So I had an awful DF party there last night. 20+ runs, Ive never failed, and I guess this had to be the first.
2 Bards (both about 4k hp, decent amount of DL, and I70+ weapons)
1 sch (2.7k hp, i45 weapon, mostly af gear, 2-3 pieces of DL jewlery)
1 pld (me) 6.1k, i75 (relic +1, 2i80 from CT, and rest i70)
We struggle our way through the first 2 bosses, dieing 1x each from a bard that cant dodge anything, and a sch who gets one shotted when they dont dodge. Get to last boss, and normally, blasting the adds isnt an issue, but wow. You really learn the mechanics of a fight when you have an under leveled group.
So blood rain was killing the sch every time on the 2 add spawn, (3k dmg, 2.7k hp sch, easy math) because the 2 bards couldn't kill the 2 adds. So i help them kill them, and tell them to just split the dmg on the 2 adds, its much easier to live through 2x 1.5k ae then 1x 3k because the second add was getting eaten at 100%.
We finally get past the two adds, but it took a level 2 tank limit break for the sch to survive. But then the next 3 attempts we keep dieing on the 4th add (the named lady) because my hp is never above 40% and then i get a thunder on me for 3k and die. Mind you no one in the group is above half hp, and sch is sitting at over 50% mp.
Needless to say, we are down to 10 minutes left,
We kill the solo add, we kill the twin adds (tank lb so sch can live), we finally kill the named add.
We are 'burning' the named down and she is at 5% and she sucks in a brd then does a 6k blood rain, and we all die.
How do you counter that blood rain when they suck in a 4k hp dd? Every other mechanic we found a way to do with a crap DD group and a sch that doesnt heal. Is it just like an enrage check, where if the fight goes too long you get killed?
Do you actually stop her from getting buffs if you kill fast enough? I ask because even on the solo add, when it hits 0% hp she was auto sucking it in, getting the buffs, then doing a weak blood rain (like 500 dmg instead of 3k it does when the mob is full hp). I am at work or id run it again to check this one, was just curious, cause it looked like to me that no matter what she was getting buffed. And i cant tell if this was just casue we had 2 so-so bards, or if it happens every time.