Quote Originally Posted by fusional View Post
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.
I used to go brd and bv after we zoned in and changed to BLM and the hp buff would last long enough so we just needed an aoe Sangunie rite and we could still use potions throughout the fight but we eventually just went back to using lunar curtains.

You can do it either way, whatever works best for your group.