How To Punch Aminon

We 9 boss'd normal last night for the 1st time!

With 1 second to spare lol.

Shared info here has been a huge help as I doubt we would have progressed as quickly without this insight.

We switched to /drk on DRG for 1 extra Absorb TP and it feels comfy.

I'm curious what is the difference from normal to hard aminon?

More DT / longer duration fight?

Hard takes 25% less damage. That is all.

How is the drop rate on Mesosiderite?

Our team most likely won't focus on hard mode until someone needs 4 of these but I'm curious how far out should someone start farming hard mode to ensure they have 4 Mesosiderites by 4 to 5?

Like 25%-35%ish from my experience. My first 8 came decently quick, though my most recent set took an entire month of daily HM to collect the 4.

At 4m out of 5m muffins to a stage 5, need to start farming mesos IME.

25% drop rate is being generous with TH4.

16 runs x 85k = 1.36 mil.

So 3.5mil galli is probably the latest I'd start. If you get lucky so be it, if you get unlucky you'll get 4 right around 5mil.

Couldn't find a replacement for today which meant we had no GEO among us, but we tried a 9 boss with MNK DRG BRD COR RDM anyway since we figured the worst that can happen is we walk away with ~55k Galli. Managed to get it down. Had to take it super slow on Aminon since we only had 2 absorbers. Had a couple 400+ absorbs even with me trying to take it slow, but thankfully no TP moves got off.

We are consistently 9 bossing now with one twist to Sterk's strategy:

DRG goes /drk for 1 extra absorber. Fights feel much safer as TP rarely goes over 300 with 4 absorbers.

I prioritize Jumps and WS's over absorb tp's but it's nice to get them in right after.

Here is the set I use that lands 100% with a 14 second recast timer:

ItemSet 403413


Cape has Fast Cast +10% and will land with just FC although I just added mag acc and INT to it because why not.

You can replace Weatherspoon ring for Rahab or Prolix as it's not required.

Magic accuracy does matter from my experience to land 100%. When I threw together a meh set to test out I would only land 1 out of every 4 or 5 absorb tp's.

Once I hit 100% land rate I noticed the absorbed amount was very very low compared to others.

With the gearset I posted it lands 100% and potency is on par with the group.

We pop a marine stewpot at the start and that's the food we use for the whole run minus our MNK.