Just finished Dem... we did it with 6 party members. Setup was:
BLM/WHM
SMN/WHM (me)
WHM/BLM
SAM/WAR
MNK/WAR
RNG/NIN
I had 2 Hi-ethers, 3 Yagudo drinks, Instant Reraise, and 11 (got a stack) Echo Drops.
I'm still not quite sure how we did it... We did the normal strategy on the three (one was a dud) MRs, i.e. SMN sends in avatar, RNG shoots BLM nukes MR/Strays, SAM and MNK take care of Strays, WHM does what WHMs do. Minimum of fuss. On the third floor things got interesting.
How would one party kill all 7 Strays surrounding the 3rd floor MR in time to get to the portal? We accidentally pulled 4 Strays at once and the RNG and SAM died. We forumlated the following strategy once we recovered:
I would send in Ifrit, and the SAM and RNG would shoot it. We would only take Strays that aggroed me when I went in to make Ifrit attack. This worked extremely well, and we got it down to a sliver of life. We waited til most of the Strays were on the other side of the MR, I summoned Ramuh, sent him to Thunderspark AoE, the MNK and SAM killed one on our side, all sprinted, and got through.
The fourth floor was just a matter of sprinting as quickly and quietly as possible to the Spire. Our BCNM strategy was this:
Enter, buff, food, rest to full.
SAM and MNK enter and trade off vokes.
SMN summons Ramuh (Dem boss weak to thunder? I think so), two hour, yag drink, send in, Judgment Bolt three times (mini-battle strategy, basically).
RNG and BLM go to town.
WHM does his thing.
First Judgment Bolt did 429 dmg, then the SAM used her Hysteroanima, which might have lowered the Progenerator's elemental resist, because the next Judgment Bolt did 471. Another Judgment Bolt, another 429, and it was near 30% health. Meiko Shishui (sp?), Hundred Fists, Manafont, and Eagle Eye Shot, and it was dead. Between the RNG and I we did 1959 dmg.
Notes: Bring at least one anima. The time it buys is invaluable.
The MNK had Persikos au Lait, which helped.
The SAM had Hi-potions, and used two, because she was tanking for most of it (><)
So thats how one party by themselves did it... some facts may be wrong, like number of Strays, because I did it about an hour ago and I don't remember some things. I probably left a few things out too. One down, two to go...
Edited, Wed Oct 13 17:11:01 2004 by Lientaru
Edited, Wed Oct 13 17:11:39 2004 by Lientaru