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Since I couldn't locate StarvingArtist's thread on how she beat Maat, I had to do this the hard way.
Win total: Maat: 2, Me: 1
First fight, I learnt that it's nearly impossible to defeat Maat physically. His stoneskin soaks up 400 damage and you'll get 0 tp for 8 hits or so. You also won't be able to do a thing vs his Protect IV (32 damage a hit with Arcana breaker, too ghetto to buy a Darksteel). Hexa X2 and he uses benediction, then he recasts stoneskin and you're screwed.
Second fight: Lesson learnt - hi-ether is SLOW. Don't touch this one even with a ten foot pole unless you like seeing yourself touch your bum for eight seconds while an old man kicks the crap out of you.
Third time: Target = heal over 4500+ damage.
According to hearsay, hi-potion healing counts, so maybe you can just bring 45 hi potions in and glug them all. but I didn't want to risk wasting money in case this was false.
Hume White Mage level 70, hp 913 mp 608 without support job.
Equipment:
Eremite's rod (yes it's the level 28 lollypop), Druid rope, AF boots = 55% casting interruption down.
AF armor, Sandorian mantle (bought when Windurst was rank 1)
Full AF except weapon (don't bother with the holy breastplate, the MP is better). Star necklace (1 def, +3 chr, 15 hp to mp)
JSE ring + earring (important!), Demon ring, no other earring (inventory space)
DEF 257 without protect.
Items:
10 Hi-potion, 12 Mulsum, 1 Vile Elixir, 11 Echo drops, Yagudo drink x3. Food = Steamed Crab.
Tactics: Protect+Shell+Aquaveil(don't forget this)+Blink+Reraise scroll. Rest to full mp. Ran right next to the geezer, cast Regen 3, glug Yagudo Drink and attacked. Maat did Dia II and Slow, which got absorbed by Blink (hence why I bothered casting blink - Dia 2 is something I wanted to avoid as long as possible), followed with silence (Echo drops). During this time, he hit me for about 100 damage per hit, and 200 on criticals. He cast Paralyze which was scary, but luckily I got off Paralyna without a single interruption.
When HP hit yellow, I used Cure III as he was about to hit me. JSE ring made me heal about 214 damage. The instant he said something and did a WS, I bust out Cure IV (427 hp). When MP hit about 350, I changed tactics to "Cure III, use mulsum, repeat".
When MP hit 50, quickly drank the Vile Elixir (bye bye 15k gil). Then Maat hit me for a critical (217 damage with Dia II on which he recast) and used Dragon kick (about 440 more) so I had to bust Benediction (657 hp). Maat's stoneskin wore off and I got 100 tp, so I had to use Starlight to get rid of it (Latent effects don't work if you have more than 100 tp and I NEEDED the JSE ring and earring effect). After that, MP hit 33 and I used hi-potions + mulsum while waiting for yagudo drink to restore mp, but then the geezer conceded.
Total healed = 4237 hp, + Vile Elixir + 3 hi potions. (Divine Seal not used) + auto regen + about 400 Regen III.
Leftovers = 7 hi potions, 6 mulsum, 1 yagudo drink, 10 echo drops.
Conclusion: This fight is a huge waste of money. It is also ridiculously unfair because he has about double the HP you do, does three times your damage and you need at least 1080 mp to heal 4500 hp with cure spells (1080 mp which whm does NOT have). If you think it's fair, just try doing it without any $$$$ medicine.
Just cross your fingers and pray he doesn't use Asuran Fists (8 hits, lots of TP and damage, another WS coming your way soon) and uses something stupid like Combo. If you use Astral rings at the start of the battle, be sure to switch out to something like demon/phalanx rings after you use the 25 mp. Don't be afraid of Maat's white magic - he does Banish 3, Banishga 3 and Holy, but none of these should do more than 200 damage (you have high magic resist). It may have been a good idea to use a physical earring in the battle for more hp.
Also, StarvingArtist mentioned how she was soloing Gob Alchemists in Terrigan for testimonies (Decent Challenge at level 70) and I can't really recommend it. Perhaps she was using better equipment, but I had trouble with goblin stoneskin not giving you TP and eventually the only way I could kill them quickly was to cast Stoneskin+Barfira and wait for them to blow themselves up. (Hexa does only 1/7 of their life in damage with arcana... maybe you need a darksteel maul ). Drop rate is very high though.
Edit: Oh, in case you're wondering what all those items do or how to get them -
Hi potion - restores 100 hp, water crystal, distilled water, molbol tentacle, sageX2 (medium level Alchemy) or buy at AH.
Vile Elixir - dropped by HNM, Rare item (only can have one). Alchemy recipe too high level to be useful (requires hard to get ingredients). Instant restoration of 25% hp and mp, costs an arm and a leg, but not as much as +1 (which restores 50% of both). Just buy it from the AH.
Mulsum: Japanese name Aqua Mulsum - restores 10 mp per use, but it STACKS (and doesn't take 8 seconds to use). Get 5 from a quest in Windurst. Cooking skill 55, Ice crystal + Distilled water + Honey, + Grape Juice. Grape juice is 4 sandorian grapes and one dark crystal (go Xarcabard hunting)
Yagudo drink - dark crystal, distilled water, yagudo cherry, buburimu grape or something. Restures 2mp/3sec for 3 mins.
Steamed Crab - Vit up 4, defense up 24.5% or something. Cheaper than Fish Chiefkabob. HQ Boiled Crab.
Win total: Maat: 2, Me: 1
First fight, I learnt that it's nearly impossible to defeat Maat physically. His stoneskin soaks up 400 damage and you'll get 0 tp for 8 hits or so. You also won't be able to do a thing vs his Protect IV (32 damage a hit with Arcana breaker, too ghetto to buy a Darksteel). Hexa X2 and he uses benediction, then he recasts stoneskin and you're screwed.
Second fight: Lesson learnt - hi-ether is SLOW. Don't touch this one even with a ten foot pole unless you like seeing yourself touch your bum for eight seconds while an old man kicks the crap out of you.
Third time: Target = heal over 4500+ damage.
According to hearsay, hi-potion healing counts, so maybe you can just bring 45 hi potions in and glug them all. but I didn't want to risk wasting money in case this was false.
Hume White Mage level 70, hp 913 mp 608 without support job.
Equipment:
Eremite's rod (yes it's the level 28 lollypop), Druid rope, AF boots = 55% casting interruption down.
AF armor, Sandorian mantle (bought when Windurst was rank 1)
Full AF except weapon (don't bother with the holy breastplate, the MP is better). Star necklace (1 def, +3 chr, 15 hp to mp)
JSE ring + earring (important!), Demon ring, no other earring (inventory space)
DEF 257 without protect.
Items:
10 Hi-potion, 12 Mulsum, 1 Vile Elixir, 11 Echo drops, Yagudo drink x3. Food = Steamed Crab.
Tactics: Protect+Shell+Aquaveil(don't forget this)+Blink+Reraise scroll. Rest to full mp. Ran right next to the geezer, cast Regen 3, glug Yagudo Drink and attacked. Maat did Dia II and Slow, which got absorbed by Blink (hence why I bothered casting blink - Dia 2 is something I wanted to avoid as long as possible), followed with silence (Echo drops). During this time, he hit me for about 100 damage per hit, and 200 on criticals. He cast Paralyze which was scary, but luckily I got off Paralyna without a single interruption.
When HP hit yellow, I used Cure III as he was about to hit me. JSE ring made me heal about 214 damage. The instant he said something and did a WS, I bust out Cure IV (427 hp). When MP hit about 350, I changed tactics to "Cure III, use mulsum, repeat".
When MP hit 50, quickly drank the Vile Elixir (bye bye 15k gil). Then Maat hit me for a critical (217 damage with Dia II on which he recast) and used Dragon kick (about 440 more) so I had to bust Benediction (657 hp). Maat's stoneskin wore off and I got 100 tp, so I had to use Starlight to get rid of it (Latent effects don't work if you have more than 100 tp and I NEEDED the JSE ring and earring effect). After that, MP hit 33 and I used hi-potions + mulsum while waiting for yagudo drink to restore mp, but then the geezer conceded.
Total healed = 4237 hp, + Vile Elixir + 3 hi potions. (Divine Seal not used) + auto regen + about 400 Regen III.
Leftovers = 7 hi potions, 6 mulsum, 1 yagudo drink, 10 echo drops.
Conclusion: This fight is a huge waste of money. It is also ridiculously unfair because he has about double the HP you do, does three times your damage and you need at least 1080 mp to heal 4500 hp with cure spells (1080 mp which whm does NOT have). If you think it's fair, just try doing it without any $$$$ medicine.
Just cross your fingers and pray he doesn't use Asuran Fists (8 hits, lots of TP and damage, another WS coming your way soon) and uses something stupid like Combo. If you use Astral rings at the start of the battle, be sure to switch out to something like demon/phalanx rings after you use the 25 mp. Don't be afraid of Maat's white magic - he does Banish 3, Banishga 3 and Holy, but none of these should do more than 200 damage (you have high magic resist). It may have been a good idea to use a physical earring in the battle for more hp.
Also, StarvingArtist mentioned how she was soloing Gob Alchemists in Terrigan for testimonies (Decent Challenge at level 70) and I can't really recommend it. Perhaps she was using better equipment, but I had trouble with goblin stoneskin not giving you TP and eventually the only way I could kill them quickly was to cast Stoneskin+Barfira and wait for them to blow themselves up. (Hexa does only 1/7 of their life in damage with arcana... maybe you need a darksteel maul ). Drop rate is very high though.
Edit: Oh, in case you're wondering what all those items do or how to get them -
Hi potion - restores 100 hp, water crystal, distilled water, molbol tentacle, sageX2 (medium level Alchemy) or buy at AH.
Vile Elixir - dropped by HNM, Rare item (only can have one). Alchemy recipe too high level to be useful (requires hard to get ingredients). Instant restoration of 25% hp and mp, costs an arm and a leg, but not as much as +1 (which restores 50% of both). Just buy it from the AH.
Mulsum: Japanese name Aqua Mulsum - restores 10 mp per use, but it STACKS (and doesn't take 8 seconds to use). Get 5 from a quest in Windurst. Cooking skill 55, Ice crystal + Distilled water + Honey, + Grape Juice. Grape juice is 4 sandorian grapes and one dark crystal (go Xarcabard hunting)
Yagudo drink - dark crystal, distilled water, yagudo cherry, buburimu grape or something. Restures 2mp/3sec for 3 mins.
Steamed Crab - Vit up 4, defense up 24.5% or something. Cheaper than Fish Chiefkabob. HQ Boiled Crab.
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