I think I've come up with a ninja method to win this. I'm a RDM and I need phalanx desperately, so I'm targetting the BCNM in giddeus. My plan is to set my main to Monk (lvl1) and my sub to RDM. Then I'm going to hook up with a WHM buddy and through invis/sneak ninja my way to the BC. Once there, I'll disband the party and submit the orb. If I get the wrong answer at the prompt, I'll just suicide (as if THAT would be difficult) and get warped outside to my waiting raise so I can do it again. Notice: there will no xp loss, so I can continuously zerg this thing until I get the right answer.
My question is this: if your party (in this case ME) dies in the BC, do you have to wait for the 30 minute timer to expire to get kicked back out, or is it automatic when your whole party dies? That may make things difficult ... if it doesn't work, could I just solo in with my 42 RDM and if I get the wrong answer just exit out (i.e.: do you start the encounter aggroed, or is it like the dragon where you enter the battlefield? and if you exit manually do you lose the orb?). Also, does your class affect the drop? If it does (i.e., red mages get Phalanx, white mages get Erase, etc), then I may need to do the latter method ASSUMING I don't go in auto-aggroed so I can escape to try again (or else I'll just go in with stoneskin/blink/shell2/protect2 and hope I can click the exit fast enough, lol).
Any further information would be greatly appreciated ... I have an orb and I want to burn it for my phalanx try tonight (if I get erase I'll just sell it for funds to buy phalanx ... I hear it goes for a ton of money).
I'm hoping this can be scammed, because out of six days of trying, I still can't get a balanced group together to try it ... most high levels will only do it if I turn over the Erase/Phalanx scrolls to them, defeating the point of doing it FOR the Phalanx scroll.