Tonberry King strat for WP

[Pride_Xiv]

When I tank WP, I tell everyone to ignore the adds and not use any AoE. Just focus on the boss only and let me do the rest. I move boss around the arena and have only died to this boss 2 times ever(out of over 30 runs). 1 time when I first fought the boss and last week when a BLM in a pug group did LB early which didn't kill boss thus damaging the adds which caused them to attack and stop following me.

Boss is super easy and fight goes fast since everyone is focusing only on boss. My 2 cents

[Curagaja]

Do not go beyond 4 stacks unless the tank is really really well geared. Even then it's iffy.

ie. Last run I did, the DD could not understand that and the tank kept on getting one shot.

There is no way I can heal an attack that does more damage than the tank has life.

You should really never have this problem if your tank actually knows what stat he needs. As long as his gear is decently up to date and he didn't put points into STR or something then your healer should have no problem keeping him full through continuous add killing.

[Miltani]

Just get the DDs to burn down the boss. While the whm switch to cleric stance and holy the tonberrry. One holy can kill them off. Top off the tank's hp while needed.
There is no need to kite or anything straight tank and burn the king down.

[Amyas]

Do not go beyond 4 stacks unless the tank is really really well geared. Even then it's iffy.

Eh, I used the 'dds kill all adds ignoring rancor buff' strat when I was still in vermillion stuff from TWP, never had to worry too much.

Anyways please enlighten me how a PuG tank can with stand an attack that does more damage than their life if DD kills to many adds? Are you saying that 10k in one hit is healable? Please teach me!

Uhh... I don't even think the buff can get high enough to do that sort of damage before resetting. I guess you get a lot of pld that don't save their cooldowns then?

[sasakusaku]

You should really never have this problem if your tank actually knows what stat he needs. As long as his gear is decently up to date and he didn't put points into STR or something then your healer should have no problem keeping him full through continuous add killing.

Most time, I get new tanks and or the ones that are actually DPS in disguise who think slapping together a bunch of lvl 20-35 gear makes them good to go so they can get insta que. Ah the life of a DF only healer! So much fun!

Anyways please enlighten me how a PuG tank can with stand an attack that does more damage than their life if DD kills to many adds? Please teach me!

[avecha]

Our Group
MRD
DRG
BLM
WHM

BLM deals with the adds, 3-4 stacks of grudge, rinse repeat. Once the full LB is ready DRG uses it and the boss is dead.

This is what we do. I BLM, take care of the adds. Other 3 on King. Once the big Tonberries spawn, i do a couple of fire rotations on the king then LB then he is dead. Doesn't take long.

[Jerec]

I don't know why people try to kite the adds on the king. The adds will hit the target they are aggro'd on for 600 a piece or so. Depending on class and gear. If they move while they have aggro. key is to stay still during the fight. Depending on the tanks HPs. it how many Adds you kill. 1k Per Stack. (no including mitigation) So if the tank has 5k HPS. You can safely get 4 stacks. One DPS should be killing the adds consistently. Once the Slasher Spawn. All Adds should be ignored and everyone should DPS race to kill the King. I've very rarely needed limitbreak to finish this fight, but it does help when dps is low.

However, instead of kiting Adds...Kiting The king himself does work. His grudge will miss from being out of range. However, you'll need to pull him into the middle of the room quickly because of the slashers.

[Ri_ri]

I've done WP around 5 times now as BLM atm. I just Scathe and kite the additional Tonberries until Everyone's Grudge. Never saw this instant ability.

[UBERHAXED]

Our Group
MRD
DRG
BLM
WHM

BLM deals with the adds, 3-4 stacks of grudge, rinse repeat. Once the full LB is ready DRG uses it and the boss is dead.

Our group:
BRD
BLM
DRG
SCH

SCH handles the adds, never had a problem. Don't need a tank for this fight (or dungeon). Same party for AK. Tanks can be asses if they want; we don't need them.
On topic: Kill the adds slower and don't let them reach the boss. You can just pull them with one move and kite them of you have to. 3 at a time is usually fine. You will have to just go full throttle when the slashers spawn and either kill them all with an AoE (via weaker aoes like Bard's or stonger ones like LBs) when they gather to the boss or ignore them completely and win before they are a problem.

[Hanemakikaze]

I've always killed all adds even when tank wasnt "geared", never wiped once. What is this.