From Mog to you: Darkhold full clear, 4 chests, 20 minutes remaining.

[Rentahamster]

I guess I could see it being possible if one MRD tanked batraal while the other handled all the adds with a mage? Is a MRD handling multiple skeletons possible?

That's how my group does it, but we take it slow to prevent deaths. We got a GLA tanking Bat, though.

[Richardd]

I guess I could see it being possible if one MRD tanked batraal while the other handled all the adds with a mage? Is a MRD handling multiple skeletons possible?

1 MRD on Batraal with 1 healer. Everyone else clumps up skeletons and banish/scourge/wide volley ect them down takes about 15~20 seconds at most.

[Aina]

I guess I could see it being possible if one MRD tanked batraal while the other handled all the adds with a mage? Is a MRD handling multiple skeletons possible?

handling multiple of all 8 of them would result an ass kicked in the end imo, have to kill some at some time for sho.

[Scape]

I guess I could see it being possible if one MRD tanked batraal while the other handled all the adds with a mage? Is a MRD handling multiple skeletons possible?

1 MRD on Batraal with 1 healer. Everyone else clumps up skeletons and banish/scourge/wide volley ect them down takes about 15~20 seconds at most.

The basics would be off-tanking skeleton adds with a 2nd MRD while DPSing Batraal full-time

yes, but lets not let the MRDs here on the forums hear. It's much more fun to watch them cry about how useless they think they are

[TheFatHousecat]

Does the Batraal kill strategy require Coral Arrows?

*White Coral Arrows

[Maya_Fey]

Who needs to kill skele when you can stack BR arch WS to deal 700-1k each..

[Zdenka]

1 MRD on Batraal with 1 healer. Everyone else clumps up skeletons and banish/scourge/wide volley ect them down takes about 15~20 seconds at most.

Interesting, i was wondering about MRD P2 healer (1x or 2x) since we never tried MRD yet... P1 and P3 are less damage so i knew 1 healer on those phases wouldn't be a problem.

[ScorchyWorchy]

yeah thx for not being one of those gonna keep all tips to ourself ls's

[KingZeus]

yeah thx for not being one of those gonna keep all tips to ourself ls's

People are complaining too much about that sorta thing

oh, and i did make a thread posting Batraal strategy already a few days ago so no need to say that we aren't giving strategy away.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...el-Darkhold%29

we are working VERY hard on ourselves figuring out fast kill strategies, and people expect hard work to just be handed over on silver platter?
Figuring it out on your own is part of this game, part of the fun, excitement, and self-respect.
There are tons of threads talking about fighting strategies. Fast kills, battle regiments, etc.

We have confirmed and closed all the theories it's 35+ minutes, fast kill. That saves everybody from killing themselves over more theories!

So please try hard and do your best at boss strategies and killing

I wish you all luck with that!

[Andra]

People are complaining too much about that sorta thing

Well... just to make them believe you and confirm the 35+ minutes theory:

Most media player's offer a screenshot-function. Now you just have to open your kill video and maybe do a video-screenshot from the start of your Batraal Fight and the moment he has, let's say, like 1% left.

About your worrys regarding your strategy... there are tons of graphic-programms with a "blur"-function or you just "paint" a censored bar over the chat-log and every character on-screen (you could leave your names on-screen so no one can say that it's a stolen screenshot). I doubt you can figure out a strategy if you can't see the characters jobs and their exact stance and only thing visible are the monsters.

Batraal at 20%

That's a screenshot from our first Batraal-Kill, he was at around 20% there. I've timer problems, sometimes the timer shows up and sometimes it dosn't... that's why you can't see it on this screen. =/ But if there would be a timer visible... that would give you a pretty good idea about how fast you were.

Batraal down

Since my timer was broken i don't know if the timer was still up there or not. But you can see for sure that Batraal is down. You could offer a similar screenshot and then everyone would shut up. :-P