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<\/p>\nI 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.<\/p>\n
Wait, sub warrior to survive? So what do you sub for Dynamis Lord?<\/p>\n
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].<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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At this rate, I might even get a shadow ring of my own!<\/p>\n
I later had some fun with a skeleton (after the hourglass expired) and some souleater + asuran. \ud83d\ude00 I’m evil.<\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
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-pyra<\/p>\n
My Monk Dynamis Lord fight gear is:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading