Completed Promathia Mission Riverne – Site #A01 yesterday with the LinkShell. ^^ Many people had claimed this one to be the hardest of the Promathia missions, so I actually did deck my RDM self out to make sure we would win. At least all my hi-potions went to good use, hehe. I crafted about 100 of them the day or two before.


Riverne – Site #A01

Our party setup for this BC was NIN/WAR, MNK/WAR, RNG/NIN, RDM/WHM, RDM/WHM, BLM/RDM. It was a pretty hectic, but good battle, I suppose. The battle itself took us about 20 mins since we were going to enter the first time while our NIN (who had done this battle before) would point out our tactics and give us a test run. I think we were all expecting to die the first run, but, yeah. Our tactics were to have me as the main healer (RDM/WHM), the other RDM/WHM kite one of the mobs around while applying Bind+Gravity whenever possible. Our NIN grabbed one of the other ones to solo in a corner. Basically all she did was Utsusemi herself over and over and keep it busy. The third mob was the active one where the RNG, BLM, and MNK pounded it.

I was extremely worried during the first one because everyone was taking DMG heavily and the mob’s morphing abilities really were freaking me out. The melee versions were fine since utsu eats up the dmg, but when they turned into BLMs and used stuff like Aeroga and stuff, I got worried since DMG spam was everywhere. After the first one died, the rest was pretty simple. Took out the one the RDM was kiting (which she did very well) and then moved on to killing the one our NIN was tanking.

My suggestions for this battle are honestly to scratch the WHM idea unless your WHM brings ethers. Even with x2 RDMs (we were healing 90% of the time, no debuffing), MP burn was pretty bad at the beginning. I hit Convert right after the first mob died and the other RDM hit it after the 2nd mob died. RDM at this level has everything WHM does, so it’s better to have Convert in my opinion. Also, I noticed that everyone was healing. Even our BLM. I’d suggest each mage type bring lots of MP restoring drinks. I crafted a lot right on the spot. Melee pretty much will need hi-potions. I gave about 5-7 to both the NIN and MNK. I think I saw about 5-6 uses go off. It really helps. I’d also be careful of the AoE. When you fight all three, make sure to keep all three separated. To my knowledge, they are not sleepable, they are very hard to bind and gravity never stuck.. period. -_-*

Oh and btw, the New Years event is so cute. Got my Mandragora outfit yesterday and nearly died. XD So cute!

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