Soulflayer Ambuscade V1

I think it is best practice to open new ambu threads and link the old threads in the OP as strategies change and things can get lost if we continue bumping.

Old Thread: https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/52658/august-ambuscade-volume-one/8/#3487940

BG info: https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Category:Ambuscade

V1 2020 RDM/SCH solo Normal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XRqbc3mVOI

• Saboteur Manifestation Bindga, kill imps one by one, Saboteur silence Flayer until proc, kill

Refresh your page, I updated the main Ambuscade page little under an hour ago. ;^*

Makes me want to try soloing D on RDM/SCH as a tri-box with GEO and WHM mules.

I find it strange that he's a RDM and used a RDM trust (Koru-Moru) instead of Qultada or something else that could benefit him more.

Edit: What's he using to negate the shield?

Looks like just auto-attacks + enthunder? Shield comes up at 8:04, no weapon skills go off until it's down at 8:11.

Looks like pet special moves remove shield effect.
BST solo video using sheep pet

pup tank viable with frontline dps pulling off the imps ?

Probably. The Imps are mostly harmless, but on VD there's a lot more of them, and they would be all over the place because PUP has no aoe tanking ability to plant/keep all hate on them, unless they do something like Sentinel > Ventriloquy > Heady Artiface (PLD) at start

Hi all. Some friends and I tinkered for a while with optimal setups for VD.

We first tried PLD/WHM/BRD/GEO/COR/COR. We had medium success, cleared twice in reasonable time (under 10 minutes), but on the third and forth tries, we ended up getting stonewalled by his shields. The third attempt took approximately 20 minutes and the fourth attempt ended in failure because he was invulnerable by 50%.

So we tried PLD/SMN/BRD/GEO/COR/COR instead, opting to ditch the WHM for a SMN who could reliably break the shields. It DID work, but a Tribulation got through and nobody was paying attention. The 1000 per tick Bio killed PLD pretty quick and resulted in a wipe. This is theoretically doable if the SMN, BRD, and GEO are healing and erasing consistently. You need to have the PLD fully erased if the Bio comes out or he'll surely die while you attempt to get off attack/defense down effects.

Lastly, we tried PLD/WHM/BRD/GEO/COR/SMN and this seems to be the ticket.

With Fomalhaut, Last Stand > Volt Strike > Last Stand will make 3-step radiance that kills the imps in one SC. Then just repeat the same SC on Soulflayer and he gets rocked. Also, it helps if the WHM or GEO can land a silence on the flayer -- it is a big help for the tanks to not be terrorized, stunned, silenced, and paralyzed every 15 seconds.

Does panacea work for bio??? - people always seem to forget how good they are to carry around.

Also the video of the RDM soloing; is enthunder autoattack enough to break the shield??

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Awesome. Honestly Panaceas are so much better (getting rid of things like def-down etc etc), that I barely even buy remedies anymore.

Hmmm, typically any eraseable effect requires Panacea:
Bio, Defense down, Stat down, Slow, Addle, etc
And has no effect on lyna effects (which are handled by remedy):
Paralyze, Silence

So you should carry both.

Just did it with my Mnk style setup, taking me 8mins atm, can improve on time definitely once I get the mojo on this fight. With enough MEVA u can evade Reprobation Outright. RDM silencing and doing Bindgas makes the fight easy also. Will post a video later.

Interesting. How are you breaking shield on monk if I may ask Mrgrim?

Subtle blow strat with one melee, probably a 0% chance it even does 2 moves to get a shield. Crits break first shield long before it has tp for a second. (i'm assuming)

Or has a smn for safety/mew

Are you going to make me want to make a Spharai?

Ayyyyy I have to make some Spharais also for completion sake! Also here's the vid, this was a relatively unlucky run but went relatively smooth. The gist of this is keeping flayer bound with gravity along keeping imps bound also. It is crucial in keeping flayer unsilenced and keep distance until it's time to kill it. After 1st silence he becomes more resistant and noticed that silenced lasted less. My fastest run has been 7:25 mins, when the 3 step killed most imps lol. The imp's amnesia seemed to land 100% of the time along their dispels, but you can def evade flayer's full dispel in which addle shines.

Believe it or not, I just punched through it until it dropped lmao. Not sure what it does when 2 of them are up. I think he has Occult Acumen because I noticed that he spammed more tp moves after casting blue magic on us hence why we stopped silencing in the beginning and started silencing him when it was time to kill it so we had a bigger window for killing him.

Edit: Didnt know that critical hits took out shield, that must of been what removed it's shield since it's TP Drain was pretty severe.

Been having BRD and WHM go /SMN for Mewings and runs have been much smoother while killing stuff on MNK. I'd probably have COR go /SMN as well for extra insurance. Everything will literally just sit there while you kill them through Silence and Mewings.

Damn I forgot about /smn, not easy for me to pull off multiboxing lol, could have the geo go /smn lol or a replacement cor. With brd cor and geo going /smn it will definitely go faster, can't multitask like that so if someone replaces my bois's jobs I believe these runs can go down as low as 6mins. If doing a mewing, do the mew once the 2nd WS goes off, after you do 3rd ws on imp he gonna WS if you don't mew.

Since I'm working with 1 min recast timers, I just change to a different imp if neither of my brd or whm's BP timer is up and an imp is close to dropping below 25%. After the Mewing, you should be able to kill 2 low hp imps without worrying about TP moves.

Awesome, thanks for the heads up man will add that to the strategy now.

Grim, one suggestion I can make is to bring a Samurai if you can. Warding Circle will really speed kills up.

Shijin Spiral > Shoha > Smite will definitely kill an Imp, especially if it has Inundation on it. Might be able to leave GEO out if so.

Sounda like a good idea, i think closing with fudo will be even bettee since VS damage fluctuates even with impetus up.

If you are going to make new threads based on which mob is currently up, may I suggest changing the thread title format to "Ambuscade V1: 'mob type'" instead? Makes it easier for archive and retrieval purposes. I do think it's smart to have a dedicated sticky per mob type instead, just that this current title won't help much in a couple months/years when this mob type shows up again, because the way it is titled now, is no different than past threads.

Edit: also, if the site mods can pull it off, a separate ambu forum category would be a great home for future stickies.

Since Soulflayer takes 115% light damage, would trueflight or seraph blade be effective?

A lot of them take reduced magic damage. Not sure about the one from ambu this month.

Looking through logs:
Don't know if the SC damage element was actually Light in these, though. These are just Victory Smite > Victory Smite Light SCs.

Good idea. The day I created it there was an edit button for the title, I thought, but it isn't there anymore. If I make it next month I will definitely add that info.