Last LB and new BST stuffFollow

a few things to know about the fight. no single hit will do more than 100 damage unless you use the weakness item on him.
If you go in w/ 5x bst it will be a pretty decent fight.
/nin or /dnc dual wield, let pets get hate, zerg him down.
if he turns to you to do wS on you, you are most likely dead. WS are often 1-shot kills to pt members. Keep hate on pets, be ready to use pet food. I would recommend at least 1x gooey, and I otherwise prefer mnk pets, they hit the most. more likely to counter, etc.

smn/sch is a great addition as well. firestorm + enfire from ifrit increase the damage alot. However, be aware that you may take hate quickly that way.

I spammed it several times to help ppl thru. we had some weakness items which were convenient once the pets started going down, using a weakness item allowed us to get more pets out safely, but its not really necessary. I tried to help several weeks later and we only had 3x bst... it wasn't quite enough. 4x bst is enough, but full pt is best.

Enspells don't give hate, yep.

Enspellgas also aren't particularly useful for a pet-burn approach, due to the fact that... they won't hit the pets.

BST-burns should be using tails though, meaning the BST damage output is going to be pretty bad regardless. The strategy relies on the fact that pets can stay on top of a randomly-running-around enemy target better than human players can.

It's worthy of note that buffs carry over into the BCNM. So... have a COR alt outside give the BST party member's Companion's Roll, drop and re-invite your original member prior to entry ^^

I fought it a dozen times. We only used weakness items for maybe 1/2 of those.. first time because some had a bad earlier experience. The rest we used just to get out of inventory.

Pet burn doesn't need weakness item at all. Atori doesn't burn thru bst pets like players. Bst pets have too much hp. He's not going to 1-shot them w/ WS's.

Hi all,
I've done this fight exactly 10 times now, three times with 6 bsts the rest with mixed parties. The first two Bst parties won, the rest are all ko's . . .
The third Bst party lost because of too many badly geared/equipped & inexperienced members, 3 of whom were casual pick-ups & couldn't accept that to use Ruinator pulled the little tyke's hate & got them 1-shotted. Forget rr, with Call pet timers down it was postponing the inevitable.
The first two method's, go in, Call beast, Familiar, allow Call Bst timer to reset for 2 minutes, [means u only have 8 minutes for fight], run into circle set your pets on the devil & watch while he demolishes them like a walk in the park ! lmao
Once they are all in let them get tp to 100 then use tp Ready then go in & batter the little b***** !
Make sure you have fresh pet's & food ready & switch asap.
Trust me, the dear ickle wickle taru will as has been said 1-shot not only any pet but also yourself if you take any iota of hate. Well do I recall in the 3rd fight as an act of desperation using Lamb Chop then Rampage followed by [a non-existant due to lag . . .] Snarl, result he did my NN then me with a 1882 Asuran Fists. Time to use or call a fresh pet, not a chance, lol.
I actually love this fight & join in any lb party I can purely so that I can laugh like a demented lunatic as the body count rises, it's a joy to think that SE could disguise such an evil monstrosity in such a cutaru body.
Check out the 'Doh' album for some particularly fine shots of the taru's handiwork.
Beastly Exploits

Good luck & don't for 1 minute underestimate this fight, you will die if you do trust me ! [mwhaahaha . . .]
Jon [Jeubond]

Thanks for all the suggestions, joined a pet dominant PUG tonight 2bst, 2smn, mnk and thf, and went 1/1 with no tails used. Phew! I had been worried initially with all the horror stories I had read. Finally get to play with Raphie now! I hope he was worth the wait.