Guide to beating maat with 1-H AxeFollow

All I have ever heard from warriors is that you should defeat maat with great axe, sure, it is warriors best weapon, and by far the easiest way to defeat maat in my opinion, but for the ill-advised warrior that has subbed ninja since he was able to obtain the advanced job, such as myself, might not want to struggle through mindless hours of leveling a weapon that he might not use once he obtains the effective utsu-ni, and obtains the ability to be even more versatile then before.(im not trashing gaxe warriors, it rocks, im capping before I hit level 71)

Before I state how I did it, which isnt a sure-fire way, just like the way it is with great axe, if your a warrior id just like to advise you that you SHOULD level greataxe in my opinion for various reasons,

-Our relic weapon is great axe
-Our skill is highest in great axe, (gives more attack points and I beleive has more accuracy)
-/thief can do the same if not always more damage then X2 axe in many situations, such as I have heard SATA Steel Cyclone can pull off 1,500-2,000 damage on various enemies and gods.
-Having axe and greataxe leveled as well as having thief and ninja leveled would allow you to be more versatile depending on which party your in, where our axe level3 weapon skill mistral axe only works with thief, monk,and gsword weapon skills, if we had the ability to equip great axe too, you could change to war/thief and light/dark SC with a wider variety of jobs.

So further more, the reason I have written this strategy is not only because it worked for me and can possibly work for you, but because I have yet to see one, and beleive there should be one.

First off, with great axe, the strategy is to gain TP from opo-opo crown and sleep potions, go in, 2-hour and buffs on, raging rush, use icarus wing, raging rush again, and preform a self fragmentation skillchain, resulting in massive hp loss of maat, leaving him with not much left to stand up to you against, if you did not kill him already.

The way it CAN work is this;

Items possibly needed;

Food;

-In my opinion, id go attack plus, such as a meat mithkabob or a chiefkabob, since your edge will be weapon skill damage, and if your accuracy is in order, you should not be missing much anyway.
Can be found in food area of auction house.

-Persuikos Au Lait (spelling incorrect) Is not exactly something you need, but is something that will stack with your normal food, and will give you a 3HP/3 second (approx) HP regen, which wont help a whole lot, but may save your life. Keep in mind that one should last you through the battle and will wear off eventually, and you can only have one effective at a time.
Cost on Titan-4-6k, can be found in food area of auction house

Equipment;

-Opo-Opo Crown (Gives ability to gain TP when sleeping, when used with sleeping potions you can gain enough TP for a weapon skill before the fight)
Cost on Titan-20-30k, can be found in neck armor area of auction house.

-An Axe, duh, lol, viking not required for the ACC, and I would not advise it because of lower damage, id reccomend anything from level 60-70, depending on your check book, with jaggaurnaut and nadzick probly being your best bets. DMG 40-46 axe in my opinion needed, fransisca works too.

-A shield, since entering the battle arena strips off your subjob, you cannot dualweild,and even if your shield skill probly sucks, unless your paladin is higher up, it wouldnt hurt to use one for the defense and possible bonus such as what I used, a Strike shield, forgot the defense, but was +6 Attack points, which is surely an advantage.

-Blink Band, Not needed, absorbs one attack from maat but would keep you from using WS right off the start of fight with a good offensive or defensive head armor equiped, unless you switched head armor after you lost the shadow, I did not use a blink band. (Shadow fades if you switch armor with it on) but it could help for one attack.

-Powder Boots, expensive but effective, most likely the only reason I defeated maat, grants flee on que,once for the fight(20 charges but recharge time at 10 minutes, not enough to use it twice in battle), good for running away from mighty striked maat ;-D (flee fades if you switch feet armor before it wears off)
Cost on Titan-50k (but I borrowed a charge from a nice friend of mine who previously purchased, you might be able to look on buyer list and find someone you know,or would be happy to let you use/buy a charge) In feet armor section of auction house, obviously.

Other armor-I do not have much to offer on what I beleive you should wear for defense and evasion because I did not buff myself in those areas, I went into battle with Tiger Mask, Haubergeon, Sniper Ring, Venerer Ring, Assault Earing,Coral Ring, Combat Casters Boomarang+1, Royal Squires Collar, Fighter's Mufflers, Thick Breechers, Anemet Mantle (only 10-20k on Titan due to gil sellers), Life Belt, Powder Boots, and Fighter's Calligae (didnt even end up using them,kept powder boots on >_<).
I was severly gimped in my evasion, -30~ I beleive, and lost 10defense from my sniper ring. I did make macros to equip all AF, eva + earings,and VIT+ rings, after first two weapon skills, but due the position of how I did it, I did not find myself having time to use these macros, and I dont think you may either, but it is possible.

Items;

-Sleeping potions, approx 12 to be safe, to use with opo crown, you will gain what I remember to be 2-3TP/3ish seconds untill you wake up, which happens on its own (who can sleep good before fighting maat, heh), meaning it does take some time to fill up using multiple potions, I used about 5 to gain 200%TP
Cost on Titan-10-12k/stack, in medicine area of auction house.

-Icarus wing, one, for TP after you use TP gained by opo-opo crown.
Cost on Titan-4-5k. Used to be 12k~, In medicine area of auction house.

-Hi-Potions (I had about 10-15), regains 100HP with pretty fast using time, doesnt take long, not everyone knows the fact that potions, hi-potions, X-Potions, and Vile elexirs all have different casting times. Potions do not gain enough HP to be worth while, and in my opinion I think you can use two hi-potions within the time of using one X-potion (150hp) or a vile-elixir (25%your max HP, you can only hold one, expensive potion.) but with a vile elexir healing around 400~HP depending on your max, its worthwhile if you can still buy the time.

-X-potions, unaware of the fact that hi-potions had a short using time untill when I found out in front of maat, I wouldnt have used any of these, however, I did use about 2-3 of them at the bottom of the hill.

So, finally, the way I managed to do it, used chiefkabob, equiped crown, used sleeping potions untill about 200% TP (would have gone 300% but I didnt think I had time) went into actual arena used persikos au lait (incorrect spelling), used berzerk, then aggressor, then warcry,then mighty strikes, ran up to him, rampaged, used icarus wing, rampaged, once he uses mighty strikes I used powder boots and fled to the bottom of the hill, since its longways, its a big hill leading to a arena, I fled out the arena down to the NEAR bottom of the hill, because thats how big it is, so anyway, at the bottom I just spamed high potions, then he caught up with me in a few seconds, he runs faster then normal running, but flee still leaves him in the dust, so it doesnt buy you much potion time, Then still not completely healed and constantly being attacked, I used high potions in beteen my attacks, Since I fleed, at the cost of wasting my own, I managed to waste his entire mighty strikes, which would kill you for sure if you could not waste it, so in between spamming hi-potions, and using one vile elixir for around 400~ HP when I needed it, I eventually gained enough TP for rampage, used it, and defeated him. So there you have it, a way to win, but its not easy, and even warriors using gaxe can fail many times by dieing before they get to their attack after their skillchain. Thats the strategy of mine but I shouldnt let out the facts, so here is a few.

-Maat's normal attacks on me did 150-250 damage, with his mighty striked attacks doing 330-ish around me, I would have a bigger range maybe but he only got 2 MS attacks in on me, since I ruined his mighty strikes.(One in arena and one at bottom of hill)
-Maat did a total of 2,694 damage to me
-I did about 2,169 damage to maat, im assuming he has 2,000HP
-My axe attacks normally did about 60-90 damage on him, got one crit hit in on him for 123. Rampages did 891, 530, and 551 damage. First two were mighty striked so I may have been lucky to do the third one for 551.
-Hi-potions if you spam them the fastest you can, will not allow you to get one single attack in, it took me 9 normal attacks to get enough TP for my third rampage. This may be a very difficult thing to pull off, but if you can when you can it may be best to use a hi-potion right as you start to swing, so you actually get some in.
-Hi-Potions are your friend, after you have everything you need for the fight in your inventory, it wouldnt hurt to bring as many as you can hold, might depend if you win or not.
-Maat to my understanding uses 2 WS's, he most likely has a wider variety but I only know about two, SpinningAttack and Asuran fists which is 8 fold X-(,
-Maat only used Spinning Attack on me for 275 damage, if it were Asuran Fists I would have died (heard it does 800damage)
-Besides the reason that his attacks do 330~ when he is mighty striked, just like with us warriors, our weapon skills are more efficient when used with mighty strikes, and if you were close combating him throughout his, he would either asuran fists your for what I heard to be 2,500 damage, or he would spinningattack you, for a whole lot more damage then 275, or possibly another weapon skill.
-I finished in 8 minutes,(10min battle limit) it may be possible to fight him with gaining 300% TP, but it may provoke him using mighty strikes immediatly followed by a weapon skill, I do not know.
-He used mighty strikes when I was in the middle of my second rampage
-If you move when you use potion or powder boots (is a few second time bar for using boots) it will interrupt you and you will not use the item, which could mess you up, so if you choose to use powder boots, make sure before running off you let flee be placed upon you. Also, do not disengage before using boots, just lock off maat, and run away with flee on, after a while of running you will stop for a second to disengage, then just keep running untill flee wears off.

If you try my way and you fail, dont be mad at me, this is a very difficult fight and required me to have a lot of luck especially with the chance of him using asuran fists, just like with gaxe battle. If there is a mistake in what I have said, or you would like me to add something else into what I have said, or even if you try it this way and win, please tell me about it, I wouldnt want to have typed this for nothing ^^. GOOD LUCK!
P.S.
Hale has a remarkable greataxe maat fight guide, Here
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Sqvall, Titan Server 70War/Nin
Linkshell: LionHearted (Leader)



Edited, Fri Jan 7 02:26:06 2005 by SqvallOfTitan

thats an awful lot of money u spent on items just because u were too lazy to use gaxe... powder boots, blink bands, 20k+ in potions, 6k food, on top of the standard opo necklace and 1 stack of sleeping potions and a icarus wing

Yes, I suppose it was a lot of trouble, but was very rewarding, and was very fun, I just took the time that it would take to raise my greataxe skill, and put it against the time it took me to get the gil for the fight, and well, fighting won, but I will begin to cap great axe now, thief is level 33, time to work on that too. Furthermore, I did state that I did not use a blink band, And thanks hale, rated up your guide too.

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Sqvall, Titan Server 70War/Nin
Linkshell: LionHearted (Leader)

I have been lazy and not leveling great axe and was ecstatic to find this guide because i was going to try this and write up a guide myself. level 68 now but definatly waiting til 70 to try.

And it is the Opo-opo Necklace. Not the Crown. That would be more worthless than NOT using a Blink Band.

Like the OP stated you will need Gaxe for gods, considering lvl70 is when you have to fight Maat, leveling Great Axe would be a two bird one stone situation, making it the choice of even the lazy. Not to mention all that stuff he bought, killing Maat with Greataxe costs only opo-opo neclace (which you can borrow from most non sam lvl75 friends as they use it on Kirin) Icaras WIng and 4 Sleep Potions, a lazy man who would hate farming and appreciate that pricetag.

I beat Maat with my trusty one hander. It was cake, all i did was sleep for 100tp, use a blink band, shoot him with an acid bolt, and rampaged the crap out of him. All together i think i used 2 potions, and beat the old **** in 4 minutes and 20 seconds. On a funny side note, i forgot a shield and still had sushi on. Basically i don't really think the powder boots are needed, granted, i'm a galka, so i can take hits, who knows

Hey again....been months since posted, and im 75 and owning HNMLS on titan now...and. ive just got to say.....when maat was in mighty strikes...he was hitting me for 250 crits..i wouldnt suggest straight tanking him, and if he weapon skills you in mighty strikes your done for. and yes, on gods, sneak attack with great axe is much better damage, but ive fought gods many many times...i'd rather be able to help kite/tank if im needed, war isnt in alliance whole fight, and we have others to SA WS off start...like samurai m(_ _)m ive rarely subbed thief for gods, and im not sure how much i'd ever plan to again,war/nin all the way >_<, steel cyclone might be great damage...but i rarely find use for it, at 60-70 sometimes war/thf with gaxe would be better DOT, but at 75 and with...me having double attack merits, axes are far more lethal on anything except god/high tier hnm. cya

Just fought Maat (Cerberus server) using this guide as a helper. I went in and totally destroyed the old man. Slept to 100 TP using 4 potions blink banded up, used powder boots, chiefkabob and went in. Rampage did 960 and 781. A few crits later he was defeated. I didnt have to use any of the Hi-pots I bought or anything. He only landed 2 hits on me, a normal hit for 241 and a crit for 190 (it was partially blocked by my shield) I shattered the record by over 3 and a half minutes. (It was 8:59 I beat him in 5:32). I dont know if I just got incredibly lucky or what but this fight was a joke. Thanks for the advice :)

woops wrong post >_>

Edited, Sat Jun 3 15:59:12 2006 by Jickson

Spartan Hoplon is by far the best shield. Gives Phalanx for 3 minutes, -17 damage shaved off of each hit. Other than that, if you actually have shield levelled, you'd want as big a shield as possible: Size 3 > Size 2 > Size 1 in terms of average damage reduction. That means your best bet defensively other than Spartan Hoplon is Hard Shield, the one Size 3 shield WAR can use.

Instead of doing it this way... Why don't people get off their lazy asses and skill up great axe? You're going to need it eventually, stop procrastinating to the extreme. You're almost at capped level, 75, and you don't have great axe levelled to even get Raging Rush? Sad, very sad.

Hey, guess what? Maybe people actually like a challenge. I don't find that sad. And quite frankly, if someone doesn't want to skillup great axe, that's their loss. Why do you care what others do?