The Raven Nevermore

[Renen]

Looking for random player tips on the fight.
Doing it with a group. And having a rather hard time.

Edit: Props to SE for making a good and hard fight though. When I beat it I will actually feel pretty good knowing that I am actually good enough :-)

[casevi]

kill it with fire!!

[Renen]

Is how the fight makes me feel

[Dannythm]

Get blm's and whm's and 1 tank + 1 melee, don't let any meteor touch the ground, get into the area of his aoe to not let him steal life. Te tank can move a bit to avoid getting the charge attack. Win.

[Renen]

You make it sound so easy >_<

[Dannythm]

You make it sound so easy >_<

Took me about 10 tries with a full LS party to beat it down, but afterwards once we knew how it was done it was fast, nice, and easy.

Consider ringing a BRD too to help mana regen for the BLM's so it should be 1 tank, 1 melee (to kite and kill the earth elementals, as Nael won't use his meteor attack until those are dead, and are almost immune to magic) 1 brd to help the mana regen, melee with dps, 2whm and 3 blms. Meteors are weak to aero, so maybe one whm coudl be in cleric stance is the party is not taking too much damage.

[Honz]

The setup we used was Pld, 2x Drg, Mnk, Brd, Whm, 2x Blm.

Monk with FoW is a godsend on the golems. Since this is a pretty lengthy fight Drg does over better damage compared to Blm/Mnk.

Boss's teleport isn't hard to predict and avoid so melee can stay on the boss for most of the fight.

Bluegartr has a good guide if you dont' know about it already

edit: I believe OP is talking about the hard mode darnus fight, I think some people are confused.

[Renen]

Well, I consider myself a good WHM, but i dont think I can outheal Darnu's dmg if 1/2 the ppl constantly get hit by every AoE.
Also, what do you do with the 2 BLM? middle level for whole fight?


Tried running with 2 MNK 1 BRD 2 BLM 2 WHM 1 PLD, our damage was SO BAD! That and people constantly died because whats self healing and holding hate?

[Zezlar]

Took me about 10 tries with a full LS party to beat it down, but afterwards once we knew how it was done it was fast, nice, and easy.

Consider ringing a BRD too to help mana regen for the BLM's so it should be 1 tank, 1 melee (to kite and kill the earth elementals, as Nael won't use his meteor attack until those are dead, and are almost immune to magic) 1 brd to help the mana regen, melee with dps, 2whm and 3 blms. Meteors are weak to aero, so maybe one whm coudl be in cleric stance is the party is not taking too much damage.

The Raven, Nevermore is not To Kill a Raven.

[Honz]

This fight is not a complete pushover that can be done with a random group.

http://bluegarter.guildwork.com/foru...us-darnus-hard

BG's guide is pretty much a step by step.

At phase 1 (which is after his initial megaflare) one blm will always be on middle platform taking care of meteors, after 60% health 2nd blm should join the other blm nuking meteors. Once Darnus is below 40% health one blm can return to help dps the boss.

When Darnus is nearly defeated he will teleport up top for a second megaflare, melee should dps as much as possible here to prevent a instant wipe from megaflare.

Phase 2 starts after his megaflare and he recovers to full health.

edit: right I forgot melee should be using featherfoot whenever its up to help mitigate some damage. Our whm usually runs out of mp on phase 2 from nuking the golems.