Best Way To Farm Briareus?

==bria farming nin/war 101==

if you level nin and skill ninjutsu even mildly you'll be able to easily solo the nms and likely bria; buy your pops to make it exponentially faster.

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1)before each fight, yonin/myoshu/kakka
2)pop->yurin/jubaku and then kurayami/hojo (or vice versa)
*depending on your kill speed youll need to redo yurin/jubaku and myoshu/kakka
*also keep shadows up
3)if you have proper combat skill and weapons you can do 12/13 procs less ice, i think

tips:
1)bring abyssea potions
2)use martellos
3)turn as needed during shock spikes
4)turn during ice spikes and put up miga about 30-45 seconds after he casts it, also bring a catholicon/vicars/remedy/etc for para as it can really screw you over
5)zone in->run to trophy shield nm->run to armband nm(hit martello if you need it)->run to sock nm(martello if you need it/it's up)

if you're incredibly unlucky like myself and get freezebite every nm, it'll take you about an hour to solo farm a set, otherwise should absolutely take you no longer than 30-35 minutes. lots of jobs can solo bria, id hope your 5/5 thaumas blu can, maybe pup too. if not ask one friend or ls mate to throw you a couple cures.

congrats on your kannagi or almace and have fun competing for gukumatz.

Highly recommend leveling NIN and just doing like that, especially with a WHM alt to dual-box. It's simple enough to make a throw-together NIN just for farming empys. At least get the +2 empyrean feet and then you could just wear Thaumas for the rest.
RR/SS/AoA on the NIN
Allure/MM/Dread for the WHM... Could use AoA instead of Dread if you get a THF, which would be best for Briareus/Sobek themselves, since getting only 1 item after taking the time to DB a popset blows lol.

Did this and built my Almace and Armageddon. Definitely do it, especially with the event weapons that allow for 12/13 red !! on NIN.


Edit: Also, it's much easier to gold-box farm Sobek but it's probably more tedious and obviously much more chance based than just farming the NMs.

yes, i'd recommend if you have a few bodies to amber misar coast. just have someone pop a brew (bc 200k cruor isnt that much, really) and killshot lots of apkallu to cap amber in 3 minutes..then azure/pearl lots of orbs/frogs/crabs/lizards/bats

The big issue here is the feed. Briareus isn't one that goes for hay, so usually you just need to let him graze on the open field. But be careful. Sometimes he thirsts for human blood, so on occasion you need to feed him a corpse or two. But the output is so worth it. You're able to milk a helmet from him about every other week or so. Also, the typical barb-wire fence won't do as he can just club that thing, so you're going to need concrete walls.

I soloed most of my Kannagi and there's no way I'd recommend ambering it. Gukumatz is really not that camped anymore, and you still need to kill Minax for each of your popsets anyway.

I soloed all my Briaereiuses on BLU/NIN with TH set, but i had boss gear, thaumas, af3+2 STR shikargar, hybrid evasion set, etc. I also made a WoE Sword for my BLU to make Bri farming less annoying. (I had 23 coins laying around so did a few hours worth of WoE one morning to finish it, honestly was worth it) was able to kill Bri extremely easily with CDC..was licking off 4-8k CDCs on him compared to lolvorpal/req which were 1.5-2kish at. Sudden Lunge makes Bri a joke...although I did lose one or two bri due to SL not landing then getting owned by a 888 merc strike followed by an instant 1.4k trebechet or whatever.

Even without red proc, there's a 35-40% chance of getting the KI without red(I almost never got red on BLU solo but I still got the KI very often, never went more than 1/4 on it) need to SL all their roar moves or you'll get owned.

Even if Briareus decides to go on his period, it's still easy enough to recover after dying and just kite him for a bit, provided you haven't already built up his stun resistance.

I'll concur on the red proc thing. People really overstate the importance of having all the red procs covered on La Theine empyrean KI monsters.

Is it still possible to get the all jobs scythe? I think I was gone when it was released...

Unfortunately no, they were only released to winners of the golden gobbiebag giveaway. However, it was mentioned on the official forums that they do plan to release the scythe in other events. So expect it in 2-3 years, given their track record as of late.

To add more, i was bored of waiting to get help from others during my brarius farms so i went w/ this path

First, i farmed shield/armband/sock as nin/thf w/ atma of dread on. W/ Th3, it never took me more than 15 minutes to find all three items, then i just warped out.

Second, farmed all three of the gigas NMs as nin/war using Razed ruins, sanguine scythe, and mounted champion. The trophy shield guy is a total joke. the massive armband guy is annoying and you just have to wait for the spikes to go away, and i found that the oversized sock guy uses his super move about 1 minute and 5 seconds after he uses ice roar. Because of this, i was able to successfully run from it every time, knowing when he'd do it.

Lastly, change to nin/dnc for brarius for stuns. Obviously these constant tansitions take some time, but they are super safe and effective.

This is what I did. I normally did 2-3 sets a day depending on play time( wife was term with our baby at the time I did mine). So max was 6 helms if you got lucky and maybe 2weeks max on getting 50. Again depending on your play time. It's a long process solo but it can be done.

I never noticed this, interesting find. When i soloed briareus i used pld/dnc with ochain. Ochain isn't completely necessary, i soloed the NMs before i obtained ochain/almace, was just slower, needing different atmas. pld/dnc gets 9/13 possible red procs, resulting in roughly 90% KI dropping in total. Also, having /dnc allows you to stun grandgousier and pantagruel, preventing shock/ice spikes, and drastically decreasing time to kill them.

I also suggest just buying the pops. On leviathan, i would sell dyna currency, making 1.5mil a day, and the 3 pop items were 90k. So unless you can farm 16 popsets in 2 hours including time to change jobs, just buy them and save the time/frustration.

With buying popsets using ochain/almace pld/dnc (soloed nearly all for kannagi) I got down to 45 minutes per round, and only ever losing 1 bri due to my stupidity of taking off twilight set while kiting.

Edit: I should also note I used taru sash w/ TH augment and dread atma on bri. After 12 fights w/ TH1, only 1 time did he drop 2. Once I started using TH2, 4/5 dropped 2 at a time.

I would farm 4-5 sets with my thf (using d-box method to keep multiple rare items) and then just pass them out to my friends with the promise of +2 items/future help/whatever. Farming the items myself took about 10 minutes a set and made less work for them. We'd farm KI's as drk or war, nin, and whm. We'd kill Bri as thf/dnc, whm, whatever. Just have the whm /blm for easy warps and keep the bare minimum gear for nin and thf on you to speed transitions up. It can be done solo or duo obviously, but I'd recommend 3 for speed.

1. Farm pops as NIN/THF.
2. Farm KI as NIN/WAR.
3. Farm Briareus as NIN/THF.

After you kill Briareus, you're already the correct job/subjob to farm more pops.
Farmking KI - Turn from thunder and ice spikes. Run from Moribund Hack.
Farming Briareus - Run from Colossal Slam. Use lucid potion if Mercurial Strike hits hard. Keep Yurin and Myoshu up.

1. Apoc, RR, GH (or SS).
2. Apoc, RR, MM
3. Apoc, RR, MM

^^ Best way to solo as NIN.

If you can 2-box, use whm/blm on your mule. Stun Roars. Heal your main with Cure5. Have you main swap from MM to either GH or SS for 2 and 3

level thf, buy a mule whm, alternate between thf/nin and nin/war for farm/ki farm.

oh. and movement speed gear. briareus is a pain to farm for because of all the legwork.

Briarus solo
nin/war RR SS GH and ride migawari for morbound hack, during ice or shock spikes pull a add and tp on it, target Weapons skills on NM. Keep up hojo/jubaku and its easy ride.
Or just /dnc and stun everything briarus does.
Alternative: if you have trouble with NMs and cant handle adds wile doing this you can nin/war or (nin/pld all same proc + pro/shell sentinel & cure) RR, Sea daughter, Apoc, main a sword and flat blade to stun his spikes, let migawari take morbound hack and turn away from spikes till down. I did tried some of these methods at LV80 cap as i was learning to solo my kannagi and they helped a lot.

Blue mage farm you could /war /pld /nin and have most proc, do some of the quests for trainee weapons wich are all job weapons plus event weapons you could get some good use from em on extra proc, the rest of fights are self explanitory with sudden lunge theres no danger. those who have trouble farming solo and cant get help or just choose to solo it, these are a no risk method and works well w/o depending on temps. hope it helps some with ideas! good luck

Yeah because it's such a horrible idea to address other posts besides just the first one.

Also, it's unwise to take all that time to farm KI's and then go fight Briareus without TH. I would never suggest/condone that.

Smoke pot, build pearl and amber, pull a shitload of frogs, burst affinity, charged whisker, open chests, find a friend who wants gems, and remember if you see a beastmaster to repeatedly Benediction their Cara.

CW takes 10x longer, only benificial to do so when you have friends KI farming wile the blu gets TE and a few extra KI here n there.

uh well, you can solo farm briareus no problem on BLU. Just sayin. Can make money too.

And you can farm a TH sash while doing so to give yourself TH3 on your whm/thf.

I'm on Bismarck, we don't have LS' that help with stuff :P