The Hills Are Alive

Tips

 * He has all the normal Adamantoise specials including:
 * Draw-In
 * Auto-Regen
 * Flood
 * Silencega
 * Slowga
 * Waterga IV


 * He's susceptible to Silence, Gravity and Bind.
 * When he goes into his shell, you can barely do any damage to him.

Testimonial 1
ok my LS tried this 2wice last night...

the 1st attempt was a disaster. we had 6 blms, and plenty of darkness SCs. we figured we may not win but we could at least get a good strategy out of it...

ok so we half wiped/escaped on the 1st run bc we assumed the hard part wouldnt be staying alive, but rather causing massive damage to him. wrong. he cannot be stunned. waterga4 will own u. the best u can honestly hope for is to only lose 1 person everytime he casts it. that person was usually me(rng) or a blm.

he casts AOE slow/silence ~ga spells. he casts flood, water4, and the big one - waterga4. he DOES NOT use the "draw-in" ability.

75rng/nin using my best damage gear, yellow curry, and double minuet i hit for 60-70 with Ebow/kabura arrows. that sucks. he has way higher defense than genbu.

at 95% he goes into his shell. i hit for 15 during these times. the other DDs hit for 0. he regens to full HP when he goes into his shell. he casts waterga4, flood, etc when hes in his shell.

he hit our pld for 100-200 per shot, so thats not bad at all. he also uses a breath attack. it did about 400-500 each time.

on our 2nd attempt we tried to kite him around. it works much better but again, at 95% he goes into his shell and regens. after doing this 3 times in a row and completely pissing us off we started to simply experiment.

1st we tried only DDs while he is in combat mode, and nukes when he goes in shell. the fact is by limiting ourselves like that we couldnt cause enough damage. we only had 6 blms, but they couldnt keep him from even fully regening.

then we thought it was possible he was retreating to his shell when we SC/MB so we didnt do any SC. again tho, at 95% he went in shell.

there has got to be some secret to getting him out of his shell. unfortunately, we couldnt find it.

he cannot be slept. he cannot be stunned.

gravity landed 75% of the time. ES + silence always worked. silence without ES worked about 25%.

we tried a ES + silence order for when he retreats into his shell only, but that didnt work. it almost seemed as tho he dispelled it when he goes in shell mode.

even with stacking DoTs his regen is just to much. there has got to be a secret to keeping him from retreating to his shell or getting him to ome out early b4 fully regenerating. SE couldnt of designed this for only a 18blm alliance to win.

By: Sempronia Scholar. Original post found here.