Cerberus....low man set ups

[Seidell]

Ok I've done plenty of searches and cannot find any solid info regarding a low man Cerberus fight. I know you need atleast 3 stunners, but besides that, how many people do you really need to take him down?

[BerenTebogo]

6

[Dioma]

The only experience I had with a low man Cerberus was 6 people and it was a failure, we did RDM/DRK, BLM, WHM, BRD/BLM, SAM, PLD/NIN and a two boxed second RDM. It's pretty easy to solo tank, just hope you don't d/c as I almost did We lost because of stunning and mages were in range of GoH so as long as your BLM + RDM/DRK are good stunners, you should be okay.

[Kirschy]

Having only 2 DD that serve as your tanks will realli cut down on time and hassle. It'll TP at a noticably slower rate, while being easy to manage. It also makes GoH much easier to maintain. As long as you have a good WHM (Meritted Shellra V + Bar Merits/JSE body) you could practicalli fight through GoH with no stuns at all. That being said, I'd suggest having 1-2 stuns to stop majority of your GoH. As someone else mentioned BRD/BLM helps a ton, <3 elegy. My last low-man Cerb had MNK/NIN and DRK/NIN(myself) as the two tanks and sole damage. Took less than 30 minutes. I let 2 GoH go through, but they werent a problem at all.

[Nameless]

Kirschy, you are the god. <3 you.

[Seidell]

As someone else mentioned BRD/BLM helps a ton, <3 elegy.

Besides Elegy why would /blm be good for this? sry just wanna make sure I have all my info straight before i try to get my gswd >.>

But so far ty for the awesome info guys ^^ my friends and I pretty much have the "6 man" setup job wise so we could try that

[SamanosukeShiva]

nothing, but landing that elegy > extra cures

[Lukias]

As someone else mentioned BRD/BLM helps a ton, <3 elegy.

Besides Elegy why would /blm be good for this? sry just wanna make sure I have all my info straight before i try to get my gswd >.>

But so far ty for the awesome info guys ^^ my friends and I pretty much have the "6 man" setup job wise so we could try that

Is Cerb just sitting up on your server, just waiting for 6 people to get bored?

Brd/blm lets them elemental seal + troubadour elegy making it last a guarantee what 7mins?

[Seidell]

Not sitting up constantly but not camped heavy either. I have just getting the min. number of people to do it so if i see him up i can just spam LS chat for people to come out. but ty for explaining the brd/blm stuff.

I pretty much just wanna get my sword w/o having to whore myself to an endgame LS. ; ;

[Seditedi]

brd/blm, drk/nin, pld/nin, whm/drk, smn/whm, rdm/drk

>.>

too slow

@Kirschy: what gears do you wear to tank?

[Nameless]

She doesn't really need gear to tank, all she needs is haste gear like she usually uses for melee and I think she has ares body for refresh. With bard elegy and she getting march x 2, it isn't hard to blink tank as long as you can hold hate, which she can and can easily do with just two DD on the mob. Not to mention Cata drains HP back. Teaming up with hugh amount of haste she would be spamming it.

[Lyramion]

plus WHM/DRK oftren gets his stun resisted

[Kirschy]

I just use normal XP Gear with more acc. Bomblet over Core, E Body over Ares, Homam over Dusk. The MNK and I bounced hate back and forth fine, I think I parsed 45% of the tanking, and he parsed 55%. Rarely used stun or magic because I didn't want to unbalance hate. Catastrophe is not very useful there, I hit recast cap /w Eq haste and marches/spell.

I would honestly recommend having the WHM go /BLM. ES Slow is 2min30 seconds. Having 2 ES Slow, means Ceberus is gonna be 20-25%ish slower half the time.

[Naramaska]

Not sitting up constantly but not camped heavy either. I have just getting the min. number of people to do it so if i see him up i can just spam LS chat for people to come out. but ty for explaining the brd/blm stuff.

I pretty much just wanna get my sword w/o having to whore myself to an endgame LS. ; ;

Kirschy's setup seems pretty reasonable for a 6-man Cerberus, but...

...if you've never fought Cerb before? You're going to want to get practice in Nyzul or something to at least be familiar with the moves. I honestly doubt the ability of most people who could six-man the fight to do it their very first time encountering Cerb

[Seditedi]

plus WHM/DRK oftren gets his stun resisted

^ WHM/DRK isn't reliable as a stunner due to like 100ish possibly lower Dark Magic skill from SJ only.
Plus WHM is gonna be busy curing, not focusing to stun.

[Luto]

As someone else mentioned BRD/BLM helps a ton, <3 elegy. quote]

Besides Elegy why would /blm be good for this? sry just wanna make sure I have all my info straight before i try to get my gswd >.>

But so far ty for the awesome info guys ^^ my friends and I pretty much have the "6 man" setup job wise so we could try that

Is Cerb just sitting up on your server, just waiting for 6 people to get bored?

Brd/blm lets them elemental seal + troubadour elegy making it last a guarantee what 7mins?

Troub makes it last around there iirc, I didn't get a chance to merit it so I'm unsure.

As for Cerb just sitting up, it sat up on Phoenix quite a few times and once or twice on Unicorn that I can remember.

[Seditedi]

Troubadour doubles the duration.
Makes it like 432 seconds with Horn+1
so yea about 7 minutes 12 seconds.

If you don't have a BRD with capped Troubadour and BLM sub I wouldn't recommend trying low man Cerb.

[Kirschy]

Hmmm I did the math once, I think 2 meritted BRD/BLM can keep elegy on 100%. BRD/BLM is like the perfect account to dualbox. JA Elegy every so often and leave it alone.

[Seditedi]

Troubadour is 15 min. recast when capped.
Elemental Seal is 10 min. recast.
Troub. ES Elegy lasts 7 minutes 12 seconds.

It's not 100% but it's pretty close because BRD A would still have like 40 seconds left on Troubadour recast when BRD B's Elegy wears off.

[Kirschy]

I believe instead of using JA + ES everytime it's up, you can stagger the JA.