Genbu solo viable?Follow

Thinking about buying a pop for genbu (in the far future once i've finished meriting and AH gear) and trying to solo it, i know an RDM/BLM can do it, and assuming resist rates aren't to bad I'm thinking it could be very possible.
Any thoughts?

Hmm,
AF body +15
Relic Hands/Master Caster's Bracelets +7
Enfeebling torque +7
Enfeebling Earring +3
Elite beret +1 +5
Avocat Pigaches +3
Altruistic Cape +5
8/8 enfeebling merits +16
Ele grips +2 m. acc
Omega Ring +3 m. acc
Balrahn's Ring +4 m. acc

all i can think of off top of head, granted this would be the "best" you could get for enfeebling


Would total in at 317 enfeebling skill, I THINK that would be high enough but don't know for sure, haven't looked that up.



Granted we don't have elemental accuracy merits though..


Edited, Jan 4th 2009 1:14am by lovexhate

You don't need Gravity or Bind to solo Genbu: He already moves at reduced speed. This is why jobs like MNK/NIN and NIN/RDM can solo it with Chi Blast/Wheel spam.

Having said this, yes; soloing Genbu would be possible. There are two ways to go about it:

/NIN, and rely on Nukes/Drain/Helixes for damage. You'd have to overcome it's resistance and stuff like Scholar's Gown would be recommended.

/RDM and Bio/Nuke/Drain it to death. Need to be more careful about corners and timing, but killspeed is improved.

Carrying a MDB setup would be good (Full Goliard?). I'm not sure if it is possible to reach an acceptable Water resist build with SCH and /RDM's Barwatera; my guess is no.
Also, meds like a bunch of Antidotes, some emergency ethers etc would be good.

Overall, this is a very possible solo; you don't need anything special but patience.

I really wish SE would fix this...Helices in theory are great, but they just are calculated in a really bad manner. All helices have about the same base damage as tier 1 Blizzard, but due to the way that magic damage is calculated, mobs with high INT will cause the base damage to nearly become zero'd out. It would've been nice if they had more base damage, at least as much as tier 1 Thunder.

Edited, Jan 4th 2009 1:57am by ImmortalAlchemist

You'd probably want /RDM and Bio, it's probably gonna be doing most of the damage, unless you've had experience with this fight before in a group and you are confident that you can damage it sufficiently with nukes. You *could* do it as /NIN, but it'd probably take a lot longer. Remember that Parsimony will generally get you more mileage per stratagem than Ebullience will (for nukes that is; you obviously won't need a stratagem for Bio).

Grav/Bind will rarely if ever work. Don't bother. They aren't needed anyway.

Make sure that he absolutely never gets to swing at you if you don't have Utsusemi (in other words, don't get trapped). One solid double attack round can take you straight to 0 HP if he hits hard enough, and he can.

Water resistance is mostly useless. Dodge what you can.

Edited, Jan 4th 2009 6:59am by Fynlar

If you can run around like an idiot, you can solo Genbu. lol

Blm can do

Rdm can do it

Mnk Can do it

Nin can do it.

To put it quite simply, it's an extremely LONG game of "Keep away".

The only spell you should ever get hit with is poisonga. Everything else is 100% avoidable. Just bio when he Floods or Water IVs (Vs, w/e it is), run around until it wears, repeat. The only thing "godly" as far as solo is concerned is his magic resistance.

BTW, you could probably solo Olla if you really wanted. It would just take you ages to do so. Might save you some gil. Zip is probably off limits unless you bring a RDM along for the fun.

Last night I did this fight duo with a RDM. Pretty simple fight, bio2 and run in circles. If you can get him stuck behind the bush, you can toss a nuke on him each time around which definately speeds things up. Sublimation really comes in handy for this fight, as it took us 45mins duo. I'd imagine it would have taken well over an hour if it was just myself. On a positive note, Thunder spells landed very consistantly with an elemental setup. I think my high was 849, but more half resists than unresisted nukes.

I can confirm that Genbu is indeed much weaker to Thunder than Ice.

I originally intended to nuke it down with blizzard. But even with Klimaform, Hailstorm's INT, and Aquillo's Staff bonuses was I unable to overcome its resistances.

On the other hand, Thunder landed very reliable; regardless of what I was doing. I could get away with almost Full Damage gear when using Klima.

His INT is too high, I think my highest Helix on him was 6 and I have a pretty decent setup for it. Possibly if you got a BLM to land burn, DRK to absorb INT, had Etudes, INT potion, max INT setup...you might hit 20helix.

Or you can simply drain him, while staying at full HP. Drain does damage regardless of HP recovered. This should be basic knowledge <_<

After you fight Genbu for about 5 minutes you start noticing his habits with the terrain. He has a hard time around the bushes, which makes it extremely easy to get off Bio/Nukes and still remain a good distance away from him. If you do notice you are having a hard time making turns...or just want more time for casting without risk of getting it, sub ninja and just cast during Flood/WaterIV.

According to testimonies on the wiki page: Diabolous Pole offers a 25% damage boost in dyna, but it doesn't offer any M.Accu %

So while you might see bigger numbers once in a while, the average will still favor even the NQ staff.