2008-09-04, 02:40 AM
Sorry that I haven't posted in a while! My senior year in high school just started, and so I've been overwhelmed with APs and applications galore. On top of that, Papulatus has recently been owning me roughly 50% of the time with a deadly dispel + bomb explosion combo, an unavoidable attack where you lose MG the exact moment a bomb that hits for 3k+ damage explodes on top of you. It started happening so often I just decided to not ss any of them.
Needless to say, with a lot of those deaths recently I decided to give my soloing strategy another redo, a chance to get back to the drawing board and rethink how I approach the boss. The way I came up with is something old for everyone, but rather difficult to do (excuse me, impossible) without being at the proper level. This new technique is much faster, as you'll see with my new record time at the bottom of this post, but can only be done when you have at least 2k HP and 8k+ MP.
Simply put, I am now attacking from the platforms instead of on the ground now. Because I have 2.1k HP and 13.2k MP, I can easily survive any bomb Pap throws at me, provided I have MG on. Since you cannot be stunned or dispelled on the platforms, this means (1) I cannot die, as evidenced by two successful solos tonight, and (2) I can attack much more frequently, as I am not having to rebuff or sit there till stun wears off. Many people would think that summons then wouldn't be able to do much, which is the case, but to set some fears aside they still attack sometimes, and the time dropped from attacking with single target spells more frequently greatly exceeds the time gained from having summons attack less frequently. In short, this is a much better method.
So for those of you skipping the wall-of-text, or who just finished reading, here are my last 4 successful solos:
![[Image: solo11.jpg]](http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g26/gamerdude292/Pap%20Solos/solo11.jpg)
![[Image: solo12.jpg]](http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g26/gamerdude292/Pap%20Solos/solo12.jpg)
![[Image: solo13.jpg]](http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g26/gamerdude292/Pap%20Solos/solo13.jpg)
![[Image: solo14.jpg]](http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g26/gamerdude292/Pap%20Solos/solo14.jpg)
Still no good drops X_X. New record time without changing any equips or skills but merely battle strategy is 21:30 min, a clean 2 min off by simply platforming instead of ground attacking.
Finally, sorry for the initial walls of text. Now that I know how to Pap without dying once a night, I'll only post screenies and a little sentence or two about the runs if I need. So yea, sorry for posting so much so far, as it won't happen in the future.
Needless to say, with a lot of those deaths recently I decided to give my soloing strategy another redo, a chance to get back to the drawing board and rethink how I approach the boss. The way I came up with is something old for everyone, but rather difficult to do (excuse me, impossible) without being at the proper level. This new technique is much faster, as you'll see with my new record time at the bottom of this post, but can only be done when you have at least 2k HP and 8k+ MP.
Simply put, I am now attacking from the platforms instead of on the ground now. Because I have 2.1k HP and 13.2k MP, I can easily survive any bomb Pap throws at me, provided I have MG on. Since you cannot be stunned or dispelled on the platforms, this means (1) I cannot die, as evidenced by two successful solos tonight, and (2) I can attack much more frequently, as I am not having to rebuff or sit there till stun wears off. Many people would think that summons then wouldn't be able to do much, which is the case, but to set some fears aside they still attack sometimes, and the time dropped from attacking with single target spells more frequently greatly exceeds the time gained from having summons attack less frequently. In short, this is a much better method.
So for those of you skipping the wall-of-text, or who just finished reading, here are my last 4 successful solos:
Still no good drops X_X. New record time without changing any equips or skills but merely battle strategy is 21:30 min, a clean 2 min off by simply platforming instead of ground attacking.
Finally, sorry for the initial walls of text. Now that I know how to Pap without dying once a night, I'll only post screenies and a little sentence or two about the runs if I need. So yea, sorry for posting so much so far, as it won't happen in the future.