Culshar Geezer replied

766 weeks ago

Empousa on ground: melees 99.9% of the time, and the times he cast while on ground are rare as hell. Has moderate double attack. Terror eye can be dodged if you react fast enough. Bloody claw goes through shadow and has done up to 1.5k on me as NIN, but usually hovers around 300-900 randomly.

Empousa in air: when he first goes airborne he will start with either dark orb or dark mist once or twice, then use magic (either dispelga/drain/dread spikes), then 2-3 of dark orb/mist before repeating the cycle. He absorbs damage when he is casting a spell.

I used dark depths/RR/GN for tanking and fulltime yonin with pizza. Had some moderate eva gear on me. Dark orb and dark mist does in the range of 700-900 with 5/5 shell V from WHM. Just be attentive during air phase and limit how much you heal him and he'll go down. He also links with the other vodoriga… had 3 on me at once, but they are usually decent challenges to 90 since no one kills them, so more of a hindrance than any real danger.

Easily done with NIN WHM, since it's all about evading on the ground, and cure bombing in the air. WHM usually gets mm/dread/ambition.

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/101138-Abyssea-Grauberg-Discussion?p=4323813

Culshar Geezer replied

766 weeks ago

Other people reckon you should go all out DD when he's on the ground since that's the easiest way to hurt him.

When he goes airborne you need to knock him down by damaging him, using well timed spells (can't hit while he's casting or it'll just heal him). Some people seem to report excessive healing of him makes him stay airborne longer, which would correspond with others saying you need to do ~1k damage to get him to land again I suppose.

Egade Admin replied

766 weeks ago

Me and life tried this slag the other night and got our arses royally trashed. Probably because I've got the evasion of a full can of coke though. Seems like it's easy enough to tear him a new bum hole though, just needs a few people.

Luckily it also drops +2 items for bodies so we can camp him properly some night without any problems.

Wouble Geezer replied

766 weeks ago

Yeah, we gave him a try. Was ok while he was on the ground but he trashed me when he went airbourne. Reckon a BLU or BLM to ground him would be good, then get the melee to re-engage.

Calif Geezer replied

766 weeks ago

Some of those coke cans can be mighty evasive you know.

Bard for dark carol and a tank with mdt gear would prob help when it goes airborne, plus diffusion saline coat from blu is good magic def?

You can still melee him while he's flying right? In which case, probably avoid blms, and just store TP and WS between spells to bring him down?

Life WHM, Egs BLU, then either Woub mnk + me brd, or me nin and Woub brd. Culs on drg!
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