Strategies: Apollyon NW (Kings)
- Rewards
- Magenta Chip
- 3-7 AF+1 items
- 40? Ancient Beast Coins
- Party
- BLM/RDM or SCH/RDM
- BLM/RDM or SCH/RDM
- RDM/WHM
- Time Limit
- 30 minutes initially
- Additional 60 minutes with all 12 (5-minute) time extensions
Notes
- Can take all chests
- Time (3 5-minute extensions) and Restore chests are always up on the first 4 floors
- Item chest drops from the boss
- Vortex is opened by one of the random normal mobs for that floor
- Mobs on 1st and 2nd floors have high HP and low drop rate and aren't worth farming
1st Floor: Ghosts, Doomed boss
- Sleep-nuke ghosts until vortex opens
- Use two-hour to kill boss
- Take all chests and go up
2nd Floor: Buffalo, Ram boss
- Sleep-nuke buffalo until vortex opens (immune to Light based sleeps)
- Use two-hour to kill boss (keep Gravity up, watch Mighty Strikes)
- Take all chests and go up
3rd Floor: 7 Bugards, Adamantoise boss
- Sleep-nuke all bugards (~5000 hp, immune to Light based sleeps)
- Use two-hour on bugards to speed up killing
- Skip boss (has lots of HP, takes forever to kill)
- Take other chests and go up
4th Floor: 5 Wyverns, Wyrm boss
- Sleep-nuke all wyverns (immune to Light based sleeps)
- If you have lots of time, gravity and kite-nuke the boss
- Use two-hours on boss, grab the restore chest mid-fight, and two-hour again
- Take all chests and go up
5th Floor: 3 Behemoth, King Behemoth boss
- Carefully pull behemoths 1 at a time to avoid links
- Gravity and kite-nuke behemoths (highly resistant to sleep)
King Behemoth
- Have two mages (BLMs or SCHs) kiting in opposite directions around the circle
- Non-kiting mage starts casting a Tier4 spell just before the Behemoth runs past them
- SCH: use Stratagems well in advance to avoid pulling hate prematurely
- RDM: keep up DoTs and refreshes, nuke as MP allows
- If he starts casting Meteor (30'), keep running!