Lucielle's Furious Finale - Dancer G5

Gah, I don't feel good about this one. A win's a win, but being a dancer's all about finesse and elegance, right? Not guzzling down hi-potions every time your enemy so much as looks at you funny. Still, what with being my first G5, I guess I can be forgiven maybe just a little bit for getting a bit panicked? ...Na, I'll probably try to come back and fight her later once I've worked on my technique a bit.

Hauu, big sis wasn't kidding when she said Laila was a toughie! I was doing so fantastically badly in the beginning, and my first Dancing Edge was *so* useless that I thought there was no way this was happening on this attempt. After some really frightened and probably incredibly amateurish hi-potioning, the second Dancing Edge, which I had decided at that point was going to be my crazy Icarus Wing Dancing Edge combo, randomly hit for a Truckload of damage and I managed to eeke out a victory after a late Trance. Broke the Asura Server record, too, I guess, so I can at least feel good about that. Well, at any rate, here's the fight, for your enjoyment!

-Strategy and mentality-
Alrighty, first off, I had tons of insight on this fight from WhiteMageSerenia, who also supplied me with all the items i used and was my moral support going in, so if you get a chance you should check out his video as well, I'll provide a link below for it.

Basically, I went for a more aggressive style with the potions over waltzing. A popular method for tackling this fight is to sleep to at or near 100% TP with Opo-opo Necklace and sleep potions, but I chose not to do this because frankly, I don't see how you have time. The BCNM lasts for 10 minutes, but Laila herself will 'get bored' at around six minutes and kill you with Dancing Edge Spam every few seconds, killing you off rather quickly.

Neither did I go for either Building Flourish nor Wild Flourish, for the simple reason that Laila is a little on the evasive side, and the unreliability of landing your steps means that you can't afford to be burning away Finishing Moves that you may not be able to get back in time for a necessary Reverse Flourish - it's not a question of recast time, but a question of whether or not you can efficiently gather Finishing Moves, which against Laila, quite frankly, you can't.

I chose to hold out on using the Icarus Wing until the second Dancing Edge mostly for fear of wasting it if she randomly killed me early on, but this lead to me being very much behind her in the HP game early on - personally, I think it's up to your personal style to choose whether or not to use it on the first or second Dancing Edge.

I hope what little insight I was able to give is able to help you if you happen to be fighting Laila, but as always, please check out other peoples' guides and videos and create your own style according to what you feel comfortable with.

WhiteMageSerenia's Dancer G5 video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBPmaXIgCDE&feature=related

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• FFXI
• Dancer
• G5
• Furious
• Finale
• Lucielle

[starfxcker000]

What song is this? It's beautiful. :o

[EtoiLucielle]

@starfxcker000 As it says in the credits, the song title is 'worldenddominator' from the game Umineko no Naku Koro Ni. Hopefully that helps!

[EtoiLucielle]

2:34 if you wanna just skip to the fight. Hope this helps!

[ElensarFFXI]

what plugin is that in the log (type) (job ability) (mp cost) :)

[HylianGirl1]

@WhitemageSerenia Oh ok, thanks Serenia, already tried to play it but when i was installing the PlayOnline thingy i always got errored so i gave up on FFXI

[WhitemageSerenia]

@HylianGirl1 Final Fantasy XI (11) Online

[HylianGirl1]

What game is this D:

[EternaIDarkness]

Hello

Nice Maat fight ^^ did mine as rdm 1/2 ^^

I like the way you choose the songs for your vids ^^

like the songs in this video and in the other ffxi video

Keep up the good work

Cheers~

[WhitemageSerenia]

Each time I watch your vid Sis, it makes me realize how bad I was back when I did mine. Yours made mine look amateur! lol Anyway good job ^^

[kiradragontamer]

Well done! Very well done! ^^

[ViktorHark]

Wow, very nice and smooth fight. Those Dancing Edges totally devastated her ^^