Soloable Abyssea NMs?Follow

Anybody know any soloable Abyssea NMs? I just soloed Guimauve (the SCH accesssory NM). Needed 3 Nursery Nazunas and called a Dipper Yuly at the end for good measure.

Used Atma of Voracious Violet and Atma of the Stronghold, assuming all benefits extend to pets. After the 2nd Nazuna, I didn't have anymore Healing Salves Is and Reward wasn't ready yet so I put Dia II on Guimauve and used the transporter back to the zone entrance and quickly grabbed another one. Only 20 seconds was left on Call Beast so I waited it out and ported back to #6. Because Dia had not yet worn off, Guimauve did not heal up so I just continued the fight. The third Nazuna could've finished it off, but I called Dipper Yuly for mythical TH2. Between the mob's spellcasts, I would melee a bit and use Primal Rend for about 950 damage.

Any other soloable NM stories like this? It would be nice if Adze was soloable this way, but I get the feeling Adze is a little more complicated.

And of course I run the risk of losing the NM when I ported out if somebody else were to grab it (this happened to me yesterday. Somebody killed it when I was running to get more meds and wait out Call Beast. It was at 10% or so)

baba yaga is an easy solo. I reccomend Yuly.

the eva+ axes will do better for Yuly vs Rask than the dmg-
OR an eva atma will do the trick.

I'm interested in hearing how well the evasion axes do as well. I kind of want to do two of them for my dipper yuly setup to combine with atma of gnarled horn, but every time i think of doing another dual axe magian trial I throw up in my mouth a little.....

Evasion axes are ofcourse situational. It will depend on the accuracy of the the mob you are fighting. However +18 eva/axe means +36 pet EVA. Also, the pet EVA earrings from ASA can take you up to +46 EVA

That makes a really big difference. Yuly lasts a long time. add cloak and dagger or siren shadow atma to this and you have one awesome eva tank.

This is a maxing situation ofcourse. I'm not sure on the eva numbers for the atma, but I'm guessing having 2x axes (give or take and earring) is pretty close to 1 atma.

ASA Mission 8 ("Shanttoto in Chains") has the bomb key as reward, which may lead to Silk Slops (lv.53) augmented with "pet: Evasion +1".

Now i´m really anal about gear sets for different purposes/stats, but "pet: evasion+1" in the legs slot....i think rather not.


However, I checked all ASA Missions and could not find any earring reward with pet: evasion on it.

Edited, Nov 3rd 2010 11:05am by Mosel

He was probably referring to A Crystalline Prophecy Mission 7, the Ivory Key can get you an Emerald Earring with pet evasion+, which goes up to +5 matching his +10 he said.

yeah, sorry, I meant ACP.

Its a pretty easy pet fight now. I don't remember doing it w/ less than 4 although I'm sure 3 can do it fine and possibly a duo(not sure!). Everyone was interested in it a quick, fun fight for potentially good gear.



Edited, Nov 4th 2010 3:27am by Xilk

Solo'd Gangly Gean mainly using Nazuma tonight. Easy kite if your pet goes down. You can melee on the opposite side of your pet just keep at max casting range to avoid -ga III spells. There doesn't seem to be any way to stun them, Sudden Lunge didn't work for me. Getting hit with poison is actually a good thing so you don't get slept, plus it can be offset with a regen atma. Used Hero/Sellsword atmas.

Edited, Nov 6th 2010 9:33am by blowfin

I guess it's just lottery. I went 1/2 on the torque. I guess you could build TP on it and help finish it off at low HP.

below are the NM's that drop Ferine Seals. I've added a few notes on my experiences or notes I've read. Please share/added experiences.

Ferine Seal: Feet
Hrosshvalur (NM) Abyssea - Vunkerl - Definitely not a bst fight! (smn can duo, bst pets die quickly)
Seps (NM) Abyssea - Vunkerl - I've only fought in party of 5x pet jobs. not too bad.
Dvalinn (NM) Abyssea - Vunkerl - haven't fought

Ferine Seal: Head

Kharon (NM) Abyssea - Attohwa - haven't fought. wiki implies pet trio
Mielikki (NM) Abyssea - Attohwa - 4x bst can handle well. this fight gets spammed alot.
Warbler (NM) Abyssea - Attohwa - (looks nasty for bst, but dunno)


Ferine Seal: Legs

Flame Skimmer (NM) Abyssea - Misareaux - I think can be done around 3x bst
Sirrush (NM) Abyssea - Misareaux - I've trio'd this. I'm sure bst duo work fine. solo not sure.
Tuskertrap (NM) Abyssea - Misareaux - NOT a bst fight imo. drain samba effect gets nasty at low hp


I don't see any definite solos. I think 3x pet jobs together can do enough to get their seals.

Soloed Khalimari last night as 86BST/DNC. One Yuly, a handful of Zeta. Used one pet -PDT axe and one pet Eva+18 axe. Used Hero atma. For some reason, it seemed like he started the fight with insane accuracy. I had to burn a Zeta and a healing salve rather quickly to keep Yuly alive since timer was down. After that, he couldn't touch Yuly. Very weird.

Anyway, got helm and atma drop.

Aggressor Antlion can be put on the list, killed him twice solo (/nin) last night to finish up my BLM head. Used Nazuma, Healing Salve I and II, Melee'd with my pet using my normal TP gear. Atmas were Razed Ruin and Impenatrable, rampages upwards of 1.4k without food. Be sure to snarl off your hate. You might need to spam some healing salves from the bastion NPC and pet swaps WILL be required if you don't have the bastion credits for Healing salve II. Very fun fight all up.

Oh and the T2 VNM in Tahrongi was a joke to solo with Nazuma. Working towards Siren Shadow atma.

Capped BA and 4/5 Beast healer btw. Only pet damage down gear I have is AF3+1 legs.

Edited, Dec 14th 2010 9:53pm by blowfin

Even after a few Spiral Spins, he was still hitting Yuly accurately. It was probably just some bad luck.

I want to kill Ovni, but I didn't think about BSTing it. Was planning to low-man manaburn it. Did you use any particular strategy on BST, or just keep throwing pets at it and wearing it down? I'd certainly rather go at it with BST than BLM given the choice.

To be honest I would not recommend soloing Ovni; it's pretty expensive and takes a while.

I used 3 Dipperyulys in total and 2 stacks of pet food zetas. With a set, I healed my pet for around 1650.

The atmas I used were Razed Ruins, Vicissitude and Mounted Champion.

For gear I had a evasion axes with -DT head piece from the moogle addon and AF3+2 leg piece.

I just threw my pet in and kept spiral spinning it and just stayed back. The main worry is Florescence and the an AOE move like Primal Drill of the Oscillation which can deal 2k damage if it hits. Call Beast was always up and ready and I never had a problem when my pet died. For the reward set though, merits and Khimaria or Bison head piece is pretty much needed for the 10 or 15 lowered recast on reward. The fight also took around 30 minutes since it drags on at the end when its defense gets really high, but with Razed Ruins, the crits really make a big difference.

LV90 for Ovni

@Xilk: Can those NMs be solo without any atma or do they need some atmas? I just came back from a long break and can only play solo. So I'm wondering if there is anything a solo Bst could do with Abyssea.

I've not solo'd it myself, though I"ll probably go do so now. LS mate who did was using vicissitude and mounted champion. So thats alot of VIT and def and a bit of magic def and a whole nice heaping of regen. 35/tick means alot. REally w/ those 2 atma dipper can tank like nazuna even w/out the evasion.

Otherwise feed zetas. Yuly is going to dodge a ton, but other pets will work on Mielikki. Eta's will make a good difference as well.

My list up there at 90 is assuming 2x atma. Atma and everything abyssea is getting easier and easier.

If you've been out on BST w/ something like vicissitude or Mounted champion w/ Razed Ruins, w/ those 2 you can Chain kill IT's On bST in Abyssea solo. IF you are worried about getting the atma all you need is this:

GEt the pop set for the NM, shout for a group if you have nothing else. (getting a pop set of KI can be done solo) Many players will leap for a chance at these atmas. Especially if they dont' already have them. Many other players will be happy to help get them. Also keep in mind the top players will have abyssite of Discernment already, or very soon (I'll have mine this week). This will make getting any atma you want much easier.

I'm not sure if you NEED abyssite to do all the solo's everything that is soloable is much more easily managed in a duo.

W/ Mielikki a form of stun for the -aga spells makes a big difference in kill time. either /dnc, /drk, or have sudden lunge ready. if you don't have stun you'll be running out of range alot, and you'll want an erase ofcourse. (or you'll do pet only) All you really need for a Solo is for your pet to live until CB is up. It can get expensive, but its soloable. W/ a good reward set and eta biscuits... thats quite doable. Time becomes the only factor.

If you can get one person w/ atma of discernment and 3x lunars (3x lunars is ridiculous awesome btw. Your pet IS a notorious monster)

You are very welcome.
You will likely have to run out of hate range several times to heal up from the AoE damage while pet tanks it.


For many of the fights Yuly as an EVA tank is completely awesome. EVA axes make it even better of course.

I"m actually curious how VV will compare to something like Stout Arm for pets.( I have pop set for Eve, but I don't actually have VV yet)

The regain is of course awesome, but from my testing last week, Strength just didn't seam that important for pets. The Attack+ seemed more beneficial (compare damage output on same pet, baying moon vs stout arm, vs VV). then again I was comparing damage on some pet TP moves and they were likely not modified by strength. (my pet has SA, other bst had RR +mounted champion, same pet, my hits were doing more damage, his was doing more overall from crit rate. I switched from SA to baying moon and my damage remained the same, this also convinced me to swap my Wardecors pet crit/DA+ for pet attack+).

Atma give us a previously non-existent opportunity to actually test what/if anything modifies our pets dd output and tp moves.


Edited, Dec 20th 2010 6:33am by Xilk

another friend sent me a tip on soloing Mielikki.
Stand on opposite side of NM than pet to avoid alot of AoE.


I have the devourer one, but no alpha and omega.

I'll post any new postings. I"ve been lazy to get kparser installed correctly... comes up blank and I haven't taken the time to make sure I install it right.

Yeah, Hrossh seems to be a ranger, and has either fast enmity decay and/or very wide detection range. always zips around alot (often 1-shotting the

I would still use Fargann rather than Louise. Hrossh spams water attacks. Louise's water reduction is only 50%, Fargann is 75%. The intimidation rate is no fun, but better than the greater pet food use.
I think I would replace one of those defensive Atma for an Offensive one. I don't know how close fargann was to death w/ all the regen/hp you have on it, I suspect there were not too many close calls keeping him alive. If you use something like RR you will kill faster and use less food.

I'm sure I'd rather duo this than solo. Its so much cheaper.

Did you melee along with pet at all? It doesn't sound like it. I might try it, since I got aqua satchet...

I don't think Fargann takes 75% less damage because the second time I used the sheep pet and it took around 1000 damage from waterja and Fargann took around 500 damage. Also, using an offensive atma will definitely speed it up, just using regen atmas since it was the first time I fought it. You could fight alongside your pet if you just run away from waterja which supposedly is casted every 30 seconds.

I fought Iku-Turso w/ 3x bst. One switching between Sieghard and Shasra, myself on Fargann, 3rd on Louise. It was easily apparent when Waterja or Maelstrom would hit for ~1500 on Shasra, 750 on Louise and 350 on Fargan. (those exact numbers did come out once) This was consistent and easy to see. Fargann was resisting ~75% every time (and the mob spams those spells) while louise was resisting 50%.
Then again, I was using vicissitude which has a minor magic def bonus. However so was at least one other bst (shasra/seighard), if not both. Also not each cast is the same power. There is an element of randomness. Nazuna could have resisted partially, and the next cast could have been higher.

BTW, Kharon is a fun fight for bst/sch. I might use 1 pet food zeta on Yuly during the fight.
Atma: Vicissitude, Razed Ruin, Gnarled Horn. (/sch needed for dispel of dread spikes, /rdm might work if you can dispel it....)


For General BST NM soloing, I would usually recommend Razed Ruin, Vicissitude or Mounted Champion, and Stronghold or gnarled horn or Siren Shadow depending on pet and NM target.
First priority will be something w/ a major regen/def or vit on it. 2nd priority is Razed Ruin for your DD (RR is HUGE and will make a bigger difference than more def/regen if only 2 atma). 3rd will be more variable on situations, but you can probably get one that will benefit in at least 2 ways. Razed ruin crit hits are wonderful, the next thing for dd is atack+. STR just doesn't do much for normal attacks. You can quickly see a marked increase from attack+ however.

stronghold will give you more attack and def and REGEN, gnarled horn will give you agi (and consequently eva) and increased crit rate (counter-rate for merle also!) and Siren Shadow.

Everyone's atma availability will be a bit different as well. However Atma makes such a difference in abyssea, I think its well worth getting 3x lunar abyssite and abyssite of discernment, then atma, then armors and weapons. It makes doing it so much easier/quicker in this order, imo.




Edited, Dec 22nd 2010 1:42am by Xilk

Edited, Dec 22nd 2010 1:43am by Xilk

Under the guise of trying to get everybody up to speed on Shinryu progress- I suggested our LS go catch up on some of the Caturae people are missing- I managed to get them to try and proc Red !! on Kutharei and got Atma of Mounted Champion. Damn, this thing really does make a difference. I highly approve.

Solo? Do you fight with Yuly or stand back out of sleepga range? I remember fighting this guy really soon after the release of Scars with a big group of people and wiping. Of course, nobody had any decent atmas or anything like that, but left a bad memory and I never tried him again.