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Finally got suzaku win!
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Switched merits around from:
5/5 Vert 5/5 Ice
5/5 Para II 5/5 Slow II

To:
5/5 Vert 3/5 Ice 2/5 Earth
5/5 Slow II 5/5 Bio III

Para II was draining too much MP for the amount of resists.

I did 5/5 Earth and didn't bother with Paralyze most of the time.

You can also just Chainspell Cactrot Rapido with basically no risk. Just use some efficient subtle blow in your nuke set.

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I've used that strat a few times for Rapido. Always gets 1 TP move off if I CS nuke. Hermes Quencher around 60% will guarantee a win.

Any other fights on the same level of difficult as Suzaku/Seiryu? I've tried Byakko once since 75 and seemed like no chance at all, could be possible with some trust trickery.

I don't think Byakko is possible at 75. Can be done at 80. Faust can be pretty tricky if you haven't done that one yet, or Hakutaku.

Yeah Byakko was impossible at Lv.75. Think there was a recording of Avesta trying at Lv.75, but he failed? Can't recall it that well.

I can't really think of anything more difficult than Suzaku (that's possible). Some of the [S] stronghold NMs are pretty challenging though. I never tried most of the Castle Oztroja NMs, as most weren't very rewarding, so you might find some interesting challenges there, if you haven't already. The Failnaught NM is quite tough, though.

Ra'Dha Scarscute in Beadeaux [S] in particular I remember being a pain. If I recall, if he manages to get a single Head Butt through it's over, unless you were lucky to resist/partial resist (with Ni up) stun effect. He uses them in quicker succession at low HP aswell if memory serves, and Slow does nothing for it.

List of NMs killed so far:
NMs I've yet to fight, but have an idea of being possible:
Serket
Behemoth
Adamantoise
Ash Dragon(Extreme - Bombs in the room always shut me down)
Byakko(Extreme - Probably have till lv 80)
Capricious Cassie
Bomb Queen(Adds will make this very difficult if not impossible at 75)
Jailer of Temperance
(S) NMs

Mother Globe might be possible, but won't be easy, gotta kill all the slaves very very quickly at the beginning.

I can't open the spoiler, but going down your list of idea ones, the ones I know are possible are Behemoth, Ash Dragon (if someone is on bomb control,) Cassie, Temperance, and a large majority of the (S) NMs. Globe can be done duo with a BLM, though. I have a huge list of ones I've done/want to if you're interested.

Just a list I quickly threw together. Positive I'm leaving out a few things.

I found Seiryu easier than Hakutaku personally. Probably due to having a lot more freedom on where you move after binds. You list Despot as difficult, but he's so easy a DRK can solo if you run to the lake. You could solo Kinepikwa for a Poison Taster's Cape. It's pretty nice with the elshimo fruits you can buy in Kazham.

I pulled Hakutaku back to the Temple of Uggalepih zone line. Plenty of room to hold it in that hallway. Killed Haku on my first try, Seiryu took around 16. Unlucky para procs always ruining the fun.

Made that list more with a mindset of people trying them for the first time. They're all fairly simple once you've got the win a few times(Excluding the top 3, and that's mostly due to HP, having to keep stamina & concentration up for that long is no easy task.)

Kinepikwa is a good idea.

If you have someone you can duo with, you can duo Elatha.

Would love to take up that Suzaku challenge for free, but the deleveling involved just looks too painful.

Let's see the list, Austar, genuinely interested.

Few things I can remember that haven't been mentioned:

I think all of the T1 ZNM are doable, most of the T2 aswell.

-Dea and Armed Gears for T3 are doable, possibly Nuhn too, but it would be quite a challenge.

-Cerberus may be possible if you can have someone deal with the elemental. Don't think I need to tell you it would take an absolute absurd amount of time, though.

-Shikigami Weapon
-Bomb King
-Nargun (Low HP, but fairly tough)
-Aqrabuamelu (This one isn't too hard)

Can't think of any others right now.

I have not done all of these personally, though, these I know can be done as far as ZNM go:

With the release of Frazzle I wanted to give Byakko a try. Switching merits around & going to give another attempt.

Switching from 5/5 Earth m.acc to 5/5 Ice M.acc, might even remove 5/5 vert out for 5/5 Wind acc.

If I can't reliably land bind/gravity then I'll start trying with trusts.

Nosferatu, interesting. How would you do this? Kite?

Nuhn would be quite easy actually now that I think about it, if memory serves, Gravity can land on it.

The ??? is pretty close to a zone, could use bio/poison -> zone -> rezone -> wait for bio/poison to wear -> recast -> repeat. I've done it on BLU that way. Possibly the same area people kite Chigre?

Not really a fan of using zone lines.

Hmm yeah, since you're only doing this for fun/challenge, seems to kinda defeat the point if it's done that way.

You can kite Nosferatu in the big circle area. For Byakko, there might be a way, actually.

What did you have in mind?

Thinking about popping on Windsday since Iceday follows allowing for the use of both obis.

Ulmia for march, Kupipi for paralyna, not sure about the third.. Need a BRD trust that has priority on mambo & go full bat earring eva set. As soon as they pull hate they're going to die with a quickness.

Mambo on RDM? Can you even get eva high enough to get off the floor?

I don't think any current trust cast Mambo.

Joachim casts -na's, Erase, and tends to use madrigal/minuet if Ulmia is doing marches. Both would probably use a song slot for ballad though since your RDM and likely under 75% mp or w/e their AI uses it at.

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+Blind or Blind II

Makes a noticeable difference for Cactrot Rapido, haven't really used it vs other targets.

How much more macc do the 75 magian staves give over ele staves? Or do you already have those. Assuming it would be too unrealistic to straight shadow tank with marches, I know it was easy on nin, but extra shadow etc.

"Affinity: Magic Acc +3" is the highest you can get with 75 magian staves. HQ Ele staves/Chatoyant = +2 affinity.

Ffxiclopedia shows that +3 affinity gives +40 M.acc

Bluegartr shows +3 = +20 M.acc

On the Chatoyant staff page it says +2 is equal to +30 M.acc

Byakko is 8-10 levels above Cactrot Rapido, I very much doubt an evasion set from RDM is going to be effective at Lv.75.

RDM can straight tank Byakko with Marches I'm sure, it certainly will not be easy though. If Slow II decided to not want to land a few times in a row though, that could mean your life, assuming you don't get a bind/gravity in as that is happening.

Interested to hear what Austar has come up with!

You can probably pin it in. I'm on my phone is I can't draw a picture on the location. but if you imagine it like the same island as genbu, there is a bush on genbus island. you can probably force bya to run up and down the ramp if you stay in that corner. I haven't done it and I only got the idea when I saw him path weird in your attempt video above.

as for the affinity on the staves, all I can tell you is that 3>2 affinity. I use ice and wind ones personally.

I'm also unsure if the obis give m acc, I just assume they don't and haven't used them in any enfeebles

Kraken Club + Octave club fun times!


Streaming some kraken/octave fun, macro making with the new gearset system, and lastly some lvl 75 Ash dragon solo attempts.
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Hey Upbeat.

Slowtwitch here, I also livestream and have lots of videos archived on my twitch channel. Do you know how I can access those and edit them / upload bit and pieces of them? I found the Xsplit folder with them but they are a weird file and the size is like 40 kb.

Message me privately or maybe someone else here knows and can help?