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well, since I am just starting back up and I am poorer than galkan prostitute, I don't really have the time or even resources to participate in the Promyvion quests but I am entertained listening to my LS members attempt it and get whiped out. It got me thinking, how many people have actually completed all of them? If you haven't yet do you ever intend to? I know some people are waiting till some good strategies come out to make it easier. Me personally, I want to do them soon, I love a good challenge, but unfortunately it is going to take me some time to re-equip myself and get back into things. I just hope by the time I can do these that people are still doing them. If they are as bad as people say I don't think I would be able to get people to come unless they have to do it also :/
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Yeah, I'm 0 and 3 on Promyvion Missions now. I just tried Promyvion - Holla with this group out of Jeuno. And might I make a few suggestions.
1) There is strategy involved in the Memory Receptacle fights. Keep the melee's and mages back as not to get hit by the AoE.
2) Know where you're going. Wandering around aimlessly will only murder the entire party. (This is where we got killed this morning)
3) Apparently there is some good strategy to killing the NM in this Spire, it involves kiting it around the arena, preventing an AoE and TP attack. (I have not experienced the NM fight due to death)
4) When you go into Promyvion, be sure to have a party that will stick with you until the end. There's nothing more aggravating than getting to the Spire and someone leaving because they are tired, lonely, sick, scared, stoned etc....
In my situation, a party member dropped out and warped as we entered the Spire. Things like this can really eat at you, especially when you have spent the last 5 hours getting there. And before that, the 'leader' of the alliance wanted to take the 'short way' through the top level of Promyvion - Holla; it turned out they didn't know where they were going, and when we caught aggro (on the top floor, aggro is no joke) she was shouting "ZONE, ZONE!" but, where's the zone? You don't know where it is? Well she didn't and 8/12 of us died, 2 zoned to the lower level. It was a bloody mess. So, just be sure you know where you're going, and aren't afraid to take "The Long Way."
::Cheers::
1) There is strategy involved in the Memory Receptacle fights. Keep the melee's and mages back as not to get hit by the AoE.
2) Know where you're going. Wandering around aimlessly will only murder the entire party. (This is where we got killed this morning)
3) Apparently there is some good strategy to killing the NM in this Spire, it involves kiting it around the arena, preventing an AoE and TP attack. (I have not experienced the NM fight due to death)
4) When you go into Promyvion, be sure to have a party that will stick with you until the end. There's nothing more aggravating than getting to the Spire and someone leaving because they are tired, lonely, sick, scared, stoned etc....
In my situation, a party member dropped out and warped as we entered the Spire. Things like this can really eat at you, especially when you have spent the last 5 hours getting there. And before that, the 'leader' of the alliance wanted to take the 'short way' through the top level of Promyvion - Holla; it turned out they didn't know where they were going, and when we caught aggro (on the top floor, aggro is no joke) she was shouting "ZONE, ZONE!" but, where's the zone? You don't know where it is? Well she didn't and 8/12 of us died, 2 zoned to the lower level. It was a bloody mess. So, just be sure you know where you're going, and aren't afraid to take "The Long Way."
::Cheers::
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I've finished all 3, waiting for more NA people to get out there with me so I can start up the next section - Phomiuna Aqueducts...
The strategies for the boss fights kinda vary with what you can get. Promyvion - Dem is the most lenient on what kind of group you have, but the main thing throughout all of them is that you have to give yourself a minimum for damage dealer potential.
Rangers and Summoners are the best classes to have with you, but you don't always 'need' them in 'your' party depending on the Promyvion you're doing (see above). Try to get at least one blink tank (preferrably Warrior for the better two-hour ability) but always get 2 tanks, since these bosses hit hard, and you don't want your healers to run out of mana too quickly.
Some people will kite the boss, but in every fight I've won, we just straight out tanked it. Don't discount having a BST come along if you have someone who wants to come since Courrier Carrie can actually do some more damage than a War/Nin, and then you have another backup healer and melee in one. I actually beat the Holla boss with a BST in the party.
The biggest things to worry about are making sure everyone brings some appropriate items for the BCNM you are doing (I won't go into it, as I'm linking other people's posts, haven't decided if I want to be redundant and make another 'how-to' of promyvion) and finding people who all have 2-4 hours of time they can stay logged on. If you're in a good group, you can get through a promyvion in 1 hour after getting the alliance formed. A bad group will take 4 hours after it's formed, and that's if you can get passed the third floor without someone getting killed.
One last thing before I finish: try to grab a small prep-group together and farm up recollections (not the remnants of memory). You make Animas from a quest with these that can help you finish off the bosses (just don't use them too early in the fight or you'll make it worse for yourself).
There are a few strategies floating around the Mission and General boards:
Promyvion BCNM battle strategy
Promyvion-Mea Boss Strategy
Seems like a nice general strategy, but no real boss info other than the anima effects strewn throughout the thread:
How to beat promyvion.
This is the thread I got all my info from when I was doing the Promyvions:
Promyvion - The Emptiness - Get your game on
Just to give you some ideas, I'll list the group types I've won with:
DEM - WHM/BLM (me), WHM/BLM, BLM/WHM, BLM/WHM, WAR/NIN, WAR/NIN
HOLLA - SMN/WHM (me), SMN/WHM, BST/WHM, RNG/NIN, WAR/NIN, WAR/NIN
MEA - SMN/WHM (me), WHM/BLM, PLD/WAR, WAR/NIN, RNG/NIN, RNG/NIN
Hope that helps some, now will someone get out here and help me out?! *cries*
The strategies for the boss fights kinda vary with what you can get. Promyvion - Dem is the most lenient on what kind of group you have, but the main thing throughout all of them is that you have to give yourself a minimum for damage dealer potential.
Rangers and Summoners are the best classes to have with you, but you don't always 'need' them in 'your' party depending on the Promyvion you're doing (see above). Try to get at least one blink tank (preferrably Warrior for the better two-hour ability) but always get 2 tanks, since these bosses hit hard, and you don't want your healers to run out of mana too quickly.
Some people will kite the boss, but in every fight I've won, we just straight out tanked it. Don't discount having a BST come along if you have someone who wants to come since Courrier Carrie can actually do some more damage than a War/Nin, and then you have another backup healer and melee in one. I actually beat the Holla boss with a BST in the party.
The biggest things to worry about are making sure everyone brings some appropriate items for the BCNM you are doing (I won't go into it, as I'm linking other people's posts, haven't decided if I want to be redundant and make another 'how-to' of promyvion) and finding people who all have 2-4 hours of time they can stay logged on. If you're in a good group, you can get through a promyvion in 1 hour after getting the alliance formed. A bad group will take 4 hours after it's formed, and that's if you can get passed the third floor without someone getting killed.
One last thing before I finish: try to grab a small prep-group together and farm up recollections (not the remnants of memory). You make Animas from a quest with these that can help you finish off the bosses (just don't use them too early in the fight or you'll make it worse for yourself).
There are a few strategies floating around the Mission and General boards:
Promyvion BCNM battle strategy
Promyvion-Mea Boss Strategy
Seems like a nice general strategy, but no real boss info other than the anima effects strewn throughout the thread:
How to beat promyvion.
This is the thread I got all my info from when I was doing the Promyvions:
Promyvion - The Emptiness - Get your game on
Just to give you some ideas, I'll list the group types I've won with:
DEM - WHM/BLM (me), WHM/BLM, BLM/WHM, BLM/WHM, WAR/NIN, WAR/NIN
HOLLA - SMN/WHM (me), SMN/WHM, BST/WHM, RNG/NIN, WAR/NIN, WAR/NIN
MEA - SMN/WHM (me), WHM/BLM, PLD/WAR, WAR/NIN, RNG/NIN, RNG/NIN
Hope that helps some, now will someone get out here and help me out?! *cries*
So far my linkshell has only completed Dem. We made a big event out of it, and after learning from our mistakes the first disastorous time we breezed through the second time. We're hoping to be able to complete both Holla and Mea by the end of the week.
Of course, I think Dem is suppossed to be the easiest, so who knows how well we'll really fare on the next two?
Of course, I think Dem is suppossed to be the easiest, so who knows how well we'll really fare on the next two?
Still no CoP :(
Scholar
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My Linkshell has done all 3. We had 3 full parties, 4 on one of them. My party failed the boss fight on Holla twice, it wasn't even funny how close it was both times. >_<
For Dem a straight up fight, not too much trouble out of him.
For Mea, we kited him - His AoE attacks are NASTY, but if he can't use them he's pushover.
Holla is a pain, I suggest taking poison potions, holy waters and Dummy food. He uses AoE Curse/Sleep ( not fun ) and Trinary Absorbtion - Absorbs 3 buffs, if there aren't 3 buffs to steal it drains up to 200 HP. We ran out of holy waters the 2nd fight and being cursed kills the ablity to kite it. He was at a sliver of life and soon drained enough people to be back at 1/4.
For Dem a straight up fight, not too much trouble out of him.
For Mea, we kited him - His AoE attacks are NASTY, but if he can't use them he's pushover.
Holla is a pain, I suggest taking poison potions, holy waters and Dummy food. He uses AoE Curse/Sleep ( not fun ) and Trinary Absorbtion - Absorbs 3 buffs, if there aren't 3 buffs to steal it drains up to 200 HP. We ran out of holy waters the 2nd fight and being cursed kills the ablity to kite it. He was at a sliver of life and soon drained enough people to be back at 1/4.
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