Same, I try to do it just for the items, 2 ranks away from the good stuff. Can't seem to stick with it though. Beaucidine[S] is nice when battles are there, tons of mobs and not a lot of people participate in it so it doesn't end in <20 minutes.
Bismarch?
Ok my group did the fight and it's a very annoying fight because every time, ( it seems to be completely random he spawns 3 clones) ( we diaga them and then the rdm died and they depop but sometimes even with diaga the clones were not following the rdm)
As far as i remember his attks where..
Vicious kick, blighting blitz, spawn shadows, soma wall ( absorbs phys dmg, spell wall, absorbs magic dmg)
Not so hard fight, but yeah when more info comes it will be an easy fight we got it to 20% on our first try
Did someone have a clearance sale on punctuation that necessitated throwing random parentheses into your sentences?
Also just got done on this.
Relevant infos: Immune to bind, grav, paralyze, or at least extremely resistant. Slow and elegy landed no problem, though.
He has an AoE WS that was doing about 350-400 damage to my Sam/Nin, but it didn't wipe shadows or third eye. With slow and elegy on, he's extremely manageable.
Every so often-- didn't seem tied to time or HP % that I could see, so might be a TP move-- he'd spout off some nonsense about obliterating us, and then he'd clone himself. Clones were the only headache that we saw. We had a RDM diaga them, and stay by the entrance. Once they killed him, they depopped, so they're not that big a danger. RDM said his diaga did 2% damage to them, so a BLM could probably -gaIII them to death, and things would move better. If a BLM starts casting as soon as SL starts talking, the spell should go off almost immediately after the clones spawn. Didn't test whether it was stunnable or not.
Vicious kick added a paralyze effect that was pretty potent. He had another WS (missed the name), that would wipe 1-2 shadows, and I'm told from another group, would do 1300-1500 to a paladin if it wasn't blocked.
Overall, fight didn't look hard. If BLM ga3 kills the clones in one hit, then it should be very easy. Our main problem was just hitting it for enough, with PLD/NIN, SAM/NIN, WAR/NIN, WHM, BRD, RDM. BLM would add some more damage
Going to try again here soon; will post more as more is learned.
Hey troll (j/k). I didn't create the title of the topic thread. Some mod edited it into that lol.
Besides, I already knew the new shadow lord had melee and magic walls based on his gear and how dynamis lord was. The DATs also showed 2 clones, maybe they have to do with the order of the walls and weaken him in some way when they die just like the other 3 stronghold BCNM pets weaken their main bosses.
Looking forward to seeing what is in a coffer picture wise though or hearing from an english speaking person on the BCNM.
i'm from seraph so I would have spelled bismarch wrong too probably lol
Might be; wasn't thinking about gathering infos until afterward, and had my usual me-only filters on. Looking at my logs, I don't see any named WS other than Vicious Kick, and Umbral orb (the AoE that didn't kill shadows). I'll adjust accordingly for next one.
Oh, incidentally: Sam's Demon Killer proc'ed on him a lot. More than I see it proc generally (I count about 15 procs in the bit of my logs still up, and that's only through half the fight).
Should test next time if he is stunable.
Uh, people were talking about Alexander having this up and we aren't post merger and our population is pretty shitty in general.