Good strat for Bloodcrown?

[ringthree]

Having a bit of trouble with Bloodcrown. We mostly have melee for damage but I haven't heard that BLM are much better. What is a good party set up, prefered tanks, any other suggestions? Oh and have they changed the hate sharing on the links? We did it a while ago and we just supertanked the adds and this time it seemed that after a while they just assisted Bloodcrown.

[cdgreg]

At work r3 and on my phone so I can't pm u. But when I'm home later I'll pm u our ls strategy or post it here. We did it about 2 weeks Ago and it seemed pretty easy. Once we got rid of his aura blm dmg was awesome. Before that I think we mostly used rngs and meditating SAMs.

[Zilong]

Melee kinda suck for the fight until the aura is down, since the aura will generate perma flash.

Once it's down and he used berserker dance though, you can just go to town on his ass until he put the aura back up again.

Considering you'd need to destroy the 4 adds too, having a few melee isn't that bad, but they just gotta know that they're useless on the main boss until the aura is broken.

Personally, we used 2 SAM/THF for our melee to SATA the tanks, since that doesn't really get fucked with flash, but only medding and SATAing until aura comes off.

Also, make sure to dispel the protect when planning to use melee/physical damage, since its shell seem to have really fucking insane DEF boost or just flat out reduction. My YGK were doing like 100-200 damage if the protect is on, but pop normal merit damage mob when its off.

[Zilong]

also, use the search function, there is an active topic about this in the event forum

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/ffxi-...trategies.html

[matix]

my group was big on rngs, tank died on the main nm sometimes, and we even had to kite it a bit, but rng dmg was nice for aoe, and thensome when we needed to kite :>

[ninjafox]

RNG and BLM are primary DD in all of the scnms apparently

[ringthree]

At work r3 and on my phone so I can't pm u. But when I'm home later I'll pm u our ls strategy or post it here. We did it about 2 weeks Ago and it seemed pretty easy. Once we got rid of his aura blm dmg was awesome. Before that I think we mostly used rngs and meditating SAMs.

I think part of our problem is getting it to drop it's aura and having too many melee on it. We beat it the first time but have been struggling a bit with it.

[ringthree]

RNG and BLM are primary DD in all of the scnms apparently

Not necessarily. Cogtooth is much, much easier straight tanked and semi-zerged. I know a lot of people think to kite it, but that is just a death fest.

Unless you mean the SCNM BC's themselves, then I am leaning toward agreeing with you.

[ninjafox]

I meant the BCs

[ringthree]

I meant the BCs

LOL Hahhaa, I didn't even notice it was you NF. You on tonight?

[ninjafox]

Yeah I'll b on. Maybe on RNG too

[Avarice]

Not necessarily. Cogtooth is much, much easier straight tanked and semi-zerged. I know a lot of people think to kite it, but that is just a death fest.

Unless you mean the SCNM BC's themselves, then I am leaning toward agreeing with you.

BST can solo/duo just about every NM in La Vaule except for the DRG.

[Wulfgang]

Having a bit of trouble with Bloodcrown. We mostly have melee for damage but I haven't heard that BLM are much better.

BLM and RNG, if a regular melee can come as either of those, they should. SAM/WAR/etc may do more damage when the aura is down, but you can win easily without any; much tougher to win without any BLM or RNG.

Oh and have they changed the hate sharing on the links? We did it a while ago and we just supertanked the adds and this time it seemed that after a while they just assisted Bloodcrown.

They don't share hate, supertank works fine.

also, use the search function, there is an active topic about this in the event forum

SCNM: The Blood-Bathed Crown (Strategies)

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[Silenka]

BST can solo/duo just about every NM in La Vaule except for the DRG.

I've seen RNG RDM duo that NM >.> Bst could probably do it...

[ringthree]

I've seen RNG RDM duo that NM >.> Bst could probably do it...

Well, I am not trying to take 30+ minutes to kill these guys. LOL