Possible Sarameya (ZNM T4) Strategy

[Ikonic]

As MNK? Low man? Details + Strategies plz?

Tadghostaltwo wrote:

whm, rdm, brd x2, pld/rdm, mnk/nin

Eat sole sushi, otherwise you won't cap accuracy for countertanking (pizza +1 doesn't quite do it).

Whm must have maxed Barspell merits, and Rdm must have maxed phalanx 2. You need about 250 fire resist to fully resist Sarameya (both spells and tp moves) assuming maxed phalanx 2.

Barfira 120
Fire Carol 50
Suzy Shoes 50
Cerb Mantle 10
Water Belt 20

Feel free to add some more (Hanzo Tekko, Triumph, etc) if you like, but it's not necessary.

Sara's very nice in that she gives you a warning for when to pop your fire resist set. It'll be right after she howls, or right after she chainspells.

After the Howl sequence hate will be reset, so your pld will flash/dispel at which point you just go back to town and peel hate through damage. Your rdm has to be on his game as well to dispel magma hoplon as soon as it goes up as there's a good chance your pld/rdm will get resisted.

Pld dd is obviously atonement spam. Your DD is face punching - I prefer Hades for the extra accuracy.

I like going /nin even though Sara attacks quickly. Make sure the brds are on poisona, and designate someone for Paralyna duty as well. Your songs should be double march, minuet, fire carol.

Also, be aware that the worst thing that can happen is barfira/fire carol wearing halfway through Chainspell. Your backline really has to be on point to make this work with low numbers.

Feel free to add more backliners to make this easier. More DDs, however, tend to make it harder since there are more people to cure and there's always some nab with no fire resist set.

EDIT: Looks like Kanican beat me to it by 14 months lul. Here's his journal on Seigan tanking it as sam/war, which honestly sounds easier than tanking as monk.

But whatever. Monk ftw.

Tadghostaltwo also wrote:

It looks like the sam's advantage comes from a comprehensive damage reduction set. That's harder to come up with on warrior than sam, unless you have a d ring or both Valhalla pieces lying around.

Funny enough, the easiest job to reach 50% dmg reduction on is monk.

Earth Staff 20%
Black Belt 5%
Jelly Ring 5%
Arhat's Gi +1 9%
Arhat's Jinpachi +1 6%
Denali Wristbands 2%
Darksteel Subligar +1 3%

[Ayrea]

Looking at the kanican post, it seems like it could be done pretty easily just like a salvage boss; 2 melees on it, and a bunch of healers. I recall seeing something about mages being poor DD on cerberus mobs. Just need to make sure the melees have a nice fire resist setup.

[Eotfofyl]

Wow very interesting. I have Phalanx2 @lvl 1 so hardly capped. But i can Sch for -NAGAs! According to rai i dont even have to be in the same PT =P

[Mnementh]

One of the few times I venture into the Mnk forums and you just totally ignore that he was responding to me! :p

The more important thing about this is fire resist. You can get all the healers in the world but if you cant resist spells during chainspell then you are toast. I could build this fire and a comparable physical set very quickly personally for War. I think this could work well for our shell if we can get a good powerful tanking DD frontline and some healers, and really MEMORIZE this strategy.

Also, I was thinking of capping phalanx anyway and removing my paralyze II merits since we have ppl in the shell with para capped. Phalanx II at 5/5 can easily top Phalanx I because it is more forgivingly designed in tiers vs. straight enhancing correlation like phalanx 1.

[Ikonic]

The only reason I even read that post was because you responded to it. I glance at the MNK forums, but for the most part they are crap. It started shortly before fucknut took over the sticky w/o asking.

[Mnementh]

fucknut took over our war index also after I told him to ask...

Monk forums have some good milich math and they have kinematics with the awesome parser so i can't say they are crap personally.

[Aleve]

Both, my Phalanx II and Paralyze II are @ 3/5 merits. I do plan to max both of these. Let me have some time with a goal and I can get these maxed before this event. I have an excellent fire defense build.