Ambuscade Vol.1 - September

Best place for Lamia kills for KI?
Recommended setups for the fight?
Between my roommate and I we only have WHM THF BRD GEO RDM BLM. Is this another month we'll have to skip?

Azure Experiments for KI.
RUN WHM GEO RNG RNG COR is pretty fast. Can switch one rng for brd.

Was having issues with this using one tank, wouldn't it be easier with two? Even though the kill speed would be slower, it would be safer to handle? I say this because we usually don't have an absolutely decked out PLD or RUN with Burtgangs/Epeos etc.

So on VD....

PUP RUN WHM GEO RNG RNG

pup - takes frigg away
run tanks both the others
whm/geo/rngs do their normal jobs


kill order was frejya skathi frigg. 10 minute kills

You don't need the best geared tanks this month. Only 3 targets, and they all stop auto-attacking constantly to range attack.

A single tank with average reflexes (and a bit of practice) can hold all three Lamia on D without too much difficulty, since Frigg and Skathi don't get access to their gazes until Freyja is dead. If you follow the Frigg 5% > Freyja > Frigg > Skathi order, your tank can focus on just dodging gaze from a single enemy at a time.

On VD, it's a whole other story, since they all gaze from the start. Aside from having a tank with supernatural reflexes, you really want to try to mitigate tp-feed so the gazes aren't rapid-fire.

Tell your WHM to keep the tank in cureskin 100%. Mine sources of subtle blow (Auspice, Monk's Roll, NIN subs, gear, etc). Mewing Lullaby is also an option, if people don't mind subbing SMN.

It's too bad that many people will not try this fight w/o a PUP holding Frigg on VD. Even sadder that so many people seem to be resorting to scripts.

While you're right, gear means essentially nothing this time. asuran "average reflexes" don't cut it. (granted, asura is below average in, literally everything) ((reading comprehension and following directions far below average...))

Every single pld/run so far has failed to properly hold not all 3, but only 2. Across VE E N D and VD

<3 Asura.

We do our best to lower the bar at every opportunity

I'm happy to kill this for people who are willing to contribute towards my Rostam fund. I'll be on Monday Tuesday.

Yes, reflexes are required for single tank on VD and probably a good ping. Charm happens sometime, is easy to recover tho.

Um... what?

No DRG for party.

I know Im late but

1) What the hell are you on about? Like was that a Misstell but on the forum page?

2) LOL it's funny, I like it.

I mean, i'm not sure what you're salty about. But the reason we use pup on fenrir is the ability to pull Frigg away from the other two mobs; without our WHM needing to split their time between both tanks.

You're more than welcome to come tank/whm to my VD parties as long as you can keep yourself alive?

What scripts? I want scripts lol

Anyone figured out what triggers draw in?

Debuffs on the Freyja. Just make sure to use geo-frailty on the skathi. The draw-in proc’d on seperate runs where the geo did frailty on the freyja and the whm landed paralyze on the second run. Dia II seems to be fine to cast though.

Did another run on D and Hiep seems to be correct. Thanks.

Shout really needs to stop trying to do this with smn rng pld

Y'all can't do it. Just stop. use pups, plural, call it a day.

new theory. pup/whm x3 each on a mob, 1 pup take charm *** away.
then fomal cor and relic rng x2, pups throw heals if needed.

That's not a new theory, thats the current working setup. The ones trying to do this with pld/run are just being stubborn. and failing, constantly

you can use pld, did D today with pld whm geo cor cor rng, so no, pup is not needed just need to know what there doing

That eliminates, the entirety of asura, so, i mean, yeah

Thank you for this! This will make future runs much smoother.

Small correction since I've been spamming so much ambu this week. Dia II can proc it if you spam it later in the fight for freyja. It won't proc if you use the Dia II once in the beginning for geo-frailty tagging. Might just be under 50%? Since under 50% the other lamias gain extra mechanics like Skathi's Divine Retribution.

I've been drawn in at 80% before, but it's more common at lower thresholds.

Confirmed on VD that no draw in occurs with no debuffs used. We did Skathi to 5, killed Freyja, then killed Skathi while PUP tanked Frigg.

So what's the reason for taking Skathi to 5%? Because my group switched to just doing Freyja first and aside from the draw-in *** things up, had no real problems.