Splitting Heirs active - Bahamut (3/29/09)

[Cantih]

see title

[tymora]

On Pandemonium too

[Shenrien]

this almost came to Ragnarok AGAIN ; ; why couldn't it have!

we were missing la valve

[Not Kuno]

I love doing splitting pears to death, but it's a pain in the ass to deal with all the people and spamming bc enterance. :/

[Riki]

Last time i did this was before they patched it.
What's the "best" strategy for this one now?

[Sabishii]

Tried this like 3 times on sunday, won only one time (nothing good dropped). Set up was DRK/NIN (me), PLD/NINx2, COR/WHM, RDM/WHM, and WAR/NIN. People kept dying though, (I lost a good chunk of EXP, down to my last 3k or so buffer) and the PLDs couldn't keep hate. Only one had Atonement. Currently looking for another group to try this with before Sunday and we lose access to it. I really want a C.Mantle.

-- Sabishii (Pandemonium)

[testdummy]

Normally we go with PLD/NIN + SAM/NIN + DD/NIN + BLM/WHM + RDM/WHM + BRD/WHM.
We normally tank the main NM right up against the gate.
The mages keep the adds asleep and call the two dd to kill the adds asap when they start to resist. The adds will right right to the tank so you need to make sure to kill them right away. They have very little HP and can be killed in 1-2 ws.

Fight normally takes 7-13mins depending on what TP moves the NM decides to use. Also please remember that this the main NM is a SAM and will 2hr at some point, Stun does wonders in the form of Shield Bash, Stun, and Blade Bash for the setup we go with.

Important moves to note:

- Berserker Dance will lower his defense by quite a bit, fully charged Atonement will do 1000+ at this point, nukes will also do increased damage. This move gives the mob haste, but the amount of damage it allows you to do to the nm and its short duration make it worthwhile to leave alone.

The following two are Cone Type attacks and can not be stopped by Third Eye.

- Tornado edge will take 3 shadows to blink it away, if not you will have HP/MP/TP down that needs to be erased x3 asap.

- Shoulder Charge will take 2 shadows and will one shot most jobs if the NM has Berserker Dance up this move will do up to 1200-1600dmg and shadows are down.

Other then that, on Siren we line up at the door and during peak the wait can be 45-1hr+ to enter the BC >_>

[tymora]

Manaburning it is least risky - Can refer to Suiram's posts in the other thread.

RDM/BLM + 3 BLM can do it, I believe.

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Anyone tried dispelling Berserker dance?

[Suiram]

In Manaburn you definitely do not want to dispel Berserker Dance. It doesn't last long enough as it is (maybe 20-30 seconds), but while it's on he takes either a 40% or 50% increase from nukes.

And yes, 3BLM + RDM works, but slightly difficult at times. 4BLM + RDM is easy win. I think the JPs figured it out too, since that's the majority of the other PTs I've seen there this week when we've been going to do the Ops.

[VZX]

Been doing this 6 times since yesterday. 2x PLD/NIN stay a bit further from the gate, BRD and WHM on the gate. I went as SAM/NIN for occasional tanking and main DDing as well as clearing add that resisted sleep as fast as possible. RDM/BLM shouldn't have hate problem taking care the add since 90% of the time hate will focus on PLD.

NM was not that evasive. I parsed 83~88% hit rate with 396 accuracy. It has 25k HP
Add only have 1.5k HP, easily beaten down with 2 gekko. I save my meditate most of the time just to deal with add very quickly.

[Not Kuno]

I've never seen 3 items drop before this week. >.> Now its happening all the time. Ninja nerf?

[xIndustrialxAngelx]

Has anyone ever tried this with a NIN/??? tank instead of a PLD? I'd assume the Dmg reduction set would work wonders against tanking the main NM.

I've beat this as solo PLD/NIN tanking it, but it's still kinda rough sometimes.

[Kkel]

They changed this BC. The way the links work now is really shitty compared to how it used to be. :/

[Wolfknight]

They changed this BC. The way the links work now is really shitty compared to how it used to be. :/

<_< it's been that way for months now since December when I commented on cuch mantle going to rise cause of nerf to fight and I was right.

[Lishje]

Explain.

I'd like to know how they work now =/

[Wolfknight]

Explain.

I'd like to know how they work now =/

the repop /assist main NM regardless of location similar to other versions of this fight, so sleeping til they resist then kill best option now really it seems ;/, besides flat out kite/manaburn.