Yeah, it's pretty damn hard. Easier than Darnus, but HAAARD.

I'm not even going to bother with primal weapons... going for skirmish + 25k gc, then slowly working on relic. :< I'm not doing this because I can't do it (I can, though it would take hours)... it's just the drop rate is stupid and I'd rather spend time socializing and joking around with my guild while casually doing caravans than fighting an OP boss for hours while my guild racks their respective brains.

And after spending 3 days failing nonstop at beating Darnus before finally beating him with a team that had the drive to finally succeed, I'm taking a while to relax and do the side missions and whatnot.