Rivenroad (Hard)

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17:48 kill with seven deaths, on pace for ~12-13min kill without any deaths. we'll see what we end up with when we try again wednesday

but i can pretty much confirm that he will always jump and megaflare as soon as he takes ~2500+ damage. leading with buffed thundagas and going all out with 3 drgs, we weren't able to do more than 2500 damage. we just did it faster (15-20sec), and that still had no influence on damage taken.

most of us can survive without lunar curtain, but that's mainly because we start with HP food and HP gear, have aoe sanguine rite and stoneskin and battle voice. lunar curtain was still necessary for our bard.

Man thats pretty fast. Did you guys use 3 dragoons? We killed it with about 8 minutes left on the clock in both of our wins but our party setup has consisted of 2 monks for golems and their damage output just can't compare to a dragoon. Even my dragoon which is crappily geared compared to someone who is a career dragoon did like 23k more total damage over the course of the fight to darnus against people who have heavily geared monks. I didn't even notice that he uses the golems after dalamud dive until the other night in the fight we won because I have only actually been apart of the fight like 10 times since I have been so busy with school so I would like to try the whole intentionally letting him dalamud dive right before golem phase and burning him down with 3 dragoons and also eating a majority of the dalamud dives to see if we cant shave off 3 or 4 minutes.

On a side note to that, I also noticed what you were pointing out with the whole surviving without lunar curtains thing the other night. My Drg had like 300ish hp left after megaflare in 2 out of the 3 attempts I didn't use a curtain but I did get one shotted in one of the attempts and I have no idea why since I didn't do anything differently, so maybe it was a fluke or maybe the damage fluctuates or maybe he some how got a crit megaflare on me? I also found that it worth popping dread spikes right before megaflare happened because like 50% of the time he likes to follow it up with an iron chariot and you can get a good amount of HP back from that while only sacrificing a power surge that is only like 3 or 4 weaponskills in.