The 6th Ministry's Secret: A Summoner's Guide (v2)

I don't have nirvana and solo'd most of the t1 (minus tonberry and mimic). All were done with flaming crush except bugard which is weak to ice. Some took one conduit, others took 2. I have 2100 JP and a lot of gear though not all the apogee+1 yet.

Setup is just summon a trust like king of hearts for dia 3 refresh 2 and other buffs/debuffs, gessho my go to trust, I use cherukiki as whm I find the fact she does regen when no other whm trust does among other things to amke her good if you not in Apu or Yoran's unity. Nashmeira II is also a solid whm however. Iroha II very hand in that she can aoe restore hp and mana and does skill chains. For my last trust I experiment so, up to you. August as a backup tank or Selh'teus also good but honestly the trusts don't matter too much because the fight is over in the span of 40 to 90 seconds anyway. Food is Kusamochi or Grape Daifuku.

The Merlinic hands NM is hard if he starts using death gaze but otherwise I didn't think he was too hard, I did have to kite him around with only healer alive before tho he seems to take reduced fire damage. I only recommend doing it this way tho if you don't have a GEO and/or COR friend because with them it's way easier and you won't burn as much silt. To get a revitalizer you need 20k kills in escha. You also wanna have a lot of vorseals especially for attack, accuracy, magic attack, magic accuracy and str, dex, int.

Also, I noticed that if I cast Accessioned Storm on a Trust, my avatar also gains it, won't work if I cast it on my self or an actual party member. What's up with that?

I don't have nirvana and solo'd most of the t1 (minus tonberry and mimic). [...] I have 2100 JP and a lot of gear [...]

Also, I think I need adult supervision, I can't make up my mind on which stats to pick on Merlinic Gloves, Had BPD+10 Pet: INT+8 MAB+8 and then BPD+4 Pet: STR+15 MAB+28.

My friends and I also noticed this recently. If the WHM/SCH does accession Protect V/Shell V on the trust, it will also give your avatar protect and shell. I verified the def increase with checkparam. We also saw Regen IV go onto the avatar, and yagrush was removing debuffs off my avatar (when first targeting a trust).

Also works on BST pets and PUP automaton.

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I tried a few Dulahan and Ahirman, as SCH, BLM, SMN, PLD with Aparuru and King of Hearts. They took roughly 8-13 min each, I guess GEO does make a difference, was doing magic burst strategy, because my Flaming Crushes are not that great I guess :) Anyway, guess a GEO would be way to go.

Also, I noticed that if I cast Accessioned Storm on a Trust, my avatar also gains it, won't work if I cast it on my self or an actual party member. What's up with that?

I'd kept the bpd+10 one.. I feel that, the gloves because of the native MAB / ATK and BPD on them, with a BDP+10 aug and 20+ MACC (the rest is bonus to me!) are hard to beat for just about any dmg BP wether phys or magical. Makes for a great inventory saving piece!

I've never taken a video before so I apologize for lack of quality (it's slightly sped up but I think it's cuz it lagged my computer so much and the thumbnail shows it letter box but vid isn't). Here is me beating Crom. Was first attempt today. Notice how I make sure ifrit behind or to the side of him, I don't know if his shield can block hits from ws or flaming crush but I didn't wanna find out.



A few pacts have missing hits, which makes me think maybe I should go back to the apogee mitts for accuracy. With my set above you have 50 accuracy and 30 magic accuracy which is more important than the crit chance from helios imo.

Make sure to haste 2 and earthen armor before the fight. Sometimes trusts will still die, Naja I don't think ever hit him so a 2nd healer or tank trust really useful for that.