mello wrote:
Unless you have THF45/BST20, for TH2, Flee, Widescan, and Charm, don’t bother going. Even then, don’t bother going. You won’t get the claim over people who practically live there and have a bunch of additional movespeed from THF AF boots, strider boots and mazurka.
Showing up to camp anything with a defeatist attitude like this hampers your progress more than lacking tools other players have.
Everytime I've camped the Emperor I've been the one killing the placeholders. Because I was the one killing the PHs, I was the one that got the claim because I knew what rotation I was killing the placeholders in. VE popped right in front of me, others only knew after the pop when it turned up on Widescan and showed up in time to watch me kill it (or vice versa).
The first time I was level 29 rdm/ 14 whm. I popped it for kicks n grins just to see if I could kill it. It killed me. The second time I was 35 rdm/17 thf (for TH, I never used flee) out for revenge. I put up a Hell of a fight, but ultimately the Emperor won this fight too. There was another person camping against me, when I saw things looking bleak I dragged it the Emperor over to them and did what damage I could before the fly took me out. I the next 2 or 3 attempts I won the fight, never got out claimed, but also never got the drop. I figured at this point I had put more time into camping it than it would've taken me to farm for the pin, so I cut my losses and farmed the gil for it rather than driving myself crazy over 3 dex and 3 agility. Besides, I've killed the fly more times than it killed me so...I can let it go now that dominance has been established.