The Royal Menagerie (From a Healers standpoint)

[NocturniaUzuki]

Ah crap, I can't help can I? Cross-datacenter isn't possible is it?

[Aceht]

I wiped an easy 40 times trying to get this fight done as a healer in solo duty finder.

That being said, this fight was fun as hell, I didn't find the fight overly hard in my opinion. If anything, I'm glad to have cleared it before they decide if/when it gets nerfed.
It felt like an epic fight and I think it was fitting for the last fight.

[Elfidan]

I can't say much except I agree with everything you put here. This felt challenging without being oppressive.

[Gwaeron89]

The biggest problem with this trial is not even its difficulty, its how unmotivated are people who already cleared it to help people who don't.
I just tried it today for the first time via duty finder. Under 3 tries we were able to reach 30% of the boss hp on third phase. After that players who did it before vote abandoned it once 15 minutes pass. I asked in my fc if someone want to help and no one want to touch this thing ever again. Nobody cares about this trial once it done. Nobody wants to tolerate newbies or wait till they learn this fight. And thats how it is.

[Erakir]

I appreciate all of the offers for help, thank you. Once I'm off work in about five hours I'll check to see if you're on.

I've been looking for any party finders from ya or anything, haven't seen anything yet. Got an hour till maintenance at the moment.

Just in case, if you're searching for us on your server you're not going to find anything. Player search is only on your server.

[Averax]

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AST has the best MP sustain in the game if it focuses Ewer and Spear cards. If not, the WHM takes the cake. Some people disagree, but seeing as I've managed to solo heal a 7-player learning party (with a lot of deaths) through it without running out of MP, I beg to differ .

Yeah, but then you're sacrificing your utility just to keep yourself afloat, and without the utility, AST is just WHM lite. And why have WHM lite if you can just have a real WHM. On top of that you have to depend entirely on RNG to get an Ewer, and you know that they never seem to show up when you need them most. WHM objectively has the best MP management with Assize on a > 60 sec cooldown and Thin Air + a bunch of freebie spells to boot.

[Age_of_Oblivion]

Happy to report that I actually managed to beat it! Jumped into a round to warm up and one of our healers dc'ed as the first tidal wave went off; the remaining healer went full god mode and solo healed the instance. We got him down to 4%... then everyone but the dragoon and the healer died (including me). Dragoon got off a LB3 on him and bit the dust, leaving our solo healer against Shinryu sitting at literally no health. Shinryu started an Akh Morn and murdered the healer - but as he died he got off a final Stone. Killed the boss and we cleared. It was quite the rollercoaster.

[HereticBliss]

I put off doing this for 2 days because all the whining casuals made it sound so impossible. I should've known better. After one attempt I personally had it figured out, and the main tank was very good with explaining it to the other members. 2nd attempt was close, 3rd attempt downed it. I wonder if the JP forums sound like a room full of needy children or if it's purely an English thing. Either way, there is no excuse for people to be so unforgivably entitled. Some of you should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves.

[Age_of_Oblivion]

Congrats on your good luck then I guess.

[Eldevern]

Finally! Cleared the 6th run and something like 20 wipes. Mainly thanks to the tanks and healers who all knew the fight (all with 310 items).