Mine Shaft #2716 Bionic Bug(Need travel advice)

[AndrosOfSeraph]

Please forgive me if this was posted already.. Did a quick search of it and

didn't find an answer to my question.

My question is, i am planning a 3-man static of this ENM with some friends,

NIN, BRD and RDM. Is it possible for the 3 of us to travel to Mine Shaft

#2716 without other assistance. I was told that it required 5 people to

access it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also we do have Firesand, and Sylvan stones, just need a strat to get to the

ENM. Ty, in advance.

-Andros

[TacoTaru]

It's quiet easy to do with three. My set is a Brd, Rdm, Nin and Mnk, but our Mnk does absolutely nothing for switches. Here's what to do:

First have someone (Preferably the Brd) and any other member go to the north entrance at (J-8). Have the last member go to the entrance at (J-12) down by Bugbear Strongman. The first group will have the other member who isn't the Brd put up invis and run to the gates. The Brd will put invis and follow the path till you get to the furnace hatch. The person at the other entrance will follow the path south and make a left and start moving east towards the gates. Have the Brd pop the firesand and immediately invis back up. The good thing about Brd is you can Horde Lullaby if you get aggro and using the firesand will reset the hate so you can invis up before you re-aggro. Either way 1 minute here or run back west to the tunnel with the bats; either way you wait one minute. From here the first person will stay on the right wall and will zone back out to one of the top switches. The second person will stay on the left wall which will go north and west; they will also zone out to a top switch. After a minute has passed the Brd will pop another firesand and go back to Newton and head to switches.

After this is done you're in the easy part. A Rdm is always the in the 2nd group i described here and can hit the switch and get across the bridge WITHOUT fastpants. Just make sure you set a time and hope that no one disconnects during the run and you'll make it easy.

Hope that helps

*Edit*
There is a separate strategy that is used if the gates are already open and you don't use the firesand to get them through, but in over probably 10 weeks of doing this run and it has only happened once; other people I've talked to that have done have never seen it happen. If you want to know how to do it as well I'll post it, but it's very unlikely you'll ever encounter this.

[AndrosOfSeraph]

Tyvm TacoTaru =)