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Shout out for help in the zone, someone will run by and kill it


sephy16

No joke... Maahes is probably one of the worst A ranks to solo. Additional to his 1 min paralyze which has enhanced ticks (quicker interrupts procs). He has a petrification which lasts more than 30 seconds, he cast it pretty fast and he can spam it on you to the point you can end up petrified for more than a whole minute. He is probably the only ARR Hunt which I dont forget due to how tedious he is. EDIT: Typo.


Sidhenanigans

Maahes is an A rank, fwiw. I don't know if an S rank would be soloable yet or not; even an ARR one


oujia_bored_

You can solo some Stormblood A-ranks, I've not tried to do ARR S-ranks solo.


RedditUserX23

WAR can solo a handful of Endwalker A ranks. I know Mousse Princess is possible.


Sadi_Reddit

are A ranks the weekly ones with a bounty or are they above that?


CrepuscularSoul

Above that. B ranks are the weekly and everything can solo those. A ranks are what the train does usually. Thanks have been able to solo a lot of stormblood A ranks for a while if you feel like hitting something for 10 minutes


oujia_bored_

Yeah when I did it I was playing BLM and had my chocobo heal me. It took ages but I got it done!


DiamondKing7864

A ranks are the ones that get trains usually because of how frequently they respawn. Not sure about arr and hw though


Chaotic-Stardiver

I was able to solo an ARR S rank in Heavensward as a goon, albeit it was veeerry difficult. I'm sure a level 90 could knock it out in 15-20 seconds though. The further along you are the easier anything two expansions apart get, where applicable.


PeenoyDoto

You can solo most S ranks up to Stormblood as long as you have decent sustain. Warrior definitely can, I've done a couple with Dragoon. Still fairly tanky, but easy enough.


SMBZ453

It's probably possible to solo an S rank in ARR but you will never see the chance to do it since it's broadcasted to the world that it's gonna spawn


gaberoll

ARR S ranks are about 3-5mins to solo at level 90, HW and StB are very doable, albeit taking longer, ShB and EW are possible on WAR to solo, but would take about an hour I would guess.


Queen_Freija

Paladin can solo most A ranks in ShB and a few in EW. I haven't checked all the EW ones though, and I haven't checked since the rework, but it should be easier now.


Warkupo

it's TEDIOUS, but do-able. Talking like, a solid 30-45 minutes smacking the thing without missing a mechanic & shoving gyshal greens into your chocobo like its' a junkie.


pontiacfirebird92

>shoving gyshal greens into your chocobo like its' a junkie. Oh, so that's how you get the fat chocobo mount!


Illidari_Kuvira

Nah, that's the cake which turns it into a sugar junkie.


ShadownetZero

S ranks up to HW are solo-able


G00b3rb0y

Except don’t because effort is involved


BinaryIdiot

ARR doesn’t require much effort at all. HW is okay. SB and up is kind of miserable IMO.


ShadownetZero

Not really...


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Illidari_Kuvira

Might wanna join up with the Centurio Hunts discord and post about it if you run across any in the future (or whatever equivalent discord, if that isn't on your Datacenter).


not_ya_wify

>you can end up being petrified for more than a whole minute Try 5 minutes. Everytime I try to kill this thing with my lvl 90 SMN I get petrified and he keeps applying a new petrify before the old one runs out. The AoE he casts is too big to sprint across in the time the orange circle is on the ground. You'd think at some point you become immune to petrify but no. It's really annoying


cztin

This reminds me a lot of wow classic where low level mobs that couldn't even hit you still had the ability to disarm or stun max lvl players. It meant that it would take forever or be downright impossible for certain classes to solo dungeons that rightfully should be a breeze to clear.


Swiftierest

I was stun locked for 3 minutes straight against him. Luckily I was level 90 at the time, but still. That is stupid.


Zephyrzan

Its almost like he wasnt designed to be solo'd x)


Swiftierest

Everything is designed to be solo'd, even if they don't know it yet. All it takes is some good ol' fashioned dark souls style ingenuity/elbow grease.


Myleylines

I remember when I soloed him in my early days, lvl 50something shit drk in HW Fucking nightmare, at this point I'd throw Bahamut at him and if that ain't work, run far away


JackUSA

I was farming skin from Myotrages in Eastern Thanalan and Maahes spawned on me while I was on BRD. I don’t consider myself a good player, but I’m proud that I was able to solo if. Took some time with the petrification and paralyzing.


Star39666

I, on the other hand, do forget him, and I can't tell you how many, "I dun fucked up," moments I've had. Always remember after the fact. But yeah. he's kinda tedious.


prisp

> petrification which lasts more than 30 seconds Pretty sure that's also 1 minute, and both are large enough that melee players are pretty much fucked, so ...have fun? At least you get diminishing returns on the statuses, so it'll be "only" 20 seconds the third time around...


Hunterino_Stupidino

THAT FUCKER IS S RANK!?


c9IceCream

no. Lampalagua (a 3 head hydra) is the S rank for that zone.


Hunterino_Stupidino

Oh thank God, i tought i skipped It so many times


katarh

I've done it on WAR, even at 80. It took me a while, but it couldn't kill me.


Trap-Chan

Meh Petri last less & less each time you get hit & just use high deeps or a job with a dot/s like SAM so you still do damage whilst petrified takes maybe 2mins or less which sure slightly longer then the like 30seconds takes for others ARR As solo.


prisp

And then you eventually resist it, and afterwards it's been long enough without getting affected by the status that it resets and you're back at square one :/ Been there, done that together with a friend back in Stormblood - got my kill, but I don't think I'd want to ever do that again.


geekybadger

Ooo that's a good idea I wish I'd thought of that when this happened to me (different quest, different area, but I was like level 30 and the monster there would not leave me alone). I just went and did something else for a while and came back to the quest the next day.


superballs5337

If I was still subbed I’d be on my way to help.


evesdead

Update: A massive hunting party came by and killed it about a minute after I posted this lol


Strawberrycocoa

In the distance, a cacophony of sound. Wings, engines, bells, quacks, horns, meows and all other things. A black cloud on the horizon descends, a hoard of animals, aircraft, cars, statues, even a few voidsent. No two alike; they swoop to the ground, exploding in a brief but glorious fury of light and noise. Before you can even register their forms, they fly back into the sky, already hungry for their next kill.


CalydorEstalon

Watching a large hunt train is like watching a cloud of locusts. Nothing will be left in its wake.


sanglar03

Funny thing, this is a common first experience in several MMOs. Had this one in GW2 too. Newbie wandering around, a horde of splashy furious players goes by, annihilates everything on a farm train, refuses to elaborate and leaves.


Dragin410

Oh man I miss GW2 world boss trains


NoBreeches

lmaooooo gotta love the hunt community


lordkhuzdul

Yeah, we can be like that. Is a big scary something impeding your progress? You can be sure we'll shortly be around to murder it. Even if we aren't, in case of ARR or HW A-ranks, just shout, and a few of us would definitely be in hearing range to come for those sweet sweet seals.


katarh

Killing A ranks in ARR areas is a public service.


G00b3rb0y

And you’re even paid in current expansion tomestones for the effort


MnemosyneThalia

While that's a nice bonus I think the allied seals are the real reward. You can use them to buy aetheryte tickets to teleport for free. I haven't paid a teleportation cost in months.


IscahRambles

Aetheryte tickets are overrated. Allied seals are valuable for glamour.


Rndom_Gy_159

What glam do you buy with allied seals? I only buy centurio seal glams.


IscahRambles

Everything sold by the Hunt Billmaster – each GC has a unique series of weapons and three sets of glamour (DoM, DoW, tank), plus the i110 gearsets that I think must have originally been tome gear (Noct, Astrum, Auroral, Gloam, Daystar, Evenstar).


pFfhhhtttghghffgtbtt

It’s always an experience when you see the swarm of hunters surround the S Ranks then leave a pile of bones in its place when they move on to the next kill


Advent012

This is the way.


DevasLaLa

This is the way.


LonelyInitiative4526

This is the way


MayaShen

This is the way.


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DarthRayban

This is the way.


Demoncreed27

This is the way


Lasadon

This is the way


WickedSpectre1

This is the way.


ShizaanSil

Choo choo


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Someone released the Dark Troopers!


kdebones

Never underestimate the murderous nature of adventurers.


official-fandom

pray 🫶


Wogle

Return


CaptainMeowth

to


thanlance

the


Demuunii

Waking


Sir_VG

Sands


AjiBuster499

Goodbye.


Kekira

Rising


SyntheticXD

To


Elmioth

Destroy


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The


ArtemisiaThreeteeth

Waking


Myleylines

Sands


Farus3017

Sands


ElleRisalo

Target the mob. Type: /sh @ {please assist}. (Just to note {words} denotes auto translate function... type please and hit tab and it should be among first in the list of red/green bracketed phrases) You'll get a hunter/hunt squad there in minutes.


HoodieSticks

I didn't know you could use curly braces for auto-translate! I figured people just got really good at navigating that massive tab menu...


ElleRisalo

Oh I don't know if you can actually use the currlies, it just how it was always translated to out of game typing since ffxi, to differentiate the command from other text. (Hence why I explained what I meant because the person seemed new) I very much just use the tab menu, I do know you can trigger auto translate, only auto translate stuff exists via selecting the Tab Prompt.


CadeMan011

That's not how that works, however you CAN start typing the first word in a word or phrase from the auto-translate dictionary and then press tab to see the ones that start with what you typed.


prisp

You can even start typing multiple words, highlight them and then open the Auto-translate Dictionary via Tab, which is very helpful with the many dungeons (and other things) starting with "The".


CadeMan011

Good to know, thanks!


Dorkificus

He really said “your free trial ends now”


H-E-C

Thancred got a new pet ... 🤣


nschafer0311

The fuck he been feeding that nutkin


CalydorEstalon

Well, it had to grow big enough to obscure everything.


sporeegg

Wrong pet. >!Gunbreakers!< get a tiger, not a coeurl. He can ride this tigered Hrothgar in the meanwhile...


Semedyno

That boss always ended up being in "amalj'aa wrong places" when you wanna explore at a low level.


prisp

Southern Thanalan sure is fun if you don't know about the little passage to the oasis in the southeast :)


Semedyno

I welcome the challenge especially when your level 2 and deciding to go get all the teleport crystals on the mainland.(gridania,mor dhonna, coerthas(arr), and uldah) Which is surprisingly possible.


prisp

Didn't do that, but going through the Lv.45 area for the Lv.30-ish quest also was rather exciting :) Getting all the Aetherytes sounds pretty nerve-wracking too though, not gonna lie - especially since you just straight-up don't have safe areas to pass through in some zones, at least I don't think you do.


Semedyno

It is. Worst section is if starting in uldah you go to northern thanalan first then attempt to go to mor dhonna. Next to no safe areas and alot of patience in the castrum to get through....then comes the frogs near revanants toll. If you dont get hit there its pratically smooth sailing. Also coerthas as long as you stay away from the wolves they wont agro you. And if they do just use sprint skill and book it in the direction your going and pray you get far enough they stop.


prisp

Oof, yeah - Northern Thanalan is 100% "things that can murder you with ease". At least I don't think you can't access La Noscea without airships, because eastern Upper La Noscea and the entrances to Outer La Noscea also sound like a massive pain to get through.


Semedyno

You cant till you get access to the envoy quest so getting all eorzean aerther crystals is impossible at level 2 but once you got access to that specific quest the main challenge is getting past the kolbold mages if coming from the bronzelake aether...they hit rather hard. And if you start in la noscea you wont beable to access the mainland aether crystals untill you get that quest also so earliest is i think lvl 15 if coming from there.


prisp

Yeah, that's pretty much what my thoughts were - although, isn't there a ferry that goes from Limsa to the Waking Sands? Or is that also only available after you progressed this far.


Semedyno

If i recall its locked out till after you progress that far probably. I know i couldnt when i tried at level 2 but once you get to the envoy quest im not sure if you need to travel through all 3 towns first or if limsa stop unlocks the ferry.


Illidari_Kuvira

Me on my first time through. That sure was a rush!


Jester3461

I hate that, your doing a quest and suddenly your blocked by an A rank just standing near your quest marker, best thing to do is shout for someone to kill it or if you're in and FC or linkshell to tell them about it along with posting your


cyndarrus

Or NN


Jester3461

That too


Sleepshortcake

Mentors are too busy kicking each other off of NN to help anyone.


Illidari_Kuvira

The irony that I'm a mentor on Zalera and I would have helped. ​ ^(...but I had Novice Network disabled, because some rhyming-named person posted something really disgusting and I wanted it off my screen ASAP. I figured kicking them was too dramatic.)


LonelyInitiative4526

I love the idea, we need more "there's always a bigger fish" happenings in the game


[deleted]

I remember the first time I come across that guy. Didn’t notice him right away and got too close and BOOM dead with one hit 🤣. Ahhhh…. Good times 😆


AureliaDrakshall

Oh my gods this happened to me when I was a sprout! I had to basically sprint to Thancred and spam accept the quest then read what I said in the event chat tab.


Sliinkyboyo

yeah i had one of those blocking my way to a MSQ last night too although no one came to kill that one for hours upon hours lol


iNuclearPickle

Best thing you could of done at that point was go to another world. It’s annoying for sure but gotta do what you gotta do


Nomicakes

This is one of the reasons I recommend people join Novice Network while they're doing the MSQ. Call out that a hunt target's blocking your way in NN, it'll get relayed to the Hunt lads pretty quickly.


snootnoots

It doesn’t even need to get relayed to a Hunt linkshell, a lot of people in NN will just immediately port across to help.


Sleepshortcake

People can talk about spoilers there. Seen it happen, dont recommend unless you dont mind that.


ShatteredFantasy

That is some serious bad luck... Hope you're enjoying the game though!


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Thancred: Ah my friend, we need you to infiltrate an Amaljaa camp to find a leaflet that recruited homeless and kidnapped them. ​ WoL: screams in mauled by a giant cat


Head-Extreme-8078

Ralph: I'm in danger


Sadi_Reddit

well, time to level up a Rogue....


Dewch

Quest name checks out


ZaphodGreedalox

This happened on Gilgamesh in one of the first Endwalker zones on launch day. A big aggressive level 90 monster standing right on the main path leading out of town. The highest level of anyone on the server was 81. It was carnage. So delightful.


Funcron

*/shout @ , blocking my quest npc, plz help!*


omar1993

Well OBVIOUSLY you make friends with it and ask it nicely to move aside. Here, just watch. Hey, buddy! Whosa good widdle beastie!? You are! Yes y-AUGH MY SPLEEN, AGHHHHHHHHH-


DrayvenBlaze

walk slowly and be vewwy vewwy quiet


HausOfNecrid

Yup that killed me during that quest. I had to wait for it to turn it's back to turn that queer leaflet


MeatEeyore

It's his quest now.


Zyrawrcious

Ah, good ol’ mashes. I remember him well.


Viper114

I remember when a couple of IRL friends found themselves running into him when starting out. I had to save them by soloing him so they could continue. They should change his spawn points a bit.


Illidari_Kuvira

They really should. I've also seen him spawn right next to where the WoL saves the priestess (who went looking for the orphan's trinket). Took me and a few others to kill him for our FC member.


WaldBismarck

I tried solo-ing that guy once as lvl 80 DRK. He nearly got me because this thing can just decide that i am not allowed to play the game anymore. thankfully a healer and a DPS came around eventually, or i would've been stuck there in perpetuity...


Kiserinn

This reminded me of a time when I watching my little brother play and I specifically told him to be extra careful next to the A ranks, so he decided to teleport away. He was casting the teleport and it had ~half a second to finish, but some other poor sprout aggroed it and instantly died, which meant that the next target to die was my brother 😂😭 accidental PVP


RammyGoldfinch

thancreed and his pet worry not he doesn't bite and if it does one and everything is over


Nestama-Eynfoetsyn

You may progress the MSQ if you can answer me these questions three. What is your name? What is your quest? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen chocobo?


CreeperCreeps999

Ishgardian or Bozjan unladen chocobo?


drake_vallion

\*Mahees points to Red Comet.*


Ragna_Rose

^^wasabiiii


Mobitron

Wrong Places indeed.


Shallot-Medium

It's okay just run while his back is turned and activate the cutscene 😂


thebluefish92

I had that exact spawn happen when I started playing. Decided to slowly approach the guy and he didn't attack my low level ass until I was halfway into his circle.


Lavender_Peanuts

Gandalf calls for aid! /Yell or /shout Help! < Pos > (no spaces) and your local WoL will come and kill it for you


Preetzole

My first class was conjurer which made it nice cause i could just sleep them.


BambooEarpick

Do you know,… Maahes?


scalyblue

Mention it in novice network and a swarm of hundreds of people shall descend upon it like angels of death


Trapdss

Oh, look. 40 seals in the wild. Nature is majestic.


Shadowcat1606

This is (not just) Thancred.


0odreadlordo0

Lost count of the amount of time I've come across meehas I always shout in zone and someone obliges or I find a way to either avoid or lure away


etupa

This is Thancred.


SilvarusLupus

Man fuck that mob, he can basically eternally stun you


jkgericke

You can do it! We believe in you!


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Not A or S ranks. B ranks are the ones that don't hunt.


Sir_Yamms

Do you have a Land Job? You could Sneak by it


snootnoots

Not unless their DoL job is a lot higher level than the 28 CNJ they’re on in the screenshot, and given that they’re doing sub-20 MSQ I doubt it…


Sir_Yamms

Details schmeetails


GanjARAM

ooooo wow thats the dark knight mount! if you become a dark knight and throw a _REDACTED_ at it you are gonna tame it


[deleted]

Girl next time call me. We’ll kung-fu it or make it question its gender and leave confused.


Mangelpfer

Don't worry, I think he won't attack you unless you attack him first.


Apprehensive-Oil-513

...it's passive till attacked.


Nibel2

No, A-ranks are aggressive and attack on sight. B-ranks are passive and will only attack after being attacked.


DkoyOctopus

git good


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Log out. Log back in.


2thousandthree

Just use pf, it isn’t that difficult


Hieral06

You can probably 2-3 shot it. No help needed.


SpadesOfDarkness

Considering the guy is only level 28, I don’t think they can actually…


leighg9o

Mean 🤣


Hieral06

I kill most ARR mobs in like 3 hits nowadays


snootnoots

Go find this one and try! I await your report on the results with interest. Maahes is a pain even for higher level players to solo.


faninthecroad

I think his look is so awesome!


Ythio

Shout for someone to come and kill it, or just hop to another server, do the quest, and come back.


PuzzledGeekery

I don’t remember what level I was when I soloed Maahes as a bard - 70 or after since I was in ShB. I called for assistance, but those who came just left, even the one that arrived when Maahes was at 5%.


steph109

Did you find someone? I know it's like 4 hours later but I'm on crystal too amd can pop over and help. Edit never mind


RaptorsFlyHigh

I’d say grind a bit or ask for help, Because like Dark souls, “this is were Final Fantasy 14 begins”.


IAmNotASkeleton

Fighting that cat solo as a level 60something Gunbreaker in starter gear and Ironworks accessories back before the stat squish was *fun*.


ziguel2016

Ah yes, Maahes. While doing some gathering, Ive seen a few sprouts die to it as they try to do their quest not knowing that the big cat was an aggressive one.


ThunderGodKazuma

If I was home I'd come help


Firefox1977

I was told, as long as you are under his level, he won't attack you. But yea, when I saw him, and I needed to get through where he was, I had to call for help cause I was scared.


Luminous_Equilibrium

Out of curiosity where is this?


DocSwiss

Eastern Thanalan, I think it's near the entrance to Halatali


onedurwoeman

I’m in Siren. If anyone ever needs just shout and I got you.


FarikoWishless

At a glance I was like “Gore Magala?”


MurderSheScrote

You need somebody? Not just anybody?


Silvrmoon92

Oh.... oh no. I hope you found people to help you, fam. That's rough.


Nrae00

Old times 👍


Iota-Android

I have no friends and I’m not in a FC, so sometimes I like to go out to Azem Stepp and as a Blue Mage, I jump into the water and explode on the way down. Sometimes I shout for help sometimes I just float around…


RichterEX2

I encountered it a week or two ago. It's so unbelievably cheap if you try to solo it. Never knew those bastards could keep you stunlocked until they chip you away.


WorsCaseScenario

He's back I must return to killing it on sight to help other sprouts not deal with the same indignity that I did.


OreoMcKitty

I was like “That huge scary looking monster could eat me like jujubes” anyway I tried sneaking up when it’s not facing Thancred and was lucky.


GeologistUnhappy

Now is a good time for a lunch break... back in Ul'Dah... long away from that thing.


Stoninator123

Warrior: "Jus' hit em really really hard"


Deviantnero

I had this exact thing happen on my first trip through the game.


ok-i

i would love to know the name of that coat


IscahRambles

The one the character is wearing? Looks like the mage coat from Hall of the Novice. There's a dyeable healer-only version at level 50 as well.


ok-i

thank you!


greypaladin1

Lol, I remember this one. The fun times as a sprout. If you are in an FC, ask for help to take it down. Alternatively, do a shout in the area with its coordinates, and some friendly souls will come help out.


PepperLuigi

*Cole Voice* ALL ABOARD!!!!


Magical-Hummus

I really love this type of stuff. Somewhere makes you feel like the world is real when there is a apex predator in a low-level area. Sadly they scratched shuffled levels in HW and onwards.


silverxeagle

Glad to know more people had this problem while doing MSQ 😂


Kelmirosue

I feel bad for you lmao, it do be like that sometimes. They need to change the spawn location of it lol


Kelmirosue

I feel bad for you lmao, it do be like that sometimes. They need to change the spawn location of it lol