For those of you clearing T9 regularly...

[NyneAlexander]

What is the one piece of advice you'd give to a static? Currently my group is stuck in the final phase. We're close (divebombs) but not there yet, and unfortunately we just lost a member. I'm hoping we can clean it up and down him by this weekend, but I'm looking for any protips that might help small transitions, like being positioned correctly for lunar dynamo/thunder, or easing the blow of double meteor streams while dodging DBs.

We run with 1 WAR tank, 5 dps, whm, sch.

[Exstal]

Depends on you want to do it.

First fire tether runs out, not too far, then everyone stacks behind Nael and the thunder target goes a little forward. That'll keep them out of range for hitting everyone while not being hit by dynamo.　When you get to divebombs, just don't stack at all. It's more of a judgement call from each member not to run too close to each other at that phase.

[Sove92]

Fire out, target runs a short distance away from group.
Thunder goes behind Nael, others stack up in front
Fire in
Thunder behind Nael
Spread out
Fire out
Thunder hits, no one should be close to this person
Bait the novas, wait for the 2nd before running for the beam stack point (if you are close to the stacking point, you need to wait a little more)
Fire in
Thunder behind Nael
Prepare for Dives
Dive 1, spread out for Meteor Stream, stay away from the edges, dive 2 and next streams
Stay away from tank for Dalamud Dive

repeat until next dives

Dive 1
Iron Chariot
Dive 2
Lunar Dynamo, sprint back to grp if you are the target of 2nd dive

Repeat first rotation
Repat second rotation, but you'll probably enrage before this finishes.

[Wizhard]

Dont give up.
I assume that since you have 5 dps you have no trouble transitioning from heavensfall with 1 ghost.
For thunder/dynamo Nael will jump on the person who ran out with the fire out so dont run too far, and what we do is position thunder behind the boss and rest of the raid in front, you can start to position right after he jumps.
For DBs with double streams just spread around the center when the first DB mark comes up, do it in advance and start pre-healing.

[NyneAlexander]

Dont give up.
I assume that since you have 5 dps you have no trouble transitioning from heavensfall with 1 ghost.

We always get a 2nd ghost, but I know that we have the dps to push with one, so we must be doing something really wrong. Right now, we push hard right after 1st heavensfall, kill the ghost, push more on nael, and then the 2nd ghost I use meteor, which just about kills the ghost and pushes nael into the last phase.

But i'm thinking we should push hard, kill first ghost, push and have mnk lb3 to avoid the 2nd ghost. Is this correct?

For thunder/dynamo Nael will jump on the person who ran out with the fire out so dont run too far, and what we do is position thunder behind the boss and rest of the raid in front, you can start to position right after he jumps.

Didn't know he always jumps to the first fire out, so this helps a ton.

Thank you all for your suggestions. Hoping to down this jerk this week.

[KyrsIsley]

We always get a 2nd ghost, but I know that we have the dps to push with one, so we must be doing something really wrong. Right now, we push hard right after 1st heavensfall, kill the ghost, push more on nael, and then the 2nd ghost I use meteor, which just about kills the ghost and pushes nael into the last phase.

But i'm thinking we should push hard, kill first ghost, push and have mnk lb3 to avoid the 2nd ghost. Is this correct?





Didn't know he always jumps to the first fire out, so this helps a ton.

Thank you all for your suggestions. Hoping to down this jerk this week.

If you want to push for 1 ghost. LB3 the 1st ghost and nael together with a caster LB and just push hard on Nael. Try to not waste dps on the ghost by not DPSing it past 60% when LB3 is being casted, rather switch back on Nael when ghost reach 60% and just let the range dps switch back and finish it off after LB3 hits.

[YuriRamona]

If you want to push for 1 ghost. LB3 the 1st ghost and nael together with a caster LB and just push hard on Nael. Try to not waste dps on the ghost by not DPSing it past 60% when LB3 is being casted, rather switch back on Nael when ghost reach 60% and just let the range dps switch back and finish it off after LB3 hits.

With 5 DPS, you should easily push one ghost.

If not, you need to seriously re-evaluate the composition of your party.

[Recaldy]

You can keep a weekly attendance of 8 of the same people who won't derp for t6-8 all the while logging on on time?

._.

[Wizhard]

We always get a 2nd ghost, but I know that we have the dps to push with one, so we must be doing something really wrong. Right now, we push hard right after 1st heavensfall, kill the ghost, push more on nael, and then the 2nd ghost I use meteor, which just about kills the ghost and pushes nael into the last phase.

But i'm thinking we should push hard, kill first ghost, push and have mnk lb3 to avoid the 2nd ghost. Is this correct?

Try caster lb3 first ghost with the boss when the ghost is at about 65% and keep your melees on the boss. Do you have a smn? if so you can pretty much bane and throw a couple gcds on the ghost from ranged and it should die from dots+lb.

Didn't know he always jumps to the first fire out, so this helps a ton.

From what we observed he usually jumps on the people who are not in melee range which should only be the person with fire out.

[Rubieus]

This fight is every much about micro managing the whole team as much as it is for every individual.

Find your weak links first, players who don't move to the back when they have lightning, players who move to the middle too soon during black holes. etc.

From there you might want a dedicated an announcer to say when certain abilities are going off. Make sure you know where to go when divebombs, etc.
it takes some practic