Evi's CoP
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:05 am
Seeing as we do CoP every night in my static, I felt like I was spamming the accomplishment thread. I'll continue updates here.
CoP 'Three Paths', Ulmia's Path, Mithran Trackers BC.
Nin/War, Rdm/Whm, Brd/Whm, War/Thf, Mnk/War, Pup/War. Our plan was to have the Nin solo one, the Pup(me) solo another, the Mnk and War beat on a third. Mnk and war finish up, and help me, then we go help the Nin. Brd keeps pets slept, and we all hope for the best. We run in after much discussion, and promptly get owned in the face. Hard. Like, minute and a half total wipe. What went wrong?
The mithran trackers (Shikaree X-Bst/Nin with daggers, Shikaree Y-Drk/Mnk with scythe, and Shikaree Z-Drg/Whm with lance) somewhat share hate. They also have a permanent Meditate effect, can use any WS which includes the quested ones, like Impulse Drive and Evisceration. Also, sleep lasts for....oh...1 second if that. (There is an item called Black Siredon you can use on them which screws over their Meditate for a while, I forgot to use that.)
So we enter, buff, go over strategy again, then charge. I approch Y (The Drk). Send my pet after her which silences her, I voke, and she hits me once, then again which crits. Ow, already 250 damage taken .>.< Mean kitty. Then, she promptly ignores me. She runs off towards our War. I turn to follow and notice ALL the trackers are on our war. And they're all SC-ing on her. Needless to say, she goes down fast and we all follow.
We pop out dead, reraise, and I'm irked. I voked 3 times while pounding Y in the back with berserk on, she never even turned around until our tanks were dead and it was my time to get 5 SC's up the side of the skull. Unfair, totally. How are you supposed to keep anyone short of a 2hr-ing Pld alive when you have 3 mithra pounding away with a SC every 10 seconds? Hate control seemed impossible.
We're discussing this in the Boneyard Gully, just outside the BC. We come up with a new plan. We have enough Blackened Miredon or whatever and meds to try again. Side note, before this I bought a hi-potion tank, and dispensed 13 hi potions. I didn't want to die. Besides, Hi pots sell for 700 gil, but 4.4k for 20 out of the tank. It was a great deal.
Anyways, new plan was to sleep them and just have the mnk 2hr on X, the Bst/Nin. They said that when we wiped earlier she was at 5%, so they think we can take her down fast. After that, there should be less of them so it'd be easier. Not much of a plan, but it's something.
So we run in, buff, charge. I -remember- to use that newt thingy against Y, the Drk, so she holds off on the WS's for a bit. In fact, Voke actually landed and she paid attention to me for a bit. Then I remembered we were supposed to kill X. So I switch targets and she;s already half dead. In fact, due to the shared hate, X goes down at the same time our monk does. So we switch to Y and start fighting. Halfway through, or bard drops due to Z's Wyvern. We take Y down despite Blood Weapon.
Then things get scarey. We start attacking Z, the Drg, but our Rdm dies from X's Rabbit. We have no healers, at all.....except, my puppet! Despite the fact our war and nin are still alive, I voke and take over roll of tank. Z's happy to oblige, as she starts unloading every WS in the book at me. Oh, and one bad thing. Killing two mithran trackers does not prevent the third from skillchaining. She just cheats and skillchains with herself. Like a Sam on crack. She did Compression and Impaction on me I know. I counted one penta, one skewer, and 2-3 Impulse Drives, not sure if there was more to that.
Pup/war, I tanked her from 75% all the way to her death (burned 12 hi pots, but meh, I bought them for a reason.) F'ing Go Pup! New Title, Delta Enforcer.
CoP 'Three Paths', Ulmia's Path, Mithran Trackers BC.
Nin/War, Rdm/Whm, Brd/Whm, War/Thf, Mnk/War, Pup/War. Our plan was to have the Nin solo one, the Pup(me) solo another, the Mnk and War beat on a third. Mnk and war finish up, and help me, then we go help the Nin. Brd keeps pets slept, and we all hope for the best. We run in after much discussion, and promptly get owned in the face. Hard. Like, minute and a half total wipe. What went wrong?
The mithran trackers (Shikaree X-Bst/Nin with daggers, Shikaree Y-Drk/Mnk with scythe, and Shikaree Z-Drg/Whm with lance) somewhat share hate. They also have a permanent Meditate effect, can use any WS which includes the quested ones, like Impulse Drive and Evisceration. Also, sleep lasts for....oh...1 second if that. (There is an item called Black Siredon you can use on them which screws over their Meditate for a while, I forgot to use that.)
So we enter, buff, go over strategy again, then charge. I approch Y (The Drk). Send my pet after her which silences her, I voke, and she hits me once, then again which crits. Ow, already 250 damage taken .>.< Mean kitty. Then, she promptly ignores me. She runs off towards our War. I turn to follow and notice ALL the trackers are on our war. And they're all SC-ing on her. Needless to say, she goes down fast and we all follow.
We pop out dead, reraise, and I'm irked. I voked 3 times while pounding Y in the back with berserk on, she never even turned around until our tanks were dead and it was my time to get 5 SC's up the side of the skull. Unfair, totally. How are you supposed to keep anyone short of a 2hr-ing Pld alive when you have 3 mithra pounding away with a SC every 10 seconds? Hate control seemed impossible.
We're discussing this in the Boneyard Gully, just outside the BC. We come up with a new plan. We have enough Blackened Miredon or whatever and meds to try again. Side note, before this I bought a hi-potion tank, and dispensed 13 hi potions. I didn't want to die. Besides, Hi pots sell for 700 gil, but 4.4k for 20 out of the tank. It was a great deal.
Anyways, new plan was to sleep them and just have the mnk 2hr on X, the Bst/Nin. They said that when we wiped earlier she was at 5%, so they think we can take her down fast. After that, there should be less of them so it'd be easier. Not much of a plan, but it's something.
So we run in, buff, charge. I -remember- to use that newt thingy against Y, the Drk, so she holds off on the WS's for a bit. In fact, Voke actually landed and she paid attention to me for a bit. Then I remembered we were supposed to kill X. So I switch targets and she;s already half dead. In fact, due to the shared hate, X goes down at the same time our monk does. So we switch to Y and start fighting. Halfway through, or bard drops due to Z's Wyvern. We take Y down despite Blood Weapon.
Then things get scarey. We start attacking Z, the Drg, but our Rdm dies from X's Rabbit. We have no healers, at all.....except, my puppet! Despite the fact our war and nin are still alive, I voke and take over roll of tank. Z's happy to oblige, as she starts unloading every WS in the book at me. Oh, and one bad thing. Killing two mithran trackers does not prevent the third from skillchaining. She just cheats and skillchains with herself. Like a Sam on crack. She did Compression and Impaction on me I know. I counted one penta, one skewer, and 2-3 Impulse Drives, not sure if there was more to that.
Pup/war, I tanked her from 75% all the way to her death (burned 12 hi pots, but meh, I bought them for a reason.) F'ing Go Pup! New Title, Delta Enforcer.