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Final Fantasy XI (2002)

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Battaru Royale is the first battlefield fight of "A Shantotto Ascension" and the tenth mission in the storyline. The first revolves around defeating eight Fomor Tarutaru's each representing an element in the game.

Each Tarutaru uses elemental and enfeebling magic specific for their element type. The only exception to this rule I have seen in this fight is the Light elemental Fomor, as it seems to cast no spells at all. In addition to their elemental type, each Tarutaru seems to have a stat affinity towards their element. For example, the Earth Tarutaru is extremely durable and probably has a VIT and defense bonus compared to the other Fomors in the fight.

When a Fomor reaches about half HP, they will summon an Avatar of their respective element which will immediately Astral Flow you. Make sure when fighting specific elements you use a bar- spell of appropriate element to stave off the majority of damage from the Astral Flow. Also, keeping Barsilencera up should prevent the Wind Fomor from silencing you early on.

Originally, I was planning to keep all the Fomors asleep with Sleepga and take them out one of a time. Partially because I messed up my macros and partially because they started resisting Sleepga after the initial use of Elemental Seal and Sleepga, I ended up super tanking all of these Tarutarus.

Being level 90 and having Shellra V and a natural Magic Defense Bonus as a WHM helped weather the blunt of their powerful spells. Combined with the DT set I use while TPing, I am sitting at slightly over 40% MDT in my TP gear. If I had known I would be super tanking this fight, I would have come /RDM instead and made use of Phalanx and Refresh.

I also did not really fight this in any particularly good order. I just attacked the Tarutaru the auto target selected next. If I were to do the fight again, I would do the fight in this order:

1) Wind
2) Ice
3) Thunder
4) Fire
5) Water
6) Earth
7) Dark
8) Light

This would deal with the Fomors with the more harmful status effects early and I imagine I would be able to keep both Light and Dark Fomors asleep with Sleep II and Repose respectively.

Overall, the fight was a lot of fun and sort of shows how durable a WHM can be.

Enjoy!

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Character: Ghishlain (WHM90/BLM45)
Server: Ragnarok

Music
Nekofrog - Fight for Our Future (Chrono Trigger OC Remix)
Symphony from the Sanctuary: Scarlet Devil Rhapsody ~ Scarlet Rapsodia - The Dream of Scarlet
LuIzA - Neo Fire Cross (Assorted Game Remix)

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Inspirations

kaoz1024 ( http://www.youtube.com/user/kaoz1024 )
Beastmaster extraordinaire, this Tarutaru kicks ass and takes videos and names while doing so. His music selection is superb as well!

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WHM Solo Playlist can be found @ http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL301C866D60CFFC8A

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