Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

[NeoSuplex]

I had to do this in my last Party and it sucks.

As far as I can tell, they ARE going to hit you, no matter what you do. You can't bind them, lest you ruin the chain. You can't Gravity them because Wind is their element. And to top it off, even when you get to camp, you need absolute perfect timing (at least with only one fast cast bonus) to get them to sleep since they attack so damn fast. I eventually eneded up pulling with slow. Aside from subbing Ninja, you pretty much have to take your licks.


Is there anything I'm missing? Something I haven't tried?

[Icemage]

Re: Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

Huh?

Sleep II, then Dia II them when you're ready for them. They're dead simple to pull. At any rate you should always be keeping up Blink and Stoneskin against Puks (and honestly, they do NOT attack that fast... if you can't get Sleep off against one you're doing something wrong).


Icemage

[NeoSuplex]

Re: Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

Unfortunately, The Thickets are just too full to always have a Puk close at hand. Naturaly if they are close enough, I just sleep it, but I often have to make long pulls. As for sleeping, I can, but you still need perfect timing to cast in between their attack rate. The intermediate duration is just long enough to accomadate. Now maybe your server hasn't migrated to that area at large yet, but mine has. That means Lag and longer pulls.

Again, is there anything I'm missing to avoid taking so many hits? (I know I didn't explictly say I was using Blink and SS, but I figured it was a given...)

[Apple Pie]

Re: Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

Puks seem to have shorter attack intervals (= less than 240 frames) but each attack doesn't seem to be as hard as demon's in Uleguerand Range for example.

1. Eat defence+ foods like Tavnazian Tacos
2. Create two macros --- One is for Stoneskin with MND+ gears and the other for pulling with a set of physical damage reduction gears like Earth Staff.

Your Stoneskin should last enough even without Phalanx until you make them sleep.

[Jei]

Re: Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

apple pie o.O always nice to see your posts.

what level PTs are these puks for? I haven't had a chance to exp on them yet. Sounds like fun.

[Apple Pie]

Re: Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

I believe NeoSuplex as well as his PT members are already at LV75 since Bhaflau Thickets is the most popular place for merit PTs now.

Sea Puks are Tough cons (LV77-78) but due to EXP bonus (+15% max) from Sanction, they are still good to get some decent XPs.

What is more, there are tons of them around and their respawn time is only 5 minutes. Unless the place is occupied with more than 4 PTs, we are able to get countless chains.

[Dragonsword]

Re: Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

Countless chains, sounds like a fun place to merit ^^)b

[Icemage]

Re: Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

I went with a party there at level 67, but our group was seriously pimped out. Wasn't really possible to get better than Chain 6 there most of the time, but between the XP bonus from Sanction and the level difference we were looking at 200+ XP from nearly every kill.


Icemage

[Patchinko]

Re: Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

I'm going to show my age and risk looking like the newbie that I am after being gone for over a year... what is Sanction? Thanks.

[Jei]

Re: Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

sanction is the Aht Urghan version of signet. Only works in the ToA zones and will give you imperial standing points instead of conquest points.

[swingfly]

Re: Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

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1. Eat defence+ foods like Tavnazian Tacos
2. Create two macros --- One is for Stoneskin with MND+ gears and the other for pulling with a set of physical damage reduction gears like Earth Staff.

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This is good advice, both are good for pulling and the second one is good all-around. I've been doing this (sort of) for a long, long time now. I have a macro for switching back into default gear which includes a Terra's Staff. Your Duelist's Chapeaus, Dalmaticas, Crimson Cuisses, Vermillion Cloaks and such also goes here

[Bothari]

Re: Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

Hmm.. just thot i'd get my 2 cents in sideways.. at 75 (256 Enhancing magic) with Warlock tights (+15 enhancing) you need a total of 90 mind to cap SS at 350 HP (and 100 mnd if you have an Stone Gorget). That and an earth staff + jelly ring would mean that stoneskin alone would take about 440 dmg (that's atleast 4 hits w/o defence food.. and you wont get interrupted.).
I doubt u'll have time to cast SS and blink.. (if its a real fast pt) but swap equip and get SS up and you should take no dmg.. infact you may have to cancel/overwrite SS each time. If you really have more time.. get a phalanx up and that will add a damage mitigation of 25 to each hit.. so take 4 hits that's another 100 dmg.
You can basically take 540 dmg w/o losing HP or being interrupted.. and without having to wait hours for both blink and SS to be cast. That really should be enough to pull and sleep. I havent been to the new areas so I may be missing something but I pull on sky pts.

Cheers.

Ps: with 65 mnd and w/o warlock tights, SS HP = 260. Even adding the 25% from Jelly Ring and Earth Staff it comes to a total of 325. Which isnt even max SS.

[NeoSuplex]

Re: Sound off if you hate Pulling Puks

Actually, I was only level 73 at the time. Now that I've hit 75 it is muuuch easier to keep my MP going. Not sure what exactly changed, but where before I would be exhausted with 2 minutes to go, now my stoneskins hold for 2-3 Mobs and Convert is up long before I need it. *Shrug*

Thanks for the advice and the lended ears.