AURUM HELL

[Evangela]

O_o I never had any problem with this "hell". actually I did it once to unlock something that I already forgot and I also forgot who's the last boss of that place.

maybe you're just undergeared or getting bad players in your party or you're the bad one yourself. I'd like to know what are you gonna do when you reach Amdapor Keep if you think Aurum Vale is hard.

[Hysterior]

O_o I never had any problem with this "hell". actually I did it once to unlock something that I already forgot and I also forgot who's the last boss of that place.
maybe you're just undergeared or getting bad players in your party or you're the bad one yourself. I'd like to know what are you gonna do when you reach Amdapor Keep if you think Aurum Vale is hard.

I think that WP, AK, CM, and prae are all easier than Aurum Vale...
I hated that dungeon as well, never setting foot there again

[Jyoeru]

1) Make a macro that details the fight. Something like:

/p This fight is similar to the first one. For this fight, tank near back. Face boss away from party at all times. ONLY GRAB FRUIT on your 3rd stack. You MUST watch your stacks. When boss drops seeds, BURN THEM. AOE is your friend here. If you spawn seedlings, BURN THOSE.

Priority for this fight is seeds > seedlings > stacks > boss.
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2) You have great odds that there will be at least one AOE person in your party. If your party is not taking crazy damage (meaning high stacks and standing in boss's face), and you have a WHM, have them do 2x Holy on seeds and that takes care of that.

3) Or have them do 1x Holy and have DPS do 1x their AOE.

4) Or just have DPS burn single targets as best they can if you are stuck with an odd group (which should be very rare). Then have them burn seedlings. Then back on boss. Tank should always take boss back to tank area, facing away from the party.

My first run through this dungeon was just as you described, but after I learned the fight and made the explanation macro and took initiative as a WHM on seedlings, I haven't had a bad run since. I ran that dungeon at least 30 times while leveling.

Best of luck!

[Zaythe]

The last boss in the dungeon can be a pain so, as others have pointed out, try go for a AoE heavy party. I think this fight is where a Warrior can really outshine a paladin with berserk/over power spam on the seeds. Every little bit helps. Also for a quick note, if any of the seedling hatch tell the other members before the fight NOT to run away with them on them. Simply group up and AoE them down.

I tried this personally on a MNK and while MNK has AoE, I had trouble. I switched over to WAR and ran with a good AoE party and he went down first shot.