Limit break BS

[Tile]

I won first try without weakness item. Mnk x2, War, Dnc (myself), Sch, Rdm.

we went inside and buffed since we didn't know if buff would wipe. Sch 2 hour'd and used Embrava, regen IV, Pro, Shell, Stone skin, Phalanx, Barfire, Firestorm, Regain, and hasted everyone. We charged in and I used Haste Samba.

monks and the war did what they do best and went to town on him, I would toss out a Violent Flourish (everyone landed) when every the timer was up, and would Waltz anyone low on hp, rdm and sch tossed out cures. one of the monks went from full to dead instantly didn't catch what it was. other then that no one got below 50% hp.

whole fight lasted 4:43 including buffs.

[Runespider]

Really suprised they left PD as a viable strat for this, turned was would of been a decent balanced old school fight into a zerg with immune DD.

This sounds like one of the worst LB's ever. What happens when everyone else gets level 99 and those who are just starting out haven't even done LB1? Once they reach this hurdle they'll have a helluva hard time finding anyone to help them out because everyone will be too busy watching PJ chat for farming groups and see this is yet another trivial chore that they don't have any interest in doing because it doesn't give them anything personally.

Mercs, they will probably nerf the fight down next update anyway.

[Luvbunny]

So basically unless you have xyz jobs - with rather good gears, none of those basic gears, you are rather screwed royally. All the shouts so far are for beast and monks, summoner with perfect defense. And hopefully you have your beast with the two axes for 20% damage reductions on pet. We have 20 jobs - a good deal of them are "not wanted" on this bcnm - and pretty much an easy way out for developers to forced these players to either level xyz jobs or stay at 95 permanently or pay for mercenary groups. This seems like "amazing bullshit" coming out of the unmentionable's ass.

[Brolic]

went 6\6(helping ls out\selling wins) it's a super easy fight, didn't bother with the enfeeble item(s?) never droped below 1500hp. his melee hits do 0 most of the times with phalanx up and the add effect is 10ish. The only constant in any of the fights were me(pld) and the whm, the rest was just random dd, fights never took over 10mins.

[Vold]

went 6\6(helping ls out\selling wins) it's a super easy fight, didn't bother with the enfeeble item(s?) never droped below 1500hp. his melee hits do 0 most of the times with phalanx up and the add effect is 10ish. The only constant in any of the fights were me(pld) and the whm, the rest was just random dd, fights never took over 10mins.

Why am I not surprised Cpt FFXI here considers it a super easy fight and sees fit to inform us of his great and honorable deeds. He is so special and never takes any damage. If you're not him, you get raped. I'm glad this has been established.

BTW I'm not actually doubting you because I just watched a video of another PLD getting through it rather easily. So I guess you need a perfectly geared PLD tank to have any real chance and not just a well geared PLD. Because mine is pretty well damn geared but it lacks any decent shield. Never below 1500 HP though, I think I might call BS on that noise.

[Brolic]

Why am I not surprised Cpt FFXI here considers it a super easy fight and sees fit to inform us of his great and honorable deeds. He is so special and never takes any damage. If you're not him, you get raped. I'm glad this has been established.

for the low low price of 100k per helper, i could protect you from the mean ole rapist

[Meyi]

To be fair we went in with some "wanted" jobs and still lost. Even with rarab tails. First time we had SMNx4 BSTx2, second time we had MNK WHM RDM SMN SMN BST, and still kicked the bucket.

Maybe tomorrow.^^b

I feel like a small fish right about now...

[ShadowHeart]

already people shouting in our server to pay for clears.... hearing nightmare stories of 0/9 here

[ShadowHeart]

if u were on ceberus u would get it from a lot from what i have seen

[Dreamin]

People just need to assess their party's strength and weakness and adjust your strategy accordingly. Just like the pre-nerf'ed CoP. There's no single winning strategy that will work for everyone/every party. You really need to look at the various strategies out there and adopt them to what the players you have in your party (not just for job but the strength and weakness of each of your actual players).

I won with: SMN (PD to start), 1x MNK, 1x PUP, 1x NIN, 1x RDM, 1x WHM. Used 2 items (2nd by accident). We have 1 Emp (NIN) and no other one has Emp/Relic/Mythic. It can be done if you plan accordingly and adj based on what you have. For example, our RDM originally was going to be a BLM but skill wasn't capped so we switched to RDM as backup healer/lighter-nuker (chance of need for chainspell nuke). WHM was originally going to be 2nd MNK but PUP's WHM wan't geared/skilled. So we adjust there. NIN originally was to be PLD but we rather have more damage since we already have PD to start along with items. Only MNK die after PD wore off. WHM there to cure bomb after PD and RDM there to add dmg with Nukes and Debuf and backup heal. PUP's pet was setup as BLM nuker. SMN used Garuda and PClaw whenever it's up (~1k per BP). [note: Wind Blade was only doing ~300 dmg though and 5/5 on merit on Wind Blade but do not remember what the day was].

Good Luck everyone!