Originally Posted by
Yinnyth
It is more likely that you simply got a lucky resist. I'm pretty confident in saying that no matter how much -dark resist you stack on, you can't negative resist meteor.
That being said, in our last fight against AV, Ellatrix (rdm) survived manafont meteor with 106/1078 HP, and I believe he has since then gotten the stoneskin enhancing items which would make that even easier. On his second manafont (we failed to lock it the first time due to communication problems), Ellatrix survived meteor with 103 HP remaining. I don't believe he was intentionally wearing any MDT or MDB items, but he did have shell V, BLU roll, stoneskin, and at least 10 bodies soaking up the damage.
I'm not suggesting this is a good way to survive manafont of course, his recast time is simply too short (he only takes 3 melee swings between each spell during manafont). However, with a whm and cor and maybe a sch in every party, I think it is possible to avoid being devastated by bracelets meteor with very few pieces of equipment sacrificed for mdt. The big problem then becomes keeping buffs/MP up and hate on the tanks when he decides to spam the stupid spell 3+ times in a row.