The Automatons Rise!

Haven't soloed something on pup in forever, I wanna try giving a shot at Cara one of these days!

I realize TH2 is nice and all, but I'm doing just fine on helmets with no th at all.

I don't disagree with that but gosh that sounds boring :| I have monk for when I only want to punch things.

Placebo effect is placebo.

Somebody's witty lol

I don't see PUP as all that hard to play I guess, know what maneuvers you need for the job, pick the attachments beast suited for what your doing, gear appropriately like any good job should, then go punch things. I love the fact too I can DD like my MNK with a free pocket WHM when I want. Low level was a breeze also, PUP slaughters most anything that isn't big end game stuff. I like the complexity of it all, rather than just run up to mob, apply GAX/GSWD/GKT/SCYTH and hope the mob ignores you long enough so you can DD before it eats your face. Also hope that your WHM is paying attention.

I agree. We're certainly better off than some jobs like ninja and red mage.

solo'd cara and briareus a few times and I do briarius /thf cara /nin
so far I'm 6/6 on 2x helms 7/7 1x gems
I'll always take TH when farming empy items now

Taru sash.

pup is very nice for solo things..

I just went round zones the other day seeing what I could get KI's for (and maybe sell the pops) and things were relatively easy.
pup/war and farming things such as amhuluk pops, Ironclad for RR, Zone bosses etc. The only thing that can get scary is if you have for some weird reason been slept and auto is silenced.

But people often wondered "why are you coming lolpup". They soon dont laugh when ive capped their azure and still standing. ;)

People in my LS thought I was making it up when Tocadie nuked me about a month ago. I had one activate of my automaton out for 16 hours soloing in Abyssea-Konschtat and she nuked me 3 times over the whole period I was there.

Oddly enough, it only happened that one day.

How do you manage to solo Cara Vanian, or rather whats your tatic overall? I am doing her empy trial now and I have been looking for some new challenges.

I swop rancorous to a boxers mantle, and use soulsoother frame.
Just make sure automaton is out of silencga range, and go to work, keep shadows up for single target nukes, and make sure you have a light maneuver up at all times.
Most people say scanner is useless but I find if I have that equipped it wont spam silence and waste mp.
Atmas used are RR GH and MM for puppet refresh.
I'd sugest tagging with TH with taru sash if you have one, or get someone to come and tag if possible, could probably ask someone whos in zone to tag for you

*edit* I've only had 1 wipe so far and that was when I got knocked out of cure range and didn't notice, other than that its been pretty straight forward. I normally pull down to the cliff near flux 4 and have pup on top of cliff so I dont get knocked back too far

I'd swap Boxer's for Pantin since her accuracy is *** anyway. Also, a decent MDT set negates pretty much any of the risk of her killing you.

Hmm just trying to figure out with atmas/my gear what I can work with. Don't have a MDT set yet... Not worried about her accuracy, MM is a good idea so I never have to desummon the auto. Do you find it safer
to go MM over say Apoc for atma? Or maybe even a wind resist atma?

Personally, I wouldn't even bother with MM because curing will be very minimal and you can just rely on MP recovery attachments. So yes, I would go Apoc as a precaution and, more importantly, to kill her faster. Wind resist atma is meh. If you get hit by an Aero V with shadows down, you're dead with or without it whereas an MDT set will keep you standing with around 1/3-1/2 of your health left.

Make that MDT set! It's incredibly useful for any job.

I use this currently:

Yeah; it's a question of what you're gaining by giving it up. I could understand not going /THF if, like, /NIN was the difference between living and a not-insubstantial risk of dying, but /WAR is um well okay

I agree a PDT is a must have for anything magic wise you need to solo. Luckily I have most of something along those lines, and most is easy to get

Unfortunatly pup can't wear engulfer's

and pantin is a better option than boxers, I just have boxers in my eva spellcast and it's easier to just wear my evasion set than change my spellcast (I'm lazy and always end up *** something up in spellcast)

With MM atma my pup normally have 90-100% mp, I just feel its safer having a refresh on it just in case

Whoops! I carry it around for everything else. The proc is definitely not something to rely on, but it's nice when it goes off.

yeah I have one too, never seen it proc yet, but I haven't had that much use of of it so far, definetely a nice piece to have for the jobs that can wear it

It saved me exactly once in a Dragua fight.

Rather than Cara I'm more interested in the above mentioned Amhuluk, that mob is annoying spamming aoes and knockback and other nasties.

Isn't Amhuluk the one that drops Orthrus KI?
If so just go pup/war for more chance at red proc with soulsoother.
Shouldn't be anything that causes problems

That's Amarok, Amhuluk is the amphiptere in Misareaux :x

I procced Shadow of Death today on PUP/WAR using my Ark Scythe, and Raiden Thrust with my Pitchfork +1.

But Staff was at 144, which is 6 skill points short of getting Sunburst. The headband is only +5 skill. That's one of three items that enhance staff skill... and while looking all that up I just realized that holy crap I can merit that last point! (one merit = 2 skill)

I'm seriously considering getting another Ark weapon if I win rank 4 in Mog Bonanza. Time to look into some other options first, like Trainee Sword. (EDIT: Ibushi Shinai is sword skill)

So it's 9/13 with +6 staff skill, except that there's apparently no GS that PUP can use, so it's 8/13 for now.