Tonberry King strategies?

[Asdamine]

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[Laiyenu]

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http://youtu.be/8683V667N_k

[A_Lost_Time_Mage]

There are 2 efficient, calm, and viable strategies to this.

Both require a few key things:
Tank - Hold TBK in the center of room. Distance = Time. Slows the add threat.
Healer - If you have a dps go add duty, keep them cleansed of heavy effect. They will love you for it. Stoneskin before TBK's Everbodies Grudge if 3 stacks+
IGNORE big tons completely.

Strategy 1 - Blm/Brd/Smn go add duty and use dot's and tab target. Do this until Big Ton's spawn and you just burn the boss from there. Core team(Tank-Healer-2nd DPS) just tank and spank.
Strategy 2 - Make sure you have 1 if not 2 AoE based dps' such as Blm/Brd/Smn and wait for adds to get in close to tank/boss then burn them down with AoE's. LB2 the last set before big Tons.

Before you ask or scrutinize, YES, this can be done at low gear checks. I've done it with only 1 piece of DL and a Garuda bow and I was the highest of the gear check. Strategy 1 is better for low level gear sets.

[Rochetm]

I never fail on him. The biggest mistake I have seen is people telling the tank to kite or having Blm deal with the adds.

Tank the boss in the middle. One dps on adds, one on boss. Choices for add duty Brd > Smn > Drg > Mnk > Blm. The wind-up time for Blm is what hurts them from my exp. The little tonberry have very little HP and go down fast. Also this is very important... The little Tonberry are dead before you see them go down. You can attack them long after they are dead... if your dps do this it is going to really slow them down.

Every tank can handle 3 stacks at least. If you can't it is because the healer is failing big time or you are not using your AF.

One final point... The little guys are not very dangerous to anyone that isn't tanking. Anyone can get them off the tank and should if they get to close. Even healers should be tossing stuff at them just to keep them off the tank.

[GeilLega]

Ran this 10 times today, with run #1 being the first time. Died to the boss once. Tank in full AF gear with DL belt and GC weapon...and have finished it easily with 3 others geared the same.

The most wipes occurred with a BLM wearing a mix of Allagans and DL, and her two friends in the same. I don't think gear makes all that much of a difference, when the adds are picked up correctly it's easy, when not it's hard.

As a PLD coming in fresh at 50 with no real gear to speak of, 4 stacks left me with 200 health or so, 5 stacks killed me if I didn't get SS/Adl before the hit, which for some reason I usually don't.

*shrug* I'd watch the video posted and set your group up accordingly...I didn't feel like any of the WP bosses were all that hard.

[Casper]

It all boils down to the DPS you assign to killing tonberries. It is quite simple, really: kill tonberries as soon as possible... But stop at the number of stack you can handle (3 for < 5k and some tanks, 4 for > 5k and some tanks, basically).

Obviously you have DPS overzealous that will kill you by pulling a 6 stacks grudge. However note that you have a LOT more that think they got it and are overcautious. They keep feeding you 1 to 2 stacks grudge for the first 60% of the fights, thus leting slowly some tonberries accumulate. As the fight then increase in pace, and as you can not catch up later (cause can't go to 5 stacks), it means that every time you eat a 1 to 2 grudge with any tonberry still alive, your dps sucked and made the ending part of the fight harder. If he does it too much, you will die at the end swarmed by tonberries.

Last point, when big tonberries spawn, it is the signal for stopping caring about mini tonberries altogether and turn into burn boss down mod.