Quote Originally Posted by DarkRain View Post
PW..... this guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeX5PTz_1h0

MAN i wanted to fight him so BAD! My sam that gear awesome!

And yes it (was ) the hardest fight in ant MMO that and maybe this guy too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxY9P...eature=related

This was a hell of a fight also
That AV Video is very misleading AV is about 10fold harder then PW. Excellence was not your normal linkshell it was probably in the top 5-6 best linkshells of all times on FFXI. They used I believe 7-9 Kraken clubs in those videos which SE nerfed shortly after. Aka those attacks the linkshell was using would go from hitting for 255dmg a hit every 1/7 of a sec to about 20dmg a hit in about 20-30hits. Which with that many kclub is about a sec.

By the time PW came out it was immune to soul eater, so players could never zerg that one down with Kclubs.

{for those not familiar Krakenclub it was a 40mill-60mill 1% drop rate item from a BCNM hits 2-8times once every ~2secs, with full haste it is slightly over 1 sec per 2-8hits + Soul Eater Drains 10-12% hp per hit and adds it strait to dmg per hit so 20dmg to around 240-250 + Blood Weapon All dmg you deal is drained back as HP this counters souleater's hp drain effect, it is about 15k-30kdmg in 30secs}

AV uses all 2hrs, and several of them pretty much are a guaranteed wipe and it uses them over and over unless you lock them, this includes benediction which fills its hp to 100%. On top of that it hit for around 400-600dmg a hit with 1200dmg ws attacks. Along with insane fastcast on 500-800dmg aoe spells and 1200dmg single target AM2 spells. I would say the overwhelming majority of linkshell's could not even get it below 90% before a full wipe, maby a 10-25 could get it below 70% before it goes into crazy death mode, and excellence and maby 3-4 others actually killed it. From what I heard before the level increase only 2 shells killed it without the krakenclub zerg or terrain exploits.