Maat... Seriously.Follow

From what I have gathered its the same as every G5 fight. And it's a time thing. After a while, Maat just spams Asuran Fists til you die, or in my gfs case with her Dancer, that bitch used Dancing Edge about 6 times back to back til she droped.

The PLD is wearing AF in the screenshots. If you want to worry less about time, get some DD gear. I went 1/1 and finished REAL quick using my DD gear that I had. I'd only suggest giving DD PLD a try on Maat. The fight is over fast either way that way.

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10 times. I'm pretty sure it was due to the time spent in there. I was using swift blade instead of vorpal, was eating defense food instead of carbonara or another attack food, and I had already used sentinel twice at this point, so atleast 5 minutes + time needed to sleep for 100 TP, and then an odd minute or two since Sentinel wasn't back up yet when he started unleashing. If I had to guess I'd say it's 10-15 minute range is when you start to time out.

In this pic, the 10 asuran's were back-to-back, he landed the first 1 or 2 before invincible; Incinvicble ate a majority of them while I tried to recover, but I just "didn't have what it takes." XD;

[edit] Yeah, I went in with a hauby and woodsmans x2, and an amemet+1. I just made the mistake of using swift blade and a taco. Just to add into the thread as far as help on winning goes...Don't try to turtle up. Pretend you have to be a squishy DD and prepare for it thusly(by bringing a good combo of hipots/muslim/ethers/YagDrink(s), and 1 vile elixer(or +1) if you want an extra safety net. DD gear, DD food(I suggest carbonara for HP+, sTP+, and attack+). My second attempt I won at around 6 and a half minutes, and I didn't sleep all the way to 100 TP because I was worried about my time from the first time. Use vorpal blade. ;O I was also lucky to have my Ohat for the 2nd attempt...>.>b[/edit]
[edit2go]Wups, forgot to mention..at that point in time in my PLD career I had DMG filtered to in-game instead of in-chat, because I was learning to adjust to DynamisSpam and was tired of changing filters all the time. I still say, to this day, SE needs to add filters/settings books that change when you swap macro books.[/edit2off]

Edited, Jun 2nd 2009 7:43pm by FenrirXIII

I beat Maat first try two days ago and PLD is my first job to level high. It went pretty smoothly, beat him in somewhat more than five minutes. I won with the third swift blade, just before I wanted to use Invincible. Some things I like to give as advice:

- If it's your first job for Maat, wait until you hit level 70. You get Defense Bonus IV at level 70 and can cast Protect IV.
- Take time to skill up, especially if you have done a lot of level synching in the 60's. My sword skill has been around cap for lvl 68 which was o.k.
- Don't bother sleeping TP up at the beginning - it takes longer than building TP during the fight, so it's a waste of time imho.
- Don't bother using Hi-Potions. In the three seconds time they take to activate you get hit at least once by Maat, which more or less negates the benefit.
- Don't bother going into the arena naked. I didn't and the fight was no problem.
- Use an Icarus Wing for an extra WS.
- I used swift blade which seems to give more reliable damage than vorpal (vorpal can get higher numbers though).
- I went with my normal exp party gear, which leans towards DD but not all-out.

Besides that I guess I was a bit lucky as Maat didn't use Asuran Fists. If you need more than 8 minutes, he'll spam Asuran Fists to end the fight, though.


Edited, Jun 3rd 2009 12:10pm by FireHedgehog

I lost the first time due to taking too long/Asuran spam (wearing AF/VIT/etc), but I got him the second time at 66 going the full DD route, fight was over fairly quick. This was pre-OMG PLD has everything (Autorefresh/Sentinel update, Shield Mastery) I did cap Sword before entering the second time.

maat spams asuran fists when he suddenly suffers a diarhea attack and needs to get the fight over as soon as he possibly can.

I promise you he won't since you can't use subjobs.

Three things wrong with that, which I have bolded.

1st: Pld can't wear bomb core.
2nd: If you're going in to fight him at 70, you can't wear any salvage gear due to it being lvl 75.
3rd: You can't perform any of the quested WSs at 70 since you can't unlock them until 71, rendering the light SC idea useless.

lern2FFXI

Edited, Jun 4th 2009 1:36am by XxHigetsuxX

Don't encourage him. Loyfriend is the Victrola of the BLU forums and I'd love to see him stay the hell out of here, but if we keep responding to him, he's going to keep posting his crap either because he thinks we're taking him seriously (i.e., he believes his dribble) or he knows he's getting a rise out of us (i.e., he's a troll). Either way, I'm done responding to him or even reading anything he has to say.

Waited till level 70 to do mine (for Protect IV). Used carbonara and DD gear. Finished in at about 5 minutes and never saw an Asuran Fists. I had a vile elixir +1 but never used it either. I did use a bunch of hi-pots +whatever. I also slept to 100% tp and used an Icy Wing. I believe I alternated between Vorpal and Swift Blade.

Might just have been one of my lucky nights. Went to farm tests just before that and got it on first mob.

Oh, and OP, make sure your friend is using Reprisal, it didn't exist when I did mine, but that should get him TP really fast.

Edited, Jun 5th 2009 8:26am by SCorbs

Definitely not 5 minutes. According to most reports it's 8 minutes when he starts spamming Asuran Fists.

I defeated maat during those days where the shield would only block once every 100 hits taken.

The strategy was simple, kill him before he kills you. It is absolutely dangerous to stretch the fight because that old man can drop you in a second if he wants to.

I remember I first used the TP necklace to bring my TP up to 100 with sleep pots. Went in and did Swift Blade, eat a wing for TP and Swift Blade again.

After that, prepare to invincible because after doing the WSes the old man probably has got enough TP to Asuran.

If you load up on DD/ accuracy gears, your first 2 WSes would have taken off a huge chunk of the old man's life. You'll need only a third WS to finish the job. Pray that you are able to survive till your third WS is up.

I can dispute the 8 minute Asuran Fists thing. When I beat Maat, it was 8:49. All I saw in my chat log was Maat's Bash, Spinning Attack, Combo, and Shoulder Tackle.

The only reason it took me so long to beat him was that he Flashed me at the exact moment I hit my third Vorpal Blade macro, causing me to hit him for a grand total of 67 damage.

The total time limit for any G5 fight with Maat has been repeatedly documented as 10 minutes.

Use TP set consisting of DD gear until shadows drop, cast shadows in haste or shield gear, switch back to TP gear, if both shadow timers are down, switch into -phys and +HP set and top off. Defense very little impact and VIT is mainly just for Rampart. If you think you can play PLD well with just one set, especially one consisting of DEF/VIT in this age of Atonement, you are very wrong.

You would have had an easier time with full DD gear on Maat.



I'm assuming you have proof of this? One fight isn't statistically helpful and it's hard enough to test. I DIDN'T go in naked and won the fight in under 2 minutes. Seemed easy enough.



My /nin and /rdm comment wasn't directed at the Maat fight. It was directed at this:



which is specifically about HNM fights. You shouldn't be going /WAR for these except in very few cases (none of which I can think of).

What Khimaira do you mean? The real khimaira doesn't triple attack, and the nyzul/einherjar ones die too fast for me to really tell. I've fought well over 70 khimaira's as well as tanked at least half of those, and never seen a triple attack. I have, however, seen when elegy wears and he'll double attack and follow with a single and it look similar to a triple because his delay is so slow with no slow or elegy.

Other than that though, Khim is one of the easiest mobs in the game to tank. Seiryu is a harder mob to tank than Khimaira if you want to be brutally honest, when you discount the time difference between a 3 minute seiryu and a 10-15 khimaira. You shouldn't need turtle gear on him, because you're just wasting time standing there in turtle gear while he whiffs on shadows (and normal hits Khim has absolutely stupidly bad accuracy. Flash actually makes him miss a lot).

Back onto topic though, for Maat just do a basic shield skill and DD set. You're still help to a 10 minute time limit where if you pass it he does asuran fists crazy. Use Reprisal, make a good set, and DD him faster than he can DD you. Use Invincible when he does so it negates his. You can practice on the enm60 pulling strings against a 60 cap pld.

I did the fight with a full DD set after losing the first time, because Asuran Fists x4 destroyed me with no invincible or sentinel.

Edited, Aug 19th 2009 6:16pm by StephisaMAN