Promathia Mission 7-4/Strategies

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Bibiki Bay

• A BST75 can solo Dalham pretty easily with two pet swaps. Multi-swaps if you are using Tragopans. A Familiared Tartarus Eft can easily defeat the NM.
• Can be duoed easily by NIN using Evasion setup and a RDM.
• A 75RDM/NIN can solo this with very good timing, and by conserving MP until it goes into Hundred Fists mode. Then, if you have around 500+ MP and are in good shape, use Chainspell followed by a barrage of Thunder III's to finish it off, reapplying Utsusemi as/if needed. Example Red Mage solo video.
• A 75PUP/NIN can solo the NM rather easily. Using a gear setup with +23 Evasion (no evasion merits), eating a Jack-o-Lantern, and using the Soulsoother puppet it was done without much trouble. The NM's accuracy is fairly low and it will miss a lot. The player should be sure to have his/her automaton land Slow, Blind, and Paralyze early on, and keep Light Maneuver up throughout the entire duration of battle to trigger Flashbulb as often as possible, it is extremely helpful, especially when the NM is at low HP, and attacking nearly non-stop.
• A 75DNC/NIN can solo the NM...with only a -little- bit of panic. For the first 50% of the fight, you are safe to use your TP on Dancing Edge and use Reverse Flourish to get more TP. After 50%, even if you get to 300%TP, save your TP for healing. The attack speed will pick up quite quickly, and unless you have a way to Flash/Blind/Slow the mob, you might get overwhelmed. Keep your TP up, and keep swapping out Steps so you're always getting two flourishes/step. Violent Flourish will stun the mob almost every time, so use it wisely to get your shadows back up. My strategy was Step (2 Flourishes), Step (4 Flourishes), Violent )3 Flourishes), Step (5 Flourishes), then Reverse. After that, start over with a different step.
• Easy fight for a 75NIN/30DNC. Keep all debuffs (Jubaku, Kurayami, Hojo) and you'll be fine. The mob rarely hit me, when it did the damage was minimal. All in all, solo'd with ease

Carpenter's Landing

• Soloable by a 75 SMN/WHM. Strategy is to get out an avatar, and pop the Tonberries. Immediately head to zone, but before you zone use Retreat to bring the Tonberries to the zone. Then zone out and back in quickly. There will be no more hate and the Tonberries will head back to their pop positions. Pick one of the tonberries to attack and defeat ( I defeated only the BLM ). Head back to the pop location and as soon as the others despawn and you have defeated one of them check the ??? for the cutscene. This has only been tested by defeating the BLM, but the others would most likely work as well. The Cryptonberry Executor (NIN) does not have to be killed, as it will also despawn.
  • Any job should be able to solo this fight using the method above, the last tonberry to despawn is the only one that needs to be killed to complete this.
• Examining the ??? will only pop the NIN-type tonberry, the other 3 will spawn at the ??? as soon as the first NM takes any damage. If you pull the first tonberry a decent distance away before engaging it, the other NMs will be too far away to link, and you will only have to defeat the first tonberry.
  • The NMs have a larger than average link range, so if using this strategy, make sure to pull a large distance from the ??? before engaging the NM.
  • If using this strategy, the NMs that you are not fighting must despawn before you finish off the first tonberry. If you defeat the first tonberry before the others despawn, you will not receive the next cutscene, and will have to zone before you can repop the NMs and try again.
  • The first tonberry will always use Mijin Gakure three minutes after it first takes damage, and assuming that they were not engaged, the 3 NMs will despawn at the same time, thus if the first NM uses Mijin Gakure, the 3 other NMs will have despawned, and it is safe to finish off the first NM and still get the cutscene.
• Trioed by 75 SAM/RNG 75 WHM/BLM 75 PLD/WAR
• WHM can sleepga with Elemental Seal 2nd Sleepga took a few tries but did land.
• For any DD/NIN who have trouble keeping shadows up against the NM solo, pull the Cryptonberry Executor (NIN) south to the large rock and kiting the NM in circles around it. Just continue to attack until shadows and shadow timers are down then resume kiting around the rock while you wait for recast. Don't worry about the NM becoming unclaimed after disengaging, he won't regen HP unless you die. This is also a good spot for any mages with DoT, Chi Blast or while weakened.
• Soloable by a 65 DRG/BLU using the strategy wherein only the NIN needs to be killed. May require multiple wyverns. When wyvern HP gets low, disengage and kite around the large rock near the tunnel entrance until you can Spirit Link once or twice. Expect a long fight.

Misareaux Coast

• A level 75 RDM/NIN can solo this easily, though it will take some time. Physical attacks will do next to nothing, but Enblizzard/Enfire will go unresisted. Bring out a Fellowship NPC for some support damage if you have one.
• A 75 SMN/WHM can also solo this using the Carby kiting technique.
• A level 75 BLM/RDM can solo this with some difficulty. Bind and gravity are not once resisted, but the NM's attacks will usually take down Stoneskin in 3 hits at most with Phalanx. If unresisted, Freeze II normally hits for about 25% of the NM's HP without counting weather bonus, AF2 or Sorcerer's Ring. Cast other ice spells (Blizzard IV and III, and Blizzaga III) and use Manafont when needed. Avoid going in midnight so that you can use Blizzaga III without problems from Fomors that spawn in the same area.
• A level 75 SAM/DNC can solo this with problems. I had pretty decent Evasion gear with the Optical Hat, Scorpion Harness, and Saotome Haidate(To enhance Third Eye), and a Soboro Sukehiro, he still hit me about 50% of the time, he got me down to 45hp left at one point because i was careless and let my Seigan go down leaving me with a 1 minute Third Eye Recast, which hurt, alot. I was able to recover and win. His Defense Bonus moves hurt, was about a 10-15 minute fight, I would highly reccomend bringing a Red Mage for Dispel, Haste, and to ensure you live.