Test your mite ENM - SMN Strategy?

[salukim]

I posted here because this seems to be a newbish question.

Has anyone ever done Test Your Mite with SMN only?

How did you do it?

Was it Astral Flow -> Bloodpact:Rage

thanks and flame away!

[Antithesis]

The monster just simply has too much HP for you to take it down with 1 or 2 Astral Flows. Maybe 2 SMNs could possibly duo it but im not sure. 2 NIN's and a WHM (Skilled) can easly trio this ENM.

[Aihree]

The mob has a boatload of hp.

When I used to do it with a group of nin whm and 3 smns, it would take 7 blood pacts to kill plus the nin's damage. Which is to say, 2 BP's from 3 of the smns, and one of them does it three times, in addition to nin damage.

Without a tank to hold it, I don't think avatars could hold it back from killing a few smns.

[shukuffxi]

I've heard that a MNK with 2hr + RDM healer can duo this, though I have almost no experience with this ENM, having done it only once literally 3-4 years ago, anyone have experience with this?

[Aihree]

I'm pretty sure the mob has more hp than a single monk can take down at that level, but give it a try!

[Wulfgang]

I've duoed it with NIN + WHM a long time ago a bunch of times, I've also wiped once or twice. I'd recommend a second tank; regardless, erase has to be instantaneous for the slow and NIN debuffs have to be on 100% of the time. Bring Ni wheel tools; also, sounds obvious, but the en-effect is pretty bad, really have to do a good job of not getting hit.

Why do you want to do the ENM? Drops are mediocre although it supposedly drops Evoker's, never seen one.