Sarama Unity Concord

After 80 percent it regened as much as we damage it.

aoe fire still do a lotta damage with all that support.

What you are attempting is top tier content, this is a very high ilvl fight and you realistically won't be able to successfully farm it without job points put into the classes you bring.

Of course you can get away with a few jobs like whm or even geo but as far as your melee or damage dealers go, job points are needed to increase the effective level of the job. They are not bonuses but requirements for stuff beyond 135, that is why you have categories such as def, m.def, acc, atk, evasion gifts to effectively increase your base stats beyond the theoretical lvl 99. It's more like you're lvl 109 after gifts then putting 119 gear ontop of that.

People really do under estimate the importance of job points and gifts when trying high level content and always assume it is 100% gear related when it really isn't.

***is content level 135, if you're not extremely well geared, you're wasting your time.


My setup for him would be pld, whm, geo, smn, bst(or smn) cor.

Geo needs to be 900 skill as a baseline
Smn and bst need the equivalent of NQ apogee in pet DD gear.


AF/AC on a 2100 smn with apogee tier gear will do a LARGE chunk to him, In fact i've done this in an 18 man alliance and both me and another 2100/2100 bst in equivalent gear did roughly 60-70% of the monster's health in a zerg.

The setup I found best to use was: Blu/Blu/Geo/Geo/Cor/Whm.
Geomancer One: Indi-Frailty / Geo-Vex (Entrust Attunement)
Geomancer Two: Indi-Precision / Geo-Torpor (Entrust Attunement)
Corsair: Hunter's Roll / Samurai Roll
Blue Mages: Blinding Fulgor set for Magic Evasion Bonus III, proper spells set for Accuracy Bonus V.
White Mage: Stands in range with Barfira and Barparalyzra up. Curaga III and Curaga IV are its friends.

You need proper DD's to bring this down reliably, DD's with good accuracy and defensive abilities, which is why I recommend two Blue Mages. Sarama seems to have two phases he can switch between, one where his melee attacks do more but he takes more melee damage and another where his magic attacks do more damage but he takes more magic damage (notably skillchain damage). His change is announced by a 1-hour cloud animation and I'm not really sure what triggers it. Something you'll want to watch out for is Chainspell, which also seems to give him the effect of Meikyo as well as he starts spamming Gates of Hades in tandem with Firaga V. This is why Curaga is your friend here. It's also a good idea to fight him on his tail to goad him into using Scorching Lash, which although it hurts is better than facing a Magma Hoplon spam. There is also a way you can stagger him by doing a large amount of damage or weapon skills during his 'howling' animation.

Taken from this thread.

From what I've heard, this fight, and the rest of them, have very similar mechanics to the ZNM Cerberus, Hydra, and Khimaira, in addition to new mechanics.

Sarameya would gain a 1 percent/tick Regen whenever it had a Blaze Spikes effect active, which is gained through casting Blaze Spikes, or Blaze Spikes from Hoplon.

It's likely Sarama has the same mechanic, although I'm not certain. Keep Blaze Spikes off her and it may remedy your regen problem.

Tail tanking it as suggested above is sound advice assuming you can deal with the flail damage, enemies with flail abilities do select their tail attack more often than anything else, so it'll help reduce both Hoplon and Hades usage.

Edit: kinda beaten I guess

Our setup is 2xblu, 2xgeo, whm, brd. The geos do vex/attunement and fury/frailty and the brd does 2x madrigal and march.

Let's try to tone down the attitude. People come here for advice and all. We are geared. Are we 2100 Jp? No, are we full Herculean gears or adhemar +1? No. But we do have enough to beat it now that someone said to dispel his stone skin regen. Are we going to try to beat him now or after we upgrade the new gears? You right it is a waste of time for possibly 10 min fight. So after we upgrade we will re try. Thanks for your input.

The thing is, there is a very large gap between being 'just 119' and being peak now. Job points are a major booster and are absolutely required on all content ilvl 130 or higher as is the right equipment. Stuff like nq apogee equivalent as a baseline for gear or full job points allowing for more opportunities like 900 skill geo or more frequent skillchains in scholar.

To give an example, i recently did an 18 man sarama fight. Setup was 2 pld, 2 geo, whm, rdm, 2 cors and the rest bsts and smns. We killed him in under 2 minutes with 60% of the damage split between me and a single other bst. That leaves 40% of the damage spread between 8 others. That shows how wide the gap between being 'just 119' and endgame geared can be.

What you are attempting is top tier content, this is a very high ilvl fight and you realistically won't be able to successfully farm it without job points put into the classes you bring.

Of course you can get away with a few jobs like whm or even geo but as far as your melee or damage dealers go, job points are needed to increase the effective level of the job. They are not bonuses but requirements for stuff beyond 135, that is why you have categories such as def, m.def, acc, atk, evasion gifts to effectively increase your base stats beyond the theoretical lvl 99. It's more like you're lvl 109 after gifts then putting 119 gear ontop of that.

People really do under estimate the importance of job points and gifts when trying high level content and always assume it is 100% gear related when it really isn't.

I wish more people understood this simple concept for today's end game.

It's annoying to be called an elitist just because I ask for well-geared/JP'd jobs for content like this.

Does anyone know if SMN's Pavor Nocturnus is 100% dispel on Magma Hoplon?