Final Boss strats? (spoilers?)

[MariyaShidou]

What's your strategy for server congestion move? Can't hide from it :S

[Krausus]

note Dragoons, in phase 2 he will do double chariots (double knockback) if you get hit by both the outside AoE will also hit you and kill you. It is probably best to hang out by the WHM's and after he does double chariot run in for a barrage of combos and then run back out and wait for double chariot again. Holy Dragoon's strat posted above makes this fight way easier than the double mages on platforms at start of phase 2 strat, as 2 mages is a waist of DPS on the boss.

[Alerith]

As promised, here is the upload of our win for you all. Taken from the perspective of one of our WHM (Not me). He sent me the video and I cut the original audio. (It was a lot of us yelling in vent.) I added the official battle music for the fight from both phases.

To Kill a Raven victory video

Please enjoy.

[Kagato]

I was tanking Darnus and he 1-shotted me for no reason. I wasn't on or near the stairs. He just teleported to the top of the stairs after summoning meteors, then teleported to me again and hit me for 9999 right after. I never went to the stairs that entire time.

[Alerith]

I was tanking Darnus and he 1-shotted me for no reason. I wasn't on or near the stairs. He just teleported to the top of the stairs after summoning meteors, then teleported to me again and hit me for 9999 right after. I never went to the stairs that entire time.

During the second phase? Because if you allowed any meteors to hit the ground while he was up top, then his Megaflare will do extreme damage. 9999 if you allowed three to hit.

[Kagato]

It wasn't Megaflare. it was him using his lance.

[Psion]

As far as that pic showing where to stand goes, my party tried it and had a single issue with it: our tank kept getting bounced around too much. Darnus warping around meant he sometimes approached from different sides, flinging him around, once even bouncing him up the stairs then one shotting him with 9999 ravensbeak.

So we instead had our tank stand where the mage spot was, to the right of the black post there. If you stand to the right of the post, you can wedge yourself between it and the outside of the arena, making it so you don't move at all, perfect for tanks. at worst, darnus bounces you by being at the left side, and you quickly hit the underside of the stairs and dont move much. this made it much easier on the mages, because they didn't have to constantly adjust their distance to darnus and could just focus on the fight at hand.

Mages just stood near the front stairs, i think somewhere near the left post but not quite next to it. You'll have to find the correct distance, but once you find it its easy to keep there. :P

Melee fighters have an easier time of it too. During the 50% hp and less in the second phase, melees just need to stand near front of darnus unless they are executing a combo from behind or side. (time your combos so that you only combo behind him after hes just done his own combo.) Because you only get bounced into the wall and under the stairs, you never fly far enough for him to hit you with his lunar dynamo finish, which means you'll survive with low hp and not heal his. You can also use featherfoot to dodge one of said hits and lower damage.

It's far better than trying to featherfoot and dodge one of his hits while you run to safety at any rate.

Using this strat our party went from wiping around 30% second phase, to getting him to 11% (tank dced lol), to getting to megaflare stage (survived megaflare, wiped soon after due to chaos getting back to bottom), to winning on our third try with nary a hitch the entire fight.

[AdvancedWind]

I was tanking Darnus and he 1-shotted me for no reason. I wasn't on or near the stairs. He just teleported to the top of the stairs after summoning meteors, then teleported to me again and hit me for 9999 right after. I never went to the stairs that entire time.

If - anyone - is on the stairs while he's teleporting, he starts using fierce ravensbeak. He doesn't necessarily use it on whoever got up the stairs.