A Visual Guide to the Bone Dragon in Crystal Tower

[Felis]

Dragon go north

group: Chaos

[SulwynCaliope]

On tonberry I've only ever seen the dragon in the center strategy. The fight is already very easy. Is there really a need to make it any simpler?

[Feyniphia]

As long as we pass without any exploits, who cares? >.>

[BotenAnna]

As long as we pass without any exploits, who cares? >.>

It would be pretty sad if someone needed an exploit to kill Bone Dragon

[Zantetsuken]

It would be pretty sad if someone needed an exploit to kill Bone Dragon

There are 2 exploits that I know of:

1) 'Tank in the center' Exploit
2) 'Tank at north wall' Exploit


The only sure-fire LEGIT way to beat the Bone dragon is to have the MT kite the Dragon clockwise around the edges of the arena during phase 1. When Skeles pop, MT stops kiting and tanks dragon in the poison while healers trade off healing by running the length of the platforms on the 'spokes'. Meanwhile other tanks pull skeles to first platform on each rung and kill it there but leave 1 in the middle. After this MT kites again around edges but counterclockwise, while melee DOT it. When skeles respawn, they will shift as tank reverses and kites clockwise again (with BRD speed buff and sprint if needed). At this point, MT should be popping X-Potions as needed or using Tank LB to mitigate damage (in addition to other cooldowns). The DPS will need to kill each skele as Main tank passes it's respective spoke (center first though), so they don't get buff and run headlong to kiting MT. Most healer's have a difficult time with this, so what we do is alternate hate between 3 tanks while keeping BRD speed buff active on each. When a tank needs to heal due to poison, they call out the name of the replacement and sprint back to center. It's VERY IMPORTANT that the replacement drops the skele they are killing (if needed) and calls out to MT to swap targets. During Eye phase, we have the extra non-rotational tanks (5 of them) each grab an eye and kite them counter-clockwise around the edges in regular intervals so they eyes don't damage the dps which are at this point ranged attacking the main boss (except for MNKS who are calling out 'Shoulder tackle" cooldowns with each other to avoid stacking them). During eye phase, it's best to have a healer on the last platform of each spoke, to hit a kiting tank with a cure as they run by but they also need to watch the dps in the center who should be swap-tanking the remaining eye(s) in the middle of the arena. NOTE: if possible, get 4x SMNs to swap summon-unsummon Titan-egi - it's much safer at this point, alternatively, a WHM that re-specs VIT and wears high def gear (and food) can effectively tank the remaining eye(s) while any ACNs should carby-zerg it from the safety of the platforms.

Any other strategy just complicates a really easy fight.


PS. I'll include a 4-page instructional pictorial on this soon...


tl:dr - Whack Bat

[Naunet]

The only sure-fire LEGIT way to beat the Bone dragon

Gonna use this strat for all my future encounters with Bone Dragon.

[Zantetsuken]

Gonna use this strat for all my future encounters with Bone Dragon.

It's Trademarked™

But I believe you can use it as long as you give credit where credit is due.l

[Axidrain]

There are 2 exploits that I know of:

1) 'Tank in the center' Exploit
2) 'Tank at north wall' Exploit


The only sure-fire LEGIT way to beat the Bone dragon is to have the MT kite the Dragon clockwise around the edges of the arena during phase 1. When Skeles pop, MT stops kiting and tanks dragon in the poison while healers trade off healing by running the length of the platforms on the 'spokes'. Meanwhile other tanks pull skeles to first platform on each rung and kill it there but leave 1 in the middle. After this MT kites again around edges but counterclockwise, while melee DOT it. When skeles respawn, they will shift as tank reverses and kites clockwise again (with BRD speed buff and sprint if needed). At this point, MT should be popping X-Potions as needed or using Tank LB to mitigat.........

what in the world??

[TaranNos]

Someone on my cluster tried to use the tank in the middle strat, so we all yelled at him and another tank moved him. It was a great way to bring a group together.

[Edellis]

Dragon go north

group: Chaos

pretty much