We went and did this yesterday night. We party up and buy our various foods, drinks, medicines, and equipment we are lacking in for the level 30 cap. Here is the party setup:
PLD/WAR - Jefferson
RNG/NIN - Vendal
BLM/WHM - Eleusynia
WHM/SMN - Cmagen
SMN/WHM - Awias
SMN/WHM - Lyliandra
After assembling the party and heading out to erase our memories (and after I stupidly walk into the wrong promy and have to go erase my memory after everyone else was in) we start out. We tore through the first three levels very quickly. We found all the memory recepticles in little time and while Awias and I had our summons attack the Memory Recepticles, Jefferson was able to provoke and keep all the strays off everyone. Vendal helped kill strays and take down the Memory Recepticles while Eleusynia concentrated on the Memory Recepticle too.
Once we got to the fourth floor we ran into some problems. While we were stealthily running around trying to find the zone we managed to aggro a few of the monsters there. Both Awias and I had our summons our and were trying to kill off the mobs. They were too strong though and quickly took out our summons. We all ran but 4 of us, Eleusynia, Jefferson, Vendal, and myself, managed to die before we got to the zone. Luckily Cmagen, our WHM, and Awias made it to the zone and lived. They were somehow able to make it back to us and raise Eleusynia our BLM who was able to tractor the rest of us to saftey, where we were shortly raised. A very big Thank you to the amazing stealthy catnipped kitty, Cmagen, who was able to save all of us. After we all healed up to full after weakness wore off, we just ran to the zone with a nice train behind us. We made it and rested up and formed our strategy before the final battle.
The strategy for the final boss we use is the one listed on Allakhazam here:
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?realm=&fquest=517
We first buffed with Protectra II, Shellra, and Garuda's Blinkaga. Jefferson, our PLD, tanked the boss, while Awias and I summoned Garuda. Cmagen healed Jefferson while Eleusynia nuked and Vendal attacked the boss, while later taking out the Offspring that the boss spawns. Both Awias and I used Astral Flow and 2 houred and one more 2 hour a minute later from Garuda finished off the boss. The one thing we could have done differently was that Awias and I waited to 2 hour till the boss was at about 60% hp. We could have just started out with our 2 hours since they both took off around 500 HP and dropped the boss from about 60% to about 30-40% HP.
The party yesterday was an awesome party, one of the best I was ever in. Everyone did a great job and were all very skilled players at what they did. Gotta thank Cmagen again for coming back and raising all of us on the fourth floor allowing us to get to the boss. Jefferson did a great job tanking the boss and after the first cure from Cmagen, the boss stuck to him like glue. Eleusynia is a great BLM, who I've had the privilege to party with previously. She helped me get my RSE ^^ Thanks for tractoring my dead corpse to safety and providing constant humor. Vendal was quiet but a great RNG. He was great at picking off the Offspring and the Strays at the Memory Recpticles. Awias just rules period. I've partied with her before and she's in my LSes and I can't say enough good about her.
Well that's it for this Promy. 2 down. 1 left.
Edited, Tue Feb 1 10:20:14 2005 by Lyliandra