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[thistlechaser]

Stupid, stupid Catlove's hosting is down. Again. This has become a monthly thing. It's been down two days now, no response from my hosting company even though I emailed them twice. As soon as my time with them expires, I'll have to find someplace new.

So anyway, I haven't seen any LJ comments in two days. I'm not ignoring folks on purpose, sorry. :/

I also have peachy keen screenshots, once I can upload stuff again.

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In FFXI land, bah. More than 24 hours later I'm still kicking myself and going over every element of that darned fight. If my 2 hour had done something good (instead of giving the melees back MP), we would have won. If if if if if if if...

Darned Corsairs, being double weakened = no DD abilities at all. I was weakened x4 or x5 at the very end and I still tried Ice Shots when he was at 2%. Shooting was worthless, I tried meleeing (with my fire staff, ha), and of course did nothing.

If if if if if...

It was a fun fight, and I am looking forward to doing it again (oddly), but I'm still kicking myself. If only...

I may be going as DRK the next time, which will be roughly a katrabillion times easier than any other of my 75 jobs. Two-person stun rotation? I could do that in my sleep! But anyway, I need three merits before Thursday, so I can buy Dark Seal. Got one today.

2%. If we hadn't have gotten so close, I don't think this would be gnawing at me like it is. If only I had done this, if only I had done that. Did rolls fall off the melees at some point? Maybe the reduction in damage made the difference. Should I have shot more instead of trying to keep two rolls on melees, two different rolls on tank, one roll on mage? If if if if if if...

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

/comfort

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*gropes!*

[tacrozar.livejournal.com]

Did you have a rdm+whm backline? Having a BRD also helps... I think in this fight it edges out COR. MNK/NIN x2 can probably bounce hate.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

We were PLD, WHM, COR, DRK, THF, MNK.

I was wavering back and forth on COR vs BRD, but in the end we were shooting the first form BLU to kill it, so COR won.

[quistie.livejournal.com]

As much as I like to scrutinize every little mistake after the fact, there is a risk in overdoing it. If you realize you made a mistake, by all means, make sure you never make the same one again. However, if you are just speculating on what mistakes you might have made, then you're just torturing yourself.

I know it's tough to lose when you're so close, but that's at least a memorable fight. If you're just losing without making any headway (my group has never even gotten past the BLU), I think that's a lot more demoralizing.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

However, if you are just speculating on what mistakes you might have made, then you're just torturing yourself.

Heh, yeah. Luckily my brain has finally settled down! Mostly, anyway. :P

*pats lots* I hope your luck turns around, too!

[mertondew.livejournal.com]

I'm just amazed how fast that fight took a turn for the worse. It was like "This is awesome; we're doing awesome; we're all awesome - wait, I'm dying; we're all dying; why are we dying?"

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

And dying and dying and dying... I used 5 RR charges in the last few moments!

I can't wait to see how we do next week, with the different line up.

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

Quit harping on yourself for failing the fight. For all we know *I* could've caused the fail when I put up Footwork! I'm still not too sure on that ability, but I do use it to hopefully let the tanks hold hate better. Too bad I still pull hate. D=

Speaking of which, my pulling hate could've caused it as well. Note that I backed off of Alexander when I pulled hate.

I could probably list various individual issues, but you gotta think that everyone could've probably done something better (No offense to ya'll! Just pep talk!).

Plus you need to learn not to rely on COR's random abilities to do what you want. XD Can't blame an ability for failing if it only has a 1/6 chance of doing what you want it to.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Ya, it was clearly achi's fault! Stupid kick attacks!!!

We really have to figure out if that makes you take less hate or if it just turns it into spike hate instead of gradual hate like you regularly do...We need to clone you and have a hate off I think.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

We need to clone you and have a hate off I think.

Now that would be amusing!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Quit harping on yourself for failing the fight. For all we know *I* could've caused the fail

No no no. I enjoy kicking myself, let it be all my fault! ;) But seriously, I'd never blame anyone else. I'm sure everyone tried their best! It's only my own actions I'll nitpick -- I'd like to play as well as I can, and I can't improve if I don't spot my mistakes.

Plus you need to learn not to rely on COR's random abilities to do what you want. XD Can't blame an ability for failing if it only has a 1/6 chance of doing what you want it to.

*laughs* I knew that! :D And 2/6, actually, one roll would have given 100% TP, another 300%. I bet one extra round of WSs could have made the difference. :/

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm bad at making up statistics. I figured 1/6 since it only chooses one of the 6, but I knew that both V and VI restore 2 hours. =x

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

And that too! :D

[vh-immortals.livejournal.com]

This fight was quite interesting for me, to say the least. I've tried several times at this fight with random groups, or groups with a couple friends. Back when I was on this mission was when it was first released, and the first time I tried the fight we also lost at 2% actually. That group then broke up due to lack of time, unfortunately.

After that it was really difficult to find a group to go do this mission. A lot of my friends were already past it and shout groups just didn't work. We didn't actually beat it until this year (I think it was sometime in January).

I found that sleeping and nuking Raubahn during his second phase is a lot easier than anything else. I also found that BLU damage sucks on Alexander, and Head Butt is unreliable. When I won this mission, we had a BLU/WAR tank Alexander (and Raubahn, although the SAM ended tanking for awhile too).

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Excuse me while I shoot your icon. :P

and Head Butt is unreliable.

Huh! The wiki had only good things to say about that. ('lol wiki' I guess.)

I'm glad you eventually won! Hopefully we will, too. Next week!

[xvolph.livejournal.com]

As a tank, the worst part was Void of Repentence. Timing and luck is everything. The terrorize effect sucks, and if I have enough time to build hate before it hits, I can usually stick it until terrorize wears off. If not, hate will shift.

We can re-examine the fight until we're all blue in the face, Thistle, but fact is, no one was at fault. We had a few factors against us, and we can either find ways to avoid them, work around them, or stick it out. In the end 2% is better than 50%.

[xvolph.livejournal.com]

That said, continuously stunning Gospel of the Lost gave us a huge edge and enabled us to take his health down faster. Had we just let him use it and tried to stun Void instead, we never would have gotten him down as far as we did. I don't even know for sure if Void CAN be stunned. But if it can, and if we have people who can trade stun duties and try to catch both, we should be golden.

Having a RDM to back up the WHM is always a plus and helps with the healing bit. Sleepnuking the Blu for one round also makes things smoother.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That said, continuously stunning Gospel of the Lost gave us a huge edge and enabled us to take his health down faster. ... But if it can, and if we have people who can trade stun duties and try to catch both, we should be golden.

With both Mal and I on DRK, maybe one of us can stun one, the other do the other? (I find it easier to watch for one thing to watch for, especially if it needs super-fast stunning like Void.

Sleepnuking the Blu for one round also makes things smoother.

Would that be faster than us shooting him? I've neevr tried it that way.

[xvolph.livejournal.com]

It might be. I've seen it done as one round of sleepnuke, one round of range, and the last round as all out whatever. Sleepnuking seems to have been the quickest, most effective from my experience.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Well, we can see! If we can somehow time it right, Mal and I can help nuke.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

We can re-examine the fight until we're all blue in the face, Thistle, but fact is, no one was at fault. ... In the end 2% is better than 50%.

Yeah, to both parts. That's just how I am though, I kick myself endlessly. :}

And yeah, 2% is much better. So close! We'll do it next week, I bet. :D

[xvolph.livejournal.com]

Sure we will. JUST NOT ON DARKSDAY!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha. What are the chances it'll be darkday again? (Um, 1/8, I guess. :P )