Maat helpFollow

Hey im lvl 70 whm taru, I'm trying to beat maat anyone have a good guide to follow? He keeps killing me in like 1 minute.

What I did as an Elvaan was just use regular AF set and got the bat earrings and drank the blinding potion to boost up your evasion then just keep curing yourself with Cure IV when you get low hp. Make sure to take a vile elixer to replenish your mp and hp after you two hour of course.

Divine includes Flash, Banish, Holy, and Repose. Go to a Besieged or tag along with a skillup party and just cycle through those (avoid Holy and the higher Banish tiers so you get the best spells cast / mp spent ratio).

Definitely wouldn't want to use this in place of a Light/Apollo's, for the same reason RDM doesn't wear a Thanatos Baselard.

Besides, if you wanted only to see just how high you could get your Divine skill for lulz, a Water Staff would be better.

I don't think I've ever even seen a Mighty Pole before. I honestly don't think it's even on the AH listing on my server, but I could have somehow overlooked it. (I did completely overlook the Spider Torque eons ago; it is why I went straight to buying an Enfeebling Torque).

In any case, the item is still definitely more useful for auto-translate abuse than anything else.

*nod* I was mainly putting it there for lulz and to lay out all of the options for the OP. I don't think I've ever seen a Skirnir's wand in-game and I sure as hell have never seen Templar Sabatons... but, they exist and could (in the case of the latter) be of some use. I keep trying to convince my LS to try Call to Arms but it's Puk or nothin' these days.

Anyway. There's a serious lack of viable +divine magic pieces available below level 70. With a decent DM skill, however, AF Pants alone should be enough to land a decent Repose... if not, camp the AH for the Divine Torque and Divine Earring I guess? I'm not sure what the OP's DM skill is, but with the July update it really shouldn't take more than a couple of runs in Besieged to bring it up to ~180.

Do you know how to cure yourself while taking a hit? Reason I ask is this is a skill you may not learn until you start leveling a job like PLD and I can see you not lasting more then a minute if you keep getting interupted. There are lots of posts here on beating maat, lots of strats from stacking evasion gear, to sleeping, some people even melee maat on whm. I fought him years and years ago so barely remember the fight. I had gotten a drop doing something random, think I was helping a friend at the time farm his bow and got it. Anyways, on a whim went in at lv 68 naked, had 1 high potion on me, and beat him 1st try and finished with mp to spare.

So in short my 2 tips are; 1 go anywhere, go to the dunes if you want and practive curing while a mob is attacking you if you don't already know how.

Second tip is debuff him, use para slow and blind. Beating maat is about curing yourself to a certain amount of HP recovered. There was some debate a while back about it being a set amount of time (but if that were the case then wouldn't everyone beat him in the same amount of time?)

Things like blink bands and potions can be useful as they cannot be interrupted. (If you want to know why I said 2 tips then gave three read Forrest Griffin's Got Fight :D)

The best advice I can give you though is take this fight for what it is worth, it is designed to test you as a whm, to make sure you know how to cure yourself in a difficult situation. You want to pay attention to what Maat is doing, be keeping an eye on your MP consumption and in the end there is a bit of luck involved. If he back to back assuran fists you and doesn't miss I hope you had SS up and were a bit lucky ^^

Edited, Aug 26th 2009 12:27pm by dorrinb

No. Maat gives up 5 minutes after you initially attack him (assuming you don't die before then or anything)

I never cast a single Cure on my fight. I won almost immediately after landing my 4th Repose (Repose lasts 1:30 unresisted). Figure it out.




Nope. WHM Maat wasn't my first and I still won this way.

I'm not sure why THF Maat doesn't seem to work the same way (at least according to accounts that I've heard). THF Maat is a bitch to fight at 70 either way though. If THF isn't your first and you still want to beat THF Maat I highly recommend getting it to 75 or at least closer to 75, you'll have a much easier time actually duking it out.

Edited, Aug 26th 2009 3:45pm by Fynlar