Ambuscade Vol.1 April 2019

Lili's definitive guide to Meeble ambu, melee style:
- all Meebles are MNK. They have very high counter rate, and it's very strong. If a DD pulls hate, turn away until hate is lost, lest you want to eat 4k counters.
- Bozzetto Breadwinner will perform <element> Meeble Warble TP move. These do moderate AoE damage and apply corresponding debuffs (ex: Thunder will apply Stun+Shock, Stone will apply Petrify+Rasp, etc), and have a (short) ready time, during which you can perform a corresponding elemental barspell to block all aoe damage+debuffs. Can setup React to do this VERY easily, but can also do it manually. I am doing it manually, risk of error is there but it's not difficult to not miss any, especially if you kill quick: Meeble Warble moves go off exactly every 30s, so the faster you kill, the less barspells you need.
- Bozzetto Housemaker will periodically go after the character doing barspells and perform Earthshaker?, a fullers type move that hits for 1k damage per body in range. One person in range = 1000 dmg to that person, 3 persons in range = 3000 dmg to each person. Range is around 20', running away is not impossible provided you're quick. Stoneskin works, DT does not. Phalanx untested but I'm assuming it does.
- Bozzetto Housemaker cannot be killed. If you attack it, it's a wipe.
- 2x Bozzetto Urchin (on VD-D, 1 on N-E, none on VE) will spawn. They are weak (die in 1-2 WS), but hit hard, and will rage after 30s or so.
- when Urchins rage, boss+urchin will perform Hundred Fists, and it's usually a wipe shortly after because they hit VERY hard.
- Breadwinner can perform Hundred Fists even if adds do not spawn/are killed in time (trigger unknown, possibly based on HP%). During HF, it also gains a Slow Spikes effect.
- Urchins can be slept, both Sleepga and Lullaby work. Not sure about BLU sleeps but no reason why it should not.
- Silencing the boss makes it less likely (but still not 0 chance) that Housemaker or Urchins will pop.

Recommended strat:
- RUN (for added DD) + 2x heavy DD + GEO + WHM + BRD, brd doing barspells and being manually manned to run away when (if) Housemaker pops.
- can use PLD instead of RUN but higher chance of losing hate, and lower dps potential = slower kill, more Meeble moves, more chance to mess up.
- can of course use DD COR in place of one of the heavy DDs (...or both)
- WHM and/or GEO should silence Breadwinner on pull and keep it silenced forever. Need decent magic accuracy on VD.
- recommended to overhaste (double march + haste usually enough), to counter the effect of Slow Spikes.
- go to town and it dies quickly before any add can come wreck you.
- Recommended to do barspells from a /whm subjob on one of the buffers instead of WHM. Songs-only BRD is best since they generally don't do anything after singing anyway. Cor/whm also works if brd wants to melee. Geo/whm does too, but you lose the indi- bubble when geo runs out of range for Earthshaker?.
- it IS possible to not do barspells and use Esuna instead, but you're making life unnecessarily hard on yourself. If you don't do barspells you're bad, and I am judging you from across the room.
- Barspells do not need to be casted in retaliation, they can be cast beforehand, will nullify the move as long as the element matches. I believe that the gimmick is about having the barelement buff active, rather than just having the elemental resistance, but I am probably not going to test it.

If your melee DPS is high enough, you can kill a VD silenced Breadwinner before any add has a chance to appear at all (personal record so far: 4:45 with a leech spot.)

Everything else applies to lower difficultied than VD, just with less monster stats, less adds, and a lower dps check.

Play any shooter, MOBA, etc. You're expected to choose an action in a small fraction of that time period.

It really isn't difficult, even with below average reflexes.

responsive inputs,

no 2.5-5 sec lockouts if you make a mistake and start doing the wrong thing

less than 70ms actual communication time

no phantom casting because of gear transitions

When's the last time you tried to play a shooter with 280ms ping time? How about dodging a rocket with 280ms? That's the equivalent of what we're talking about.

Also, you are one blessed individual to only have 280ms ping. Most people I play with are 500+ every day of the week.

You're just talking out of your ***.

No matter the "tools" you're using, your inputs (and the resulting actions) are not instant.

+ 330ms packet interval each way

It is physically impossible to cast the proper spell.

No matter how much you practice. You can only get lucky.

If you're in the menu sitting on "baraero" and it uses Aero Meeble warble, You might be able to hit enter twice fast enough. But if it uses Fire Meeble Warble. You will not hit up three times and enter twice in time. and you sure as ***aint typing it out.

Macro palette 1-6 (Ctrl) (use left hand pinky finger on keyboard)
Label each macro as the element
Memorize the element order with muscle memory
(Set daily buffs roe)
Hold control button as bar speller
Keep four fingers (right hand on keyboard) over 2345, you'll have to quick react for 1&6
Use Battlemod
Full-time in fast cast set
Every 25 seconds, get ready to guess or react properly
As soon as you see the element, press the corresponding number
Pray you didn't cast the wrong one.

This is the best way I can see a manually doing barspells with the least error. Using the menu will not work. You will get unlucky and fat finger a few spells but in this case you have already set yourself up for one specific task. No different than stunning zerde, just have to be diligent. No way you'll beat a program and if you lag, tough.

Why would people cheat to beat this Ambuscade? I don't get it.

Just did around 10+ runs on VD, it was cake. None of us used any cheat or any crazy plugins as far as I know.

It's easy as *** free month with the setup posted on previous page, you'd have to be one hell of a shitter to have to resort to cheating for this month.

If someone is accurately putting up bars, they're using react. No if's and's or but's

Just make windower aliases that are all //bara, //barw, etc. and then sit there with //bar typed in. When you see the move go off type the first letter of the element name and hit enter. You see aero you hit a + enter. No mappings to memorize.

You can be pretty quick with these methods but react players will players are still going to be more highly skilled.

the method he describes is no different than using shortcuts so