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Damn, dirty lies.

Just last night, I had to help out some friends of mine in my linkshell. Now bear in mind, I had completed all 3 Promyvions before last night, so I had access to Lufaise Meadows and the Tavnazian Archipelago.

I clicked on the Shattered Telepoint at the Crag of Mea, and what happens? I'm sent into the Hall of Transference.

Conclusion? I am still able to enter the Promyvion zones.

Misinformation make me angry.

Edited, Thu Sep 30 18:46:33 2004 by ResidentLune

We've completed them all now. Mea was the toughest as we didn't have the most optimal setup.

My tips.
Best party to use is:

War/Nin
Rng/Nin
Smn/Whm
Whm/Blm
Blm/Whm (or another Smn/Whm)
Rng/Nin

With this party setup, you can keep yourself healed, have a good tank to keep hate, and the Rangers can bounce hate back and forth if the tank needs to get Utsusemi back up. The Smn's use their Astral Flow when about 3/4 the NM's HP is gone, and after they do theirs, Rng's do their Eagle Eye Shot. As long as no one panics and you have the proper supplies (Hi potions, Poison Potions for Holla, ect), you'll be dancing on the NM's corpse.

**edit**
I feel like a jerk not including this. Don't rely on me for the 'best party'. This worked amazingly well for the groups I went with. There's more than likely much better combo's. This is just my opinion


Edited, Sat Oct 2 00:42:09 2004 by Rezzyguy

Have to agree there, as BLM I was lucky to not get hit with the AoE, yet pple standing right in front of me did get hit.

Anyone want to contribute any info on Promyvion-Vahzl?

Might as well Give Dem-NM Information too ^^

Fusion: Spawns a "Offspring"
Spirit Absorbtion: 200 HP Drain Attack

By Kiting you can avoid use of "Fusion"

Offspring have the Special "Promyvion Barrier" Which is Defense Boost. No Bard Sleeps (From a properly equipped bard) Landed on the Offspring.

Rate ups for more info; Dem NM info included, Holla elemental property included, finally added Harith's name (he's the goofy npc for the Recollection quest).

Psychoanima Makes th NM Intimidated by it's target's presence for about 20 seconds. That's 20 seconds free time to do whatever you need to do. Breather for recasting Utsusemi, MP regain, whatever.

Defeated Promyvion - Holla

2 Party Alliance, only one PT won BC, other party tried twice and got NM to 15% HP or less both times before wiping.

Our Party was WAR/NIN WAR/NIN RNG/NIN RNG/NIN WHM/BLM BLM/WHM

NM got *spanked* only time we broke a sweat was the curse/sleep AoE that he spammed 3 times before anyone could use Poison Potions. You might also consider using Au Lait's or Selbina Milk for a regen effect instead of Poison Potions.

WAR/NIN's traded agro with voke very well until my fellow Ranger and I decided to let loose with Barrage's, I alteranted between Zamburak+1 and Acid Bolts and a Pirate's Gun and Bullets. Other RNG had Battle Bow+1 and Iron Arrows. I don't reccomend guns for Promy, too slow and the damage isn't all that much better at that level than the good bows can put out. Crossbows worked great with the various status bolts and Holy Bolts. The gun grabbed me agro a few times at the end of the BCMN fight before both the other RNG and I used Eagle Eye Shot to finish it off.

The Climb up took us about 3 hours, all I can really say about it is take it slow, and be cool. have somebody scout ahead a little make sure NOBODY RUNS AHEAD and you'll be fine. Keep your parties together and communicate. Try to stick with one designated puller and one tank if you need to on the higher levels.

I don't reccomend bringing bards for Promy, they're great on the way up, but not so hot in the BCNM. A lot of people with blink / Utsu will hugely affect the damage your WHM has to heal. Bring some of your own healing items and it'll be rosy. If you can break out a Lv 2 Skillchain or two on the NM it'll help your BLM a lot.

bump

Rate ups for Kirana (so much karma to you) and Ganthrinor; good work on bringing in more info. We've got Promyvion basically tied up. I submitted this info to GameFAQs (with appropriate credit to y'all) and will update it there also - the idea is to get as many people through Promyvion successfully as possible.

I want this quest to be as routine and as simple as the Khazam Key quest. ^^

Hysteroanima has a subtle effect, that needs all filters off to notice. The opposite of Psychoanima, it will stop all special attacks.

I had all filters off, and looking closely I saw that the boss would ready abilities, but would never perform them. This means that Hystero + Psychoanima completely nullifies the mob's attacks for 20-30 seconds.

Better cancel the vet visit, cause this beasie's already been neutered.

my linkshell attempted Promyvion - Holla for the 2nd time last night and this time my party won! we had a 2 party alliance to get through. we've found that more than that can be a headache with constant aggro.

Getting to the Spire
i can not stress this enough. do NOT leave anyone behind!

Clear paths for travel. the Empty don't last very long against a beating from an alliance. if you are making a dash to the next safe spot and get aggro keep running with it to the safe area you're shooting for. my alliance made the mistake of stopping to fight the first time we attempted promyvion-holla and we ended up with 7 dead after constant aggro.

Fighting the MRs is a lot less difficult than it's made out to be. have blm, rng/nin, thf/nin and/or nin/x pummel the MR at such a range where they are JUST able to hit it. This way the MR can not blast you with empty seed. the times it does hit: make sure utsusemi is up and you will have no problems. while they pummel the MR have your warriors, drks, sams, etc. slaying the strays. when the MR is about 10% left in life have your blm rest to get MP for sleeps.

blm, rdm, brd should be the last ones through the teleport. they can sleep every stray in range and this leads to much less frustration having to go back.

MRs do not have any particular elemental property.

When you get to the final floor do not think it's a good idea to just make a break for the spire. our alliance made the mistake of doing that last night and we ended up with 6 people making it. we went back and had a tractor > raise party. these are the kinds of things that make it fun in my opinion :)

The Promyvion-Holla BCNM
our party setup was this

SMN/WHM (me)
WHM/SMN
BLM/WHM
NIN/WAR
RNG/NIN
DRK/WAR


Items i brought:
2 x Yagudo Drink
2 x Holy Water
1 x Hi Ether
1 x Scroll of Instant Reraise
All 3 of the Rare/EX Anima

i suggest everyone bring holy water, reraise scroll, poison potion (i didn't bring them because of my need to rest MP during astral flow), and AT LEAST one anima. The Holla BCNM is virtually impossible to clear without everyone having it.

we set an order for using our anima and then we buffed when we entered the BC and we had the nin tank cancel all buffs. i cast Aerial Armor for the drk and the mages. The NIN only had utsusemi and reraise up and he then provoked and kited for the duration of the fight. i popped a yagudo drink and hit Astral Flow with Leviathan (it was watersday and we found that the BCNM doesn't have any elemental property). I time astral flow well enough that i got 3 of the Mega Attacks in during Astral Flow and i'd say i took out about half of the BCNM's life.

When he gets down to about 10% he starts spamming AOE curse/blind/sleep so make sure your mages stay clear. Curaga is priceless here (so is benediction if it's up) when you're awake pop a poison potion and holy water to keep yourself going and this is when RNG can finish it off with a good barrage or Eagle Eye Shot.


since i didn't see it in the first post the effect of Terroanima is it makes the BCNM disengage from attacking for ~30 seconds and run around kiting itself, essentially. you can stop it with an Elemental Seal + Bind from the BLM and it still won't attack you even while bound and the anima is still active.

Grr!!! I am not done with this yet. Why is this post on page 12. I've won dem and mea. Tried holla today. 3 PTs went. 3 PTs got to boss. 3 PTs failed. This was bad. Not giving up thou.

2 of 3 so far.

I can confirm that once youve completed all 3, your warped directly to medows. Ive been told that to return there you would use the whirlpools off selbina and qufim.

It takes TWO parties to reach the top.
Maybe not even two if your uber enough.

Both times I won, the battle strategy was simple:

1. everyone buffs, group waits till all mp and hp is full.
2. tank runs through the circles center, volks mobs, drags it to the back.
3. rangers take up stations on each side of the bcnm, it trade aggro back and forth. (ninjas cant hold aggro for long, so my job was just to kite the thing back to centeR)
4. Mages stay on the ramp and try to stay out of aoe range.
5. pop animas when you start to get in trouble. Trouble often comes at 50% to 20% of the bosses hp.

Holla used aoe curse and silence, along with an aoe drain attack (this was prevented on our run by a few terror anima).

Mea uses a room sized aoe attack like the recepticals, plus a throat stab attack that brings its targets down to 10hp.

Dem (from what Ive seen: we didnt succeed the last time I faced it) will spawn several babies

All 3 hit slow and weak, and are relatively simple to take out if you have a decent group.