Thornmarch

After countless wipes, finally managed to put King Mog in a coffin!

I have to say, regardless of how many times I wiped it, it was always a fun fight and am glad it came with the 2.1 content.

My team consisted of: WAR, WAR, SCH, SCH, BRD, BRD, MNK, DRG

Odd team composition as we didnt have a Pally to Main Tank or WHM for Regen/Stoneskin.

Given we had 2 warriors and 4 very good single target DPS, we were able to down all mogs in first phase with time to spare.

My warrior was main tank with ilvl65 and ~5000HP (without Defiance), and managed to tank King Mog (dodging, but still taking large hits if in Bard's aoe).

So anyone who may be having trouble with the fight, i65 might be a minimum number for tanking, assuming you have good healers.. Our order: BLM, WHM, BRD, PLD, THF, ARC, WAR, King Mog.
This is Hallo- Hail King Moggle Mog!

Congrats! Finally downed king mog!

I still need to find people who are willing to fight him.

Congratulations!

I've been doing this at least twice a day over the past 3 or 4 days. War tank.

As the Main Tank the only suggestion I have for anyone trying this out is to run the perimeter (about half or a third) when King Moogle does his blue bar frontal attack.

It saves you from quite a few hits as King Moogle needs to float back to you. Gives your healers the much needed break they deserve.

Also, there are a few guides that suggest MT tanks King Moogle and the War. It also suggest the war's stun the blm in the second phase.

I personally would not suggest this. The cleanest runs I had, were when the MT stayed on King Moogle only, the OT kept the War Pld at bay.... Opposite sides of the battle field if possible. Also having the DPS stun the blm's Pom Flare seems to work the best.

Ketch I'll agree. I had multiple succesful DF runs and then had a group where PLD was held with King Moogle and it just was a nightmare. Not to mention we had a player who insisted on reading off kill order by the moogle's names which just confused everyone.

I do this fight all the time. My favorite fight in the game... the music... the moogles... the fluffiness!!!

Moogle Fists with Hellish Claw stats.

Soon tm

Congratulations! It's an awesome fight. And while I haven't beaten it yet, I don't mind at all eating dirt for this encounter. It's just so much fun.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

I still need to find people who are willing to fight him.

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Keep an eye out on the Party Finder! My FC frequently puts together newbie/learning parties for all sorts of events. We did a couple of attempts at Thornmarch over the weekend. Was a lot of fun and learned a lot about the encounter.

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Originally Posted by MrDiezel

Our order: BLM, WHM, BRD, PLD, THF, ARC, WAR, King Mog.

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Ugh...I'd say this is a problem more than an "undergeared" tank (esp MT...he should be kiting the entire time and not really taking much damage in the first place, and PLD is not necessary at all) or lack of WHM (I've run 2 SCH no issues many times...Lustrate and Lustrate and Lustrate...)

WHM does nothing. Especially compared to what killing him early does...King's Pom Holy is much stronger than the WHM's; a punishment for killing the (useless) heal fast.

Our kill-order is BLM, BRD, GLA, RNG, MRD, THF, WHM, King. As long as DPS passes the two DPS checks and follows the marks and doesn't derp to Moogle-Go-Round, everything is fine. Often we go into DF with one or two tanks and a Heal and/or DPS or two.

I've tanked, healed and DPSed the fight many times BTW, and have 5 of the Moogle weapons so far (really want the Sword, but it just will not drop)

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Originally Posted by Ketch

As the Main Tank the only suggestion I have for anyone trying this out is to run the perimeter (about half or a third) when King Moogle does his blue bar frontal attack.

Also, there are a few guides that suggest MT tanks King Moogle and the War. It also suggest the war's stun the blm in the second phase.

I personally would not suggest this. The cleanest runs I had, were when the MT stayed on King Moogle only, the OT kept the War Pld at bay.... Opposite sides of the battle field if possible. Also having the DPS stun the blm's Pom Flare seems to work the best.

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Thats exactly what we did. Always thought War + King was a bit much, so we changed it. The only thing I did not do was Kite King Mog. Thinking back on it, that definitely would have been a much safer option. But yes, assuming you have a monk, dragoon or bard (anything with silence/stun) BLM Pom Flare shouldn't be an issue. And should only be alive to cast it once

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Originally Posted by PArcher

MT...he should be kiting the entire time and not really taking much damage in the first place

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I've tried to straight up Kite the Moogle King, but somehow get hit just as often. Would love to see how your guy Kites. As a War tank, I just found it safest to hit the Moogle King with my Storm's Eye, Storm's Path combo for the added defense and healing, then Kite when the Moogle was busy with a big action.

Well, Thornmarch has been nerfed for patch 2.15. I want to say it wasnt necessary due to me having tried so hard to beat it, and succeeded. But, i guess enough people whined about it, so here we are. Hopefully its not a huge nerf, because the amount of competence from each player for this fight made it exciting and put me on edge.

While the moogle tactic wise is just right (after garuda, but before titan), the gear check is a little higher then it should be.

Even a geared group will wipe from a bad luck by the random aoe provoke. While you can do it a lot easier by farming LB off the blm, that's clearly not a tactic the developer wanted.