and bindga.
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Awahondo - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar
BP Rage: Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage
Notes: You can solo it but slower kill, best with summoner duo with double Leviathan, mob will die faster, very little challenge, just rotate Grand Fall and Spring Water, with Slowga and Tidal Roar here and there. Hardly even need to resummon avatar during the entire battle. Both summoners can do noxious fang set up, or one summoner can choose to have full tank atmas. Items drop are decent even without blue proc.
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Impervious Chariot - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar
BP Rage: Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage, Ultimate
Notes: Best with summoner duo with double Leviathan, somewhat challenging, just rotate Grand Fall and Spring Water, with Slowga and Tidal Roar here and there. Do take care with its tp move. Have one summoner go with all out defense atma set up, and the other with pure magical for Grand Fall boost, both should have ducal guard to mitigate damage from discoid. Do not wander too near when its readying tp move.
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Refitted Chariot - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar
BP Rage: Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage, Ultimate
Notes: Can solo easily or duo with double Leviathan, very little challenge other than discoid tp move, just rotate Grand Fall and Spring Water, with Slowga and Tidal Roar here and there. This is the easy version of the two Chariot. Your atma build is up to you, Razed Ruin will make Leviathan critical more often but lower damage from Noxious Fang - though in the end is a better option since your avatar able to hold hate.
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Long Barreled Chariot - Abyssea Altepa
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar. You can also use Garuda.
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage, Ultimate
Notes: Can solo easily or duo with double Leviathan/Garuda, same strategy with other Chariot, but this one is a bit harder and slower kill if you plan to solo - this is the one to pop Rani. Your atma build is up to you, Razed Ruin will make Leviathan critical more often but lower damage from Noxious Fang - though in the end is a better option since your avatar able to hold hate. KI is 50/50 chance, items drop are rather severe without proc.
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Teekesselchen - Abyssea Grauberg
Avatar used: Titan and Ramuh is great, but cannot self heal, Leviathan and Garuda works as well.
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Predator Claw, Chaotic Strike, Mountain Buster.
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Future Fabulous
Notes: You need magic damage mitigation, Future Fabulous is a must if you want to survive its magic attack. Summoner duo is recommended. Need to use your rage BP to stun his magic casting, and Shock Squal as well, both summoners must work together to take turn stunning his magic casting. If you are bringing black mage to proc, be aware that the blm may die when avatar is desummoned. Take care of AOE sleep, silence, bring echo drops, and spread out so you don't get hit by AOE. Sub Whm or Scholar. If you decide to solo, be prepare to kite around flux 6, away from the pots.
One of the best trio set up for this is Smn/Whm using Titan (Mountain Buster does 4k ish), Blue/Ninja (spamming stun spell on its AOE) and Blm/Brd. With a good blue, this NM will not be able to land any of its AOE spells making the battle super easy. Also with this set up you cover blue, bard, ninja, blm proc spells. Make sure your blue tank backward in case of spikes, spam those blunt blue spells which does 1k-2k damage, this NM will go down so fast.
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Recounter Chariot - Abyssea Grauberg
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar. You can also use Garuda.
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage, Ultimate
Notes: Can solo easily or duo with double Leviathan/Garuda, same strategy with other Chariot, this is the easy version, NOT the one you need to pop Raja. KI is 50/50 chance, items drop are rather severe without proc.
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Assailer Chariot - Abyssea Grauberg
Avatar used: Ramuh and Titan, if you have Future Fabulous Atma, can use Leviathan
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Chaotic Strike, Mountain Buster
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang, Future Fabulous
Notes: This is the harder version of all the Chariots. Solo is not recommended. You will need duo at minimum and your warrior to help proc red for your KI. It is quite a dilemma, Titan and Ramuh will survive his magic attack, but will die eventually because of discoid. One summoner may have to go full tank with 2 atmas that give regen while the other Summoner can use Leviathan (Ducal, Future Fabulous, Noxious Fang) and spam Grand Fall. Take care of areas, and do not cluster together. Always have your blink, stoneskin, aquaveil up.
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Gamayun - Abyssea Grauberg
Avatar used: Shiva
BP Rage: Heavenly Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Atma of the Beyond, Minikin for refresh, Future Fabulous.
Notes: Moderately easy to solo with Shiva, just take care of its two hours. Your atma built is up to you, if you want to use Beyond + Ultimate + Ducal for max ice damage, or play it safe and use one regen atma. Obviously you are here for the seals, so having another summoner and a black mage for yellow proc may speed up the battle. Either sub ninja or whm and fully buffed at all times in case of bad luck. Make sure you have plenty of temp items handy. I suggest to use Future Fabulous or Ascending One if you want to be on the safe side and survive Aerial Blast.
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Koios - Abyssea Altepa
Avatar used: Garuda
BP Rage: Predator Claw, Wind Blast
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Atma of the Gales, Razed Ruin, Minikin
Notes: Similar to Gamayun, moderately easy to solo-trio, take precaution of its 2 hours. Garuda can last longer than Shiva. Your atma built is up to you, razed ruin if you plan to Predator Claw often, Gales if you plan to use Wind Blade more. Bring Blm for your yellow proc, and make sure you have your temp items and dawn mulsum handy for emergency in case you plan to keep avatar out and not resummon.
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Sippoy - Abyssea Vunkerl
Avatar used: Leviathan
BP Rage: Spinning Dive
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Future Fabulous, or Razed Ruin
Notes: This is your old school battle of kiting summoner. You will have a chance to BP rage every fresh new leviathan, you must keep your distance since Sippoy has annoying AOE moves that can devastate summoners, especially when he is at low hp - it will constantly spam this which results to a dead summoner. Not sure why you wanna solo this, but it is doable but long battle. If you want to brag about it, go ahead
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Hm'Zdei - Abyssea Vunkerl (Tier II VNM)
Avatar: Ifrit, for ice resistance
BPs of Note: Meteor Strike and Inferno Howl
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: A very easy solo, for those who need to get to the Tier III VNM. No need to re-summon or even use a curative. The pull can be a little tricky, however, as this NM likes to hide near Lord Varney and the hoard of sound aggro bats.
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Ketea - Abyssea Vunkerl (Tier III VNM)
Avatar: Shiva, for ice resistance
BPs of note: Rush
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Voracious Violet
Notes: Ketea absorbs magic unless his mouth is open, so I shied away from Ifrit (As far as I remember, Meteor Crush has a slight magical element to it, and I wasn't willing to risk my Tier III VNM pop to find out it would be absorbed). Shiva and Ketea were pretty much even for most of the fight, as far as HP percentage goes. I used one dawn mulsum at around the 50% mark, and finished the fight with no problems and no re-summons. Overall, the fight took about 15 minutes.
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Smok - Abyssea Attohwa
Avatar: Leviathan, for fire resistance
BPs of note: Grand Fall and Spring Water
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: This fight took a long time solo, and Smok was well into his full rage time when he died. Once he is raging, his Tebbad Wing can get very nasty. Make sure to time your blood pact commands in between Smok's TP moves so that you don't get caught in Tebbad Wing's AoE radius.
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Titlacauan - Abyssea Attohwa
Avatar: Ifrit, for both fire and ice resistance
BPs of Note: Meteor strike and Inferno Howl
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: With Ifrit easily eating most of this NM's spells and abilities with his elemental resistances, there are only 3 things to worry about with this NM - Silence, Death, and Comet. Echo drops deal with Silence, leaving only those last two. Keep Blink, Stoneskin, and Aquaveil up at all times in case you need to re-summon! There is just enough room to kite this NM East to West without drawing aggro from the Hounds to the North or the Skeletons to the South. This would also be much easier as a duo, since only Comet would then become an issue.
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Es'euvhi - Abyssea Attohwa (Tier II VNM)
Avatar: Garuda, for wind and earth resistance
BPs of Note: Predator Claws and Whispering Wind
Atmas: Voracious Violet, Razed Ruins, Gnarled Horn
Notes: Pure offense! The above atma set is my preferred when going for pure Predator Claws - which takes very satisfying 4,000 to 5,000 pt chunks out of this guy's hp. Garuda resists all of his spells, so use Whispering Wind liberally as needed, and you won't even need to re-summon. This NM sometimes opens with Break when you spawn him, so I'd recommend subbing Whitemage for Barpetra, just in case. He also sometimes spawns in antlion territory - between Confluxes 2 & 4 - so make sure to keep sneak up when you find yourself over there.
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Mx,grah - Abyssea Misareux (Tier II VNM)
Avatar: Garuda
BPs of note:Predator Claw, Whispering Wind
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Voracious Violet.
Note: Very easy, go pure offense, pop during blunt time if you want to get a chance for Apollo flute to drop.
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Tristitia - Abyssea Misareux (Tier III VNM)
Avatar: Ramuh or Titan, for thunder resistance
BPs of note: Chaotic Strike, Mountain Buster, Earthen Ward
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion or Stronghold, Voracious Violet. Can use Minikin instead of MC if you low on MP.
Notes: Rather easy to duo with Titan and Ramuh. Just make sure to stay away when it is casting its AOE spells. Nothing to worry at all, easy to proc with a black mage in party. Drop plus 2 for summoner empyrean legs.
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Bakka - Abyssea Konschtat
Avatar: Shiva, for ice resistance
BPs of Note: Heavenly Strike.
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: Shiva laughs at this NM's ice spells, and his weak melee hits are barely noticeable. The only tricky part of this is getting a clean pull. Targeting an imp in the middle of a bunch of other imps is... tricky. Once you can give the Assault command, you can move back to the safety of Conflux 8 and give the Hold command to pull your avatar (and the NM) to you. After that, this NM is a pushover.
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Tunga - Abyssea Attowha
Avatar: Garuda
BPs of note:Predator Claw, Whispering Wind, Wind Blade
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin, or Atma of the Gales.
Note: Tunga can be a bit tricky to solo due to its hate reset and breakga chain spell. Garuda as usual resist all its stone spells and more often than not its breakage and Predator Claw does a nice 5k damage with Razed Ruin and max summon magic. You must pay attention to its hate reset and poison effect to your avatar, make sure healing salve and clear salve is in your inventory plus mp/hp recovery temp items in case of emergency. Other than that this NM is quite easy. The other two NMs for the zone boss KI pop set is best to duo war + whm for red proc.
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Carabosse - Abyssea LaTheine
Avatar: Garuda
BPs of note:Predator Claw, Whispering Wind
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin, or Stronghold
Note: I duo-ed this battle with beast master using Dipper Yully, make sure as Summoner you sub scholar, use dark arts and dispel all Carabosse's buffs. Pretty much easy battle, predator claw often, have the beast to sub white mage to help with status removal. Cara will benediction and cure itself but it should not pose too much of a threat. Duo took 15 mnts or so. I would imagine it would take too long for it to be useful when you solo. Trio would be much faster kill, if you are doing empyrean, would be best to gather 1-2 other people. Watch out for her various mode, and keep your distance, she can spam Breakga and will petrify you. If you are duo-ing as summoner, Garuda + Fenrir is good combo, mainly you want to use Fenrir dispelga BP.
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Lusca - Abyssea Attohwa (Tier III VNM)
Avatar: Leviathan
BPs of note: Grand Fall, Spinning Dive
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Voracious Violet, or Ultimate, can also use Noxious Fang for water damage
Notes: Lusca has two mode, magical and physical, if it is on magical mode - you have to kite and your avatar should not melee, run around and use Grand Fall, if it is on physical mode, have it attack and use Spinning Dive. Pretty straight forward but be careful not to kite around Agressor Antlion spawn area. I suppose you can use Garuda or Shiva as well, but Leviathan is the better tank overall. Bring your friend to yellow proc this thing since it drops rather nice collection of plus 2. Do be careful of its conal attack, Siphon Discharge, and make sure your buffs are all up and barwartera as well.
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Alkonost - Abyssea Konschtat
Avatar: Shiva
BPs of note: Rush, Frost Armor
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: Started with a fairly straightforward NM that I've beaten before on MNK.
With the somewhat defensive setup above Shiva rarely dipped below full health. Alkonost did very little damage, even with special moves. Frost Armor caused paralysis on him quite well.
Back Heel and Hoof Volley both reset hate, so he heads for you after these moves, but with Aquaveil, Blink and Stoneskin up there wasn't any concern and Shiva quickly gained hate back.
So far I'm 0/6 on the Atma, so bringing a friend for red procs is highly recommended!
Additional note - tried this with Garuda, with much the same effect; Shiva was possibly slightly faster.
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Mielikki - Abyssea Attohwa
Avatar: Garuda
BPs of note: Predator Claws, Whispering Wind
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin
Notes: Fairly slow solo with Garuda's Predator Claws doing reasonable damage. I went with Garuda for the earth resistance. Ifrit deals more damage, but Mielikki casts many earth based spells - with Whispering Wind there was no need to resummon, just kept my MP topped up with temporary items.
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Yannei - Abyssea Attohwa
Avatar: Garuda and Ramuh
BPs of note: Predator Claw, Chaotic Strike, Shock Squal to stun his casting.
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin (one summoner do more damage set up, the other more defensive with Ramuh).
Notes: I decided to duo this since it is very tough to solo it. Please note that we brought a beastmaster - one of the summoner dual box - and put it on hold till Yannei hp is at 25%. The fight is not so bad, very straightforward, and communicating between summoners when their avatar is about to die to take turn resummoning. When Yannei's hp hit 25% he start doing that terror move which can be deadly, since he also do draw in and terror move + bio. If you get caught in it, you may die - hence the beast was used to buy some time in case this happen. Otherwise this is just a slightly harder version than the other 3 cature, but definitely not as hard as Rani and Raja.
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Jailor of Faith - The Garden of Ru'Hmet
Avatar: Garuda, for the earth resistance.
BPs of Note: Predator Claws and Whispering Wind
Notes: This was a pretty easy duo. The tricky part was in spawning him, and then getting to the the large, square-shaped central room where we fought him without drawing aggro on the way. Watch out for the occasional Breakga! Other than that, just be sure to coordinate with your duo buddy to make sure there's always at least one Garuda out there on the NM.
(OK, technically it wasn't a complete Summoner duo, as our party did finally catch up to us when it was around the 20% HP remaining mark. We could have easily finished the fight on our own, though.)
A single Summoner could probably solo this by kiting it around the central room - which has a nice square-shaped hole in the middle to accommodate running in giant circles.
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Chasmic Hornet
Abyssea - La Theine
Avatar: Shiva
BP: H.Strike & Frost armor
Atma: Ducal Guard, Minikin, Beyond
Notes: hated this ***. Hate control during Frenzy pollen is key. That alone will win or lose this fight, at least way i did it. now ive soloed this guy plenty of times, but dying from that damn final attack is not a win in my book. the paralyze on Frost armor will help w/ the Frenzy Pollen HF effect but the hate rest is where you need to be careful.
Let avatar hit bee before hitting an attack BP then after a good hit then run and take care of yourself.
then watch his HP, that last bit is tricky part he will frenzy pollen constantly. time you BP to kill him before he does his "final sting"
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Flame Skimmer
Abyssea - Misareaux
Avatar: Shiva
BP: H.Strike & Frost armor
Atma: Ducal Guard, Minikin, Beyond
Notes: after my lessons that i learned w/ Chasmic hornet this guy wasn't a big deal. it was the other flies. i ran between the bridge and small peninsula of area by flux and he would go into river to chase after me and didnt go near them. I believe ice spikes did just as much damage to him as Heavenly stike
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Bukhis - Abyssea Vunkerl
Avatar: Ifrit, for ice resistance.
BPs of Note: Flaming Crush and Inferno Howl
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruins.
Notes: Bhukis is another guy that can flat out wreck a good day. He packs hefty AoE moves with a wide range of nasty, crippling effects the worst of which include stripping Cruor buffs, potent Max HP Down, and Doom. If he gets nasty, even a well prepared team can slip up and have problems.
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Lord Varney - Abyssea Vunkerl
Avatar: Garuda, for wind resistance.
BPs of note: Predator Claws and Whispering Wind
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruins
Notes: Varney drops one of the KIs needed to spawn Bukhis. A really easy solo, using the same atma setup as I did on Bukhis himself. With Sneak up and you can easily get within range to use Assault without aggro from the bats surrounding him. Just make sure to be well past the bats in a safe location before using Retreat to call Garuda (and the NM) to you. Easy peasy.
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Ulhudashi Abbysea-Attohwa
Avatar-Garuda
Atmas-RR,MM(or if mp np, use gales), and DG
bps-wind blade, preditor claws
fight-lead the thing into the little canyon and then run close to where the efts are, and use your bps, try your best to not do any bps while it's tp moving, or that will give it health back, I kept garuda's life up by whispering wind, and just kept at it. If you'd like to make the fight faster duo with some other summoners or beastmaster, and trio with a black mage if you want extra vision coins (especially since I needed 24), good luck and happy hunting
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Cannered Noz - Abyssea Tahrongi
Avatar: Ramuh
BPs of note: Chaotic Strike, Shock Squall
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Mounted Champion
Note: Defensive set up as this takes a while - whilst only a few Chaotic Strikes are needed to kill, the multiple reraises really draw this out. After the seventh reraise it gets the ability to cast Death - this is where I found Shock Squall to be useful. Pulled from the pop to the long valley for kiting.
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Dhorme Khimaira - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Ramuh for thunder resist
BP Rage: Shock Squall, Chaotic Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion, Stronghold, Minikin for refresh (pick any three that suits you)
Notes: Not recommended to solo, too slow and can be challenging. Duo is better, or trio if you need yellow proc or red proc for KI. You must stun when it tries to cast Thunder on itself. You can do your BP rage, Shock Squall, or come BLM sub and stun it. It will cast high Thunder magic when you pop. Do not come near, because its TP move is AOE and can stun and paralyze you for awhile, also has Bio.
If you are soloing, and sub WHM or SCH, please bring dawn mulsum x 5. Use your healing salve 1 & 2. This mob does not have much hp but trying to get yellow proc can be a bit tricky. Other than that a great source for blue mage and warrior body seal. Have the other SMN set up total tank atma (with 2 regen atma), and you can do total DD atma (ducal is still a must). The nice thing about this mob is that it has a high magic resistance so your blm won't have to worry too much about getting hate as long as he/she wait before spamming the proc spells, Blizzard and Stone spells still do a good amount of damage.
Ninja, Dancer or Thief plus Whm can duo this with ease. Obviously you want ninja for red proc. It does drop 1-2 seals without yellow proc, more often War and Blue body. Pop set run around 70-80k for 3, less if you farm yourself.
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Hazhdiha - Abyssea Altepa
Avatar: Leviathan, but switched to Garuda half-way through.
BPs of Note: Lvl 70 Rages.
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruins.
Notes: The feeder NM for Dragua. Laughably easy. I'd probably do this one again with pure DD atmas set. Started with Leviathan, because this NM can do fire spikes. As noted above, switched to Garuda half way through the fight to speed things up.
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Dragua - Abyssea Altepa
Avatar: Garuda, for the earth resistance
BPs of Note: P. Claws and Whispering Wind
Atmas: Mounted Champion, Razed Ruins, Gnarled Horn
Notes: Emboldened by my easy win on the feed-in NM, I went a bit more offensive than I had originally intended. It was a good move, I think. After pulling the NM off to a safe area, I was able to take it down without much trouble.
I was able to use the same avatar for the duration of the fight, with MC taking care of most of the healing needs. However, every now and then Dragua managed to punch a Stoneja through, taking nearly half of Garuda's HP, so the occasional Whispering Winds was needed. Garuda seemed to have more or less capped Evasion, so regular melee hits were rarely even a factor. Every now and then Garuda also got hit with the occasional en-petrify, though it always wore off quickly each time.
Overall, the fight took between 15 and 20 minutes. As is my usual M.O. I went /sch for the RR and better Stoneskin, and for the first time in a long time I found my MP sorely pushed to the limit. I ended the fight with 300-ish MP, starting from 2,600 (and riding sublimation the whole way). Given I was able to use the same avatar the whole way with 0 hate problems, I'll likely go /rdm for convert on any future kills.
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Fuath: I officially hate this NM
Garuda: RR,MM, DG P.Claws
she definitely has high magic acc. Everything except Stonega III and Aeroga III were landin full force @ 500+ damage.
The move to watch out for is Cyclonic Blight. Its range was just short of giving command's range so i got caught in a few times and it hurt. 1780 hp to 143 , if it didnt one shot.
other than that she hit fast and for 20-40 damage on garuda
Lethe arrows landing on garuda at wrong time made things a bit hairy Because of amnesia.
pulling her from the pack of pixies is annoying too.
Took about 45 mins to kill
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With the new gear now I believe all the NM's would be easy to kill now ^^
Having a hard time getting the coding right for the wiki page for smn new gear, just updated the horns :P
Stats are not all there ><
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What's the preferred atma setup for flaming crush? 2 fire atmas and RR? Thanks.
Thnaks to Luvbunny for this guide.
Use Ctrl + R type the mob name and find the info :P
Atmas to have:
The basic set: Ducal Guard (quested), Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin, Gnarled Horn, Stronghold, Future Fabulous, Ultimate
The elemental damage set: Atma of the Cosmos + Banisher (dark), Atma of the Claw (Earth), Atma of Smoldering Sky + Lone Wolf (fire), Atma of the Beyond + Undying (ice), Atma of the Beyond + Sellsword (light), Atma of the Lion + Blinding Horn (thunder), Atma of the Noxious Fang + Tusked Terror (water), Atma of the Gales (wind)
SUMMONING MAGIC - what does it do exactly?
It affect the duration of your Blood Pact ward and its effectiveness, and made it possible to reach their maximum time allowed. ALSO it affect your Avatar Physical and Magical Accuracy by a great deal, a summoner with low level summon magic can still land Predator Claw for those OMG nice numbers, but you will miss a lot by a great deal and your PC won't land all three hits so the number can seems so random with lots of lows and few highs. This one is a royal pain to skill ups, but doing a lot of these small groups NMs hunting will get you a great deal of skill ups.
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Amhuluk - Abysea Misareux
Avatar used: Garuda for wind resist
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
Notes: Extremely easy, healing salve 1 and 2 helps if things get worse, bring dawn mulsum for emergency. Dual with beast master will speed up kill, trio with blm will most likely get you those plus 2 drops.
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Asanbosam - Abysea Misareux
Avatar used: Garuda
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: same as above. Since you are nearby, just try to claim this NM and kill it for another KI for Amhuluk. Easy fight, heal avatar as needed.
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Sedna - Abysea Vunkerl
Avatar used: Ramuh for water resist, also can use Leviathan
BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Thunderstorm, Spinning Dive
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
Notes: Extremely easy, healing salve 1 and 2 helps if things get worse, bring dawn mulsum for emergency. Sedna can't even hurt Ramuh much if you are choosing the Razed Ruin + Ducal + MC combo. If you are bringing blm to proc, take care of hate reset, trio with beast and blm is safer - Sedna hate reset is notorious if you don't have dual pet jobs, it will go after your black mage with vengeance - make sure the BLM has Apoc atma. Yellow proc is rather tricky due to the NM spam its tp moves and magic, dispelling aqua veil is recommended.
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Ironclads family - Abysea Vunkerl, Atthowa, Misareux etc
Avatar used: Leviathan is best here, can also use Ramuh. All Ironclad very weak to Grand Fall. Garuda works too.
BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Thunderstorm, Grand Fall, Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for extra water damage
Notes: Take care with their stun moves, hate resets, and encumbrance. Great to collect those plus 2 on your own. Rather slow to solo, best to duo with other summoners. Unfortunately I found that dancer, thf, monk, plus white mage combo can kill it faster. Duo blms as well. Leviathan is for all magical BP, while Garuda if you wanna go all out physical offensive.
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Iratham - Abysea Tahrongi
Avatar used: Ifrit for fire and ice resist.
BP Rage: Flamming Crush, Meteor Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh
Notes: soloing can be rather long 20mnts or more. Especially if you are going for all out defensive due to Ifrit unable to heal itself. Best to duo with other summoners or beast master and split the plus 2 drops. If you are going all offensive, ducal guard is a must, and make sure have healing salve 1+2 and 4-5 dawn mulsum for emergency, as well all your mp recovery temp items.
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Bennu - Abysea Altepa
Avatar used: Garuda for wind resist or Shiva, Bennu is weak to ice
BP Rage: Predator Claw - Heavenly Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Atma of the Beyond for ice damage, Atma of the Ultimate.
Notes: This one is best to duo with another summoner. Garuda and Shiva will make a perfect combo for this. Have summoner with garuda to go all out defense with the other summoner use shiva for all out damage. Summoner + Beast + Blm can also make a nice trio if you are looking for yellow proc. Best NM to farm if you want to get Coin of Ardor x 3 from yellow proc for SMN Doublet +2
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Dragua - Abysea Altepa (Can be done with the new gear now)
Avatar used: Garuda and Titan for earth resist and petrify resist - Dragua is weak to wind
BP Rage: Predator Claw, Wind Blade
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Atma of the Gales for wind damage, Atma of the Ultimate.
Notes: This one is not to solo, best to trio + yellow proc job. If one of the summoner is fully meriting Wind Blade, have that person set their atma to minikin, gales, ultimate for big damage. The other two summoners should have ducal + razed ruin, and third atma of your choosing: mounted champion, minikin, gnarled horn, sanguine scythe. Bring a good amount of mp recovery. Take care of its AOE attack, since it can be very deadly to a taru summoner. Also beware of its petrification move. Predator Claw may do random amount of damage, keep at it even if you see low damage number. Wind Blade is more consistent if you fully merited and use Atma of the Gales + Ultimate.
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Battlerigged Chariot - Abysea Altepa
Avatar used: Ifrit or Leviathan for fire resist
BP Rage: Flaming Crush - Spinning Dive, Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh
Notes: Not hard to solo, this is not the version to pop Rani, take care of the spikes, should be fine with Ifrit or Leviathan, spikes doing 5-10 damage. May need to resummon, just run back and forth near dominion area, take care not too close to bombs or dolls - magic aggro. Be prepared to get 0 drops unless you can get a thief friend to TH for you.
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Itzpapalotl - Abysea Attohwa
Avatar used: Leviathan for fire resist, can use Ifrit but may need to resummon
BP Rage: Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Noxious Fang, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, can also use Ultimate
Notes:Very easy with Leviathan, but NM's dia move can slowy do damage to Leviathan's hp, bring dawn mulsum if you are not planning to resummon. Easily solo, if you need yellow proc, make sure the blm do it after its hp around 80% or so and your avatar is kept alive throughout the fight. A trio of summoner + blm + thief could also works if you want to maximize the drops, just make sure the thief not to draw too much hate and only there to bring TH. Drop coin of ardor for SMN Doublet +2
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Turul - Abyssea - Konschtat
Avatar used: Garuda for wind resist
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue, Future Fabulous if you want magic defense bonus.
Notes: Duo is best here, spikes can be deadly later on and you may need to resummon. Since you may want to get blue proc, suggest to bring a third to do just that. If your third can proc blue then more power to your set up. Otherwise battle is similar to Amhuluk but with the thunder spells and spikes.
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Battlerigged Chariot - Abysea Altepa
Avatar used: Leviathan - spring water helps a ton or can also use Garuda if you rather Predator Claw it to death
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Spinning Dive, Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion or Stronghold, Minikin for refresh for Tank build, or Noxious Fang, Razed Ruin for damage.
Notes: This one has more hp than its cousin, it is the version to pop Rani, discoid can be deadly if you are too near, just run back and forth near dominion area or the tunnel, dawn mulsum and healing salve handy for emergency. If you need KI, there is 50/50 you may get it without proc if you stand very near to the NM when it's about to die. Obviously if you have a friend who can do red and blue proc for you, you should bring him along.
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Ovni - Abyssea La Theine
Avatar used: Garuda
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold for regen or Minikin for refresh
Notes: Solo is doable, just may be a tad slow. Duo is best. Plus 2 drops is random without proc, can drop 0-2, since its repop is not too bad, it's manageable. Drops plus 2 for SMN feet. Just straight tanking with Predator Claw and Whispering Wind.
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Ulhuadshi - Abysea Attohwa
Avatar used: Garuda for earth resist, whispering wind to heal
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Minikin for refresh, Razed Ruin
Notes: Do take care when it is using a tp move, you do not want to BP Rage after since it will heal it. Watch the damage information, when Garuda does damage, use BP, when it uses tp move, Garuda attack will heal it, 50-70 to 170s critical. May have to resummon eventually, so do take care when you kite back and forth between the worm and eft areas. You will want to proc yellow on this to get twice the amount of plus 2 drops. The nice thing about this NM, only need 2 KIs that easily farmed. Coin of vision for Smn Caller Horn +2. If you managed to yellow proc, only need to pop this 2-3 times.
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Hrosshvalur - Abysea Vunkerl
Avatar used: Ramuh for water resist, also can use Leviathan
BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Thunderstorm, Spinning Dive
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
Seals drop: feet for Smn, Blu, Rng, Bst
Notes: This NM is needed as one of the 2 KI to pop Sedna, does not link with other pupils. It does have hate reset, so please buff yourself and get ready to cure 4, I would have mounted champion on since waterja can be rather bad for taru summoner, overall it's easy fight other than the hate reset. The hate reset can be a bit chaotic, please do not dismiss it, it can kill you if it happens to spam its tp moves. KI is 50-50 chance without red proc.
While you are in the area, you might as well pop the other NM for the second KI set for Sedna
Iku-Turso - Abysea Vunkerl
Same strategy as above. Hate reset is not an issue at all, rather very very easy to kill - can also team up with the soloer who may need some seals from it. Leviathan is your best bet on this battle. With Razed Ruin, Spinning Dive is averaging close to 3k. None of Iku-Turso water based attack deal any big damage. DO NOT come near this NM since it can kill you in one shot when you get hit with its AOE.
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Karkadann - Abysea Vunkerl
Avatar used: Ramuh for thunder resist.
BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Shock Squals
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh
Notes: I would suggest to duo this NM, have one SMN go all out defense atma set up for Ramuh and the other set for ultimate critical damage with Ramuh. Do take care with its 2 TP move that has area effect and hate reset, work it out so the other SMN will BP rage after that to get hate back. Try to get his atma, is a very nice one for SMN Ramuh and Blue Mage. This is another rather easy NM for plus 2, with only 2 KI needed from NMs that no one bother to camp. Ninja and Whm item are 100% drop so you can share it with others. Without yellow proc, plus 2 can be random 0-2.
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Cirein-Croin - Abysea Misareux
Avatar used: Garuda, use whispering wind to self heal
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
Notes: Solo is fine but hate reset can be troublesome, healing salve 1 and 2 helps if things get worse, bring dawn mulsum for emergency when it uses Deathgnash. Recommended to duo/trio to maximize drop rate on plus 2.
Further notes: Leviathan is actually a better tank on this mob, but for some reason spinning dive will miss often and not do as much damage. Cirein Coin tp attack will not do much damage to Leviathan compared to Garuda or Shiva, both took heavy damage. BUT as summoner is atrocious in hate management, using Leviathan while you are trio-ing will make this NM go after your other friend when it does hate reset. Other jobs such as dual BLM/RDM would make a much faster work on this NM.
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Briareus - Abyssea La Theine
Avatar used: Garuda, whispering wind for self heal
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold for regen or Minikin for refresh
Notes: Solo is doable, just may be a tad slow. Duo is best. Helm is 1-2 drops, at least 1 is guaranteed, plus 2 is random so bring thief and blm if you want them both to drop. Do take care when you use Whispering Wind or Healing Salve or Dawn Mulsum - wait a bit after Collosal Slam tp due to zombie effect.
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Isgebind - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Ifrit for ice resist.
BP Rage: Flamming Crush, Meteor Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh. If you plan to use other avatar than Ifrit, make sure to have Isgebind atma for ice resist.
Notes: Not recommended to solo, too slow and can be challenging. Duo is better, or trio if you need blue for weapons and red for atma. Make sure have healing salve 1+2 and 4-5 dawn mulsum for emergency, as well all your mp recovery temp items. Best to have balanced atma and razed ruin is a must otherwise damage would be severely hampered. Take care of the paralysis aura and terror. Other than that, his blizzard spells will do pitiful damage to Ifrit. Do not come near the NM as it about to cast, take extra caution with distance.
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Hedjejet - Abysea Altepa
Avatar used: Garuda and Shiva, Hedjejet is weak to ice and wind, especially Heavenly Strike
BP Rage: Predator Claw - Heavenly Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Atma of the Beyond for ice damage, Atma of the Ultimate.
Notes: This one is best to duo with another summoner. Garuda and Shiva will make a perfect combo for this. Have summoner with garuda to go all out defense with the other summoner use shiva for all out damage. Take care with hate reset move, have another summoner sub scholar for dispel with dark arts to get rid of its attack bonus, poison aura is annoying so make sure you rotate avatars between Shiva and Garuda, kite near flux 3. Take care of petrification and bindga.
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Awahondo - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar
BP Rage: Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage
Notes: You can solo it but slower kill, best with summoner duo with double Leviathan, mob will die faster, very little challenge, just rotate Grand Fall and Spring Water, with Slowga and Tidal Roar here and there. Hardly even need to resummon avatar during the entire battle. Both summoners can do noxious fang set up, or one summoner can choose to have full tank atmas. Items drop are decent even without blue proc.
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Impervious Chariot - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar
BP Rage: Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage, Ultimate
Notes: Best with summoner duo with double Leviathan, somewhat challenging, just rotate Grand Fall and Spring Water, with Slowga and Tidal Roar here and there. Do take care with its tp move. Have one summoner go with all out defense atma set up, and the other with pure magical for Grand Fall boost, both should have ducal guard to mitigate damage from discoid. Do not wander too near when its readying tp move.
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Refitted Chariot - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar
BP Rage: Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage, Ultimate
Notes: Can solo easily or duo with double Leviathan, very little challenge other than discoid tp move, just rotate Grand Fall and Spring Water, with Slowga and Tidal Roar here and there. This is the easy version of the two Chariot. Your atma build is up to you, Razed Ruin will make Leviathan critical more often but lower damage from Noxious Fang - though in the end is a better option since your avatar able to hold hate.
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Long Barreled Chariot - Abyssea Altepa
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar. You can also use Garuda.
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage, Ultimate
Notes: Can solo easily or duo with double Leviathan/Garuda, same strategy with other Chariot, but this one is a bit harder and slower kill if you plan to solo - this is the one to pop Rani. Your atma build is up to you, Razed Ruin will make Leviathan critical more often but lower damage from Noxious Fang - though in the end is a better option since your avatar able to hold hate. KI is 50/50 chance, items drop are rather severe without proc.
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Teekesselchen - Abyssea Grauberg
Avatar used: Titan and Ramuh is great, but cannot self heal, Leviathan and Garuda works as well.
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Predator Claw, Chaotic Strike, Mountain Buster.
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Future Fabulous
Notes: You need magic damage mitigation, Future Fabulous is a must if you want to survive its magic attack. Summoner duo is recommended. Need to use your rage BP to stun his magic casting, and Shock Squal as well, both summoners must work together to take turn stunning his magic casting. If you are bringing black mage to proc, be aware that the blm may die when avatar is desummoned. Take care of AOE sleep, silence, bring echo drops, and spread out so you don't get hit by AOE. Sub Whm or Scholar. If you decide to solo, be prepare to kite around flux 6, away from the pots.
One of the best trio set up for this is Smn/Whm using Titan (Mountain Buster does 4k ish), Blue/Ninja (spamming stun spell on its AOE) and Blm/Brd. With a good blue, this NM will not be able to land any of its AOE spells making the battle super easy. Also with this set up you cover blue, bard, ninja, blm proc spells. Make sure your blue tank backward in case of spikes, spam those blunt blue spells which does 1k-2k damage, this NM will go down so fast.
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Recounter Chariot - Abyssea Grauberg
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar. You can also use Garuda.
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage, Ultimate
Notes: Can solo easily or duo with double Leviathan/Garuda, same strategy with other Chariot, this is the easy version, NOT the one you need to pop Raja. KI is 50/50 chance, items drop are rather severe without proc.
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Assailer Chariot - Abyssea Grauberg
Avatar used: Ramuh and Titan, if you have Future Fabulous Atma, can use Leviathan
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Chaotic Strike, Mountain Buster
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang, Future Fabulous
Notes: This is the harder version of all the Chariots. Solo is not recommended. You will need duo at minimum and your warrior to help proc red for your KI. It is quite a dilemma, Titan and Ramuh will survive his magic attack, but will die eventually because of discoid. One summoner may have to go full tank with 2 atmas that give regen while the other Summoner can use Leviathan (Ducal, Future Fabulous, Noxious Fang) and spam Grand Fall. Take care of areas, and do not cluster together. Always have your blink, stoneskin, aquaveil up.
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Gamayun - Abyssea Grauberg
Avatar used: Shiva
BP Rage: Heavenly Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Atma of the Beyond, Minikin for refresh, Future Fabulous.
Notes: Moderately easy to solo with Shiva, just take care of its two hours. Your atma built is up to you, if you want to use Beyond + Ultimate + Ducal for max ice damage, or play it safe and use one regen atma. Obviously you are here for the seals, so having another summoner and a black mage for yellow proc may speed up the battle. Either sub ninja or whm and fully buffed at all times in case of bad luck. Make sure you have plenty of temp items handy. I suggest to use Future Fabulous or Ascending One if you want to be on the safe side and survive Aerial Blast.
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Koios - Abyssea Altepa
Avatar used: Garuda
BP Rage: Predator Claw, Wind Blast
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Atma of the Gales, Razed Ruin, Minikin
Notes: Similar to Gamayun, moderately easy to solo-trio, take precaution of its 2 hours. Garuda can last longer than Shiva. Your atma built is up to you, razed ruin if you plan to Predator Claw often, Gales if you plan to use Wind Blade more. Bring Blm for your yellow proc, and make sure you have your temp items and dawn mulsum handy for emergency in case you plan to keep avatar out and not resummon.
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Sippoy - Abyssea Vunkerl
Avatar used: Leviathan
BP Rage: Spinning Dive
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Future Fabulous, or Razed Ruin
Notes: This is your old school battle of kiting summoner. You will have a chance to BP rage every fresh new leviathan, you must keep your distance since Sippoy has annoying AOE moves that can devastate summoners, especially when he is at low hp - it will constantly spam this which results to a dead summoner. Not sure why you wanna solo this, but it is doable but long battle. If you want to brag about it, go ahead
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Hm'Zdei - Abyssea Vunkerl (Tier II VNM)
Avatar: Ifrit, for ice resistance
BPs of Note: Meteor Strike and Inferno Howl
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: A very easy solo, for those who need to get to the Tier III VNM. No need to re-summon or even use a curative. The pull can be a little tricky, however, as this NM likes to hide near Lord Varney and the hoard of sound aggro bats.
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Ketea - Abyssea Vunkerl (Tier III VNM)
Avatar: Shiva, for ice resistance
BPs of note: Rush
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Voracious Violet
Notes: Ketea absorbs magic unless his mouth is open, so I shied away from Ifrit (As far as I remember, Meteor Crush has a slight magical element to it, and I wasn't willing to risk my Tier III VNM pop to find out it would be absorbed). Shiva and Ketea were pretty much even for most of the fight, as far as HP percentage goes. I used one dawn mulsum at around the 50% mark, and finished the fight with no problems and no re-summons. Overall, the fight took about 15 minutes.
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Smok - Abyssea Attohwa
Avatar: Leviathan, for fire resistance
BPs of note: Grand Fall and Spring Water
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: This fight took a long time solo, and Smok was well into his full rage time when he died. Once he is raging, his Tebbad Wing can get very nasty. Make sure to time your blood pact commands in between Smok's TP moves so that you don't get caught in Tebbad Wing's AoE radius.
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Titlacauan - Abyssea Attohwa
Avatar: Ifrit, for both fire and ice resistance
BPs of Note: Meteor strike and Inferno Howl
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: With Ifrit easily eating most of this NM's spells and abilities with his elemental resistances, there are only 3 things to worry about with this NM - Silence, Death, and Comet. Echo drops deal with Silence, leaving only those last two. Keep Blink, Stoneskin, and Aquaveil up at all times in case you need to re-summon! There is just enough room to kite this NM East to West without drawing aggro from the Hounds to the North or the Skeletons to the South. This would also be much easier as a duo, since only Comet would then become an issue.
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Es'euvhi - Abyssea Attohwa (Tier II VNM)
Avatar: Garuda, for wind and earth resistance
BPs of Note: Predator Claws and Whispering Wind
Atmas: Voracious Violet, Razed Ruins, Gnarled Horn
Notes: Pure offense! The above atma set is my preferred when going for pure Predator Claws - which takes very satisfying 4,000 to 5,000 pt chunks out of this guy's hp. Garuda resists all of his spells, so use Whispering Wind liberally as needed, and you won't even need to re-summon. This NM sometimes opens with Break when you spawn him, so I'd recommend subbing Whitemage for Barpetra, just in case. He also sometimes spawns in antlion territory - between Confluxes 2 & 4 - so make sure to keep sneak up when you find yourself over there.
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Mx,grah - Abyssea Misareux (Tier II VNM)
Avatar: Garuda
BPs of note:Predator Claw, Whispering Wind
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Voracious Violet.
Note: Very easy, go pure offense, pop during blunt time if you want to get a chance for Apollo flute to drop.
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Tristitia - Abyssea Misareux (Tier III VNM)
Avatar: Ramuh or Titan, for thunder resistance
BPs of note: Chaotic Strike, Mountain Buster, Earthen Ward
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion or Stronghold, Voracious Violet. Can use Minikin instead of MC if you low on MP.
Notes: Rather easy to duo with Titan and Ramuh. Just make sure to stay away when it is casting its AOE spells. Nothing to worry at all, easy to proc with a black mage in party. Drop plus 2 for summoner empyrean legs.
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Bakka - Abyssea Konschtat
Avatar: Shiva, for ice resistance
BPs of Note: Heavenly Strike.
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: Shiva laughs at this NM's ice spells, and his weak melee hits are barely noticeable. The only tricky part of this is getting a clean pull. Targeting an imp in the middle of a bunch of other imps is... tricky. Once you can give the Assault command, you can move back to the safety of Conflux 8 and give the Hold command to pull your avatar (and the NM) to you. After that, this NM is a pushover.
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Tunga - Abyssea Attowha
Avatar: Garuda
BPs of note:Predator Claw, Whispering Wind, Wind Blade
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin, or Atma of the Gales.
Note: Tunga can be a bit tricky to solo due to its hate reset and breakga chain spell. Garuda as usual resist all its stone spells and more often than not its breakage and Predator Claw does a nice 5k damage with Razed Ruin and max summon magic. You must pay attention to its hate reset and poison effect to your avatar, make sure healing salve and clear salve is in your inventory plus mp/hp recovery temp items in case of emergency. Other than that this NM is quite easy. The other two NMs for the zone boss KI pop set is best to duo war + whm for red proc.
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Carabosse - Abyssea LaTheine
Avatar: Garuda
BPs of note:Predator Claw, Whispering Wind
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin, or Stronghold
Note: I duo-ed this battle with beast master using Dipper Yully, make sure as Summoner you sub scholar, use dark arts and dispel all Carabosse's buffs. Pretty much easy battle, predator claw often, have the beast to sub white mage to help with status removal. Cara will benediction and cure itself but it should not pose too much of a threat. Duo took 15 mnts or so. I would imagine it would take too long for it to be useful when you solo. Trio would be much faster kill, if you are doing empyrean, would be best to gather 1-2 other people. Watch out for her various mode, and keep your distance, she can spam Breakga and will petrify you. If you are duo-ing as summoner, Garuda + Fenrir is good combo, mainly you want to use Fenrir dispelga BP.
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Lusca - Abyssea Attohwa (Tier III VNM)
Avatar: Leviathan
BPs of note: Grand Fall, Spinning Dive
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Voracious Violet, or Ultimate, can also use Noxious Fang for water damage
Notes: Lusca has two mode, magical and physical, if it is on magical mode - you have to kite and your avatar should not melee, run around and use Grand Fall, if it is on physical mode, have it attack and use Spinning Dive. Pretty straight forward but be careful not to kite around Agressor Antlion spawn area. I suppose you can use Garuda or Shiva as well, but Leviathan is the better tank overall. Bring your friend to yellow proc this thing since it drops rather nice collection of plus 2. Do be careful of its conal attack, Siphon Discharge, and make sure your buffs are all up and barwartera as well.
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Alkonost - Abyssea Konschtat
Avatar: Shiva
BPs of note: Rush, Frost Armor
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: Started with a fairly straightforward NM that I've beaten before on MNK.
With the somewhat defensive setup above Shiva rarely dipped below full health. Alkonost did very little damage, even with special moves. Frost Armor caused paralysis on him quite well.
Back Heel and Hoof Volley both reset hate, so he heads for you after these moves, but with Aquaveil, Blink and Stoneskin up there wasn't any concern and Shiva quickly gained hate back.
So far I'm 0/6 on the Atma, so bringing a friend for red procs is highly recommended!
Additional note - tried this with Garuda, with much the same effect; Shiva was possibly slightly faster.
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Mielikki - Abyssea Attohwa
Avatar: Garuda
BPs of note: Predator Claws, Whispering Wind
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin
Notes: Fairly slow solo with Garuda's Predator Claws doing reasonable damage. I went with Garuda for the earth resistance. Ifrit deals more damage, but Mielikki casts many earth based spells - with Whispering Wind there was no need to resummon, just kept my MP topped up with temporary items.
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Yannei - Abyssea Attohwa
Avatar: Garuda and Ramuh
BPs of note: Predator Claw, Chaotic Strike, Shock Squal to stun his casting.
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin (one summoner do more damage set up, the other more defensive with Ramuh).
Notes: I decided to duo this since it is very tough to solo it. Please note that we brought a beastmaster - one of the summoner dual box - and put it on hold till Yannei hp is at 25%. The fight is not so bad, very straightforward, and communicating between summoners when their avatar is about to die to take turn resummoning. When Yannei's hp hit 25% he start doing that terror move which can be deadly, since he also do draw in and terror move + bio. If you get caught in it, you may die - hence the beast was used to buy some time in case this happen. Otherwise this is just a slightly harder version than the other 3 cature, but definitely not as hard as Rani and Raja.
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Jailor of Faith - The Garden of Ru'Hmet
Avatar: Garuda, for the earth resistance.
BPs of Note: Predator Claws and Whispering Wind
Notes: This was a pretty easy duo. The tricky part was in spawning him, and then getting to the the large, square-shaped central room where we fought him without drawing aggro on the way. Watch out for the occasional Breakga! Other than that, just be sure to coordinate with your duo buddy to make sure there's always at least one Garuda out there on the NM.
(OK, technically it wasn't a complete Summoner duo, as our party did finally catch up to us when it was around the 20% HP remaining mark. We could have easily finished the fight on our own, though.)
A single Summoner could probably solo this by kiting it around the central room - which has a nice square-shaped hole in the middle to accommodate running in giant circles.
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Chasmic Hornet
Abyssea - La Theine
Avatar: Shiva
BP: H.Strike & Frost armor
Atma: Ducal Guard, Minikin, Beyond
Notes: hated this bastard. Hate control during Frenzy pollen is key. That alone will win or lose this fight, at least way i did it. now ive soloed this guy plenty of times, but dying from that damn final attack is not a win in my book. the paralyze on Frost armor will help w/ the Frenzy Pollen HF effect but the hate rest is where you need to be careful.
Let avatar hit bee before hitting an attack BP then after a good hit then run and take care of yourself.
then watch his HP, that last bit is tricky part he will frenzy pollen constantly. time you BP to kill him before he does his "final sting"
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Flame Skimmer
Abyssea - Misareaux
Avatar: Shiva
BP: H.Strike & Frost armor
Atma: Ducal Guard, Minikin, Beyond
Notes: after my lessons that i learned w/ Chasmic hornet this guy wasn't a big deal. it was the other flies. i ran between the bridge and small peninsula of area by flux and he would go into river to chase after me and didnt go near them. I believe ice spikes did just as much damage to him as Heavenly stike
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Bukhis - Abyssea Vunkerl
Avatar: Ifrit, for ice resistance.
BPs of Note: Flaming Crush and Inferno Howl
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruins.
Notes: Bhukis is another guy that can flat out wreck a good day. He packs hefty AoE moves with a wide range of nasty, crippling effects the worst of which include stripping Cruor buffs, potent Max HP Down, and Doom. If he gets nasty, even a well prepared team can slip up and have problems.
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Lord Varney - Abyssea Vunkerl
Avatar: Garuda, for wind resistance.
BPs of note: Predator Claws and Whispering Wind
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruins
Notes: Varney drops one of the KIs needed to spawn Bukhis. A really easy solo, using the same atma setup as I did on Bukhis himself. With Sneak up and you can easily get within range to use Assault without aggro from the bats surrounding him. Just make sure to be well past the bats in a safe location before using Retreat to call Garuda (and the NM) to you. Easy peasy.
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Ulhudashi Abbysea-Attohwa
Avatar-Garuda
Atmas-RR,MM(or if mp np, use gales), and DG
bps-wind blade, preditor claws
fight-lead the thing into the little canyon and then run close to where the efts are, and use your bps, try your best to not do any bps while it's tp moving, or that will give it health back, I kept garuda's life up by whispering wind, and just kept at it. If you'd like to make the fight faster duo with some other summoners or beastmaster, and trio with a black mage if you want extra vision coins (especially since I needed 24), good luck and happy hunting
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Cannered Noz - Abyssea Tahrongi
Avatar: Ramuh
BPs of note: Chaotic Strike, Shock Squall
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Mounted Champion
Note: Defensive set up as this takes a while - whilst only a few Chaotic Strikes are needed to kill, the multiple reraises really draw this out. After the seventh reraise it gets the ability to cast Death - this is where I found Shock Squall to be useful. Pulled from the pop to the long valley for kiting.
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Dhorme Khimaira - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Ramuh for thunder resist
BP Rage: Shock Squall, Chaotic Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion, Stronghold, Minikin for refresh (pick any three that suits you)
Notes: Not recommended to solo, too slow and can be challenging. Duo is better, or trio if you need yellow proc or red proc for KI. You must stun when it tries to cast Thunder on itself. You can do your BP rage, Shock Squall, or come BLM sub and stun it. It will cast high Thunder magic when you pop. Do not come near, because its TP move is AOE and can stun and paralyze you for awhile, also has Bio.
If you are soloing, and sub WHM or SCH, please bring dawn mulsum x 5. Use your healing salve 1 & 2. This mob does not have much hp but trying to get yellow proc can be a bit tricky. Other than that a great source for blue mage and warrior body seal. Have the other SMN set up total tank atma (with 2 regen atma), and you can do total DD atma (ducal is still a must). The nice thing about this mob is that it has a high magic resistance so your blm won't have to worry too much about getting hate as long as he/she wait before spamming the proc spells, Blizzard and Stone spells still do a good amount of damage.
Ninja, Dancer or Thief plus Whm can duo this with ease. Obviously you want ninja for red proc. It does drop 1-2 seals without yellow proc, more often War and Blue body. Pop set run around 70-80k for 3, less if you farm yourself.
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Hazhdiha - Abyssea Altepa
Avatar: Leviathan, but switched to Garuda half-way through.
BPs of Note: Lvl 70 Rages.
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruins.
Notes: The feeder NM for Dragua. Laughably easy. I'd probably do this one again with pure DD atmas set. Started with Leviathan, because this NM can do fire spikes. As noted above, switched to Garuda half way through the fight to speed things up.
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Dragua - Abyssea Altepa
Avatar: Garuda, for the earth resistance
BPs of Note: P. Claws and Whispering Wind
Atmas: Mounted Champion, Razed Ruins, Gnarled Horn
Notes: Emboldened by my easy win on the feed-in NM, I went a bit more offensive than I had originally intended. It was a good move, I think. After pulling the NM off to a safe area, I was able to take it down without much trouble.
I was able to use the same avatar for the duration of the fight, with MC taking care of most of the healing needs. However, every now and then Dragua managed to punch a Stoneja through, taking nearly half of Garuda's HP, so the occasional Whispering Winds was needed. Garuda seemed to have more or less capped Evasion, so regular melee hits were rarely even a factor. Every now and then Garuda also got hit with the occasional en-petrify, though it always wore off quickly each time.
Overall, the fight took between 15 and 20 minutes. As is my usual M.O. I went /sch for the RR and better Stoneskin, and for the first time in a long time I found my MP sorely pushed to the limit. I ended the fight with 300-ish MP, starting from 2,600 (and riding sublimation the whole way). Given I was able to use the same avatar the whole way with 0 hate problems, I'll likely go /rdm for convert on any future kills.
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Fuath: I officially hate this NM
Garuda: RR,MM, DG P.Claws
she definitely has high magic acc. Everything except Stonega III and Aeroga III were landin full force @ 500+ damage.
The move to watch out for is Cyclonic Blight. Its range was just short of giving command's range so i got caught in a few times and it hurt. 1780 hp to 143 , if it didnt one shot.
other than that she hit fast and for 20-40 damage on garuda
Lethe arrows landing on garuda at wrong time made things a bit hairy Because of amnesia.
pulling her from the pack of pixies is annoying too.
Took about 45 mins to kill
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With the new gear now I believe all the NM's would be easy to kill now ^^
Having a hard time getting the coding right for the wiki page for smn new gear, just updated the horns :P
Stats are not all there ><
http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Category:Artifact_Armor_%2B2#Summoner:_Convoker.27s_Attire
Use Ctrl + R type the mob name and find the info :P
Atmas to have:
The basic set: Ducal Guard (quested), Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin, Gnarled Horn, Stronghold, Future Fabulous, Ultimate
The elemental damage set: Atma of the Cosmos + Banisher (dark), Atma of the Claw (Earth), Atma of Smoldering Sky + Lone Wolf (fire), Atma of the Beyond + Undying (ice), Atma of the Beyond + Sellsword (light), Atma of the Lion + Blinding Horn (thunder), Atma of the Noxious Fang + Tusked Terror (water), Atma of the Gales (wind)
SUMMONING MAGIC - what does it do exactly?
It affect the duration of your Blood Pact ward and its effectiveness, and made it possible to reach their maximum time allowed. ALSO it affect your Avatar Physical and Magical Accuracy by a great deal, a summoner with low level summon magic can still land Predator Claw for those OMG nice numbers, but you will miss a lot by a great deal and your PC won't land all three hits so the number can seems so random with lots of lows and few highs. This one is a royal pain to skill ups, but doing a lot of these small groups NMs hunting will get you a great deal of skill ups.
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Amhuluk - Abysea Misareux
Avatar used: Garuda for wind resist
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
Notes: Extremely easy, healing salve 1 and 2 helps if things get worse, bring dawn mulsum for emergency. Dual with beast master will speed up kill, trio with blm will most likely get you those plus 2 drops.
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Asanbosam - Abysea Misareux
Avatar used: Garuda
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: same as above. Since you are nearby, just try to claim this NM and kill it for another KI for Amhuluk. Easy fight, heal avatar as needed.
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Sedna - Abysea Vunkerl
Avatar used: Ramuh for water resist, also can use Leviathan
BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Thunderstorm, Spinning Dive
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
Notes: Extremely easy, healing salve 1 and 2 helps if things get worse, bring dawn mulsum for emergency. Sedna can't even hurt Ramuh much if you are choosing the Razed Ruin + Ducal + MC combo. If you are bringing blm to proc, take care of hate reset, trio with beast and blm is safer - Sedna hate reset is notorious if you don't have dual pet jobs, it will go after your black mage with vengeance - make sure the BLM has Apoc atma. Yellow proc is rather tricky due to the NM spam its tp moves and magic, dispelling aqua veil is recommended.
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Ironclads family - Abysea Vunkerl, Atthowa, Misareux etc
Avatar used: Leviathan is best here, can also use Ramuh. All Ironclad very weak to Grand Fall. Garuda works too.
BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Thunderstorm, Grand Fall, Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for extra water damage
Notes: Take care with their stun moves, hate resets, and encumbrance. Great to collect those plus 2 on your own. Rather slow to solo, best to duo with other summoners. Unfortunately I found that dancer, thf, monk, plus white mage combo can kill it faster. Duo blms as well. Leviathan is for all magical BP, while Garuda if you wanna go all out physical offensive.
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Iratham - Abysea Tahrongi
Avatar used: Ifrit for fire and ice resist.
BP Rage: Flamming Crush, Meteor Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh
Notes: soloing can be rather long 20mnts or more. Especially if you are going for all out defensive due to Ifrit unable to heal itself. Best to duo with other summoners or beast master and split the plus 2 drops. If you are going all offensive, ducal guard is a must, and make sure have healing salve 1+2 and 4-5 dawn mulsum for emergency, as well all your mp recovery temp items.
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Bennu - Abysea Altepa
Avatar used: Garuda for wind resist or Shiva, Bennu is weak to ice
BP Rage: Predator Claw - Heavenly Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Atma of the Beyond for ice damage, Atma of the Ultimate.
Notes: This one is best to duo with another summoner. Garuda and Shiva will make a perfect combo for this. Have summoner with garuda to go all out defense with the other summoner use shiva for all out damage. Summoner + Beast + Blm can also make a nice trio if you are looking for yellow proc. Best NM to farm if you want to get Coin of Ardor x 3 from yellow proc for SMN Doublet +2
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Dragua - Abysea Altepa (Can be done with the new gear now)
Avatar used: Garuda and Titan for earth resist and petrify resist - Dragua is weak to wind
BP Rage: Predator Claw, Wind Blade
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Atma of the Gales for wind damage, Atma of the Ultimate.
Notes: This one is not to solo, best to trio + yellow proc job. If one of the summoner is fully meriting Wind Blade, have that person set their atma to minikin, gales, ultimate for big damage. The other two summoners should have ducal + razed ruin, and third atma of your choosing: mounted champion, minikin, gnarled horn, sanguine scythe. Bring a good amount of mp recovery. Take care of its AOE attack, since it can be very deadly to a taru summoner. Also beware of its petrification move. Predator Claw may do random amount of damage, keep at it even if you see low damage number. Wind Blade is more consistent if you fully merited and use Atma of the Gales + Ultimate.
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Battlerigged Chariot - Abysea Altepa
Avatar used: Ifrit or Leviathan for fire resist
BP Rage: Flaming Crush - Spinning Dive, Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh
Notes: Not hard to solo, this is not the version to pop Rani, take care of the spikes, should be fine with Ifrit or Leviathan, spikes doing 5-10 damage. May need to resummon, just run back and forth near dominion area, take care not too close to bombs or dolls - magic aggro. Be prepared to get 0 drops unless you can get a thief friend to TH for you.
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Itzpapalotl - Abysea Attohwa
Avatar used: Leviathan for fire resist, can use Ifrit but may need to resummon
BP Rage: Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Noxious Fang, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, can also use Ultimate
Notes:Very easy with Leviathan, but NM's dia move can slowy do damage to Leviathan's hp, bring dawn mulsum if you are not planning to resummon. Easily solo, if you need yellow proc, make sure the blm do it after its hp around 80% or so and your avatar is kept alive throughout the fight. A trio of summoner + blm + thief could also works if you want to maximize the drops, just make sure the thief not to draw too much hate and only there to bring TH. Drop coin of ardor for SMN Doublet +2
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Turul - Abyssea - Konschtat
Avatar used: Garuda for wind resist
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue, Future Fabulous if you want magic defense bonus.
Notes: Duo is best here, spikes can be deadly later on and you may need to resummon. Since you may want to get blue proc, suggest to bring a third to do just that. If your third can proc blue then more power to your set up. Otherwise battle is similar to Amhuluk but with the thunder spells and spikes.
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Battlerigged Chariot - Abysea Altepa
Avatar used: Leviathan - spring water helps a ton or can also use Garuda if you rather Predator Claw it to death
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Spinning Dive, Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion or Stronghold, Minikin for refresh for Tank build, or Noxious Fang, Razed Ruin for damage.
Notes: This one has more hp than its cousin, it is the version to pop Rani, discoid can be deadly if you are too near, just run back and forth near dominion area or the tunnel, dawn mulsum and healing salve handy for emergency. If you need KI, there is 50/50 you may get it without proc if you stand very near to the NM when it's about to die. Obviously if you have a friend who can do red and blue proc for you, you should bring him along.
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Ovni - Abyssea La Theine
Avatar used: Garuda
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold for regen or Minikin for refresh
Notes: Solo is doable, just may be a tad slow. Duo is best. Plus 2 drops is random without proc, can drop 0-2, since its repop is not too bad, it's manageable. Drops plus 2 for SMN feet. Just straight tanking with Predator Claw and Whispering Wind.
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Ulhuadshi - Abysea Attohwa
Avatar used: Garuda for earth resist, whispering wind to heal
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Minikin for refresh, Razed Ruin
Notes: Do take care when it is using a tp move, you do not want to BP Rage after since it will heal it. Watch the damage information, when Garuda does damage, use BP, when it uses tp move, Garuda attack will heal it, 50-70 to 170s critical. May have to resummon eventually, so do take care when you kite back and forth between the worm and eft areas. You will want to proc yellow on this to get twice the amount of plus 2 drops. The nice thing about this NM, only need 2 KIs that easily farmed. Coin of vision for Smn Caller Horn +2. If you managed to yellow proc, only need to pop this 2-3 times.
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Hrosshvalur - Abysea Vunkerl
Avatar used: Ramuh for water resist, also can use Leviathan
BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Thunderstorm, Spinning Dive
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
Seals drop: feet for Smn, Blu, Rng, Bst
Notes: This NM is needed as one of the 2 KI to pop Sedna, does not link with other pupils. It does have hate reset, so please buff yourself and get ready to cure 4, I would have mounted champion on since waterja can be rather bad for taru summoner, overall it's easy fight other than the hate reset. The hate reset can be a bit chaotic, please do not dismiss it, it can kill you if it happens to spam its tp moves. KI is 50-50 chance without red proc.
While you are in the area, you might as well pop the other NM for the second KI set for Sedna
Iku-Turso - Abysea Vunkerl
Same strategy as above. Hate reset is not an issue at all, rather very very easy to kill - can also team up with the soloer who may need some seals from it. Leviathan is your best bet on this battle. With Razed Ruin, Spinning Dive is averaging close to 3k. None of Iku-Turso water based attack deal any big damage. DO NOT come near this NM since it can kill you in one shot when you get hit with its AOE.
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Karkadann - Abysea Vunkerl
Avatar used: Ramuh for thunder resist.
BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Shock Squals
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh
Notes: I would suggest to duo this NM, have one SMN go all out defense atma set up for Ramuh and the other set for ultimate critical damage with Ramuh. Do take care with its 2 TP move that has area effect and hate reset, work it out so the other SMN will BP rage after that to get hate back. Try to get his atma, is a very nice one for SMN Ramuh and Blue Mage. This is another rather easy NM for plus 2, with only 2 KI needed from NMs that no one bother to camp. Ninja and Whm item are 100% drop so you can share it with others. Without yellow proc, plus 2 can be random 0-2.
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Cirein-Croin - Abysea Misareux
Avatar used: Garuda, use whispering wind to self heal
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
Notes: Solo is fine but hate reset can be troublesome, healing salve 1 and 2 helps if things get worse, bring dawn mulsum for emergency when it uses Deathgnash. Recommended to duo/trio to maximize drop rate on plus 2.
Further notes: Leviathan is actually a better tank on this mob, but for some reason spinning dive will miss often and not do as much damage. Cirein Coin tp attack will not do much damage to Leviathan compared to Garuda or Shiva, both took heavy damage. BUT as summoner is atrocious in hate management, using Leviathan while you are trio-ing will make this NM go after your other friend when it does hate reset. Other jobs such as dual BLM/RDM would make a much faster work on this NM.
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Briareus - Abyssea La Theine
Avatar used: Garuda, whispering wind for self heal
BP Rage: Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold for regen or Minikin for refresh
Notes: Solo is doable, just may be a tad slow. Duo is best. Helm is 1-2 drops, at least 1 is guaranteed, plus 2 is random so bring thief and blm if you want them both to drop. Do take care when you use Whispering Wind or Healing Salve or Dawn Mulsum - wait a bit after Collosal Slam tp due to zombie effect.
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Isgebind - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Ifrit for ice resist.
BP Rage: Flamming Crush, Meteor Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh. If you plan to use other avatar than Ifrit, make sure to have Isgebind atma for ice resist.
Notes: Not recommended to solo, too slow and can be challenging. Duo is better, or trio if you need blue for weapons and red for atma. Make sure have healing salve 1+2 and 4-5 dawn mulsum for emergency, as well all your mp recovery temp items. Best to have balanced atma and razed ruin is a must otherwise damage would be severely hampered. Take care of the paralysis aura and terror. Other than that, his blizzard spells will do pitiful damage to Ifrit. Do not come near the NM as it about to cast, take extra caution with distance.
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Hedjejet - Abysea Altepa
Avatar used: Garuda and Shiva, Hedjejet is weak to ice and wind, especially Heavenly Strike
BP Rage: Predator Claw - Heavenly Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Atma of the Beyond for ice damage, Atma of the Ultimate.
Notes: This one is best to duo with another summoner. Garuda and Shiva will make a perfect combo for this. Have summoner with garuda to go all out defense with the other summoner use shiva for all out damage. Take care with hate reset move, have another summoner sub scholar for dispel with dark arts to get rid of its attack bonus, poison aura is annoying so make sure you rotate avatars between Shiva and Garuda, kite near flux 3. Take care of petrification and bindga.
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Awahondo - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar
BP Rage: Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage
Notes: You can solo it but slower kill, best with summoner duo with double Leviathan, mob will die faster, very little challenge, just rotate Grand Fall and Spring Water, with Slowga and Tidal Roar here and there. Hardly even need to resummon avatar during the entire battle. Both summoners can do noxious fang set up, or one summoner can choose to have full tank atmas. Items drop are decent even without blue proc.
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Impervious Chariot - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar
BP Rage: Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage, Ultimate
Notes: Best with summoner duo with double Leviathan, somewhat challenging, just rotate Grand Fall and Spring Water, with Slowga and Tidal Roar here and there. Do take care with its tp move. Have one summoner go with all out defense atma set up, and the other with pure magical for Grand Fall boost, both should have ducal guard to mitigate damage from discoid. Do not wander too near when its readying tp move.
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Refitted Chariot - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar
BP Rage: Grand Fall
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage, Ultimate
Notes: Can solo easily or duo with double Leviathan, very little challenge other than discoid tp move, just rotate Grand Fall and Spring Water, with Slowga and Tidal Roar here and there. This is the easy version of the two Chariot. Your atma build is up to you, Razed Ruin will make Leviathan critical more often but lower damage from Noxious Fang - though in the end is a better option since your avatar able to hold hate.
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Long Barreled Chariot - Abyssea Altepa
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar. You can also use Garuda.
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage, Ultimate
Notes: Can solo easily or duo with double Leviathan/Garuda, same strategy with other Chariot, but this one is a bit harder and slower kill if you plan to solo - this is the one to pop Rani. Your atma build is up to you, Razed Ruin will make Leviathan critical more often but lower damage from Noxious Fang - though in the end is a better option since your avatar able to hold hate. KI is 50/50 chance, items drop are rather severe without proc.
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Teekesselchen - Abyssea Grauberg
Avatar used: Titan and Ramuh is great, but cannot self heal, Leviathan and Garuda works as well.
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Predator Claw, Chaotic Strike, Mountain Buster.
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Future Fabulous
Notes: You need magic damage mitigation, Future Fabulous is a must if you want to survive its magic attack. Summoner duo is recommended. Need to use your rage BP to stun his magic casting, and Shock Squal as well, both summoners must work together to take turn stunning his magic casting. If you are bringing black mage to proc, be aware that the blm may die when avatar is desummoned. Take care of AOE sleep, silence, bring echo drops, and spread out so you don't get hit by AOE. Sub Whm or Scholar. If you decide to solo, be prepare to kite around flux 6, away from the pots.
One of the best trio set up for this is Smn/Whm using Titan (Mountain Buster does 4k ish), Blue/Ninja (spamming stun spell on its AOE) and Blm/Brd. With a good blue, this NM will not be able to land any of its AOE spells making the battle super easy. Also with this set up you cover blue, bard, ninja, blm proc spells. Make sure your blue tank backward in case of spikes, spam those blunt blue spells which does 1k-2k damage, this NM will go down so fast.
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Recounter Chariot - Abyssea Grauberg
Avatar used: Leviathan, use Spring Water as needed, as well as Slowga and Tidal Roar. You can also use Garuda.
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Predator Claw
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for water damage, Ultimate
Notes: Can solo easily or duo with double Leviathan/Garuda, same strategy with other Chariot, this is the easy version, NOT the one you need to pop Raja. KI is 50/50 chance, items drop are rather severe without proc.
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Assailer Chariot - Abyssea Grauberg
Avatar used: Ramuh and Titan, if you have Future Fabulous Atma, can use Leviathan
BP Rage: Grand Fall, Chaotic Strike, Mountain Buster
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruin, Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang, Future Fabulous
Notes: This is the harder version of all the Chariots. Solo is not recommended. You will need duo at minimum and your warrior to help proc red for your KI. It is quite a dilemma, Titan and Ramuh will survive his magic attack, but will die eventually because of discoid. One summoner may have to go full tank with 2 atmas that give regen while the other Summoner can use Leviathan (Ducal, Future Fabulous, Noxious Fang) and spam Grand Fall. Take care of areas, and do not cluster together. Always have your blink, stoneskin, aquaveil up.
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Gamayun - Abyssea Grauberg
Avatar used: Shiva
BP Rage: Heavenly Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Atma of the Beyond, Minikin for refresh, Future Fabulous.
Notes: Moderately easy to solo with Shiva, just take care of its two hours. Your atma built is up to you, if you want to use Beyond + Ultimate + Ducal for max ice damage, or play it safe and use one regen atma. Obviously you are here for the seals, so having another summoner and a black mage for yellow proc may speed up the battle. Either sub ninja or whm and fully buffed at all times in case of bad luck. Make sure you have plenty of temp items handy. I suggest to use Future Fabulous or Ascending One if you want to be on the safe side and survive Aerial Blast.
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Koios - Abyssea Altepa
Avatar used: Garuda
BP Rage: Predator Claw, Wind Blast
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Atma of the Gales, Razed Ruin, Minikin
Notes: Similar to Gamayun, moderately easy to solo-trio, take precaution of its 2 hours. Garuda can last longer than Shiva. Your atma built is up to you, razed ruin if you plan to Predator Claw often, Gales if you plan to use Wind Blade more. Bring Blm for your yellow proc, and make sure you have your temp items and dawn mulsum handy for emergency in case you plan to keep avatar out and not resummon.
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Sippoy - Abyssea Vunkerl
Avatar used: Leviathan
BP Rage: Spinning Dive
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Future Fabulous, or Razed Ruin
Notes: This is your old school battle of kiting summoner. You will have a chance to BP rage every fresh new leviathan, you must keep your distance since Sippoy has annoying AOE moves that can devastate summoners, especially when he is at low hp - it will constantly spam this which results to a dead summoner. Not sure why you wanna solo this, but it is doable but long battle. If you want to brag about it, go ahead
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Hm'Zdei - Abyssea Vunkerl (Tier II VNM)
Avatar: Ifrit, for ice resistance
BPs of Note: Meteor Strike and Inferno Howl
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: A very easy solo, for those who need to get to the Tier III VNM. No need to re-summon or even use a curative. The pull can be a little tricky, however, as this NM likes to hide near Lord Varney and the hoard of sound aggro bats.
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Ketea - Abyssea Vunkerl (Tier III VNM)
Avatar: Shiva, for ice resistance
BPs of note: Rush
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Voracious Violet
Notes: Ketea absorbs magic unless his mouth is open, so I shied away from Ifrit (As far as I remember, Meteor Crush has a slight magical element to it, and I wasn't willing to risk my Tier III VNM pop to find out it would be absorbed). Shiva and Ketea were pretty much even for most of the fight, as far as HP percentage goes. I used one dawn mulsum at around the 50% mark, and finished the fight with no problems and no re-summons. Overall, the fight took about 15 minutes.
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Smok - Abyssea Attohwa
Avatar: Leviathan, for fire resistance
BPs of note: Grand Fall and Spring Water
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: This fight took a long time solo, and Smok was well into his full rage time when he died. Once he is raging, his Tebbad Wing can get very nasty. Make sure to time your blood pact commands in between Smok's TP moves so that you don't get caught in Tebbad Wing's AoE radius.
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Titlacauan - Abyssea Attohwa
Avatar: Ifrit, for both fire and ice resistance
BPs of Note: Meteor strike and Inferno Howl
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: With Ifrit easily eating most of this NM's spells and abilities with his elemental resistances, there are only 3 things to worry about with this NM - Silence, Death, and Comet. Echo drops deal with Silence, leaving only those last two. Keep Blink, Stoneskin, and Aquaveil up at all times in case you need to re-summon! There is just enough room to kite this NM East to West without drawing aggro from the Hounds to the North or the Skeletons to the South. This would also be much easier as a duo, since only Comet would then become an issue.
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Es'euvhi - Abyssea Attohwa (Tier II VNM)
Avatar: Garuda, for wind and earth resistance
BPs of Note: Predator Claws and Whispering Wind
Atmas: Voracious Violet, Razed Ruins, Gnarled Horn
Notes: Pure offense! The above atma set is my preferred when going for pure Predator Claws - which takes very satisfying 4,000 to 5,000 pt chunks out of this guy's hp. Garuda resists all of his spells, so use Whispering Wind liberally as needed, and you won't even need to re-summon. This NM sometimes opens with Break when you spawn him, so I'd recommend subbing Whitemage for Barpetra, just in case. He also sometimes spawns in antlion territory - between Confluxes 2 & 4 - so make sure to keep sneak up when you find yourself over there.
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Mx,grah - Abyssea Misareux (Tier II VNM)
Avatar: Garuda
BPs of note:Predator Claw, Whispering Wind
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Voracious Violet.
Note: Very easy, go pure offense, pop during blunt time if you want to get a chance for Apollo flute to drop.
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Tristitia - Abyssea Misareux (Tier III VNM)
Avatar: Ramuh or Titan, for thunder resistance
BPs of note: Chaotic Strike, Mountain Buster, Earthen Ward
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion or Stronghold, Voracious Violet. Can use Minikin instead of MC if you low on MP.
Notes: Rather easy to duo with Titan and Ramuh. Just make sure to stay away when it is casting its AOE spells. Nothing to worry at all, easy to proc with a black mage in party. Drop plus 2 for summoner empyrean legs.
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Bakka - Abyssea Konschtat
Avatar: Shiva, for ice resistance
BPs of Note: Heavenly Strike.
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: Shiva laughs at this NM's ice spells, and his weak melee hits are barely noticeable. The only tricky part of this is getting a clean pull. Targeting an imp in the middle of a bunch of other imps is... tricky. Once you can give the Assault command, you can move back to the safety of Conflux 8 and give the Hold command to pull your avatar (and the NM) to you. After that, this NM is a pushover.
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Tunga - Abyssea Attowha
Avatar: Garuda
BPs of note:Predator Claw, Whispering Wind, Wind Blade
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin, or Atma of the Gales.
Note: Tunga can be a bit tricky to solo due to its hate reset and breakga chain spell. Garuda as usual resist all its stone spells and more often than not its breakage and Predator Claw does a nice 5k damage with Razed Ruin and max summon magic. You must pay attention to its hate reset and poison effect to your avatar, make sure healing salve and clear salve is in your inventory plus mp/hp recovery temp items in case of emergency. Other than that this NM is quite easy. The other two NMs for the zone boss KI pop set is best to duo war + whm for red proc.
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Carabosse - Abyssea LaTheine
Avatar: Garuda
BPs of note:Predator Claw, Whispering Wind
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin, or Stronghold
Note: I duo-ed this battle with beast master using Dipper Yully, make sure as Summoner you sub scholar, use dark arts and dispel all Carabosse's buffs. Pretty much easy battle, predator claw often, have the beast to sub white mage to help with status removal. Cara will benediction and cure itself but it should not pose too much of a threat. Duo took 15 mnts or so. I would imagine it would take too long for it to be useful when you solo. Trio would be much faster kill, if you are doing empyrean, would be best to gather 1-2 other people. Watch out for her various mode, and keep your distance, she can spam Breakga and will petrify you. If you are duo-ing as summoner, Garuda + Fenrir is good combo, mainly you want to use Fenrir dispelga BP.
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Lusca - Abyssea Attohwa (Tier III VNM)
Avatar: Leviathan
BPs of note: Grand Fall, Spinning Dive
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Voracious Violet, or Ultimate, can also use Noxious Fang for water damage
Notes: Lusca has two mode, magical and physical, if it is on magical mode - you have to kite and your avatar should not melee, run around and use Grand Fall, if it is on physical mode, have it attack and use Spinning Dive. Pretty straight forward but be careful not to kite around Agressor Antlion spawn area. I suppose you can use Garuda or Shiva as well, but Leviathan is the better tank overall. Bring your friend to yellow proc this thing since it drops rather nice collection of plus 2. Do be careful of its conal attack, Siphon Discharge, and make sure your buffs are all up and barwartera as well.
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Alkonost - Abyssea Konschtat
Avatar: Shiva
BPs of note: Rush, Frost Armor
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity
Notes: Started with a fairly straightforward NM that I've beaten before on MNK.
With the somewhat defensive setup above Shiva rarely dipped below full health. Alkonost did very little damage, even with special moves. Frost Armor caused paralysis on him quite well.
Back Heel and Hoof Volley both reset hate, so he heads for you after these moves, but with Aquaveil, Blink and Stoneskin up there wasn't any concern and Shiva quickly gained hate back.
So far I'm 0/6 on the Atma, so bringing a friend for red procs is highly recommended!
Additional note - tried this with Garuda, with much the same effect; Shiva was possibly slightly faster.
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Mielikki - Abyssea Attohwa
Avatar: Garuda
BPs of note: Predator Claws, Whispering Wind
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin
Notes: Fairly slow solo with Garuda's Predator Claws doing reasonable damage. I went with Garuda for the earth resistance. Ifrit deals more damage, but Mielikki casts many earth based spells - with Whispering Wind there was no need to resummon, just kept my MP topped up with temporary items.
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Yannei - Abyssea Attohwa
Avatar: Garuda and Ramuh
BPs of note: Predator Claw, Chaotic Strike, Shock Squal to stun his casting.
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin (one summoner do more damage set up, the other more defensive with Ramuh).
Notes: I decided to duo this since it is very tough to solo it. Please note that we brought a beastmaster - one of the summoner dual box - and put it on hold till Yannei hp is at 25%. The fight is not so bad, very straightforward, and communicating between summoners when their avatar is about to die to take turn resummoning. When Yannei's hp hit 25% he start doing that terror move which can be deadly, since he also do draw in and terror move + bio. If you get caught in it, you may die - hence the beast was used to buy some time in case this happen. Otherwise this is just a slightly harder version than the other 3 cature, but definitely not as hard as Rani and Raja.
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Jailor of Faith - The Garden of Ru'Hmet
Avatar: Garuda, for the earth resistance.
BPs of Note: Predator Claws and Whispering Wind
Notes: This was a pretty easy duo. The tricky part was in spawning him, and then getting to the the large, square-shaped central room where we fought him without drawing aggro on the way. Watch out for the occasional Breakga! Other than that, just be sure to coordinate with your duo buddy to make sure there's always at least one Garuda out there on the NM.
(OK, technically it wasn't a complete Summoner duo, as our party did finally catch up to us when it was around the 20% HP remaining mark. We could have easily finished the fight on our own, though.)
A single Summoner could probably solo this by kiting it around the central room - which has a nice square-shaped hole in the middle to accommodate running in giant circles.
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Chasmic Hornet
Abyssea - La Theine
Avatar: Shiva
BP: H.Strike & Frost armor
Atma: Ducal Guard, Minikin, Beyond
Notes: hated this bastard. Hate control during Frenzy pollen is key. That alone will win or lose this fight, at least way i did it. now ive soloed this guy plenty of times, but dying from that damn final attack is not a win in my book. the paralyze on Frost armor will help w/ the Frenzy Pollen HF effect but the hate rest is where you need to be careful.
Let avatar hit bee before hitting an attack BP then after a good hit then run and take care of yourself.
then watch his HP, that last bit is tricky part he will frenzy pollen constantly. time you BP to kill him before he does his "final sting"
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Flame Skimmer
Abyssea - Misareaux
Avatar: Shiva
BP: H.Strike & Frost armor
Atma: Ducal Guard, Minikin, Beyond
Notes: after my lessons that i learned w/ Chasmic hornet this guy wasn't a big deal. it was the other flies. i ran between the bridge and small peninsula of area by flux and he would go into river to chase after me and didnt go near them. I believe ice spikes did just as much damage to him as Heavenly stike
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Bukhis - Abyssea Vunkerl
Avatar: Ifrit, for ice resistance.
BPs of Note: Flaming Crush and Inferno Howl
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruins.
Notes: Bhukis is another guy that can flat out wreck a good day. He packs hefty AoE moves with a wide range of nasty, crippling effects the worst of which include stripping Cruor buffs, potent Max HP Down, and Doom. If he gets nasty, even a well prepared team can slip up and have problems.
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Lord Varney - Abyssea Vunkerl
Avatar: Garuda, for wind resistance.
BPs of note: Predator Claws and Whispering Wind
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruins
Notes: Varney drops one of the KIs needed to spawn Bukhis. A really easy solo, using the same atma setup as I did on Bukhis himself. With Sneak up and you can easily get within range to use Assault without aggro from the bats surrounding him. Just make sure to be well past the bats in a safe location before using Retreat to call Garuda (and the NM) to you. Easy peasy.
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Ulhudashi Abbysea-Attohwa
Avatar-Garuda
Atmas-RR,MM(or if mp np, use gales), and DG
bps-wind blade, preditor claws
fight-lead the thing into the little canyon and then run close to where the efts are, and use your bps, try your best to not do any bps while it's tp moving, or that will give it health back, I kept garuda's life up by whispering wind, and just kept at it. If you'd like to make the fight faster duo with some other summoners or beastmaster, and trio with a black mage if you want extra vision coins (especially since I needed 24), good luck and happy hunting
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Cannered Noz - Abyssea Tahrongi
Avatar: Ramuh
BPs of note: Chaotic Strike, Shock Squall
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Minikin Monstrosity, Mounted Champion
Note: Defensive set up as this takes a while - whilst only a few Chaotic Strikes are needed to kill, the multiple reraises really draw this out. After the seventh reraise it gets the ability to cast Death - this is where I found Shock Squall to be useful. Pulled from the pop to the long valley for kiting.
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Dhorme Khimaira - Abyssea Uleguerand
Avatar used: Ramuh for thunder resist
BP Rage: Shock Squall, Chaotic Strike
Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion, Stronghold, Minikin for refresh (pick any three that suits you)
Notes: Not recommended to solo, too slow and can be challenging. Duo is better, or trio if you need yellow proc or red proc for KI. You must stun when it tries to cast Thunder on itself. You can do your BP rage, Shock Squall, or come BLM sub and stun it. It will cast high Thunder magic when you pop. Do not come near, because its TP move is AOE and can stun and paralyze you for awhile, also has Bio.
If you are soloing, and sub WHM or SCH, please bring dawn mulsum x 5. Use your healing salve 1 & 2. This mob does not have much hp but trying to get yellow proc can be a bit tricky. Other than that a great source for blue mage and warrior body seal. Have the other SMN set up total tank atma (with 2 regen atma), and you can do total DD atma (ducal is still a must). The nice thing about this mob is that it has a high magic resistance so your blm won't have to worry too much about getting hate as long as he/she wait before spamming the proc spells, Blizzard and Stone spells still do a good amount of damage.
Ninja, Dancer or Thief plus Whm can duo this with ease. Obviously you want ninja for red proc. It does drop 1-2 seals without yellow proc, more often War and Blue body. Pop set run around 70-80k for 3, less if you farm yourself.
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Hazhdiha - Abyssea Altepa
Avatar: Leviathan, but switched to Garuda half-way through.
BPs of Note: Lvl 70 Rages.
Atmas: Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, Razed Ruins.
Notes: The feeder NM for Dragua. Laughably easy. I'd probably do this one again with pure DD atmas set. Started with Leviathan, because this NM can do fire spikes. As noted above, switched to Garuda half way through the fight to speed things up.
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Dragua - Abyssea Altepa
Avatar: Garuda, for the earth resistance
BPs of Note: P. Claws and Whispering Wind
Atmas: Mounted Champion, Razed Ruins, Gnarled Horn
Notes: Emboldened by my easy win on the feed-in NM, I went a bit more offensive than I had originally intended. It was a good move, I think. After pulling the NM off to a safe area, I was able to take it down without much trouble.
I was able to use the same avatar for the duration of the fight, with MC taking care of most of the healing needs. However, every now and then Dragua managed to punch a Stoneja through, taking nearly half of Garuda's HP, so the occasional Whispering Winds was needed. Garuda seemed to have more or less capped Evasion, so regular melee hits were rarely even a factor. Every now and then Garuda also got hit with the occasional en-petrify, though it always wore off quickly each time.
Overall, the fight took between 15 and 20 minutes. As is my usual M.O. I went /sch for the RR and better Stoneskin, and for the first time in a long time I found my MP sorely pushed to the limit. I ended the fight with 300-ish MP, starting from 2,600 (and riding sublimation the whole way). Given I was able to use the same avatar the whole way with 0 hate problems, I'll likely go /rdm for convert on any future kills.
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Fuath: I officially hate this NM
Garuda: RR,MM, DG P.Claws
she definitely has high magic acc. Everything except Stonega III and Aeroga III were landin full force @ 500+ damage.
The move to watch out for is Cyclonic Blight. Its range was just short of giving command's range so i got caught in a few times and it hurt. 1780 hp to 143 , if it didnt one shot.
other than that she hit fast and for 20-40 damage on garuda
Lethe arrows landing on garuda at wrong time made things a bit hairy Because of amnesia.
pulling her from the pack of pixies is annoying too.
Took about 45 mins to kill
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With the new gear now I believe all the NM's would be easy to kill now ^^
Having a hard time getting the coding right for the wiki page for smn new gear, just updated the horns :P
Stats are not all there ><
http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Category:Artifact_Armor_%2B2#Summoner:_Convoker.27s_Attire
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