Ambuscade Volume 1 - August 2017

Oh yeah Papesse, the Mamool one was pretty annoying too.
I spent like 1+ hr trying to do VD and D yesterday with my friends and we utterly failed.
Some things I noticed:

1) Level-up - I don't think it's strictly connected to the use of WS. My friends claimed they didn't see a Levelup each time they WSed and that sometimes they were levelling up on their own randomly. One thing I noticed is a Sahagin that popped, went straight for the WHM with no levelup, after 1 or 2 hits he went for the RUN and on the way to him he levelled down. Wut? He had just popped...

2) Landing Silence - Not sure on the exact number of debuffs required because we had multiple people casting debuffs. I was landing 4 songs, then GEO was using Frazzle, Distract, Impact, and we were also sticking Blind, Slow and Paralyze. Past a certain point you don't seem to get a bonus in the landing rate of Silence. Speaking of which, landing it the first time is super easy, from the second onwards it gets harder, to the point where even with Wind Threnody II, Macc food and Idris Focus, we were still having issues landing it despite getting the right "message" in the chat log. We attempted to do a (D) run after, and strangely enough I didn't really notice any big difference from (VD), as in after the first landing time of Silence, it got progressively harder. Songs always landed 100% of the times on all targets, lullabies included.

3) Accuracy - Not sure on the TP gear my friends were using or their food, but for VD with Marcato Honor March and 2x Madrigal, they were a bit under 30% accuracy. With Soul Voice they were above 94% just fine. Despite SV and 5 songs and an accuracy that was just fine, they were having issues killing those adds. We only killed a few and they were ignoring the Kraken, who was being tanked by the RUN (with Elegy and Slow on)

4) Adds - Kraken pops only in (VD) it seems

5) Enemy buffs - it can take some time to re-silence the boss. In that meantime he can land several powerful songs on the adds. It's not really feasible for the BRD to cast Finale multiple times on all of them, you just have no bloody time. Maybe a BLU with AoE dispel would help, I dunno.

6) Immunobreak - Neither me nor my friends ever seen a single Immuunobreak for Silence on the megaboss. Not sure if it's just a coincidence but I bet it's not



Couldn't notice anything else in our several attempts. Looked like a very annoying fight but I'm not sure what was making the enemies so durable (there has to be some other key at play other than "level up"?) and the strange resistance on the Boss

Couldn't notice anything else in our several attempts. Looked like a very annoying fight but I'm not sure what was making the enemies so durable (there has to be some other key at play other than "level up"?) and the strange resistance on the Boss

I haven't been able to do a VD run yet, but on D, I think silence can be applied after 4 debuffs.

Yet in spite of that we were having serious issues in lading it after the first couple of times, regardless of the amounts of debuff landed and getting the message.
We had to resort to Idris Focus and even that didn't prove enough after a while.
Not sure what was happening.

My macc gear is not BiS but it's pretty damn good :x

As for acc, their acc was super fine with SV Madrigals on VD, and didn't even need Soul Voice to cap acc on D
Don't ask me how much acc our DDs had before songs because I have no clue xD

When the mobs are more than ~10-15 yalms away from the boss, they take roughly half damage. I'm not sure if that's from PDT (making it unavoidable) or from defense (making it avoidable with enough defense down and attack up), though.

So I ain't started with Ambuscade this month yet. I'm guessing it's easier to spam VD Regular than it is to do D or higher on Intense? We have the players to do Intense .. I think, but is it too slow? Seen a video of Marlboro dying in seconds, whereas some have said it takes considerably longer to kill the Sahagins .. as long as 10+ mins in some cases.

So I ain't started with Ambuscade this month yet. I'm guessing it's easier to spam VD Regular than it is to do D or higher on Intense? We have the players to do Intense .. I think, but is it too slow? Seen a video of Marlboro dying in seconds, whereas some have said it takes considerably longer to kill the Sahagins .. as long as 10+ mins in some cases.

If it takes you 10+ minutes to kill Malboro you probably aren't equipped to even beat Easy intense

He said he's heard of Sahagins taking 10+ minutes; I'm not sure how you got him saying Malboro takes him 10+ minutes out of that.

There's a learning curve for Volume 1 this month for sure, and thus far our group has mostly just stuck with Intense D spamming. Overall the entire fight only takes a few minutes, which is still good.

Oh good .. if intense D is only a few mins a kill my group can live with that. Last months Intense took a little bit longer and it was fine. Cheers dude.

And no .. I definitely meant the Sahagins. If it took us 10+ mins to kill the Marlboro we should stop doing Ambuscade altogether.

Regardless Malboro is much faster to kill but getting the planetoids can be a pain as often see people blatantly botting mandies right in czeik all day

CDC-->Kasha--->Savage--->Fudo, they usually die to the BLU's Savage, and if 4 step happens it kills them even through their Regen when aura is up, even on VD

Best way to kill this for solo is to kill all adds at the same time. VE and E seem doable with certain jobs. Once all adds are dead, the main BRD Sahagin is no longer invincible. I was able to kill both adds then immediately zerg down the main NM which had 50% HP left. You have maybe 1 minute to do this before it respawns one of the adds which puts the invincible shield back up. Hope this helps.