Mirror Images/Red Mage

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• Red Mage: Ninja subjob, 2 Crimson Blades, 1 Meat Mithkabob, life belt, battle gloves, crow gear, phanlax rings, npc to stalwart shield, yagudo drinks/ethers/mulsums. Keep Vassago debuffed. Make sure Utsusemi+Stoneskin is up before you convert. Use Enfire as the enspell. Most of your mp will be used to heal your NPC with Cure 2 and only use cure 3/4 if npc is at low health. Shining Blade whenever TP is ready. try not to pull hate at all, becausing pulling hate at the worst time can end the fight in a defeat.

• Red Mage: White Mage subjob, Fencing Degen (for MP), Tactician Magician's Coat, Trump Crown, RSE hands, legs and boots (Elvaan), Red Cape +1, Promise Badge, Reverend Sash, Geist Earring, Antivenom Earring, Ebullient Ring, Ether Ring. Food: Rolanberry Pie, Mulsums. NPC set to Fierce Attacker. Main tactic is to heal your NPC, and let your NPC do the fight. Silence, slow and paralyze Vassago. Stay at a distance, and use Stoneskin before Convert. 2hr when NPC gets low.

• Red Mage: I went as RDM/BLM and wore only brigade body, life belt, electrum rings, cunning earrings and bascially DEF armor. I set my npc to starlwart shield. Entered the arena, Refresh and did all buffs i didnt have to use any food or hi pots. The weapon I used was an Ancient Sword. I had no shield. The whole fight my NPC tanked and cured himself. But my npc was also level 51 and capped at 50. You want to keep Vassago Paralyzed, Slowed, and Silenced. Casts Enfire on yourself as seen above. Try not to get Hate while curing your NPC. It took me nine minutes for the whole fight and it was very easy. ~Eyowen of Diabolos Server

• Red Mage: RDM/BLM - Minimalist strategy. Wore Elvaan RSE (Magna), electrum rings, silver hairpin, moldavite earring, melody earring ... whatever gear I had lying around. Went with a hornetneedle and a balance buckler. Used four walahra waters (instant +50 hp/mp), and one orange kuchen for mp. I cast Protect III on myself, Stoneskin, Phalanx, Refresh. Set the NPC to Stalwart Shield - forgot about buffing him, except for one Haste during the fight. Spent the first 50% of Vassago's health beating on him with dagger. Kept Dia II and Silence on him if possible, as well as Slow and Paralyze. The first two debuffs were the most important. Stoneskin and Convert toward last 50%, did standard healing, kept DoT on, and won. Even got hit by Blighted Gloom once. Biggest asset in fight is staying calm.

• Red Mage: RDM/BLM tanking strategy. Equipment was below average (scrounging up what gear I had for level 50 and below). This strategy relies on you tanking and your NPC on a healer-type battle style. Your goal is to keep hate, as each hit does ~90-180 damage to your NPC. Keep Stoneskin, Blaze Spikes, Haste, Enfire, and Phalanx on at all times. Keep standard debuffs on Vassago on at all times. Run behind your NPC if Vassago uses Blighted Gloom. The Blessed Radiance counter will likely turn Vassago's attention to your NPC, so throw Cure IV's on it until you get hate back. You can also take this opportunity to convert and heal yourself to get hate back (but make sure Stoneskin is on at least). This method takes around ~9 minutes.