Y'know how you're out there, hunting the armor for mochi, and then this Mithra armor comes up and one-shots you out of nowhere and runs off like Sonic the Hedgehog?
Yep. That's the one. >.>
We talked to some other people out there and put together an alliance. In the end we had seventeen to eighteen people out there beating on it with sticks, not counting the people outside the alliance. It was right outside the Windurst gates, and any time we got KOed we'd just run back out there and try again.
We were still dropping like flies! But I think our breakthrough came when we realized we could buff ourselves before heading out there. I put up Blink, Stoneskin and Phalanx, and everyone else must have too because all of a sudden we weren't dying. The armor kept switching targets, so it took it awhile to wear any one of us down. And it was so very satisfying to hear all those Enthunder sound effects from a mob of people beating on it with Lotus Katanas.
Several kind people Raised those who died and remembered they'd left HP in Jeuno. Kudos also go to the leaders of the other parties, Moosen and ... someone whose name starts with V, I don't remember! And everyone else who was in the alliance. I think Zellchaver started it, although he had to drop out pretty quickly.
It was like herding cats. I wasn't even sure what the white and yellow dots next to my name meant. But Shykre was there pulling, providing moral support and overall helping co-ordinate things. As far as I'm concerned he was in charge. When they hold the elections, he has my vote. (^.^)b
In the end, someone else got the drop. We tried /shouting and asking what it was, but no one would tell us. I think it may have been a JP player. I got discouraged and logged out right there, after giving leader to someone else.
Later on Ravenarchon told me somebody said all it drops are gold carps. He thinks SE didn't actually intend for us to beat it. Personally, I'm glad. I don't want to have to do all that over again. ^.^;
Despite being discouraged, it was great fun. Thanks to everyone else who participated!