Rivenroad (Hard)

[Taika]

I'm sorry for hijacking your thread but my group just started doing this today (so much fun!) and I have one question: how should we deal with the golems during 2nd megaflare (when he's charging the 2nd megaflare, that is)? What have you guys done?

[Stanislaw]

I'm sorry for hijacking your thread but my group just started doing this today (so much fun!) and I have one question: how should we deal with the golems during 2nd megaflare (when he's charging the 2nd megaflare, that is)? What have you guys done?

My group completely ignores it, except for the two golems that spawn in one of the middle platforms where the THMs and BRDs and standing by to shoot down the Lunar Fragments. They are dealt with the MNKs and the WHMs.

[Madruk]

I'm sorry for hijacking your thread but my group just started doing this today (so much fun!) and I have one question: how should we deal with the golems during 2nd megaflare (when he's charging the 2nd megaflare, that is)? What have you guys done?

There's actually a very easy way to avoid this stage entirely. I'm assuming you're talking about the golems that pop around 60% in the second phase. The setup we used was PLD, BRD, DRGx2, WHM, BLMx3. If you get Darnus down to 80%ish after the second phase, stop dps and wait for him to do Dalamund jump (just make sure you keep at that % dont let him regen too much). When he lands again, burn him from 80% to 50% and you can skip the golem phase entirely (he does the actual golem phase at 60%, so anything below that works). With two DRGs and the BLM's we usually got him down to below 50% before he did his second jump, but that was with a fairly stacked group. Even with less gear it should be fairly easy to burn him down past 59% so long as you know what you're doing with two DRG's.

Being able to switch out those extra WHM's and MNK's for DRG's makes this fight go much much faster.

Edit: Nvm im a dumbass you're just talking about the golems that pop with the megaflare haha, but what I posted above should still help some people that might be struggling with the actual golem phase.