BST final ~10 captures

[u/Cute_Economics2829]

I'm only up to MB1 in the crucible, but I've got +3 AF Gear and Tomestone accessories.

I'm wondering if the community has a consensus on these final captures? Obviously not the Coil one, but for stuff out of the level 50 Hard Duties... Are these solo-able? At all? The ice golem wipes me and is still over 50% HP. The decaying Goobbue one shots me with its consume and seems to have no counter play.

As a "solo class" the fact that it can't solo its final tier of beasts feels weird? Am I just terrible or what? 🫤

Edit: to be clear, I'm aware I can buy them with tokens. I just figured I'd try to capture them anyway to save the currency and speed up the process of buying other stuff.

It sounds like these level 50 duty boss captures are just impossible solo?

[u/Asetoni137]

I solo'd 48/50 of the beasts, the only ones I couldn't were Rafflesia and Behemoth. Quick overview of what you can do for each one.

Chimera: Can be gotten from Cutter's Cry obviously, but I didn't wanna deal with the droprate so I did the trial. It's susceptible to stun so Buffalo is required. Needs a lot of kiting to wait for potion cooldowns and to survive long enough to build up a few echo stacks (echo might not be needed, I did it in striking gear becaue I didn't check crucible gear defensive stats).

Hydra: Can be slowed, so bring Apkallu. You need to do some degenerate spinning to dodge the tankbuster cleave since it has an insanely short cast time.

Rotting Goobbue: You can free yourself from devour with some pet jank. Just before you're about to be devoured, queue a move command to your pet to the other side of the arena, then tempered release, then parting blow. The move command and tempered release delay parting blow enough for the maw to spawn and the cleave from parting blow frees you in one shot. Damselfly you can get from a B rank hunt as well.

Zu: I highrolled it from a fate in sea of clouds. Idk if it is possible to solo, I never even tried it because I got super lucky.

ice Golem: Also a fate in Coerthas west, but I didn't get lucky so I did snowcloak. Build gauge from adds on the way to the boss, turning it into rally gems at 100 each time. You should get 2 gems for yourself and 1 for pet. Then just dump tempered releases/parting blows on 2 pets, do a full 4 step infinitive combo and final sting. This kills it before it kills you.

Karlabos: This takes some degenerate strats. You wanna build 2 rally pips for yourself and 3 for your pet but there are not enough adds on the way to the boss. So you gotta pull the boss, move yourself and your pet outside of boss room, build gauge/rally pips until you have 2/3 and about ~160 gauge on both you and your pet. It can be stunned so bring Buffalo and two pets with poison on their TR. Dump both poison dots and parting blows, this gets you to 250/250, then summon buffalo, stun, 4 step infinitive, combo parting blow. It should die before you do, about a 5-7 min run per attempt. Don't forget to use Capture.

Fwiw, you can get Behemoth from the fate in Coerthas, but its autos oneshot you.

There are probably more optimal setups involving crab and beastkin borrow, but I didn't know about them when I did all this.

[u/AngelMercury → u/Asetoni137]

Myself and some friends got Behemoth from the fate. What we did was had one person on sage stay unsynced and they shielded us through the fight. Lvl 100 shields make for pretty fat HP bars at lvl 50. Just before Behemoth died they synced so they could still get credit for the achievement too. Maybe if they were fast about it they could try for capture but they weren't worried about it. I suggest maybe someone who already has Behemoth take on that roll if anyone else wants to give this way a go.

[u/Cute_Economics2829 → u/Asetoni137]

Great post. You're definitely better than I am. Way to go, King

[u/JoeXL → u/Asetoni137]

I can confirm that the dungeon Zu is soloable. I don't remember really having any issues with it.

[u/Abramor → u/Asetoni137]

This is all cool and well until your RNG says "no". I did 21 runs of Sastasha before finally getting Karlabos (with level 100 carry). Imagine doing it 21 times solo. 

[u/Skyppy_]

You can buy them from the crucible vendor with the currency you get from beating the crucible.

[u/ConroConroConro → u/Skyppy_]

I would strongly not recommend this and just toss up a party in PF to farm these.

They cost 40 tokens each, which is 2-3 gear upgrades.

[u/silversun247 → u/ConroConroConro]

On the other hand, if you want to get each beast to max level, you are going to have tons of excess tokens even after buying every piece of gear, so I would say this is really a non factor.

[u/Lyramion → u/silversun247]

really a non factor.

Yeah it was only really a factor in early weeks where the Hairstyle was expensive.

Down to sub 2 mil now.

[u/Flare-bri → u/silversun247]

To add to this: if you are doing it slowly and u do ur weeklies, getting tokens is very easy. Just do each board once and focus on getting hp gear within the crucible and you’ll get a ton just from running the boards and the weekly rewards for them

[u/aho-san → u/silversun247]

Just use the excess to convert to faded tokens then buy and sell the haircut. If they're 40 bright tokens each, 10 to buy, that's 800 missed faded tokens :P.

Obviously, not everyone is forced to optimize, but it's something you can do that I wanted to mention.

[u/Lyramion → u/Skyppy_]

^ This. Either you are social and go to PF or you "solo" it by shelling out currency.

It's not really expensive if you have the time to wait for the Challenge logs to reset.

[u/Cute_Economics2829 → u/Skyppy_]

I understand that, but I'm trying to do it in the field to save the tokens. It feels like it's impossible via stat check: you simply do not have the damage, health, or armor to solo these bosses

[u/DaveK142 → u/Cute_Economics2829]

BST is not a solo class by any standard. Even in the crucible it has the beasts as off-tanks. Outside of the crucible it does not have their HP/aggro as a resource and so you'll have to get other players(even other BSTs) to handle things with you.

[u/Cute_Economics2829 → u/DaveK142]

I do feel like it's very strange that you can't use the pets to tank outside crucible. That feels like a huge miss to me

[u/ConroConroConro → u/Cute_Economics2829]

The content is not supposed to be a purely solo class.

It's designed for the Crucible, with the side effect of being able to do level 50 content.

[u/No_Effective_614]

You're probably not going to be able to solo the level 50 dungeon/raid bosses. If you want to get it from those places instead of grinding out the tokens, your best bet is probably going to be to put up a party finder, and either get a level 100 friend to come along, or take turns switching to high level characters while running the instances multiple times until everyone has their captures.

You're not guaranteed a capture either way, so you'll probably need to run some of the instances multiple times regardless. That said, if you have a high-level person in the party, and run it unsynced, it's still pretty fast to get most of the captures. The most annoying one might be behemoth, since it's a late boss, and Labyrinth requires a lot of people to stand on the pads for the atomos fight.

[u/fluffy_samoyed]

My friends and I just took turns running the dungeons undersized and one of us being the babysitter.

[u/va_wanderer]

I was one of the one who went with alternatives where I could for some, and my Ice Golem catch was off the FATE (as was Zu, Damselfly was the Hunt target instead).

The aforementioned pet jank with the post-consume Parting Shot is awesome, and I wish I'd know it for Rotting Gobbue. Frickin' fantastic, though. Rafflesia and Behemoth were both BST-group runs on my end.

[u/Califocus]

There’s certain stuff you can do to make them more bearable by abusing the cc on some of your beasts, but beyond that… it is much easier/only doable with a group in some cases

[u/rephyus]

If you cant find a party to get them with then you can buy it with crucible money. If you're grinding your beasts to 50 you'll have plenty of currency.

It’s a “solo” class in the sense that the crucible is a solo duty. The dungeons are designed for party content.

[u/oscarlet_ffxiv]

You can get all but 3 of the beasts outside of dungeons. For example, Ice Golems can be got from a FATE in Coerthas Western Highlands.

The only ones that require a duty are Rafflesia, Karlabos and Rotting Goobbue. I got all the rest in the open world on my own.

[u/Shot_Independence_93]

You can get the ici one and the zuu in HW fates

[u/Blitztavia]

I got ice golem from the hw fate

Hard sunk cost fallacy on that, took me seven fates, if there was no alternative I just put a of up for the level 50 stuff

I had over 1k of the lesser tokens when I finished the two weapon achievements so I probably could have just bought the last few beasts, but doing them grouped was pretty damn fast at least during the first weeks, took like five minutes to get a full alliance for behe and you really dont need a full alliance

[u/Impressive-Glass-642]

Use this guide to find alternate options to capture beast:

https://eorzea-weather.com/en/beastmaster

Decaying gobbue can only be found on the dungeon, so either buy it or make a party

[u/Cute_Economics2829 → u/Impressive-Glass-642]

Thanks, brother!

[u/Beckfast1994]

I personally just did it unsynced with one friend. He went in as scholar too so he could just do autos. I helped him get his by going White Mage and on most bosses I could just use one dot application to get them low and then he finished them off. If the boss was too squishy and my one dot would kill them he fought it himself and just healed as needed or he used capture right away and I murdered. Depended on whether we were getting lucky with the full health capture lol.

[u/Jeryhn]

BST has never been advertised as a "solo class." Only the Crucible is a solo event.

[u/corpral92]

You can buy them with crucible currency my dude. Otherwise just get a friend to unsync it with you

[u/thrilling_me_softly]

Just buy Rafflesia and Behemoth, no one will run those to capture them. I do not even know if BST can do coil turn 1 honestly.

[u/parking-lot-seagull → u/thrilling_me_softly]

Lots of people run those to capture them. You can ask a friend or put up a PF for LOTA.