Lost In The Crowd

Serameya’s melee is rather weak, none-shield blocked attack does around 100-150 damages with critical peaks at 250s, blocked attack does 0-30 damages. Serameya’s spell is a lot weaker than I expect, Firaga 2 40-90 damages, Firaga 3 140-170 damages, Fire 4 161 damages, Flare 2 260-330 damages. Its damage dealing special move is weak as well, Lava Split 100-140 damages and Sulfurous Breath 40(blocked)-290 damages. Serameya does cast spell a lot even it doesn’t have Chainspell activated which is good thing since most of its spell is weak, I notice it prioritizes Firaga 2 and 3 for some reason which make taking very ease.

The fight becomes more challenge when Serameya use Chainspell, it still continue use Firaga2 and 3 but at a lot more frequency and that can be a problem. I found myself use a lot of MP to keep up with those spell spamming, I have been struggling to get enough MP for cure 3 few times. I’m in a party with a Gjallarhorn bard but song was March 2 and Ballad 2 so I guess extra MP from using Ballad 1 instead would helps when none of our tank really benefit from March 2 since we don’t use NIN support job.

RDM SJ is doing fine from holding hate aspect but not so well against spell spamming during Chainspell phase. I thought MDB, Phalanx and Barfire that RDM SJ offers is enough to deal with spell but obviously it isn’t, I probably can improve my MDB gears a little but I doubt it is worth it because even I can get Firaga 2 and 3 damage down to 60-120 range the frequency of use probably still cause me the same problem I face now. What is better option?

Obviously a fire resist set. In fact I read about they recommend using fire resist set during Chainspell phase on BG forum before but I just thought I can get away with RDM sub and basic MDB gears since I already at -50% MDT most of the time, once again I’m wrong. I still have my fire resist set since Tiamat era which is probably almost 2 years ago when we still camp and kill Tiamat, what I’m missing is Cerberus Mantle which I’m thinking about borrow one from our LS bank to try next Serameya run.

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