Tanking Byakko Tuesday

[Posterboy]

Nin doesnt need AA, EW would be beneficial. If the whm casts barparalyze and barice (para is ice elemental) roar should miss/not last very long pretty often.

[Taku]

Kinda confused, if you're NIN tanking, why do you need AA?

[Drinhkinn]

You dont, peopels get too used to having pld tanks.

[Xrave]

2 Nin's with double march and all -damage equip (including E.staff) makes this fight extremely easy.

Just have enough Blm's and Drk's in for 5-6 stuns and time it with Utsu recasts.

We use this method and unless a whm runs infront of Byakko and he uses Claw Cyclone or whatever his frontal AOE move is, there is rarely any deaths.

[Drinhkinn]

2 Nin's with double march and all -damage equip (including E.staff) makes this fight extremely easy.

Just have enough Blm's and Drk's in for 5-6 stuns and time it with Utsu recasts.

toss in mambo or vit etudes in as well, if you got another bard to spare

and for stuns, BLM onry

[Xrave]

Since Nin's are using staffs, the Drk/Thf's are nice for keeping hate and can stun.

2 Brd's are always nice, though ^^

[Russta]

2 Nins

-damage +enmity +haste and March

Byakko is a pussycat

[Ankiseth]

I use Earth Staff and Jelly and no other dmg reduction gear and he's never killed me. Now if someone missed a stun that would be a different story. I do have more haste gear than you though so I do suggest going arhat's body, as well as head if you don't have Genbu's Kabuto yet. If you do, use that.

2x March and there's not much too it if there is at least 1 person taking hate periodically.

[Nny]

Be a real man and DD tank him.

Just make sure your stunners don't suck.

[Eromenos-Ifrit]

We use NIN tanks, they use katanas and standard HNM eva/str gear. Fenrir eva/acc buff, Brd spaming Double Mambo (a second brd using march helps too if you have it), Whms on point to get para off quick, Blms on point to stun, and you'll be fine.

And if you have 2NINS and 2 People that can SATA Spiral Hell then do MainNIN voke, use Blade Ku >> SATA1 Spiral hell on Backup NIN >> Backup NIN use Blade Ku >> SATA2 Sprial hell on Main NIN. SATA Spiral Hell can do 2000 damage with 2000 darkness damange on him, and those will pin a shitload of hate on your main and back up nin.

having 2 whms (or more if you do things with alot of people) helps, just have 1 never take thier cursor off the tank. And finger on paralyna/erase/cureV, the other(s) taking para off others.

Stun order, where if it's that stun's time up, they do NOTHING but wait for stun, after a triple attack, after a roar, (hell we even have a BLM that counts shadows that normally isn't in the order), or anytime you see your NIN take damage... STUN... have your macro say you used it, and who's next so they can wait thier turn. Don't let them get caught in doing a MB when they should be waiting for stun.

And when in doubt... SHADOWBIND. and get the hell away until your Tank is back up if you only have 1.

*****

OMGZ i told a "Strat" i'm going to burn in SE hell. lol. Hope it helps, not saying it's the best way, but works for our ls when we've taken it on with less than an alliance and was fine lol. And i've seen a PLD tank it in a pinch it's like 50% but we were luckly enough to have 4 of our whms there to spam cureV on him until the tiger died lol. But PLD tanks on Ifrit isn't all that normal on Ifrit, Ninja's domionate all really since until just recently NA never got to touch a Landgod, only 1 LS that dominated it no matter what time it popped without fail lol.

[Septimus]

For all of that work, why wouldn't you just have PLD/WAR tanks do it straight up instead of Ninjas?

[Palin]

Blms suck on Byakko, why not use them for Stun instead of making your Whms drain their MP on AA, or make a brd or rdm sub Smn?

Unless you want to have every mage in your LS curebomb :wink:

[MisterBob]

We use 2 NINs + Nonstop stun, don't really know how you'd die with that.

[Navia]

2 Nins

-damage +enmity +haste and March

Byakko is a pussycat

That's my preference, put +hp whever you can't put haste/enmity/-damage and engage /w earth staff so you can parry and enfeeble ninjitsu spam while you have shadows. You can get take hits+get curebombed and not lose hate. In a pinch i've solo tanked him but 2nin combo is best. BLM do stun rotation.

Everyone i've watched trying to evasion tank him usually ends up getting owned by some combination of paralyze+DiagaIII+1600 damage claw cyclone in the span of 3 seconds
If your mages suck at paralyna'ing you quickly you're fucked in just about any setup still

[sephir]

scrap the majority of your evasion gear it wont save you. stack up on -Physical % equipment. Jelly ring, Arhats etc. Byakko will strip your shadows very quickly with his almost constant triple attack so evasion tanking him isnt such a great idea.

ideal set up would be
weapon: Earth staff
Head: Arhats +1
body: Arhats +1
legs: Arhats +1
Feet: Fumas
Ring: Jelly + Bomb queen
Earring: Evasion works here but your choice. Hp helps alot
Ammo: fenrirs stone works great here.

also stun works very well here, but remember you are going to get hit and prepare for it.

[KuikSilvr]

scrap the majority of your evasion gear it wont save you. stack up on -Physical % equipment. Jelly ring, Arhats etc. Byakko will strip your shadows very quickly with his almost constant triple attack so evasion tanking him isnt such a great idea.

ideal set up would be
weapon: Earth staff
Head: Arhats +1
body: Arhats +1
legs: Arhats +1
Feet: Fumas
Ring: Jelly + Bomb queen
Earring: Evasion works here but your choice. Hp helps alot
Ammo: fenrirs stone works great here.

also stun works very well here, but remember you are going to get hit and prepare for it.

WOW...make me LOL cause obviously you havn't tried it or had horrible gear. Evassion setup works great on Byakko and is easy with the proper gear. You get a proper setup of people that know what they are doing and its easy with evasion setup. Been done many times, never lost to byakko.

[Ohemgee]

NINx2
BRDx2
SMNx2

Evasion gear
Mambo and march
earthern ward

BLM stun lock

/THF SATA

[thestalkmore]

WOW...make me LOL cause obviously you havn't tried it or had horrible gear. Evassion setup works great on Byakko and is easy with the proper gear. You get a proper setup of people that know what they are doing and its easy with evasion setup. Been done many times, never lost to byakko.

You tank nidhogg in a scorpion harness while meleeing him with your katanas...

[royze]

i remember ecurb solo tanking byyako long time ago, maybe u should talk to him directly

[Fyrebrand]

We won 2/2 on Byakko ^^ my healer disc on 1st fight and i went down but we managed to pull it off 2/2 on Byakko Hiadate also so now i have those they own sooo hard! thanks to everyone who helped out! i went with -dmg% setup second fight we did w/o a bard and put in a pld for flash onry ^^ still went well no deaths Thanks to all again!!