Ambuscade Volume 1 Jan. 2019

That’s if you have a whim with all the divine caress gears, which they may not, ranged is same kill speed with less work on the whm, either way you get the same result so do what works best for you.

That’s if you have a whim with all the divine caress gears, which they may not, ranged is same kill speed with less work on the whm, either way you get the same result so do what works best for you.

Thanks for the response~ I have few remarks:


There was literally not a single mistake done in any video posted and yet they finished in 4:30+

Granted Leaden bypasses invincible, saying both adds die in 10-20s isn't correct.[prove it with a video and we can move on from this]

Using DNC, with a single Clim on Berserker, HP dropped to 35% instantly, doing 99k, then RF > another Rudra and it was Dead, luckily; by using RF there was no melee, rendering counter obsolete as well.
This also means that Berserker in VD got ±155k HP.

My initial breakdown was based off the videos posted, and the AVG speed in the runs I participated in, and for the fun of it:

Buffs Time from the moment of entering: [30:00-28:25] on AVG [in any Ambuscade], and it doesn't matter if you bring a BRD or not, it all depends on Rolls if you have a COR.[which you do]


High Vicar comes to corner around 28:15, and attacking either Berserker or Devout with activated bubble starts two seconds later.
If you start off with Devout, invincible can be activated in 10-15 seconds if your capped, you're definitely not capped, these are your buffs:


Now this:


Torment of Gu'Dha is spammed exclusively after the Elemantalist is dead and Sorrow of Gu'Dha activated only once.
By Tracing the videos, again; Torment of Gu'Dha approximately fires off every 15s or so, and that's using MNK in the party...

Theoretically and/or through videos, you would need between 2-3 Torment of Gu'Dha moves to down the High Vicar, granted everything was coordinated between DPS jobs in the case of 2 moves to incorporate skill chains.

As much as I'd want your clear time to be true, and based off videos from players whom I'd like to think are of high credibility, and by doing a simple breakdown to fight mechanics, it's really near impossible [or let me tone it down and say highly unlikely] to clear 1 minute less than what was provided.
Be that as it may, it would be great if a video provided by you showing this strategy.

Id like to think emp+1 gloves and a reive cape arent out of the ordinary, then again most whms dont even know what DC does

Is it known what element the mobs AoE is? I assumed earth because of petrify and all but noticed in ejin's vid he is using 3x tellus, thought valiance reduced damage to the element the rune was defending against (thunder in the case of tellus). Just curious

The AOE damage can be mitigated with Wilt/Barrier.

2 minutes and 45 seconds for those that think this can't be done under 4 minutes and 30 seconds.

Inb4 "Is this VE?" ;p

Inb4 "Is this VE?" ;p

Are you literally arguing about being optimal by literal seconds here... why.

So we have been doing the strat where you kill BLM, but in an effort to make runs better or different I suppose I had an idea and questions. I went geo/blm one run for fun to see if you could stun Torment. I got completely resist messages, though the random stun I did at the start of fight landed no problem. Is this just part of the mechanic when that is used, when the shield is down it completely resists, or being in that phase in general after BLM is killed completely resists? This made me further question if it would be possible to stun during a cure 6 with BLM alive with possibly a potent sudden lunge for extended WS windows? At this point it doesn’t matter I suppose, but just curious if anyone has tried.

So separating blm with megaboss is probably not required at all since whm can just use misery and cast esuna as soon as blm dies. That would save plenty of time running back and forth for blm.

If anyone is curious how we do it here is a under 3 minute video.

But claiming others testimonials are lying because a video using less optimal setup takes longer than 3 min is another story. Its discouraging people post informations.

I dunno. was clearing in 3 minutes and 30 seconds from entry going
RUN/GEO/WHM/COR/MNK/WAR -(Any DD's Would work. Can be very flexible)

Geo = Entrust haste - Indi malaise - Geo Frailty
GEO + WHM hasted the party at start
COR = SAM + CHAOS

and since you only have GEO, COR

As much as I'd want your clear time to be true, and based off videos from players whom I'd like to think are of high credibility, and by doing a simple breakdown to fight mechanics, it's really near impossible [or let me tone it down and say highly unlikely] to clear 1 minute less than what was provided.
Be that as it may, it would be great if a video provided by you showing this strategy.

Again, they claimed it was under 3.5 min in the MNK WAR COR setup, and I'm 100% sure that its false, proof

do not insult anyone's intelligence by posting this totally different setup then stick it to the original claim..

• Buffs Take (1-1.5) Minutes based on how lucky you are with rolls, and since you only have GEO, COR you will also want 2-3 extra "Entrusts" from Random Deal and/or Wild Card, then Random Deal again "If Lucky".

• High Vicar is a WHM, its casting spells when you aggro it, so its slow, and it will take 30s to reach corner with adds.

• Invincible is 30 s, best time would be if everything was absolutely perfect, and you magically managed to avoid counter from them on your WAR, MNK.. 1 minute for both adds.
  

• Forcing Bene would take another 30s, and only if you planned on multi step.

• Elemantalist walking all the way to corner by itself takes more than 30s.[but lets give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you killed it on spot before it even moves with a single sc].

• If you're waiting on the Elemenatlist to come to corner, you need to switch hate back to Tank, or let your DD "with hate" take one for the team after tanking both, thats 30s.

• Making sure your WHM isn't in range, and run to give DC+Stona+Curaga [Provided each player uses holy water right after stona] takes around 30s.

*High Vicar will use the Torment of Gu'Dha 15s after Sorrow of Gu'Dha*

• High Vicar will take another (1-1.5 min) to clear, only if you save your TP and WS during the "very first second" of Torment of Gu'Dha and hope your WS's link somehow....

In near impossible conditions, and assuming no lag issues what so ever, the fastest clear time on VD is: 1.0+0.5+1.0+0.5+0.5+1.5= 4.5 minutes.

Even if you're TPing in full Acc Set or replaced Chaos with Hunter, or you're using Bolster every fight, or brought a BRD, its almost impossible to clear in your "Claimed" time.