Foustian wrote:
One thing I'd like to point out is that Charm from the Mithra is her BST 2hour. Its very possible to kill each AA before they use both 2hours (zerging the last 15% or so of the Hume is a good idea to avoid/minimize Mijin dmg), so she may not always use it, but afaik, it has nothing to do with her location in relation to her pet.
At the very beginning, we couldn't decide who we wanted to take down first, the EV because of Spirits, or the MR because of charm. Once we saw the EV do 2300 with SW, we knew we had to take her down first. Then we became worried that the MR might charm the ST and the whole strat would go out the window. So we went to test the MR in her BC. We were PLD PLD RDM RDM WHM and using ST we sat there letting her and her pet beat on one of our tanks for probably 15 minutes. She did not charm, so we concluded that she either would only use it if her pet were dead, or in desperation.
On our first DM run, she didn't even use charm at all so we just figured that she couldn't use it if her pet were alive. But then on run #2, we had a SAM start yelling into our voice chat that he couldn't control himself. Sure enough, he was charmed. We slept him, and he returned to normal as soon as MR was dead. So I think you're right. Charm is treated as her 2hr and is used in desperation only.
Foustian wrote:
Also, in the 10 or so DM runs I've done, I've never seen an AA use the same 2hour more than once. One time we fought the Elvaan, got her to use Invincible and Benediction, and then wiped before we could kill her. When we got up and fought her again (about a 6 or 7 minute timespan), she didn't use either 2hour.
I cannot and will not pretend that I saw them use some 2HRs multiple times during DM, so you could be right. I will tell you from personal experience that in their individual BCs the GK will use MS a lot, and that the HM can use Mighty Strikes multiple times as well. I'm not sure, but I belive the EV with Invincible and the MR with Perfect Dodge are the same. When we tested on the HM though, just like I mentioned above with the MR, we sat there with him on the ST for around 15 minutes trying to make sure he wouldn't use Mijin. So it is my own personal theory that at least in the AA BCs, that they each have one 2HR that they can use at will (MS, Mighty, PD, Invinc) and one that they can only use once (Mijin, Bene, Charm).
Foustian wrote:
I've also seen the Mithra's pet despawn. I can't say the exact conditions for it, but we killed the Mithra, I turned to engage the tiger, and it despawned in front of me. I know that if you kill the Galka and/or Mithra and then wipe, the pets will despawn once they move back to their starting point, so it may be a result of them not having hate on anyone. Although again I can't really say for sure.
My guess is that the pet will despawn if the alliance wipes and as you say it loses hate. Luckily, we didn't have to test that :P
Thanks for the comments, I encourage all discussion. Hopefully it'll only make this strat better!