


However, when Marduk’s Jubbah and Tiara are complete, all I need now is Gjallarhorn. I even stopped complaining so often about it. It’s funny because that isn’t my main job, and as much as I loathed coming as Bard so often, I don’t mind it as much nowadays. And, the part where JP players mentioned how much more prepared they were by bringing medicines to the mission fights compared to NA players is pretty much true in my eyes.Īnd, speaking of Bard, I am honestly three items away from actually completing Bard entirely 100%. It reminded me a lot of the JP Button Q&A that Elmer set up between NA and JP players where each side tossed questions at each other. They were simply much more efficient, and it would be great to see NA players do the same. Of course, I didn’t have any Hi-Ethers on me, but usually I’m not in any MP issues with me switching between melee songs and Ballads. Then, I look back to the NA fights I did and I see no NA player using either potions or drinks. And, my friend Chemo was using Hi-Ethers. The MNK was using Hi-Potions and “au Laits” (HP regen drinks). The PLD was alternating between Hi-Ethers and Hi-Potions. Why? The WHM was popping Mulsums the entire time, and on occasion, used Hi-Ethers. By Phase three, the fight was smooth from start to finish having only lost Chemo (>_<) at 4% HP.Īnd, MP was never an issue. Phase two doesn’t count since that’s Nashmeira’s brother controlling Alexander, so that form is ridiculously easy. Phase one with the BLU went incredibly well, no wipes. Entire fight and towards the end have MP issues lack of MPĭuring the entire time from beginning to end, with Chemo’s group and I being the only NA player, we had no issues on MP and no wipes before and during the fight.Lose the DD or tank before 50% HP which leads to a wipe.Lose the tank, RDM, or WHM before 75% HP which leads to a wipe.By phase three where we fight Alexander fully powered mode, NA players tend to be in one or more of the following: We had only one death the entire time and that was when Alexander (the last ToAU mission boss) was at 4% HP.Ĭomparing this to the several NA fights I’ve done, we almost always wipe on the first phase of the fight versus the Blue Mage or get at least half the party dead before phase two. The setup we had that morning (US time)/late evening (JP time) was RDM, WHM, BLM (Chemo), PLD/RDM, and MNK/NIN, and myself on BRD. However, when I compare this fight to the many North American (NA) mission 44 fights I’ve done before, the Japanese players really know what to do and do it well. This was the first Japanese mission fight I’ve done for ToAU, but I’ve joined other Japanese players for CoP (Promathia) and Zilart missions before.

I helped my friend Chemo with ToAU (Aht Urghan) mission 44 and what struck me as odd was how efficient the fight went. Originally published at Aselin's FFXI Notepad.
