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 Valefor.Prothescar
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By Valefor.Prothescar 2016-12-13 18:22:37
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RUN RNG RNG COR GEO WHM wrecked VD Soulflayer
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By Valefor.Prothescar 2016-12-13 18:27:24
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Ragnarok.Kilorilo said: »
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Most importantly to monthly Ambuscade where are the quickest homepoints to get the KI!

Xarcabard[S] seems good for Vol 1. Go NW towards the campaign thingy and there's a bunch of demons and imps.

Easy one for Vol 2 is Escha Zitah #4

if you run a little passed the demons in xarc there's a ton of ghosts and cointeach in the pass before castle zvahl
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By Sylph.Oraen 2016-12-13 18:41:33
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Mind sharing any more info about the Soulflayer fight? Any particularly troublesome attacks for the RUN, preferable WSs and the like? Very interested to try something not melee this month.
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By Odin.Llewelyn 2016-12-13 18:43:40
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Droning Whirlwind and unresisted Bio from Tribulation are all I can think of that can annoy a RUN.
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By Valefor.Prothescar 2016-12-13 18:47:08
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Sylph.Oraen said: »
Mind sharing any more info about the Soulflayer fight? Any particularly troublesome attacks for the RUN, preferable WSs and the like? Very interested to try something not melee this month.

Not particularly. Popped a battuta at the beginning and had it RD'd for Azure Lore, nothing else he does sucks really but if you get dispelled reapply shell asap
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By Sylph.Oraen 2016-12-13 18:48:42
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Alright, good to know. Mind if I ask why ranged damage? My first assumption would be his AoEs but I'm also not certain how his shield functions.
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By Valefor.Prothescar 2016-12-13 18:50:01
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We tried melees and the AoEs sucked huge ***, RNG is just safer. I'm sure you can use melees if you wanted to. We did get that problem where the 2nd rng, 3rd on the hatelist, couldn't deal damage normally, don't know what it's about but it is almost certainly tied to hate as Llewelyn was saying.
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By Shiva.Darthsnuggie 2016-12-13 18:50:25
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Blue Mage can't equip the new Ambuscade gear, WTF.
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By Sylph.Oraen 2016-12-13 18:55:14
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Alright, that's extremely interesting. Gonna have to look into this when I'm finally done with tests for the week. Much appreciated for all the information.
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By Odin.Llewelyn 2016-12-13 18:59:24
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Valefor.Prothescar said: »
We did get that problem where the 2nd rng, 3rd on the hatelist, couldn't deal damage normally, don't know what it's about but it is almost certainly tied to hate as Llewelyn was saying.
Did Decoy Shot not allow you to deal damage normally? Thought maybe that (and Trick Attack) could.
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By Valefor.Prothescar 2016-12-13 19:01:24
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im not sure if they tried, will let you know after the next run. will be later tonight
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By Bismarck.Cloudstrafie 2016-12-13 20:18:13
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Corse seems to build some kind of DT. Also seems to counter magic damage with a single target 30-60s terror that spawns a ghost add and resets hate. Honestly more of a pain in the *** than the Soulflayer.
He's not much of a pain. The right setup absolutely flattens him.

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No adds and 300 hallmarks for VD? did i miss something or did SE fudge the rewards
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By Valefor.Prothescar 2016-12-13 20:19:17
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Corse is Regular not Intense
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By Bismarck.Cloudstrafie 2016-12-13 20:21:26
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Valefor.Prothescar said: »
Corse is Regular not Intense
So its a Corse for both fights?
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By Asura.Saevel 2016-12-13 20:23:13
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shield gets up with TP spikes and silence Aura full-time and nothing works to break it.
We had that shield get put up also, but we broke it eventually just damaging it like normal. We also didn't get a Silence aura, but that was on a D test run last night.

My LS found that SMN's bloodpacts don't seem to be effected so they just use Rumah to remove it on VD. So far they got a good win rate with Anni RNG's and a SMN.
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By stormix 2016-12-13 20:26:26
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Valefor.Prothescar said: »
RUN RNG RNG COR GEO WHM wrecked VD Soulflayer
How did it wreck it? what was strat?
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By Calinari 2016-12-13 20:31:00
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stormix said: »
Valefor.Prothescar said: »
RUN RNG RNG COR GEO WHM wrecked VD Soulflayer
How did it wreck it? what was strat?

Srs? The "strategy" is make it's hp go from 100% to 0%. The party set up is self-explanatory. They shot at it.
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By stormix 2016-12-13 20:36:44
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Calinari said: »
stormix said: »
Valefor.Prothescar said: »
RUN RNG RNG COR GEO WHM wrecked VD Soulflayer
How did it wreck it? what was strat?

Srs? The "strategy" is make it's hp go from 100% to 0%. The party set up is self-explanatory. They shot at it.
Yes srs! Did they kill the imps or go straight to boss! Now how you found the answer to that in his post really baffles me.
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By Draylo 2016-12-13 20:42:58
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Really aggressive, I don't see a problem in asking for specifics. Not saying hes doing it, but many people are like "smashed that rly ez" and they actually don't do it as consistently as they claim. Some background info would help others on the specifics like it was already asked earlier.
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By Ruaumoko 2016-12-13 20:44:22
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Seconding the notion that the RNG strategy is effective but really need to give a shout out to Avallon, our master SMN.

SMN absolutely obliterates this thing and Volt Strike seems to completely bypass the shields. I'm wondering if this mystery 'third category' of damage for being low on the Master Manipulator's enmity list is that only damage from pets, Avatars in this instance, will work. Makes sense really. SMN also has Ramuh's Favor which boosts critical hit rates for the backline RNG, resulting in some hilariously powerful Barrages.

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By Valefor.Prothescar 2016-12-13 20:59:05
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Interesting, will try switching one of the RNGs to nirvana SMN for the next run
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By Asura.Yankke 2016-12-13 21:00:12
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Ruaumoko said: »
Seconding the notion that the RNG strategy is effective but really need to give a shout out to Avallon, our master SMN.

SMN absolutely obliterates this thing and Volt Strike seems to completely bypass the shields. I'm wondering if this mystery 'third category' of damage for being low on the Master Manipulator's enmity list is that only damage from pets, Avatars in this instance, will work. Makes sense really. SMN also has Ramuh's Favor which boosts critical hit rates for the backline RNG, resulting in some hilariously powerful Barrages.

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Yay thx for the video Ruaumoko!!!
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By Valefor.Prothescar 2016-12-14 00:20:28
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Can vouch for the SMN thing too, bypassed all of the DT shenanigans including that stupid shield. Had no RNGs this time so still can't speak on the effectiveness of decoy shot
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By Quetzalcoatl.Excalin 2016-12-14 01:51:25
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Killed this with Blu and Thf dps....***sucked on Flayer, had to get a TP regain roll from the Cor because it wasn't taking damage outside of Crit WS like CDC (Which completely bypassed the shield it seemed). Flayer would fall over if you could TP it normally...doesnt have more than say 150-200k hp.
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By Asura.Ladyofhonor 2016-12-14 01:55:44
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Ranger strategy works nice and easy on Soulflayer, that's how I'm going to cap it this month. Like 5-6min to buff/clear imps and another minute on flayer.
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By CHENGMIKEY 2016-12-14 03:35:16
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on the soulflayer, rng racc need to be?
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By Odin.Godofgods 2016-12-14 07:21:46
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for these smn's and rng's on soulflyer, would they work with random equip or need to be properly geared to make any difference?
I have both leveled and skilled, but i dont play them, or have specific equip for them. Wondering if something thrown together would still be better then bst this month.
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By Asura.Ladyofhonor 2016-12-14 07:23:37
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You'll need a decent racc set, but the Ambuscade set is a pretty solid one if you can get proper accessories.
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By Odin.Godofgods 2016-12-14 10:35:30
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Asura.Ladyofhonor said: »
You'll need a decent racc set, but the Ambuscade set is a pretty solid one if you can get proper accessories.

is racc the only thing id need to rly worry about in creating a quick set just for this ambu? Havnt even seen, much less been, a rng in ages.
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