I really love doing Dynamis – Xarcabard for the Dynamis Lord fight. As a Monk, its one of the few times I get to just go crazy and try to kill as fast as possible. While my group does do Proto-Omega as a zerg fight, I usually sub warrior for survivability.
Wait, sub warrior to survive? So what do you sub for Dynamis Lord?
Dark Knight. Yes the zerg Red Mage’s favorite sub is also the zerg Monk’s favorite sub. It does, however, require the full attention of a white mage (or two) per monk to work. Souleater + Hundred Fists gets deadly FAST, especially if the boss gets a lucky tp move off. Asuran Fists, at full HP, and if all 8 hits connect (which is somewhat rare on Dynamis Lord — 7 of 8 hits is more common for me) takes me from about 1500 to 650 HP instantly. But, with a subbed souleater, half of that lost health is converted directly into damage (around 425). [Disclaimer: All numbers are rounded since my DL zerg gear is a combination of my Chi Blast and melee gear to avoid blinking and causing my white mage to lose target. You can do the numbers yourself, the math is <total HP> * (.9^8) for what your ending HP will be if all 8 hits connect. Gear listed at end of post].
As a result of Asuran costing me 67% of my total HP, I tend to prefer Dragon Kick on Dynamis Lord. This works well since I wear an Osode for the initial Chi Blast, then don’t take it off. A 300% tp Dragon Kick is a powerhouse, and doesn’t completely kill me (end with 81% of starting HP since its a 2-hit WS). I also sometimes have to save TP if my white mage is having a little trouble keeping my health up (as was the case at the beginning of the fight last night).
This screenshot shows one of my highest Dragon Kick’s on Dynamis Lord so far, as well as part of the chat lines to show how much curing a Monk needs.
Once that Cure V landed, I was at near full health, and 300% tp. 665 is not too bad, although about 150 of that damage was from my souleater.
Willowdream is almost always my only white mage for this. If I haven’t mentioned it before, she’s great, and I only died once (and even then it was to an Oblivion Smash) on the Dynamis Lord fight since I’ve started doing Xarcabard for the win.
Even though I didn’t get the kill shot on Dynamis Lord (although I sure tried), this is the second time ever that I’ve seen full drops.
At this rate, I might even get a shadow ring of my own!
I later had some fun with a skeleton (after the hourglass expired) and some souleater + asuran. 😀 I’m evil.
Well, since the theme of this post is monking and dynamis, please congratulate Miz on his shinny new Melee Crown, which completes his monk AFv2 set.
-pyra
My Monk Dynamis Lord fight gear is:
Weapons: Destroyers (duh)
Ranged: Bibiki Seashell (hush you, I’m lazy)
Head: Temple Crown +1
Neck: Chivalrous Chain
Ear1: Merman’s Earring
Ear2: Brutal Earring
Body: Kirin’s Osode
Hands: Temple Gloves
Ring1: Ulthalam’s Ring
Ring2: Raja’s Ring (I know, it doesn’t work in the Ring2 slot, only the Ring1 slot, hush you)
Back: Melee Cape
Waist: Brown Belt (if anyone wants to get me a black belt, I’ll happily accept it)
Legs: Byakko’s Haidate
Feet: Suzaku’s Sune-Ate
This setup gives me the bonus to boost from AFv1 hands, as well as +38 to MND. I also like the extra accuracy from Focus with AFv1+1 head on. I’m sure that this could be improved. I’ve tried a couple different setups. Most of the things that require me to switch gear cause trouble to my white mage (although she now has /target Pyra and /ma “Spell” Pyra macros). Since I have Soul Voiced songs on me, my accuracy isn’t going to get a whole lot better than it is already (souleater has +25 acc too, but I’m not sure if it stacks with focus, which is +30 acc since I use AFv1+1 head). Also, we always make sure to land Angon and Feint on Dynamis Lord, which helps a LOT.
Sadly, we only have one more run at the guy until June. No thief gloves at all this month :(. We had 3 white mage gloves fall this week, I’m hoping for a repeat with thief gloves next run (especially since I’m currently #3 in line for the blue gloves).
