Duke Vepar Low Man

anyone knows best strategy for low man? like with 2-3 people + trusts.

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Couple friends and I did it PLD GEO SCH. PLD pops and just skillchain it down. Bring Holy Water in case Doom goes off. The only real damaging thing is the aura when it does Hundred Fists so just be quick with the SC/MB.

Did it PLD+GEO+COR, trust was yoran, koru-moru and I don't remember last one.
GEO did malaise/acumen
I was COR, I did the pew pew, Wildfire Spam(Darkness skillchain), GEO was MBing.
adds was killed asap
was pretty fluent

Like the dude above me said, pld geo sch is probably your best bet. Personally i prefer a blm over a pld since amchuchu is a beast and id rather kill it fast. Smn works amazingly well with sch if u wanna spam fusion skillchains for meteor strike bursts. Also, if you dont wanna go the mage route u could whm dd and geo it np. War and blu have no issues tanking this.

Can i do it with my beastly blu + geo and whm trust?

I do it with blu so i dont see why you cant. My mule doesnt even have idris (yet), just vex/attune amd use miso raman and his status effects arent even an issue.

Use amchuchu as a trust tho, she wont take your hate on the mm but she gets hate on adds with foil

How would she do that? She doesn't do any aoe attacks and Foil is self-cast. The add is supertankable so Amchu should never get hate. (Real runefencers use Foil after getting hate on the mass of mobs or affecting someone (Regen works, or a /blu AOE or shockwave [my preference] or Circle Blade) who is on the hatelist, like a BLM or BRD after sleepga'ing).

Hitting the BLM with warcry post-sleep also gets you on hate-list. Affecting them at all (even a cure for 0).

Anyway, if you engage the add first (funny story, the add pops before the NM), she'll provoke it and you'll be supertanking the boss for a second.

Switch the boss and go to town and Amchu will keep the add.

Or the add is sleepable. Any combination of people you'd be bringing, one person is highly likely to have sleep.

I use a circle blade and she foils, but honesty vepar goes down so fast i dont even notice anything the adds do.

Its more of a peice of mind thing

Unless she regens you after Circle Blade, foil won't help her get hate.

Similarly if a BLM sleepga's and I just cast foil (in most content*), I won't get hate (but if I regen him after the sleepga and then foil, I would)

* This will work in Ambu, Incursion, Vagary, but the sleepga isn't even needed, Anything you do in Ambuscade builds enmity on all targets present. As for Vagary/Incursion, Anything you do builds hate on all targets that are attacking (or slept/petrified/etc)

Heh, not trying to lecture you, trying to help the OP asking for advice.

All good man. All i know is im alive at the end of the fight using the method stated and thats all i care about

what about doom?

It's been a long time since I've seen him use Doom (it just dies too fast) but a human whm with a good cursna set and or fair luck with spamming Holy Waters / investing in Hallowed Water would be your options

Edit: Hallowed water is a waste (Thinks KN)

If you go the mage route, as someone suggested above, you could use two tanks (GEO on heal duty, SCH, BLM, trust tank, trust tank, trust healer) and it would have to get at two dooms off before coming for your head. The tanks will fight for hate, but it won't come for you).

Pld,Sch,blm and then healing trust.

I thought that Hallowed Water doesn't have a better cure rate than Holy Water does.

If you got pups the autos will resist the doom while over drive is up and using Galvanizer when it hundred fists is just hilarious

hmm i tried it and died, i was blu and my alt geo did vex attune etc but the aura poison/bio was too much, how you deal with that?

Heh, so it is. Thanks and corrected. That's what you get for trusting random FFXIAH comments.

Luckily I've never wasted gil on it. Any content serious enough to warrant it would have been serious enough to bring a decent WHM.

Or, if you can't trust the WHM, bring either a couple of Blenmot's ring +1 or get a purity ring.

Edit: Obligatory

anyone know how to deal with the auras?

As a rule of thumb i always set a healing spell. Since i knew the auras were going to be a pain i set white wind.

Magic Burst/Magic damage kills off the aura.

what element is his weakness?

We've always done Distortion skillchains, never had any issues with ice bursting.

you duo this nm blu + geo? i just tried n lost twice, both blu geo master with best gear, my acc was even ***with miso ramen had to pop an antacid and use sushi LOL, how you manage to hit it with miso ramen..

I use a full acc set which is mostly hq carmine and full acc accessories + i have all acc vorseals and 10 acc ++ vorseals. U could entrust torp or something but i didnt have 2.

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