Fenrir with nothing but Summoners?Follow

Looking into fighting Fenrir again.

I got him as an avatar long ago when the only real job i had was PLD, but now that my Summoner is 75, i'm aiming for the Evoker's Ring, and since he is the last guy i need items from, i'm going to have to take him out again.

This time however, i'm planning on taking a group of nothing but Summoners (and maybe a bard/corsair?) to fight him. I heard this was quite easy, but i'm actually not really sure what to do.

So:

1. Setup - Are there any jobs i should bring outside of summoners and how many summoners would it take to kill him? What's the minimum level for a Summoner to join?

2. Tactics - I heard Leviathan's 70BP was the thing to use here.
Anything more i should take into consideration?
* Standing out of AoE Range, is there a need to stun anything?
* Is Astral Flow used?
* Do we require any items?
* Any surprises or quick reactions/resummons needed?
* How bad will this fight be on the MP upkeep?
* Are there any additional pacts that can be of use during this fight?

That's exactly what i was hoping to hear ^^

I hope some more people could give some input for the fight, but i'm a lot less worried about the whole thing now. I was thinking the perpetuation upkeep might be rough, but by the sound of it, the fight should be done before you run out of MP. Which should translate to like... 3 minutes worth of Blood Pact: Rages?

Sounds good. How popular is this fight to recruit summoners for in WG?

Fenrir fight, and mithran trackers, are probably the only activities in FFXI where people actually ask a SMN to participate. So I guess it depends on if the Summoners are sick of it, or if they are happy to be asked to do something at all.

If you and/or the other SMNs have the option of merited (maxed) BPs, use them. They can't miss and are rarely resisted and do more dmg aswell without relying on criticals.
This way 1-2 SMN + a RDM/NIN is even enough to get the job done, safer though with more.

Ended up going with:

- SMN75 (me)
- SMN75
- SMN73
- SMN71
- COR75
- RDM69

Used Leviathans, we had next to infinite MP. First volley of bloodpacts took him down to 67%. Avatars survived 2-hour without too much trouble. Drove RDM in the red however since he stood too close, he got hate from curing himself back to full overexcitedly after all his buffing put him on the hate list, and he did died in just a few hits from Fenny, who found it nice to debuff everyone who was standing close to him while he was at it. Next volley on top of all the meleeing that was done left him at 11%. He didnt live up to the next recast for the bloodpacts.

One of the easiest fights i've done in a while. Yet still pretty fun. Unfortunately, the RDM's SMN wasnt 70 yet, so we advised him to bring another job. Which didnt really work out all too well either, but yeah...

I'm sure Five summoners would have cleaned Fenny up with two massive bloodpact waves. MP was never an issue, even though refresh and evoker's roll were easily wiped away a couple of times.

This was before the patch however, would probably be even easier now.

Shock Strike is another good option for stunning. And if you have fairly high summoning magic and some accuracy merits it is also acceptable to use Garuda instead of Leviathan.