w00t! I was ready to hit the Maat!

Maat Fight - Level Break

Job: Monk
Level: 70
Race: Hume M

Skills: (no, none were maxed-out)
Hand-to-Hand: 248
Evasion: 223
Guarding: 63

Equipment entered with:

• Main: Tactician Magician's hooks +1
• Sub: n/a
• Range: n/a
• Ammo: Smart Grenade
• Head: Temple Crown (will change later to Mercenary Captain's Headgear)
  
• Neck: Opo-opo Necklace (will change later to Chivalrous Chain)
  
• Ear: Fang Earring
  
• Ear: Fang Earring
  
• Body: Scorpion Harness
• Hands: Ochimusha Kote (Custom M Gloves used later for WS)
  
• Ring: Sun Ring
  
• Ring: Sun Ring
  
• Back: Amemet Mantle +1
  
• Waist: Brown Belt
  
• Legs: Aikido Koshita
  
• Feet: Temple Gaiters (will change later to Wulong Shoes)
  

Strategy (for the most-part, obtained from FFXIclopedia - Shattering Stars (MNK) - Alternative Strategy):

1. Equip all of the gear listed above and talk to Maat in Jeuno
   
2. Trade "Monk's Testimony" to the Burning Circle
   
3. Eat "Meat Mithkabob"
4. Use "Sleeping Potion" and wait until your TP increases 25 points
5. Repeat step 4 three more times (until you get to 100 TP)
6. Run over to Maat
7. Run macro to fire-off Counterstance, Focus and Dodge
8. Run macro to equip fighting gear (listed above)
   
9. Select Maat, Attack, and approach him
10. After the first hit (to make sure you're close enough and aimed at him) execute WS macro (equipped "Custom M Gloves", WS "Howling Fist", equip "Ochimusha Kote")
11. Fire-off "Hundred Fists"
    
12. When HP starts getting low, fire-off Chakra (I macro-ed in "Temple Cyclas")
13. When TP reaches 100, execute WS macro

And that's that folks! I didn't even need to use an Icarus Wing and WS again! From my initial swing until he gave up: 26 seconds.

In hind-sight, I probably should have:

• included step 11 in with step 7 to save a second or two
• not macro-ed in AF for Chakra... or maybe not even used Chakra at all!

I think it mainly just came down to a little (or a LOT of) luck though. From looking at the log, Maat only made contact with me 4 times... for an average of almost 200 per swing. That seems to be a big difference from the first time I fought Maat when he only was hitting me for around 100 - 120.
Maat's swings against me:

• miss
• miss
• miss
• 188
• 210
  
• countered (i countered him for 52)
• countered (i countered him for 50)
• countered (i countered him for 53)
• miss
• countered (i countered him for 83)
• 225
• 159

I'll post the log later tonight. We have my first Dynamis run in a few minutes. ^^