Final ACP BCNM alternate tank?

[Kuiwuni]

First thread on BG. Hello.
So.. PLD/RDM is the tank of choice for this battle because all the boss's attacks are elemental
damage. With this is mind, how would RDM/??? do? Thoughts?

[Shin Volcano]

It might not be a bad idea, seeing as the crystal's main attacks are Magic based... you could give it a shot... i'd say /pld to hold hate tbh, because /nin is comepletly useless. BUT you have to ask your self, are you willing to risk that 12 stone re-aquasition climb if it dosn't work!?

[dejet]

i think rdm/drk could work with a good MDB BUild. Thing is though if you have a ranger or anything but smns in your pt you might have to hold out on attacking as the rdm builds hate they dont have the JAs to gain fast hate like a pld. Once they build hate though you are all set.

so i do think a rdm could tank this fight NP with the right build.

edit: as the guy above me said maybe /pld too. you could open with sentinel for fast hate(use any jas that happen to come up b/c i just resets them anyways) maybe go as far as to open with CS and spam to gain hate faster(with pld you could spam flash that gain hate fast... lol)

[Shin Volcano]

Now that i think about it, it might work better, since it does love to use that TP move that resets your JAs and it dosn't hurt RDM that much as it would a PLD. someone should give it a shot. phalanx MDB/MDT- gear, i don't see it not working.

[Kuiwuni]

It might not be a bad idea, seeing as the crystal's main attacks are Magic based... you could give it a shot... i'd say /pld to hold hate tbh, because /nin is comeplty useless. BUT you have to ask your self, are you willing to risk that 12 stone re-aquasition climb if it dosn't work!?

I think RDM may actually be a lower risk tank, maybe. Greater mp pool, all Fast Cast traits and the new RDM toy Composure + refresh/haste/phalanx. Hate should be a none issue because of the way its generated. Just look for everyones stance on this so maybe i can convince my group to let me be RDM. lol

[fishstix]

It'd depend on your other DDs, my setup was pld/rdm whm/sch rdm/drk drg/war(his only job) and smn2x. We had the drg kill the clones only and used purely avatar dmg on the Seed. The pld got charmed once, and I was next on the hate list as rdm/drk. I wasn't geared properly to tank it, but it wasn't terrible to tank the duration of charm. I had time to recast stoneskin inbetween draw-in.

[Thunder]

I've tried it with only -20% mdb in gear, slapped it together because my pick-up group wanted to take a nin/war to tank it and run away from charm.. so the only hate tool the nin would have is provoke. Would have won but it was a pretty shoddy pick-up, none of my friends are on this weekend so I thought I'd give it a shot for free ebon keys.

Blux3, rdmx2, blm; it was a loss at 20% because blus stood in range of seed of judgement at the end and the support rdm was raising when another judgement hit me and I only had mp for a cure3. It was really fun, capped phalanx and idling in mdb gear took the damage taken to around 80, mp was a little tough to maintain.. wasn't aware of the JAs resetting.

I went rdm/drk and stunned agas, by the way. Blm wasn't even 75 so I wasn't leaving it to him.

Edit: only form of damage was cannonballs from blu/wars and it was working well vs the 30min timer.

Oh, also, at times it was VERY hard to cast anything due to the draw-ins but stoneskin was possible sometimes.