Plucking Wings

[Byrthnoth]

This BC is about to become very relevant to my interests. Looking from the ffwiki page, I see three basic options:

1) Manaburn it: 5 BLM, maybe 1 RDM/BLM. Sleepga, nuke, kite, and have a stun order.

2) DD zerg it: 4 SAMs (WAR/SAMs, etc), 1 BRD/DRK, 1 WHM/BLM. No 2-hours, just meditate up, nail him with 2-3 WSs each, and hope that's enough. BRD subs DRK to Stun a spell, WHM subs BLM to Sleepga the adds and prepares big Curagas in case they're needed.

3) Hybrid of the two: 3 BLMs, 1 RDM/DRK (or WHM?), 2 SAM/NINs. Pull him back to the start, SAMs share hate while BLMs deal with the adds and Stun the boss. Could go one fewer BLM and one more DD depending what his casting frequency is.

Anyone have any experience with this Op? What works? What doesn't work? Does he cast status-ga spells?

[Therin]

This BC is about to become very relevant to my interests. Looking from the ffwiki page, I see three basic options:

1) Manaburn it: 5 BLM, maybe 1 RDM/BLM. Sleepga, nuke, kite, and have a stun order.

2) DD zerg it: 4 SAMs (WAR/SAMs, etc), 1 BRD/DRK, 1 WHM/BLM. No 2-hours, just meditate up, nail him with 2-3 WSs each, and hope that's enough. BRD subs DRK to Stun a spell, WHM subs BLM to Sleepga the adds and prepares big Curagas in case they're needed.

3) Hybrid of the two: 3 BLMs, 1 RDM/DRK (or WHM?), 2 SAM/NINs. Pull him back to the start, SAMs share hate while BLMs deal with the adds and Stun the boss. Could go one fewer BLM and one more DD depending what his casting frequency is.

Anyone have any experience with this Op? What works? What doesn't work? Does he cast status-ga spells?

I did this BCNM a few times with the standard Splitting Heirs setup: PLD/NIN, PLD/NIN, BRD, RDM, BLM, DD and it worked well. It's not that hard, just gotta keep an eye out for adds and Astral Flow.

*EDIT* The DD was a DRK/SAM for Stun.

[Aable]

When I did this, we had no issues, its very easy
DRK/NIN x2 WHM/SCH RDM/BLM BRD/WHM BLM/RDM
Pulled to the start, Mainly let the DRKs handle the stuns, have BLM as backup. Left the helpers slept the whole fight, if one was being a bother, blm would kill it.

As long as you nail the stuns, its one of the easiest fights around.

[konoko]

ive beaten it with a mnk/nin for tanking, 2 rng for dd, and either 1 blm and 2 healers, or 2 blms and 1 healer

blms take care of the add mobs, mnk tanks NM, and rng's shoot the NM outside spell range, gotta pull the mobs all back to the entrance of the fight and tank them there so repops take a while to reach you again

we normally killed the boss after one set of repops

[TelosIllumini]

DRK/NIN x2, 1 WHM, 1 RDM and the last two spots can be filled in however you choose, although we just went in with 5 either way (and the 5th was another melee, not a blm XD ).

RDM can keep the helpers busy for the entire length and the DRKs take care of the DD portion, easy as pie

[testdummy]

Plucking wings is much easier then Splitting Heirs, just make sure you stun the -gas and you'll win long before the next set of mobs spawn really.

[Worlace]

Won it every time with a setup of SAM/NIN x2 DRK/NIN RDM/DRK RDM/BLM WHM.

The RDM/BLM would go to the top and sleepga all the adds at the start, recommend that this be the best RDM you can get. He starts overwriting the sleepga1 with sleep2 and keeping the adds slept at the top of the map. The WHM and DRK go to the top and pull the NM back to the beginning in case the NM opens up with sleepga. With 2 SAMs we rarely had any adds get to us by the time sleep started getting resisted, but if they do just have a DD get off and kill them. The DRK and RDM/DRK are there for stun while the SAMs destroy it.

[Alibeemac]

Did this 3 times yesterday. Was unbelievably easy. DRK/NIN x 2, BRD, BLM, WHM, RDM. Don't need to kill any adds unless they become unmanageable and start to resist sleep.

Earring drop rate fails

[Vedder]

DRK/NIN, MNK/NIN, RDM, WHM, BLM x2 ...

A couple of melees with some form of stun to interrupt damaging spells, 2 BLMs to deal with the helpers, plus support. Never really any danger of losing unless you miss a Stun or two.

[Byrthnoth]

I've done it four times now, and yeah it's a pretty easy fight. My setup was:
SAM/NIN, SAM/NIN, BRD/WHM, WHM/SCH, BLM/RDM, BLM/RDM

Enter, buff, BRD and one BLM go all the way up to the top where the NM is. BRD pulls it with Elegy, BLM sleeps the adds (often there are only 2). Pull it all the way down, other BLM has first stun.
The spells he casts are -ga'd automatically because he's SCH and they wipe shadows, so don't expect to see Blizzaga IV or something. It's just going to say he's casting Blizzard IV. The only non-nukes I saw were Dispel and Sleep II (both -ga'd and shadow wiping as well, ftr), so I'm going to assume he doesn't have access to non-scholar spells.
Anyway, SAMs rip it apart (unlike Splitting Heirs) and a 50% he goes into 2-hour mode where he spams AM. Our group decided to let every third AM go through because stun recast wasn't quite fast enough to keep up with them. We'd call out when it was going to go through, WHM would cure the melee, everything is hunky-dory. We generally killed him before he exitted 2-hour mode. Adds will probably catch up at some point, just resleep them and ignore.
6 minute fight. Good luck!

[vitali]

We did this SAM/NIN DRK/NIN WHM/SCH BRD/WHM RDM/BLM.

The fight is a joke. Each time we've only gotten two adds (though wiki claims there should be three). Slept with no problem. Magic damage isn't a problem either with Shell5. Will be changing the DRK to a SAM next time for a faster kill.

1/3 on earring so far.

[Alibeemac]

1/3 on earring so far.

Glad to hear someone got one... 0/5 for us and 0 have been listed on AH since the BC opened. Was beginning to think it didn't exist ><

[Shenrien]

easy BCNM

PLD/NIN tanks the NM
SAM/NIN kills the adds
BLM/RDM sleeps second add at the start, after that just nukes same add as SAM, only when not in stun order
RDM/DRK would stun ga spells
BRD/WHM buff, cure, enfeeble, normal bard stuff.

when it 2hrs, run like a bitch, the adds have shared hate on who ever has hate on the NM, and will not come off of that person unless, at least I've never experienced that.

[Cooleko]

did this last night with 5, rdm/blm brd whm (mnk then sam) war.

was really simple:
Fight at top,
rdm and brd kept everything sleepga'ed.
war tanked, put on mdt for 2hr (barely took 300 dmg per AM)
the second dd just beat on it and sat out during 2hr.

It would have been posible without the second DD but war had bravura.