I don't understand how, or why Wikis claim someone can solo this.
Seriously.
I tried this with a family member, and I read up all the stuff on the wiki, and we were only able to get it to like 50% with quite a bit of difficulty and I'm looking at what I've seen of the mechanics, and trying to crunch numbers and scenarios in my head, and I really don't understand how people think this is solo-able, and am starting to think people are simply trolling on wiki.
First up, the Red Gem Glowing means "stop DPSing or you'll heal it!" .... problem.... you get, at most, 20-30 seconds between the time the gem STOPS glowing (when it uses a ridiculously OP attack) and the time the gem starts glowing once again is, at best, 20-30 seconds.
Second, I'd love to know how you're actually supposed to tank the stupid thing, because the attack it does when the gem stops glowing is an instant-kill one-shot (unless maybe you are super-geared?) with very little or zero warning it's about to happen. It was hitting my Paladin in NQ Ambuscade and all the PDT gear I could find, some 10-15% or so, for 3400 which is a OHKO.
Apparently, Iroha will only revive the group leader, which was me at the time, and so I was forced to cast Raise on my friend to get her back up, and then we'd wait the 3 minutes for my weak and she'd wait 5 minutes for her weak and we'd then try again. Of course, it keeps healing back because you know, how are you supposed to get Trusts to stop attacking the stupid thing while the gem's glowing? And of course, again, 20-30 seconds of DPS time between the glowing gem blah blah. And no, I was not using Shantotto because I know the wiki specifically said not to do that.
The thing just does too much damage, and has too much HP, I really don't understand how somebody was supposed to solo/duo/trio with Trusts, and/or why people on wiki claim you can when you very much can't, unless they meant they had something like HQ Ambuscade/Escha/etc junk on, which they didn't specify that.
So blah.... if anybody on Sylph feels like helping a pair of people who have no linkshell, and no jobs that a linkshell would actually want to take to anything (well, I have a BLU, but it's not very well geared yet due to the lack of said LS)... I could even be willing to pay or something but I would really like to get this done and out of the way.