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I don't know if you have one available, but a NIN with AF3+2 shoes is pretty well suited for tanking him if he's careful, because that extra Utsu shadow goes a long way toward being able to more consistently block Lethal Triclip (3+ shadows needed to consistently avoid it) and prevent the loss of cruor buffs.

Near the Bastion area there's a... well? That little round wooden looking thing. I always thought it looks like a well with wooden lid. Anyways, he paths really really awful around it, so you can kite it forever if you need to (you will eat the spells, but somehow it blocks the tp moves if you're exactly on opposite side). So, I'd say theoretically the bare minimum is one kiter (bst/whm with refresh atma works fine, toss cures on yourself when it's casting or when avatars have hate) and a summoner or two to do the killing. Well, actually 2x summoner could possibly do it if you were very aware who has hate at any given time.

Another way of course is 3-4 summoners and just stagger avatars that they don't all die at same time, no kiting required. He doesn't really hit all that hard. His tp moves are just cheap. >.>

Yeah our current best plan is to grab friends with empyrean weapons and bash the snot outta him (but requires more than the static group we have going).

Actually found him fairly easily tankable on THF the other night when doom got people - but less than ideal to have apocalypse zombie weaponskills going on... met marks for results, but not for style lol.

Yeah the drop rate on him is very solid for wings. 17 wings out of 9 kills last night, so only one pop with one wing. We did have TH though, and we procd yellow on every pop, not that yellow has ever been proven to help with Empy item drop rates.

Oh and this might sound obvious but it hasnt been mentioned, tanks should be stocked to the hilt with Holy Water for this fight to ease up on the mages.



Yep, evasion tanks win on him pretty well, but NIN excels because of the amount of shadows.

Thats the thing, the Zombie strat will work, but its generally slower than doing it clean, not to mention you waste time in between pops waiting for people to unweaken.


On another note, I finished my Axe last night! Massive respect to the folks in my LS who helped me deal with Bukhis. Tested it by kicking the sh*t out of Fafnir and was pleasantly surprised with Cloudsplitter, which was beating out Rend with a pretty average setup (Approx. +31 MND +45 STR 21 MAB and RDM sub).

Edited, Apr 27th 2011 10:29pm by blowfin

Yeah it can take time. We've been doing weekly farming runs in Vunk for the last few weeks to not just farm Bukhis, but to get zone wins and minikin for people as they've needed, plus extra Sedna spam for tusks and whatever else.

I think 14 wings last week, 16 wings this week. It's basically been finished in 4 farming sessions on weekday nights excluding 2 wings. In between NM runs I made sure as many people in the LS as possible had Varney KI's, not that we ever found much pressure on him, but it's great to have them lined up before you go in. We went in with 7 Varney KI's ready last night, for example. Out of the three NM's you need for KI's the only one that will give you trouble is the taurus, because of doom. Solo: Yuly destroys Varney, a good -dt build deals with the garouille, but I'd suggest spamming the Taurus with a group.


and thanks by the way ^^

Edited, Apr 28th 2011 5:43am by blowfin

Yep we've been doing the same sort of thing, just with BLM's burning the taurus. The KI's from gold chests are really nice to get rolling in too.

The Gargouille is pretty gnarly if people don't turn fast, or it can pretty much one shot people with enough attack rounds per turn. Two handed tanks (without apoc) are probably ideal I guess, not that we're going to be screwing with it again for while.

The funny thing is, after you complete this trial, taurs that aren't Khalkotaur or Bukhis will seem about as tame as a kitten in comparison.

Most things are probably going to feel pretty easy, except glavoid in your case =)

But yes, we pretty much turned the NQ taurus field into a graveyard. And to think, it used to worry me running across that...


Edited, Apr 29th 2011 3:13am by blowfin

As bst? I'd rather fight glavoid than Bhukis and I really don't like glavoid. The reason is easy enough to see. Glavoid is not going to chew through your pets. Bhukis will.

Doom is especially bad for beastmaster now, since we cannot charm and we not have the highest recast for a pet instead of the shortest.

Well I'm now onto the Bukhis stage in earnest - picked up 80 Farsha this afternoon... at 14/50 Bukhis wings (I think - keep finding them in my mog satchel). Gonna be a while till my group do another Bukhis run I think though.