CoP Restart *Completed*

[Arthars]

its the upcoming 10est right?

[Kirakun]

Tonight for us (morning for you). BTW time changed so now 10PMEST == 10AMHKT. I think it's 10PM? or is it 11PM? Seres can confirm

[Seres]

It's still 8pm MST - 11pm(?) EST.
I know this is late now due to DST. If it's too late for you Kira, we can try and choose a better time.

Let me know what you think.

[Seres]

\(^o^)/
Grats on completing 5-2! Now on to 5-3 and the many travels. :O

I'll readjust the dates for working on a Thursday schedule as well. Would pushing it back an hour earlier be ok?
Let me know what you think ^^

[Arthars]

omg 5-3.......at last we r here for hell of long story

[Kirakun]

5-3 can't be done in one meeting IMO. The BCs require different setups and also prepare for some possible losses and retries. My last run, we split this up into 3 sessions; (a)Mithra BC, Goblin BC (b)Tenzen PsoXja both paths (c)Snoll BC

Oh ya... If possible I would like to end runs at 2amEST the latest (earlier if possible lol ). I get up for work at 7:30AM on weekdays -_-;

Anyways, here's my comments for 5-3:
Step 0. Do all talk parts for all 3-paths

Prereq everyone should take care before hand:
1. Farm a chip (solo at Nue tower... kill Diremites)
2. Goto Oldton Movopolos and win the dice roll game for BC access (spend some gil and solo this..)
3. Farm a gold key (Newton Movopolos) [farm anytime after gob bc is ok]

One of them is lv50 cap (Mithra). The remaining are lv60 cap:

Ulmia Path:
1. 3Mithra(50): Easy with SMN SPs. I did this without SMN. Took about 2 tries to get used to the die and RR tactic. Simply not enough MP to go around to take down all 3 w/o wiping.

2. Snoll(60): 45 seconds to kill a bomb. I played this for last CSB run 3 times and went 3/3. A decent setup: 2BLM (with Flare), DD SJ SAM for Meditate before engaging and IW. To win, each person must deal approximately 2500dmg before they fall. I would not suggest doing this the same day as part of a long day. If not all 6 people are ready to give it their all, most likely the outcome will be a loss here.

Louverance:
1. Moblin BC: Best setup IMO is NIN/WAR, WAR/NIN, RDM kiter(kite Bugbear), WHM, BLM, and another DD with /NIN. The RDM kiting the big guy needs to understand how hate works as the moblin will lose hate quickly overtime.

2. Go to Mine2716 and trade gold key.. OMG hard!

Tenzen:
1. lv50cap (no BC): Pass through 16 doors fighting tonberries and hecteyes and golems. Everyone must understand and know where to stand to avoid Tonberry wallhack agro. Some NM at the end of the run

2. lv60cap (no BC): Bring powders and oil. Easy maze.

[Seres]

I actually do have 5-3 assigned for 2 meetings. Our next meeting we'll be doing Louverance's Path & Ulma's Path, then after that, I have Tenzen's Path along with the brief 6-1 -> 6-3 (Just one easy uncapped fight in Misareaux Coast).

With Ulmia I have two cluster cores which I'll exchange for a salt. Also if anyone has ethers and potions left they can be used as well for cat fight. I put this one to do with Louverance because yeah, it's hard, and it'd make for a slightly lighter next event. That, and Tenzen is quite long.

So perhaps for doing Thursday's run we can use:
BLM Maryanna
BLM Seres
SMN Yumi
WHM Myrddine
PLD Darkr
NIN Kira

Use PLD & SMN 2hr at start on Cat BC. Both BLM's time -ga spells w/ SMN then ES+Sleepga. Pick off remaining. Depending how long it takes to get to snoll, may have to wait for 2hrs... then proceed to nuke, Astral Flow, Invicible, salt, etc...

It's up to Arthars, since he's the only early one, but if you want we can push it back 1-2 hours on Thursday. Monday's can't really be pushed back due to Mary and I have classes and (I at least) pretty much just get home before we start.

[Arthars]

i dont all the CS for yumi

I AM SO READY!

btw i have golden key for goblin BC too ;P

[Arthars]

when is the next run?

we have dynamis tonight!

[Kirakun]

If we're doing Snoll, I might go WAR/SAM or MNK/SAM

[Kirakun]

Try this setup for Mithra:
SMN Yumi
SMN Seres or Mary
BLM Kira
BLM Seres or Mary
PLD Dark
WHM Myrd

Open AF > ES+Sleepga > Next Open AF > ES+Sleepga > AF > Sleep-ga > AF

[Seres]

Arthars, next run is Thursday so don't worry ^^
Awesome for having key too

Whichever you wish Kira. I actually was questioning your postion on which one to pick. Wasn't sure if you wanted to do a NIN/SAM, or perhaps what you had just said.

[Rabaja]

If you have 3 smns for the mithras you don't even need meds, they will die after the first astral flows

[Kirakun]

Snoll BC requires pure damage. I wouldn't suggest putting in a tank job in that setup (This is based on experience).

Basically everyone choose the most powerful damage dealing job they have at lv60+ and we go on from there. I don't suggest SMN since AF is more of a one time deal. In this case BLM > SMN, DD > tanks.

Dealing 2500dmg within 40 seconds (45 seconds is cutting it too close) is not hard for a DD job but very tough for a tank job. My group actually beated the record during out runs =) (w/o that salt too hehe)

BLM: Use fire magics (Snoll's not resistant) I dealt about 1500dmg with one Flare. Flare > Stun > -ga2 > spam whatever magic you have left.

DD/SAM: Meditate to 300%
MNK: Boost 8x and Chi blast, Raging Fist > IW Raging fist, SP > Raging First
WAR: SP Rampage > IW > Rampage

Don't bother with meds. Really no time for that stuff. Basically you're trying to beat Maat with 6 people.

[Seres]

Do you want to do a job swap between BC's?

Do 3x SMN (Me, Yumi, & Mary) for cats then change to BLM (Me and Mary) for Snoll? Most gear is swappable so that shouldn't be an issue.

Also for the Moblin we need to trade gil for to get the item, do we each need it, or just one person? Same for teleport.


EDIT: Myrddine is only 51... can't do BLM for Snoll ><;