Ugh, PTSD of that fight was coming back to me as y'all were pre-buffing. I'm not sure how its balanced in that particular server you're on, but I remember back in Release CoP this fight almost ALMOST made me quit the game. I was WHM and we couldn't get another SMN for kiting purposes, so... I had to do it. We were going to use the kite strat so we needed minimum 2 smns. So I was already not feeling too great having to use a job other than my main, but that was overall whatever, the part that irked me was just... how insanely hard that fight felt. If your avatar died you had to hope and pray the mammet didn't hit you as you resummoned because if it did, you were more than likely dead. I failed that fight I don't know how many times until we finally got a clear. The way we ended up doing it was to just have me Astral Flow spam and hope for the best, and that paid off. Still felt like a hollow victory for me back then. Especially since, as mentioned above, this was during RELEASE CoP back in the day so... ~20 years ago almost. Where if you wiped, and had to homepoint, you had to travel alllllll the way back to the BCNM, which could easily take about an hour or more. With having to traverse through Riverne Site-A01 and I think you had to kill a drake and hope for a scale drop or something. This being when that zone was level 40 capped as well. I could be misremembering a bit, but this fight was the bane of my existence, and ALMOST made me quit FFXI. It did make me retire SMN as well. At least, until Ouryu Cometh when my friends talked me into bringing it back out for the fight (mostly because, again, couldn't find enough SMNs to Astral Flow cheese) and that sorta redeemed SMN a bit for me, but only a bit. Every time I had to play SMN, it soured my mood for quiiiiite a while, and the whole thing can be blamed on CoP2-5 >
Good old weapon skill macro fantasy. There use to be thought involved in this game lol. Then they lost the power of the crystal and humans of great evil obtained it's shattered power
Nice to finally see the face behind Zen. this is azalin. good vid buddy thank you
Hey, thanks
How do you know when Transmogrification wears off?
There's a static time limit, I don't recall how many seconds it is
Ugh, PTSD of that fight was coming back to me as y'all were pre-buffing. I'm not sure how its balanced in that particular server you're on, but I remember back in Release CoP this fight almost ALMOST made me quit the game. I was WHM and we couldn't get another SMN for kiting purposes, so... I had to do it. We were going to use the kite strat so we needed minimum 2 smns.
So I was already not feeling too great having to use a job other than my main, but that was overall whatever, the part that irked me was just... how insanely hard that fight felt. If your avatar died you had to hope and pray the mammet didn't hit you as you resummoned because if it did, you were more than likely dead. I failed that fight I don't know how many times until we finally got a clear. The way we ended up doing it was to just have me Astral Flow spam and hope for the best, and that paid off.
Still felt like a hollow victory for me back then. Especially since, as mentioned above, this was during RELEASE CoP back in the day so... ~20 years ago almost. Where if you wiped, and had to homepoint, you had to travel alllllll the way back to the BCNM, which could easily take about an hour or more. With having to traverse through Riverne Site-A01 and I think you had to kill a drake and hope for a scale drop or something. This being when that zone was level 40 capped as well. I could be misremembering a bit, but this fight was the bane of my existence, and ALMOST made me quit FFXI. It did make me retire SMN as well. At least, until Ouryu Cometh when my friends talked me into bringing it back out for the fight (mostly because, again, couldn't find enough SMNs to Astral Flow cheese) and that sorta redeemed SMN a bit for me, but only a bit. Every time I had to play SMN, it soured my mood for quiiiiite a while, and the whole thing can be blamed on CoP2-5 >
COP in general does that to people :)
They make 2-5 here any easier? Lol
Good old weapon skill macro fantasy. There use to be thought involved in this game lol. Then they lost the power of the crystal and humans of great evil obtained it's shattered power