Nyzul - Stable setup & Strategy

So, I think we've finally got a stable group of people together to do Nyzul runs. Schedule is a little crazy, and it was a pain to figure out a schedule that worked with everyone, but I think we finally have something. I really admire other leaders who are able to hold people together for various events like Varg, Fuuji & Rooks. Getting 6 people together for Nyzul gave me a headache xD

Weekly Schedule:
Thursday: 9:45pm PST - 1-2 runs
Friday: 9:30pm PST - 3-4 runs
Sunday: 8:00 PST - 2 runs
Make sure you pick up a 4th tag between Sunday & Wednesday so that we can do 5 runs between Thursday & Friday. We're definitely climbing on Thurs & Fri to get to floor 100 ASAP. Sunday, we'll either be climbing if Ashle makes it, or we'll be picking up a 6th member and doing some armor/weapon farming.

For the most part, the jobs & responsibilities will be:
Ghiren: WAR/NIN - Heavy DD & backup tanking. Provoke mobs as necessary to get them off mages, especially in the case that we get a slept link that has woken up. For the most part, we'll be killing so fast that no real tank is necessary
Zurar: SAM/DNC - Heavy DD & backup healing. Concentrate on DD unless the mages are low on MP. Keep the party alive, and be ready to switch over to Seigan if you get too much hate
Ashle: THF/NIN - DD, hate management + running back to the rune. Be ready to accomplice the mages in case we have to cure bomb the party. DS Curaga IIs are actually quite common after some bad AoEs. You can trick attack either onto Zurar (Seigan) or Ghiren (/NIN)
Utaru: DRK/NIN - Heavy DD, sleep/stun. Utty, you're also pretty much on top of the group when it comes to going ahead and pulling mobs whenever possible
Kuraikaze: BLM/WHM, later SCH/WHM - Healing as the priority, sleep/stun. Nuking is secondary to help finish off harder mobs (Psycheflayers, etc.) Once you have SCH leveled up it should help a TON with Regen-ga and the ability to remove all status effects from everyone at once.
Ascule: BLU/WHM, later possibly DNC/SAM - Main healing, sleeping. I can get a basic 3MP/tick Refresh during Assault, but that's not enough to keep up with all the healing of the group. DNC has the recast issue on curing status effects, so chances are that I'll be going BLU for more flexibility and faster status effect curing


Strategies & Items
For the most part, I think we have the climbing strategy down and just need a little practice. Here are a few things that we need to pay attention to:

- Avoid unnecessary aggro and fighting. During floors where we don't need to kill certain mobs, don't attack them! We have 3 sleepers and we can easily keep 2-3 mobs asleep long enough to go up to the next floor if necessary. If you have trouble disengaging from mobs, turn off auto-targetting.
- Bring echo drops! All of you! No *need* to spam them, so if you don't NEED to be Silena'ed immediately you don't *have* to use it, but if the party is getting beat down and both Kurai & I are busy keeping everyone alive, use it and get your shadows back up!
- Upon entry into Nyzul, make your item purchases and let everyone know you're done ASAP with a simple "/"

For the most part, we're going to climb ASAP, going up 5 floors at a time. Hopefully we'll also get a "kill all enemies" floor where we'll get a shot at killing a NM and getting a possible weapon drop. Assuming we get to the 5th floor with time to spare, we'll search for and kill the NM for that floor for a possible weapon drop.

For boss floors (20, 40, 60, 80), basically the same strategy, but everyone will need to spend some token on buying items.
Melees:
- Body Boost (Doubles max HP. The bosses hit for 3-500 pet hit, and CAN triple attack)
- Fanatic's Drink (Invincible - Use this when you're being targetted by the boss)
- Optional: Dusty Wing (300% TP. Zurar: Use this after you 2-hour to continue spamming WS's. Use a Fanatic's drink too so that you don't die!)
- Optional: Monarch's Drink (Regain affect... aka TP regen)

Mages:
- Body Boost (Kurai! Your HP is scary low... use this for boss fights!)
- Strange Juice (Refresh - 300MP. Pretty sure it does NOT work with Sublimation. I've been using this even during regular climbing)
- Dusty Ether
- Bring a scroll of Instant Reraise. In case of an impending wipe, use it so that we can at least recover and hopefully complete the floor & exit.

Use body boosts as soon as we enter the floor, then we'll top off HP and go for it. Unless we're farming the floor, feel free to 2-hour at will to take the boss down ASAP with as few casualities as possible.


Rewards
Our main objective is to get the Nyzul weaponskills. As such, we need to both obtain the job-specific weapon, and to climb to floor 100. I've been researching the number of WS points necessary, and it seems that while having the runic key (clearing floor 100) requires only 250 WS Points, the requirement grows steadily down to around 8000 WS points at around clearing floor 20, after which it grows exponentially as it approaches floor 1. Current report of floor 12 is that it takes over 12,000 WS points, so where we are at floor 5 isn't very good.

Good news is that at least we can climb :) Other good news is that progress is counted on every floor, so exiting at floor 99 would count towards progress (about 300 WS points vs. 250 on floor 100). Final good news is that any WS's you do on the weapon after you start the quest counts towards your final number, so you could do like 300 WS points, THEN clear floor 100 and immediately obtain the WS.

For weapons, this is what I have for people's main jobs. Good news is that there is very little overlap!
Ghiren - PLD, WAR, SMN, MNK & RNG (obtained)
Zurar - SAM, DRG
Ashle - NIN, THF
Utaru - NIN, DRK (obtained)
Kuraikaze - SCH, BLM
Ascule - BLU, DNC (both obtained)

Lots of other jobs are basically free lot. I think a lot of you are also leveling more jobs, so if you see a weapon drop that you want, just let everyone know. (i.e.: Ghiren nearly has WHM done, Ashle is leveling RDM(?), Utaru is coming up on THF)

Armor wise, we have the 3 sets of armor:
Askar - Heavy Melee (WAR, PLD, DRK, BST, SAM, DRG) - Ghiren, Utaru & Zurar
Denali - Light melee (MNK, THF, RNG, NIN, BLU, COR, DNC) - Ghiren, Utaru, Ashle & Ascule
Goliard - Mages (WHM, BLM, RDM, BRD, SMN, PUP, SCH) - Ghiren & Kuraikaze

Basics are... lot if you can, and *will* use the item. If nobody will actively use the item, then lot if you can use the item. If everyone who can use the item already has it, then lot it if you think you'll want to use it in the future xD
Example: Of the Denali set, I'll actively use the feet and head pieces so I'd lot them if they came up. For the other Denali pieces, I'll only lot them if nobody else will actively use them. Finally, I'd like to have Goliard gear for when I eventually level SCH or RDM, but I won't lot that unless nobody else wants it.

Finally... let me know if I'm pushing too hard. I'm a very task-oriented person, and when it comes to getting the job done, I'm very quick to parse out resources and give orders ^^; I probably come across as curt during assaults due to the time pressure involved. Some of my management team members like it as I can get the job done, but it does sometimes rub people the wrong way. You all have my AIM, so do talk to me if there are any issues!