Tonberry Ambuscade V1

It's worth noting that Tonberries can't seem to overwrite Distract III with Sigh. RDM is excellent this month.

If i had to guess turning with JA0 during an animation may lead to SA still procing even if on your end you are looking the at mob.

That's the thing though, if you turn before the shadow pops it will still appear behind you. Somehow the fight tracks what direction your character is facing and appears where your back is regardless.

Tested it by back-tanking in one fight since the Boss hits like a wet noodle anyway and the shadow still appeared wherever my back was.

That's a good point, I forgot he positions based on the targets direction.


But this is an interesting thought. The server would still register you as facing a direction during your "animation" but with ja0 we are facing the shade locally. Comparable to when you see someone running from fullers mid weaponskill animation and they are facing Kei on your screen but running away on theirs.

Whelp at least this month is amusing when everyone caps hate. I certainly second the delay on facing though, takes a second for sure between what you are facing locally and when the mob backstabs you.

Any experience on more efficient damage types? Anyone tried using Leaden/Trueflight setups?

*edit: tested magic ws setup. Complete dogsh*t. Using them to pop the eles on first smn does make this fight a breeze though.

I've run BLU so far really well for this month's. Geist Wall dispels Sigh just fine. Dark dispels yay, light dispels boo (finale and gaze resisted every time)

We haven't tried VD yet (we've only messed around a little bit Friday night w/it), but on D we were straight up ignoring the elementals. My SAM friend and I (BLU) were alternating light skillchains and just overwhelming the hp restored from the elementals getting AF off. After that it was just normal kills and being careful to not pull off our tank (we had a PLD; he was struggling a bit and having to work at keeping his threat. I think he switched one of his songs to the enm+ one)

We were kinda tired when we tried VD so not playing the best; not sure if the ignore the eles and overwhelm the SMN will work there or not. PLD was definitely struggling more to heal through AF on VD (he was main heals really; we were PLD SAM BLU BRD COR GEO) ((note: the COR was multibox and mostly there for rolls; PLD didn't have her set up for control for DPS so if you had a real COR, eles are no worry))

Probably not as efficient as something magic dmg to deal with the elementals before they can AF (I tried cleaving them on BLU and it wasn't that great really; took a cycle of spells and AF typically still went off. moderately geared ambuscade clubs, cohort +1, +3 relic legs, etc..), but the fight on D ignoring the eles is an option for the murderhobos out there that'd rather smash and not worry about the specifics

OCR Google Translate gibberish:
闇連携が活躍するアンバスがやってきましたトンべリ戦
Ambass, who is active in darkness cooperation, has arrived.

編成:剣竜戦コ赤風護衛含むトータルHPが約300万
とかなり多いアンバス回となっています
Organization: Total HP including Sword Dragon Battle Ko Akafu Escort is about 3 million
It has become quite a lot of Ambass times

開幕ロールサムライアら女間のランダムディール直前で
戦ウォークライ発動して'活させておきます
Just before the random deal between women such as the opening roll samurai
Activate the battle walk lie and keep it alive

風水はインデフューリージオフレ彳ルです。まずは召トンべリ
のみなのでとりあえず瞬殺します。
Feng Shui is an Indefuri Geofle. First of all
Since it is only, I will kill it instantly for the time being.

ここで前衛はニ手に分かれます。戦コは護衛担当
竜はボス担当になります。竜は開幕シェルクラッシャー
Here the avant-garde is divided into two hands. Warco is in charge of escort
The dragon will be in charge of the boss. Dragon is the opening shell crusher

護衛の順は黒シシ(絶対回避誘発)忍シシ(絶対回避後)
の順で削ります。ボスは竜の闇連携で削ります。
The order of escort is black shishi (absolute avoidance trigger) Shinobu shishi (after absolute avoidance)
Shave in the order of. The boss is scraped by the darkness cooperation of the dragon.

開幕に復活させたウォークライも再び使用し更にボスへ
トマホークを入れます。ボスは魔法カット50%持ちなので
I will use the walk rye that was revived at the opening again and go to the boss
Put the tomahawk. Because the boss has 50% magic cut

護衛残りシのみになったらコはボス連携に参戦して
イナンデーションの効果が出るようにします。
If there are only escorts left, Ko will participate in the boss cooperation
Make the inantion effective.

ボスが断罪の光を竜に向かって撃ってきたらボスの闇連携を
不発させるためハイジャンプスーパージャンプします
If the boss shoots the light of condemnation toward the dragon, the boss's dark cooperation
High jump super jump to misfire

連携の〆の直後はサべッジやウッコを挟んでもトスのソニスラを
妨害しません。スーパージャンプの硬直中にも撃つ感じで。k
Immediately after the 〆 of cooperation, even if you sandwich a savage or Ukko, you can use Sonisla of Toss
Does not interfere. It feels like shooting even during the rigidity of Super Jump. k

ボス序盤のスピリットジャンプミスやスーパージャンプ無しで
倒せていればギリ2分台も狙えるかもしれません
Without spirit jump mistakes or super jumps in the early stages of the boss
If you can beat it, you may be able to aim for the last 2 minutes

Thank you for taking the time to do these (it's almost like doing crossword puzzles).

I did however have to turn off my bon jovi music and tell my wife to stfu. So I can try and comprehend this.

Even with the google translate, a lot this makes sense. I thought it was curious that the DRG did Shellcrusher in the beginning but I hadn't even noticed the boss had high Magic Defense/MDT.

I may need to do a quick test on a lower difficulty just to observe if Tomahawk will make a noticeable difference in skillchain damage.

so what jobs these month have a good chance to get in a shout party for D-VD vol 1?

The same as any and every other (not smn burn)shout.

RUN > BRD > COR > GEO > WHM > The other trash that pretends to be in the game

(*) Not the order of best, but the order of likelihood. NEED a tank, no one wants to be tank. BRD is nonnegotiable but no one will ever shout as the bard. COR/GEO are the most likely to be the shouter. WHM is usable but not required over a lesser. All the other common rabble beg for the last slot unless they simply go double cor.

We trio it pld/whm , rdm/nin, brd/nin. 10-12 min vd

“We made a bot play 72 hours of ffxi, then had it tell us about Ambuscade. Here’s what it wrote!”

It's the answer to every question. The tl:dr to every "how to". The bottom line of every strategy.

How do I kill ___? Take all the buffers, someone to heal them, kill it before it kills you.

Ok, but what about ___? Take all the buffers, someone to heal them, kill it before it kills you.

Hmmm, but howabout ___? Take all the buffers, someone to heal them, kill it before it kills you.

But how do I do that? Be a buffer or the healer, Take the other buffers or someone to heal them, kill it before it kills you.

So whats the goal of the whole game? Take all the buffers, someone to heal them, kill things before they kill you.

It was literally 3 of us each playing one character... but ok.

And the brd was sub dnc*

He was talking about me, that should've been obvious. But I guess not. My answer was/is exactly the most efficiently, AI, soulless, obvious, boring, meta, "answer", answer.

Which, I mean, is the most correct answer, so. It's not my fault obvious robotic efficiency seeking mimicry is how you all insist on playing. *Shrug*

Ahhh I’m dumb. Was reading it at the gym; guess I got some roid rage going on.

Reading ffxiah posts at the gym. Zero gains are being made

Actually the sub dnc was huge. I forgot. Sorry ho

Anyone happen to know if the def down is resistable with wind resist buffs?

It is. When I tanked on RUN I use Gelus x3 and resist defense down almost every time. I think it's landed on me 2-3 times this entire month even in a regular TP set.

Late in the month, but the machine translation gibberish bothered me so I watched the video and wrote an actual translation.
Maybe it'll be useful next time we have Tonberries.


The Tonberry fight - an Ambuscade where Darkness skillchains shine.
Composition: RUN, DRG, WAR, COR, RDM, GEO. Including the adds, there's about 3,000,000 enemy HP total, so this round of Ambuscade has quite a lot of HP.
Starting rolls: Samurai, Allies. Just before the Random Deal between rolls, the WAR uses Warcry to get its cooldown reset.
Geomancy: Indi-Fury, Geo-Frailty. There's only the SMN Tonberry at the start, so we just wipe it out fast.
Now the attackers split into two groups. WAR and COR deal with the adds, while DRG handles the boss. DRG opens* with Shell Crusher.
The adds are dealt with in the order of BLM, THF, THF (trigger Perfect Dodge), NIN, THF, THF (after Perfect Dodge). The DRG burns down the boss using Darkness skillchains.
WAR uses Warcry, which had been reset at the start, and Tomahawks the boss. The boss has 50% magic mitigation, so once there are only THF adds left, the COR joins in on skillchains on the boss so that Inundation can take effect.
When the boss uses Light of Condemnation on the DRG, the DRG uses High Jump/Super Jump to make the boss's Darkness skillchain fail to activate.
Right after the end of skillchain, you can squeeze in Savage Blade/Ukko's Fury without interfering with the Sonic Thrust used to open skillchain. You can also SB/UF during the animation lock for Super Jump.
If you can beat the boss without missing Spirit Jump early into the fight or using Super Jump, you might be able just make a sub-3-minute clear.

* as in opens the fight, not opens a skillchain