Category:Ambuscade

Notes:
Bozzetto Retributionist:

• Enhanced Shield Block rate from the front, but not 100%.
• Casts Absorb spells, Bio III, Aspir III, Stun, and Dread Spikes

• Retaliates against magic with Absorb-TP.

• Possesses a high resistance to dark. A light based dispel such as Finale will be required to dispel.

Boss States

• Normal: Boss can be damaged normally with no cause for alarm. The Boss starts in this State and returns to it after using a TP move associated to the Other States.
• Charging Up: Assumedly Charges Atramentous Libations or Atramentous Oblation
• Boiling Over: Gains an aura that grants players a regain effect. Any damage taken by the boss after this move will increase the damage of Nether Castigation, Atramentous Libations or Atramentous Oblation
• Miasma: Boss gains a weak Dread Spikes effect. You have about 5~15 seconds to deal enough damage to Force him to switch modes before he uses Eisenschneider
• When the Boss uses Charging Up It will change its state and the chat log will be accompanied by one of the following Messages:

• The Boss begins charging up. (Entering Charging State)
• The Boss's rage is beginning to boil over. (Entering Boiling Over State)
• The Boss begins to emit a noxious miasma. (Entering Miasma State)
• The Boss's miasma dissipates but is rage is beginning to boil over. (Boiling Over State)

• It's worth noting that if you throw 1 too many Weapon Skills to drop the Miasma state you may overcharge the Boiling Over State.

Uses the following TP Moves:

• Charging Up: Initiates a State Change from Normal to Charging Up, Boiling Over or Miasma.
• Atramentous Libations: 20' AoE Drain . Damage may vary depending on damage received during the "Charging Up State".

• This is a similar mechanic to Glassy Thinker's "Pain Sync".

• Atramentous Oblation: Dispels (possible Abosrbs?) 1 Buff (20' AoE), Damage may vary depending on damage received during the "Charging Up State".
• Nether Castigation: 20' AoE damage; amount of damage based on damage received after "Boiling Over state".
• Eisenschneider :30' K.O Ability. Requires Boss to be in "Miasma state"

• Bonuses like Migawari: Ichi will not stop this from inflicting KO.
• Players may use /heal in order to convert this move to damage instead.

• Infernal Bulwark: Stoneskin (can be dispelled)
• Noahionto : Inflicts significant AoE dark damage based off of the damage the enemy has received. Used at low HP % (<5% HP on Normal)
• Dread Spikes: Casts AoE Dread Spikes at low HP.
  

Bozzetto Charger:

• Absorbs damage while readying TP moves.

• Absorbing damage will increase the power of the Charger's Scintillant Lance.

• Uses the following TP Moves:

• Scintillant Lance: 20' Conal damage.
• Grace of Hera: Restores HP and removes status ailments; can be forced by using about 4 or more debuffs
  

Setups and Strategies:

Very Difficult:

• Tank DD BRD/WHM + 3 (SMN or BST or any form of non-pet DD)

• Tank MUST pull to zone-in spot!
• The tanks holds both the boss and charger; DD focuses on charger. During this time BRD should just use songs that help DD produce fast/high damage. DD should avoid healing the charger during TP moves (i.e. do not WS during charger's TP moves). BRD should Elegy, Dia II, Threnody, and Requiem -- this will force Grace of Hera as opposed to damage TP moves
• During boss phase, DD should stop all WS damage if they see the "charging" message. If you bring lots of DD, it may be a good idea to pull all but one DD off the boss and use white damage to push the boss into Atramentous Libations. Once this TP move is used, all DD can continue to dish out damage. BRD should always maintain Hymnus on all DDs and the tank when charging/boil/miasma messages appear.
• Upon seeing the "boiling" message, all damage must stop immediately. Use Dia at maximum casting distance to push the boss into a TP move (Nether Castigation). Once this TP move is used, return to regular attack mode and continue to watch out for any charging/boiling/miasma messages.
• If the "miasma" message appears, everyone should dump TP / use SC's to dish out high damage and force the boss back into boiling mode (might need to set TP order to prevent damage overspill into "boiling" phase). Once TP is dumped, everyone run far away. Basically, if the tank is holding near the zone-in location, then anywhere BEHIND farthest pillar is safe. If the tank dies, immediately put Hymnus back on and let the tank get hate before continuing damage or healing. There is a fairly long delay between the "miasma" message and K.O. move (if it does go off) so only the tank is ever really in danger of dieing.
• BRD should always keep Ballad III, and Hymnus on the tank since boss will Aspir (up to Aspir III). No healer is really needed aside from Curaga II from BRD if DDs get hit with AOE.
• As the boss gets lower in HP, it will often start "charging" and immediately switch to "boiling" rather frequently. Watch those trigger-happy WS fingers! It will also cast Death Spikes on a very regular basis, so make sure DDs turn and dispel/finale the spikes.
• The boss can cast other spells (both single and aoe form) such as Stun and Bio.

Normal:

• Tank (not required), 2 DDs, 1 BRD/WHM

• Buff DPS with Haste Songs and any additional Attack songs you can get
• Buff tank with Haste Songs and Ballad
• Buff BRD with either your highest Ballad or multiple Ballads if possible
• Your Bard and Tank should be able to heal the group assuming you don't get floored from Weapon Skilling at the wrong time
• Doesn't really matter where the boss is fought though the starting corner is as good a place as any.
• Focus the Horse first. If he readies a TP move wait till he throws out his next Auto-Attack before resuming damage. If you want you can save your TP for right after he uses a TP move and throws his 1st Auto. That is a pretty safe window.
• When fighting the Dullahan you'll want to have the tank face them towards a wall to minimize knock back. The tank needs ballad to avoid running out of MP. The Boss' Aspir spells will drain out the MP otherwise.
• DPS can ideally setup a skillchain and goto town until a Charging Up is used.

• Once he charges up turn around.

• If its Miasma continue Damage and have each DPS (1 at a Time) use a Weaponskill to force him to switch to Boil Over
• If its anything else back off to 20' and have the tank just Auto-Attack the boss till it uses its TP move

• BRD/WHM should be healing from as far back as possible (Max Heal distance to target is 21.5')
• Notes: If you don't have a tank then during Charge Ups that are not miasma the BRD/WHM can just spam Dia while the DPS have their back turned.
• Notes: The Benefit of this 3/4-man strat is you have room for a few extra jobs to pad things out. Bring a Healer or another Buffer. I'd caution against stacking too many DPS as there is more mishaps that can go wrong with more DPS. That being said technically if all DPS are paying attention the fight should go quicker.
• Notes: You can scale this up to Difficult if you are wiping the floor with the moves or scale it down to Easy if your having trouble. Mechanics don't change just the mobs stats do.
• Strategy is from the 2024-10-12 iteration of this fight.

Key Item Locations:

• Inner Ra'Kaznar HP -> Teleport (K-9) -> Dullahan Axegrinder (L-10)
• Inner Ra'Kaznar HP -> Cirdas Caverns (J-8) -> Imposing Dullahan (H-7)
• Ceizak #1 -> Sih Gates (G-11) [Rock Teleport] -> Unrelenting Dullahan (I-7)
• Morimar #5 -> Moh Gates (H-5) -> Somatophylax Dullahan (I-8)

Notes:
Lancer Jack:

• Susceptible to silence.
• Summons Spooky monsters through the battle in the following order: Skeleton, Hound, Ghost.

• There is no specific HP threshold for these but a range:

• The first summoning occurs at ~95%+, the second ~65%+, and the third ~35%.

• Possesses a -50% Damage Taken trait.

• Banish Spells will decrease this DT trait.

Uses the following moves:

• Trick or Treat: Silence, terror, amnesia, and buff absorption.
• Double Thrust 2-hit damage.
• Raiden Thrust damage.
• Penta Thrust: 5-hit damage.
• Leg Sweep: 1-hit damage and stun.

• All of these moves are single target.
• Each has their native skillchain attributes, are able to skillchain with each other.

Casts the following spells:

• Absorb-Attri: Absorbs a buff from the target.
• Absorb-TP: Absorbs TP from the target.
  

Spooky Monsters:

• All Spooky monsters are susceptible to light based sleeps, but not dark based ones.

Spooky Skeleton:

• Hell Slash: 1-hit damage.

Spooky Hound:

• Dirty Claw: 1-hit damage.

Spooky Ghost:

• Terror Touch: 1-hit damage and attack down.
• Dark Sphere: damage and blind.
  

Setups and Strategies:

Easy:

• This was ridiculously easy.

• NQ Sulevia PLD, roll-only COR, decently geared PUP (1200 JP) with Ohtas and Taeon (-DMG, MEVA, +Regen) with Valor/Valor Automaton, Kupipi (no Apururu this week b/c I apparently haven't done any Unity stuff, oops), Qultada, Koru Moru

• At the start it was Culler Jack and 2x Spooky Wheezers. I sent the Automaton after the Culler Jack and had the PLD take down the 2 Spooky Wheezers. Then sent everyone after Culler and it popped more Spooky Wheezers around 50% and again at 25%. I think that I could have just focused on Culler Jack and ignored the Wheezers because the didn't affect my ability to kill the Culler.

• VD Solo (2024 version) PUP/RDM, Trusts are Valaineral (He uses AOE to gain Enmity from all mobs) Amchuchu, King of Hearts, Cherrukiki, Sylvie. Cast Stoneskin, Blink, Phalanx, Regen and burn down the 4 adds before killing Lancer Jack.

Key Item Locations:

• Fei'Yin HP 1, Wekufe to the south of the HP
• Gustav Tunnel (Map 2, I-8), Skeletons. Fastest way is Lv 128 Unity Concord Warp.
• Xarcabard (S) (G-8), Ghosts and Corpselights northwest of Home Point #1