Animated Weapon Warp Conditions?

[Lordwafik]

We went 1/4 on Animated Katana. We kept failing due to normal MP zergery, we did it different this time.

- Time IV to start
- BRD SV + Lullaby the sattelites, and same bard threnody the thing
- Samurai did a self SC
- Another bard to SV minuet x2 the melees(we had 9 bards, soul voice wasnt a shortage )


Skillchains kept the things interest alot for us, The samurai self light and that held it there for a while.

Thief aggroing it wastes a ton of time. Every single second counts (once warped out on us at 6%, why? because a blm/whm thought everyone elses fast cast would take care of it, and went 4 seconds earlier than everyone).


Every weapon has something that holds his interest.
GK was skillchains/MB's
h2h = ?? we just kill it each time
dagger = ?? same with h2h
Staff = Magic, even though we got breakga'd at 50%, all that magic we pumped into him kept him out for quite a bit, he stayed shit talking even though we all breakga'd.
Hammer = He warped and died warping, leaving us his fragment, I dont know exactly what kept him out, but we nearly lost.

[Navia]

Its a bit early for me to be sweating having the fragment, but i'd like to push for making an attempt each xarca run in our dynamis rotation instead of doing xarca nonstop for several weeks at the last minute, burning everyone out.

My LS is pretty melee heavy so it would be nice to at least whittle the Animated Kunai down to 50% with melees,everyone storing TP until it starts wanting to warp and unleash WS hell+nukes+2hrs. I don't like the idea of trying to nuke the crap out of it right off the bat with our lower mage numbers because at the very least it will pingpong and screw all the melees trying to crowd the thing to hit it,wasting time.

My instincts say to ja/ws whenever an animated weapon says *anything* so it will either say its still bored or intrigued so you can rule out ja/ws having any effect on keeping it interested or pissing it off. A bit bummed this whole fight feels random and over in the blink of an eye for no reason based on personal observation going to an Animated Tachi attempt.