Sortie 9 Boss Strat

EDIT 11-29-24: Added time targets for you and your group to follow (underlined and bolded). If your group is new to 9 boss clears then I advise that you ignore the mini NMs and the extra objectives and focus on getting all 9 killed in a run. This way your group can do it daily. Once your groups timing and kills gets faster you can start adding in the mini NMs, Naaktuals and the extra objectives. Don’t get discouraged if time is way off, it will get better the more times your group does it. Aminon kill speed can vary depending if Hard or Easy mode, and if Wildcard rolls a 5/6. Just for reference our fastest Easy kill is between 5-6min. I don’t track it daily so I can’t get you actual times.

Would like to share what my group is doing. My goal is to see players gain more muffins per run, more +2 opportunities, and more stage 5s out there.

Job comp: PLD/WHM, COR/DRK, GEO/DRK, RDM/DRK, BRD/DRK, DNC/DRG

Prebuff:
We do naturalist, and we prebuff with an outside SCH. Mainly regen, and shell from the SCH. The RDM will haste 2 the party.

1 HOUR TIMER STARTS (optional: kill Obdella, Porxie, DD if in the objective areas)
Once inside we do basic BRD songs, most important is everyone capping haste. COR will crooked SAM, random, then bolters. PLD will barbliz, barpara, auspice, and holy circle.

We split to do objectives:
COR goes to B and does objectives on fire elementals.
PLD and BRD goes towards D and does objective on fomors.
DNC and geo goes to C and does objectives on corses.
RDM runs towards D and does A objectives on acuex.

Gather at boss D and kill. Will need to SV here to guarantee SV for aminon. BRD will do honor, mad, min, min, aria, and will pianissimo ballad to pld. COR will CC brd.
TIME REMAINING TARGET AFTER DEGEI DEATH 53MIN

After boss D kill, we run back to start and port to D > H.

Notes for H Aita:

PLD goes to area before the reive to check for blitzer.

PLD: Fealty prepull, kite out if fetters are either orange (they will floor accuracy) or 4 fetters are out. Prebuff auspice, barpara, barblizz, phalanx, crusade. Priority is heals. Fight in the center. As required kite towards the right and stand to fight, again kite away if either orange or if more than 4 fetters, Ideally towards the door.

COR and GEO in charge of procing Aita.

Will need panacea when you have DOT, def down or slow. Everyone follow tank running out when they run out. Always fight near tank to receive cures.

GEO: Indi fury, entrust haste, geo frailty.

DNC: Haste samba, box step, ruthless stroke.

COR: Crooked chaos, sam, SB ws. Lightshot to upgrade dia.

RDM: Dia 3, black halo ws.

BRD: Open with shell crusher and switch to sb.

Aita can be stunned.

Ideal kill time is before fealty expires. Para can be a *** to get off if it get’s on the PLD. Almost wiped once due to para not coming off with paralyna or remedy.

After Aita kill, port back to start.
TIME REMAINING TARGET AFTER AITA DEATH 47MIN (optional: kill Obdella if on the way to A boss if wasn't killed during objectives)

From start travel north to A boss.

After A boss kill hug the left wall to B boss.
TIME REMAINING TARGET AFTER GHATJOT DEATH 43MIN

After B boss kill hug left wall to C boss.
TIME REMAINING TARGET AFTER LESHONN DEATH 39MIN

After C boss kill run to G. Note: jig and bolters here.
TIME REMAINING TARGET AFTER SKOMORA DEATH 35MIN (optional: on the way to G porter kill Bhoot near Corses, can also reapply songs during this time)

Notes for G Triboulex:

PLD: Prebuff with holy circle, barpara, barblizz, auspice, phalanx, crusade. Open with fealty, flash, sentinel, rampart, sepulcher, banish2. Tank in the center.

BRD: Songs honor, mad, min, min, aria. Open with Shell Crusher.

GEO: Indi fury, Geo Frailty, judgment ws.

COR: Crooked chaos, sam. SB ws. Lightshot to upgrade dia.

DNC: Haste samba, box step, Ruthless ws.

RDM: Haste 2 everyone prefight. Dia 3, Frazzle, distract, Black Halo ws.

Can absorb TP Triboulex.

Bolters + chocobo jig after kill.

After G kill go to B > F boss.
TIME REMAINING TARGET AFTER TRIBOULEX DEATH 28MIN

PLD goes to area before reive to check if blitzer is there.

Notes for F Gartell:
If wind hand, everyone removes protect and no phalanx.

PLD: Prebuff auspice, crusade. Barwind if windhand and barthunder if thunderhand. If thunderhand pro 5, phalanx. Flash, sentinel, rampart, invincible, palisade under 24.9 yalms. Due to server and client ping, safer to do at 22-23 yalms. Kite around ring. Be sure to panacea or erase if hit with gravity. Stay out of 20+ yalms during kiting.

RDM: Haste 2 party, stymie + saboteur + grav 2 on pld pull, dia 3, distact 3, impact. Black halo ws.

BRD: Honor, mad, mad, min, min. Wind threnody 2. Shell crusher after wind threnody. SB ws.

GEO: Indi frailty, entrust fury, geo grav, widened compass.

COR: Crooked chaos/sam. SB ws. Upgrade dia with lightshot. SB ws.

DNC: Haste samba, box step. Jumps to shed hate. Rudra/ruthless ws.

After F kill go to A > E boss.
TIME REMAINING TARGET AFTER GARTELL DEATH 21MIN

Notes for E Dhartok:
PLD: Kites mob, stay past 18+ yalms to avoid poison. Keep hate so the front line doesn’t get poisoned. Phalanx, auspice, pro, shell, crusade, stoneskin.

BRD: Songs honor, mad, min, min, aria. Shell crusher then sb spam.

GEO: Geo frailty, stun. Judgment ws.

DNC: Box step, jumps to shed hate. Ruthless ws.

RDM: Haste 2 party if needed, saboteur + gravity 2, dia 3, frazzle 3, distract 3. Black halo ws.

COR: Chaos/sam. Upgrade dia with lightshot. SB ws.

After E kill go to Aminon.
TIME REMAINING TARGET AFTER DHARTOK DEATH 15MIN

Notes for Aminon:
During the Dhartok fight, RDM could have made sure everyone had haste 2 and refresh 2.

Wait until after PLD pulls before songs and rolls are applied due to possibility of pld buff wipe.

Everyone needs to be equipped with proper absorb TP gear and will need to absorb accordingly to keep Aminons TP down. And ws when applicable. 300+ Aminon TP is danger zone.

Even during buffing and while fighting, people need to absorb in between their respective roles. For example brd will absorb TP in between their songs.

PLD: Prebuff with crusade, phalanx, stoneskin. Flash at 21 yalms. Run back towards entrance for about 5 yalms and wait for roughly 2 seconds. After the 2 seconds keep running to the entrance, this should get you out of a buff wipe situation if timed correctly. After pull everyone gather together and setup and continue buffs. In the event of a PLD buff wipe, have the RDM shell 5, refresh 2 and haste 2 PLD asap. PLD needs to keep majesty, stoneskin and phalanx up at all times. I keep auspice and enlight up throughout the fight. KoR ws. I use divine emblem, palisade, sentinel, and or rampart when available. Excalibur and Aegis locked. A good server ping helps greatly to run out of the wipe move.

RDM: Critical to haste 2, shell 5, and refresh 2 pld if wiped. Dia 3 > saboteur > frazzle 3 > poison 2, para 2, absorb mind > absorb str > impact. Black halo ws.

COR: Crooked tact, misers. Upgrade dia with lightshot. SB ws. Use WC and randoms when applicable.

BRD: SV dark threnody 2 > honor > mad > mad > min > aria. Ruthless ws.

GEO: Bolster geo frailty, indi fury, entrust str. Judgment ws.

DNC: Box step, climactic, reverse, presto, trance and grand pas. Use jumps to shed hate. Rotating ruthless and rudras for ws.

TIME REMAINING TARGET AFTER AMINON DEATH 5-8MIN (optional: if time allows, kill remaining unkilled mini top floor NMs, kill fomor family order, then get H box, then Naaktuals in H zone)

Final notes:
As your prep and timing gets tweaked and perfected, you will have more time to fit in roaming nms, other box objectives or reive fights.

Be aware of what aggros what and to apply required sneaks or invis accordingly. Aggros could prevent successive 9 boss runs. The timing gets tighter as more mistakes are made.

I do not play a lot of jobs so I’m leaving it up to the community here to explain in detail should any job questions get asked. I’ve only ever been PLD or COR for a 9 boss run. It would be a disservice for me to explain a perfected DNC Aminon play.

There are many different routes your team could explore but for my team, we found this route to be the most consistent and time saving for us. We have the use of SV for D, H, etc and have it guaranteed for Aminon. We also noticed that traversing the upper floors from start to clockwise was less aggro prone vs traversing from start to counter-clockwise.

Not being able to voice chat (discord) increases the level of difficulty for this activity.

Our runs has been made possible with the help of players that has been there before us and was slightly tailored to our needs. The tidbits of information, data and strategies that was collectively gathered by the static and friends that was shared and applied accordingly.

Lastly, feel free to share your strats or if there’s anything you would like to share and add-on, thanks for reading and I’ll see ya online.

Good write up. Our Strat is very similar. I’ll add Minis and Naaks to this post later today.

MiniNM:

We split similar to Zixxer. A = GEO, B = COR, C = DNC+RDM, D PLD+BRD

If Bhoot, Pig are in the KI rooms we kill them during KI farming. If DD is a clean pull for the PLD+BRD we kill or if the DNC runs into him while running to D boss. None of these are consistent so don't bank on this happening.

Likely path for Minis:

After D>H we head to C, Bhoot is in the Corse room or the SE hall, either way we pull to the SE hall and kill.

After Bhoot C>B>A. After A COR,BRD,RDM,GEO go kill Obdella, he'll be in the quad north of Start Bitzer. PLD and DNC go to Start > B and get the Pig in the Fire Elemental Room.

After Pig. F > G > E > Aminon.

DD will now be in the room south of D Bitzer through Door D2. Have the PLD flash and kite links, have someone else pull DD off the group. Formors are slow to engage and easy to out run.

Naaks: From Aminon we need roughly 4min to complete Naaks at F. B>F. Have the PLD agro all 6 and run them back to the SE Hall. I save sentinel after the WC during Aminon specifically for Naaks.

Bee > Bird (pierce weak) > Shark > Tree > Rex > Lion is the order. Assign someone to stun TP moves, especially on the last 3.

One thing our group got good at was after leaving a boss area, running together so the cor could get tact on everyone. Coming in to a boss with every gased up with 3000tp helps kill speed.

Doesn't that waste time getting Tact and Bolters up?

Edit: I get it, you bolts run together and tact on the move.

Really appreciate the guide, something that is somehow missing or buried. Can you post your time to show if ppl are on track? We do slightly different path wise, but for example: KI 55 min, ABCD 39 min FGH 19, aminon 16, E 6, mini 3. So yeah would love to see your time.
Once again thank you as that gonna help a lot of ppl

I'm kind of interested, it sounds like you don't kite either H or F under certain conditions...

I think they always kite F, but not H.

We prefer to kite H since his debuffs can be annoying. We CS pull with Grav2 (lands after 1-2 cast 99% of the time). I stun him with Shield Bash and then run away. Sometimes he doesn't even use a TP move if I can get to 15' before stun wears off. Grav2 plus Indi Grav slows him down enough and you just need to kite him at 15'+.

I also prefer /RUN for PLD. 4 extra JAs and foil all help keep hate while kiting.

What is the advantage of subbing WHM on PLD?

Just auspice, erase and barspells. I've tried /run, /sch before and it was fine during the run. I'm used to /whm though.

Edit: I also see myself doing NA spells occasionally on members during the run.

We always kite F. H, we tried the kite way but we found the kills were faster only kiting during certain conditions.

I'm glad you found value in my post. I typically don't pay attention too much at the time, but I'll chat with my group to get you accurate info. I don't want to give out any misinformation.

The only thing I remember is at 55min we should be at D boss. At 18min we should be at E boss. And 4-5 min left after aminon hard mode kill. If nothing goes wrong.

In our runs, we kill all the top floor roaming nms, obdalla, dd, porxie, bhoot. We do the fomor family in order and get the H box. Sometimes do the naaktuals (this is last on our priority). Again if nothing goes wrong.

Lets park our conversation for more details later.

This makes me want to write up ours. Everyone for the most part does the 'same stuff' but with alot of subtle differences and it's interesting to see.

I will Bookmark your post, Thank you for the time spent to share this with all of us. I really aperciate it.

You should! More information is always better.

We kite H and F and E actually. Since the E boss uses primarily ranged attacks he's constantly stopping to vomit goo at the tank, so it barely moves leaving the dds to just wail on it. No issues with poison clouds or anything. Super easy. Aita and Gartell are both far easier to kill with saboteur gravity and kiting.

I checked in with the group via discord group message and no one responded with details. I have given up my seat for static and can only make the Friday runs. I'll try to remember this Friday to log down the times and respond back asap and will update the mini guide above. Thank you.

It’s really not for me, we do 9/9+mini, even with alt sometimes (yes the geo is the alt). I just do know that there’s a lot of people that would love the time benchmark to know where they stands, have no guide (‘til now), maybe shy to try/failed and your guide is super informative, never saw one like that before and that would be a nice complement. On their behalf thank you

My group does what sounds like melliny, taint groups does, FHE kite. What is really a surprise for me is you going up and down, no kite…, and my interest about the time was more for comparaison. We do in straight order as we shouts multiple times a week for fill up, so ABCDFGH aminon E or E aminon, depends.

Here are some loose timings for our group that does Shards > DH CBA FGE > Aminon.

Keep in mind westop and kill bhoot pig dd and leech if they are in our path while doing shard farm/running thru CBA.

Enter and buff and split up.

Shards done by 55.
All arrive at D by 53:30~, dead by 52:30~typically.
Run to H and kill, dead by ~47.
CBA > arrive at F by ~28

This is where time gets funny depending on bitzer placement.

Arrive at G between 19-21. Arrive at E by 14-17.
Arrive at Aminon by 10-13.

Aminon typically dead with anywhere from 3:30-5:30 on clock, and if we didn’t get DD we go back and kill it for aurum. If we got aurum already we attempt naaks.


Taint correct me where my timings are wrong here.

Note: this is by no means the ideal or most efficient path as far as time goes. We do Aminon last because it gives us flexibility to rep someone in/out on nights one of our main 6 can't make it.

Added target times to OP. Please let me know if there's anything I missed or if anyone has any questions.

Belated Happy Thanksgiving to ALL!