I've been stuck for a while in this fight for the relic weapon.
My ilvl average is 60 which is pretty much the "okay" level for this fight.
Yet parties I've gone to have always failed mainly due to one aoe out of the million, mainly the mutiple stomp after heart. I survive it, but it basically kills all the healers and/or casters unless they spam aoes, added with the pressure of avoiding everything else...yeah.
I thought of an alternative which might make this difficulty steep ladder a bit easier.
Would slotting crafted gear with earth materia help this fight dramatically? Basically all his attacks should be earth so it could change the tides of this fight very much.