Maat the old geezer

[kogaa]

Hey DG Kogaa here,

Big thanks to Mylah, Hanaji, and Sonnied for helping with the drk test last night. I'm going for the old man this Friday. Any tips, hints, advice will be more than welcome. I really want to take him on the first shot. Thanks

Kogaa

[jasonlilli]

A Maat Fight Strategy
This is a pretty straightforward fight actually, but it's very important to carry lots of hi-potions and macro them. You'll be using them a lot. Like the other melees, use an Opo-opo necklace, sleep yourself to 100% TP, use ws, icarus wing, ws right away. Use def or atk food, your choice. Most of your spells won't be very effective against Maat so don't bother. Just focus on hacking Maat up good. (but always hope he wastes turns using stupid spells like Absorb-CHR) Drain might come in handy but I wouldn't bank on it. Use your hi-potions to keep up your HP as you fight and your attack up skills should be done at your own discretion. The biggest threat is Blood Weapon. When Maat activates it, push L3 to break target lock and run around the room to reduce the number of times he attacks you. You DON'T want him regaining lost HP. once his blood weapon runs out, activate your own take back some of the punishment he's dealt you. (if your HP are still in good shape, this wouldn’t' be a bad time to use Souleater too) Use WS when they're ready and you should be okay as long as you are ready for anything Maat throws at you. Just beware not to use Guillotine when soul eater is activated or you could very well end up digging your own grave.

An Alternate Maat Fight Strategy
A lot of Dark Knights have had much luck using a seperate strategy against Maat where like normal you sleep yourself to 100 TP. Use a Blink Band walk up to Maat, the next part requires some quick timing but is fairly easy. Use Last Resort & Souleater. Carbonara is an excellent food choice here, the HP bonus is great for Souleater while still getting a hefty attack bonus. Face away from Maat and pull out your weapon. Turn Guillotine, Icarus Wing, Guillotine. If you have good equipment he should go down on the second Guillotine and you should still be alive. However it is still advisable to carry a great many hi-potions. Maat will usually use Blood Weapon between your first and second weapon skill. If he doesn't go down with the second weapon skill, you could very well be sunk at low health and him with blood weapon active you have to down potions before you can run away which will allow him time to regain some health. Most Dark Knights I know that have beaten Maat did so with this strategy, however most of them are Elvaan or Galka. This strategy can be seen here: Oropher vs. Maat
PS: Get a Blink Band and you will win for sure. I went 1/10 on him, and 1st and 10th try I went in with bands, last one won. 1st Weapon Skill 1.4K with buffs>>+ wing 2nd ws 400ish WON and still had 2 shadows left after over all took me 45-60 sec to beat him.

Alternate Maat Fight Strategy
Here you have another strategy to fight Maat. At start use Opo-opo necklace and raise TP to 100. Use Blink Band and take your food ( Tavzanian Taco in my fight ).Enter the battlefield and use Last Resort + Souleater, pull Saat with Bio II and throw a Guillotine. Now here is the difference, don't use your Icarus wing now, if you use it and you haven't a strong guillotine you'll be death, (that happened my first run ) so now use your Blood Weapon ( your Souleater should be up still ) now you should be recovering HP and taking some TP, you have to survive now, use potions or drain as needed, and feel free to Stun Maat because he should have used Blood Weapon too. If everything is ok as soon as you get 100 TP use a Guillotine ( Souleater still up ) yeah it could seem a suicide but you should have recovered enough HP, and after this Guillotine use your Icarus Wing and make him eat your 3rd Guillotine. The third Guillotine will defeat him. I don't recommend you to unlock target and run because if you do that you won't hit him and he will hit you if not 100% of the time, almost 90% of time. I like this strategy because you start "slow" but perform a "strong" finish and by the time he uses his Blood Weapon (he can recover a lot of hp per hit ) you should be ready to hit him with two Guillotine's so the time he will be drainning your HP shouldn't be too much.

Ultimate Maat Fight Strategy
I'm calling this one the Ultimate one because no matter what job you are or how experienced you are this is the one I used and it made the Maat fight so easy that a drunk monkey could copy this and take him down with ease. Start off with the normal sleep to 100 TP, use a blink band, and get ready to take on Maat. For food use a tavnazian taco for the huge defensive boost, it will make a huge difference. Then start the fight with Absorb-VIT, this will lower his defense and increase yours more. Now walk up to him, pull out your weapon and guillotine then use your Icarus wing and guillotine again. As soon as the second guillotine is finished use Souleater and Blood Weapon. Maat will usually do a Blood Weapon at this point as well, just ignore it and melee him head on. With all the increased defense from the taco and from Absorb-VIT Maat should hit for around 100 while you should be hitting for over 250 and with Blood Weapon you will regain everything Maat hits you for and what you lose with Souleater. Just pound away at him till 100 TP is gained and guillotine one final time. When I used this strategy I didn't have to use a single hi-potion and Maat never got me below 900 HP. The fight should take about 5 minutes total, not record breaking but a nice easy safe win.

Easy Maat Fight Win
This is one of the more expensive strategies, but fastest and safest. When you enter Maat fight sleep to 100% like always, use a Blink Band and then equip your gear, the food i used was a Bison steak for extra STR+ and atk, i also switched to swordbelt instead of life belt because accuracy isn't that important in the fight, now you should have atk450+ equip as much STR+ gear as possible and then, Drain II Maat, he should start casting a random spell, at this point stun him and absorb-STR, then engage, use Souleater Last Resort and now your attack will be over 500 and STR over 100, Guillotine, vile elixir+1, Icarus wing, Guillotine and if he hits you once during this fight he's lucky, but even if he does it wont be enough to kill you. I strongly recommend this strategy if you have about 80k Gil to burn and want an easy win.

[jasonlilli]

i plan on trying the last one there but what ever you do let me know
btw these are all for drk

[kogaa]

Very interesting. good post Jason

[kogaa]

LOL Maat is dead only took 2 guillitines and that was that. take care

Kogaa

[jasonlilli]

CONGATS!!!!