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Post by Edeas Evolution on Oct 15, 2006 10:43:32 GMT -5
Charybdis Information NM: Charybdis- Level: 80-81
- HP: 35000
- Very fast attacks
- Recomended Party: Brd, and either Nin, Mnk/Nin or Thf/Nin, with helpers.
- Spawn: Lottery 8-12 hours off Devil Manta @ G-11 in Sea Serpent Grotto
Item Drop: Joyeuse
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Post by Sosa on Oct 18, 2006 16:00:05 GMT -5
Some additional considerations for others that are looking to camp this: First off, Charby is a very thick NM. He takes most groups about 20 minutes to take down, and with a strong duo or trio team, you're looking at a fight upwards of 30 minutes. He hits VERY fast, and very hard... however; it is not difficult to avoid his attacks with double mambo - which makes bard absolutely essential. Out of 15 claims I've witnessed, I've never seen a group that managed to kill it without a bard. If your tank does die - he can be easily kited by a duo (for safety.) Bind seems to stick with reasonable accuracy, and Gravity sticks regularly as a 75 RDM with decent enfeebling gear and three merits. Earth staff isn't going to save you, frankly, so I highly recommend you keep stoneskin and blink up at all times. Often, it's just enough to get a stun + bind/gravity off. There is a reason that Charby is best camped with small groups - when fed TP, he absolutely loves to spam Maelstrom. Nothing will kill your alliance faster than having a full party of melees whacking away at him. The best way to kill him is slow and steady - stack DoT spells (I don't think he's sleepable, I've never landed it) and keep a very watchful eye on your tank. The only difficult parts of camping him are getting a comitted RDM (or WHM), BRD and tank to help you take him down... he tends to pop whenever he feels like it, and "from 8 hours to forever" is a long time to ask people to show up. Good luck.
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Post by Jonathan on Oct 18, 2006 16:21:21 GMT -5
It's about a 10 minute fight trioing with my mnk, a rdm or whm and a brd. I really don't see that number tripling with nin or thf tanking in place of mnk >.>
And yeah, Maelstrom goes through and strips shadows, followed by a triple attack or two isn't pretty for your tank. Whm enfeebles just fine... so I'd think rdm/drk would be best, stun would make up for not having flash and brd/whm can take care of erase or -na spells.
This thing is so fun to tank, he hits so fast that your Utsusemi icon gets stripped before he finishes his round of attacks, and you can recast without being interrupted because the server lags XD
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Post by xaero on Oct 18, 2006 16:52:49 GMT -5
actually was at fight with some unmentional person tanking. an his g/f hasting healing an fight took 45 mins give or take
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Post by tarick on Oct 18, 2006 17:04:56 GMT -5
Just make sure that when you're trying to fight it without a bard, that you don't run out of ninja tools at the same time maelstrom goes off...
/sigh...
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Post by Jonathan on Oct 18, 2006 17:14:39 GMT -5
Just make sure that when you're trying to fight it without a bard, that you don't run out of ninja tools at the same time maelstrom goes off... /sigh... I hate that ; ; I've never been so unfortunate as to have the timing be thatttt bad, but I do tend to always run out of shihei before I open a new bag
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Post by Jonathan on Oct 18, 2006 17:28:21 GMT -5
hey Code, can you post a cropped SS of your Joyeuse, with an Evo tag or something cool on it to replace the one I took from Alla?
Maybe there could be a way to have all people who've gotten one through us sign their name on it? hehe /dreams like a huge blown up image of the sword in /hurray, and and...
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Post by Sosa on Oct 18, 2006 18:33:27 GMT -5
The last fight I observed was when that blue linkshell pulled him off us while we were kiting. The fight lasted a total of 33 minutes with WHM, NIN, BRD, RDM. Not to say that it can't be done in less, stacking DoT on it makes a huge difference over a period of time that long. Poison II alone causes somewhere in the neighborhood of 8400 damage over those 25-30 minutes. If consistantly sticking movement-impairing debuffs weren't a problem over such a long stretch of time, a RDM could probably solo it. It would take like three hours... but it could be done.
I've also NEVER heard of this being done, but brought it up out of curiosity during the last run. A ninja could probably straight-tank it without bard support if you had several jobs for flash or stun available; however I doubt that monk or thief would have the hate over time to hold it consistantly against multiple emnity spikes from flash and stun. Suppose we won't know until someone tries it.
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Post by Jonathan on Oct 18, 2006 18:40:20 GMT -5
If mnk can keep hate from a whm flashing roughly every time it's up along with their cures and enfeebles, then they could keep hate from several people doing the same thing I'd think
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Post by _Code on Oct 18, 2006 18:42:28 GMT -5
hey Code, can you post a cropped SS of your Joyeuse, with an Evo tag or something cool on it to replace the one I took from Alla? Maybe there could be a way to have all people who've gotten one through us sign their name on it? hehe /dreams like a huge blown up image of the sword in /hurray, and and... Done
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Post by Jonathan on Oct 18, 2006 18:44:15 GMT -5
hey Code, can you post a cropped SS of your Joyeuse, with an Evo tag or something cool on it to replace the one I took from Alla? Maybe there could be a way to have all people who've gotten one through us sign their name on it? hehe /dreams like a huge blown up image of the sword in /hurray, and and... Done (Sweets) Although how come it's cut off?
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Post by _Code on Oct 18, 2006 18:57:35 GMT -5
not cut off to me?
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Post by Sosa on Oct 18, 2006 23:06:50 GMT -5
It's a gradient effect; the text gets darker at the bottom. If you're looking at it with a monitor that has the contrast turned down, it would appear cut off at about the middle.
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Post by _Code on Oct 19, 2006 7:11:48 GMT -5
Oh the text, i thought he meant the image.
"Evolving".... haven't seen the other signatures i've made huh? Kinda a change as it goes from bottom to top, nothing fancy, 2 clicks in Photoshop
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Post by Sosa on Oct 19, 2006 9:17:40 GMT -5
Borrowed from the Bune thread: Assuming a 50% proc rate with capped enhancing skill and basic items granting enhancement skill (ie: your AF pants and relic gloves,) here is the potential damage:
Joyeuse Normal: 14.06 DPS 1.5 * (35 / 224 ) * 60 Joyeuse Enspell: 22.51 DPS (1.5 * (35 / 224 ) * 60) + (1.5 * (21 / 224) * 60)
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