A quick heads up about Maat

[Dux]

I tried to kill Maat last night and had a most unpleasent experience.

I was under the illusion that you can't loose EXP from the Maat fight but my experience last night taught me otherwise. WHMs take care when doing the Maat fight, if you are unlucky you could loose up to 4,000 EXP. Make sure you have a WHM buddy on-line just in case you need them.

This is what happened.

I got on-line and though, right, level 70, time to kick Maats butt. Got my EQ on, got my items, and headed to Ru'Lude Gardens. Traded my WHM testomony and was warped to Balga's Dia. Trade the Testimony to the Burning Circle and get inside.
So far everything is going great. I buff up, rest eat foods / other things and charge to Maat. Cast Paralyze on him, he casts Banishga III and magically BANG! My R drops to 0 and I disconnect!

As you can imagine I wasn't particualry amused by this little accident and after re-connecting I am lying down face down in the dirt just outside the Burning Circle in Balgas Dia. All my Buffs had been erased (I.E. Reraise won't help you as its wiped when you leave the BC) and I was facing a very unhappy 4,000 EXP loss. Luckily a friend of mine was on who recently got Raise III and he raised me.

So be warned, you can definatly loose LOTS of EXP from this fight through no fault of your own. Of course you have the added insult of having to kill more monsters for a Testimony because of something totally out of your control.

[Arturo-B]

Xp loss is capped at 2400 past about level 63 or 64.

I've had friends who did the pld maat, and died many times, and didn't lose xp, so I'm not sure if you got a bug because of your dc or something has changed over the last few months.

[Feenicks]

Ooer, that stinks. It always sucks when your connection dies in key events like that. Mine happened to die when I was doing the Zilart Mission in Sacrificial Chamber ... just barely scraped out of that one.

While we're on the subject of Maat though, can I tell my story? I just beat him as a Taru WHM66 and I'm still on a bit of a rush from it, hehe.

Equipment was:
Standard AF
Earth Staff
Star Necklace
Bat Earrings x2
Electrum Ring
Medicine Ring
Red Cape
Druid's Rope

Items:
Hi-Potion x5
X-Potion
Echo Drops x12
Yagudo Drink x3
Boiled Crab
Blinding Potion

Enter BC, buff with Prot, Shell, Aquaveil, Blink, Stoneskin and then rest up to full. Equip Earth Staff, eat the crab, take the Blinding Potion (Bat Earring effect gives Evasion+30), drink a Yag Drink and cast Regen III. Pull with Paralyze and Cure away to your hearts content. Echo Drops to cure silence, use potions if things get hairy, same goes for Divine Seal and Benediction. The only debuff he inflicted on me which I bothered to Erase was Dia II. I think I got lucky, because the only WS he used on me was One Inch Punch - if he had used Asuran Fists or something I surely would have perished.

[Miriamel]

Yep, you cannot lose more than 2400 EXP from a death in this game, and when I died to Maat first time (attempted at lvl66), I did not lose any EXP. :/

[Dux]

Originally posted by Arturo-B
Xp loss is capped at 2400 past about level 63 or 64.

Is that really true? I lost 1,700 EXP the other day from a Raise 1. If Raise 1 is 50% recovery then 3,4000 would have been 100% EXP loss from a HP.

Maybe your right and a HP does do only 2,400, I'm not gonna test it out thats for sure.

[Arturo-B]

Raise 1 is 25%, so you lost 1800.

Raise 2 is 75% past level 50, so you would lose 600

Raise 3 is 90%, so you lose 240.

I've verified all 3 sadly more times than I can count. Dieing at endgame is a fact of life lol. ; ;

[Dux]

Well he's dead now.

6 * Mulsum
2 * Yagudo Drinks
2 * Hi-Ether

EQ:
Full AF, 1 * Phalanx Ring, 1 * Medine Ring, 1 * Medicine Earing, 1 * Druids Rope.

[Tifa]

Originally posted by Arturo-B
Raise 1 is 25%, so you lost 1800.

Raise 2 is 75% past level 50, so you would lose 600

Raise 3 is 90%, so you lose 240.

I've verified all 3 sadly more times than I can count. Dieing at endgame is a fact of life lol. ; ;

At 75 there's no way to go except backwards :/

Congrats on your win Dux.