Promyvion Mea
Jun. 6th, 2005 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hisi_mehlotaThe rumored second hardest-or tied with Holla for most difficult Promyvion. Two nights ago. Nabiki's been wanting me (why is it always me?) to start a party for it, as it's her last, and I finally caved.
I bought my 6 Antidotes (I've heard there's a nasty AOE poison and "hate" reset - so no poisana - attack), 5 hi-potions, and Pear au Lait (and now have no gil because of these) and started recruiting. Took a few hours, but we finally ended with two rangers (subbed nin), another warrior (sub thief), and a black mage (subbed white mage, but played /anon).
It was a pain, really. We had almost a party, but then one person left, one "temp logged" and never came back, and the other had something come up, so we were back to nil. I managed to snag the warrior and asked a ranger. Turns out he was trying to start one and only had... another ranger. Of course we had room for two rangers! The second ranger knew a black mage who wanted to come, and, *poof* a full party just like that.
Nabiki, the white mage (of course), went random on us and decided not to sub black mage. The extra mp didn't really make any difference, and black magic was not the white mage's business in the boss fight. So Nabiki subbed ninja.
...actually, I was really surprised that no one ever commented on it.
Half of the party had never done a Promyvion before, so we had to take them to see the cut scene in Upper Jeuno, and then we were off to Mea (we even got a free tele, since the first ranger was friends with a high level white mage). (Nabiki was waiting at the Crag.)
So, we're armed with antidotes, food, two anima (wish we'd had more), reraise (mages only), and Shihei for Utsusemi.
No problems on the way up. We managed not to get lost, too, which was an amazing plus. Made it to the tower without much in the way of problems and healed.
Entered the battle field, buffed up (to excess, as this one also supposedly steals status effects), and charged. The other warrior (who subbed thief) went in first, despite orders and was nearly killed in the two hits it took me to get over there as well and get it off him. Then it used Carousel, which is a high damage, massive AOE ability, and he was down. "ERM..!" we all say, but keep going and don't panic.
When it was starting to slow down, health-wise (which was when we'd be using our anima and hard-hitting skills, as the boss goes nuts at that point), I went down. I'd been keeping Utsusemi up, mostly, but once it's down, it's hard to get back up, and when it used its UberDamage attack on me, while I was hurting a little, it floored me. So, two rangers, a black mage, and a white mage.
No, wait, scratch the white mage.
...Only then it was dead somehow. WHOOO!!!!
What Nabiki (wisely) did not tell us halfway through the battle was that the Status-stealing skill... ate Reraise. We didn't know it could do that! o.O;
But now she's done with Promyvion. Yay! I only need Dem, now, too. But Dem hates me, and it's starting to get personal...
I tried Dem again last night with basically the same party - same set-up, different white mage, and one different (but very experienced) ranger. We should have been fine, but, as Dem hates me, though we actually got to the top without a mass party wipe (first time), the boss randomly killed us all when it was nearly dead. As usual.
0/6, is it now, Dem? You're a bastard, you know that?
~Hisime
I bought my 6 Antidotes (I've heard there's a nasty AOE poison and "hate" reset - so no poisana - attack), 5 hi-potions, and Pear au Lait (and now have no gil because of these) and started recruiting. Took a few hours, but we finally ended with two rangers (subbed nin), another warrior (sub thief), and a black mage (subbed white mage, but played /anon).
It was a pain, really. We had almost a party, but then one person left, one "temp logged" and never came back, and the other had something come up, so we were back to nil. I managed to snag the warrior and asked a ranger. Turns out he was trying to start one and only had... another ranger. Of course we had room for two rangers! The second ranger knew a black mage who wanted to come, and, *poof* a full party just like that.
Nabiki, the white mage (of course), went random on us and decided not to sub black mage. The extra mp didn't really make any difference, and black magic was not the white mage's business in the boss fight. So Nabiki subbed ninja.
...actually, I was really surprised that no one ever commented on it.
Half of the party had never done a Promyvion before, so we had to take them to see the cut scene in Upper Jeuno, and then we were off to Mea (we even got a free tele, since the first ranger was friends with a high level white mage). (Nabiki was waiting at the Crag.)
So, we're armed with antidotes, food, two anima (wish we'd had more), reraise (mages only), and Shihei for Utsusemi.
No problems on the way up. We managed not to get lost, too, which was an amazing plus. Made it to the tower without much in the way of problems and healed.
Entered the battle field, buffed up (to excess, as this one also supposedly steals status effects), and charged. The other warrior (who subbed thief) went in first, despite orders and was nearly killed in the two hits it took me to get over there as well and get it off him. Then it used Carousel, which is a high damage, massive AOE ability, and he was down. "ERM..!" we all say, but keep going and don't panic.
When it was starting to slow down, health-wise (which was when we'd be using our anima and hard-hitting skills, as the boss goes nuts at that point), I went down. I'd been keeping Utsusemi up, mostly, but once it's down, it's hard to get back up, and when it used its UberDamage attack on me, while I was hurting a little, it floored me. So, two rangers, a black mage, and a white mage.
No, wait, scratch the white mage.
...Only then it was dead somehow. WHOOO!!!!
What Nabiki (wisely) did not tell us halfway through the battle was that the Status-stealing skill... ate Reraise. We didn't know it could do that! o.O;
But now she's done with Promyvion. Yay! I only need Dem, now, too. But Dem hates me, and it's starting to get personal...
I tried Dem again last night with basically the same party - same set-up, different white mage, and one different (but very experienced) ranger. We should have been fine, but, as Dem hates me, though we actually got to the top without a mass party wipe (first time), the boss randomly killed us all when it was nearly dead. As usual.
0/6, is it now, Dem? You're a bastard, you know that?
~Hisime
