Ok, well I will study the maps and look over some info over the weekend and get a feel of what works best. We'll see how our numbers play out on Sunday.
The route to the Animated Kunai isn't really a concern, more the route to take for the Animated Tachi. It's located by the entrance to the Range and I've only fought and defeated it once. When I fought it we were at 64 people and the mobs were all dying fast.
As for directions to take, I am not sure if coming from the top is more dangerous than pulling from the bottom of the ramp, as my impression is that whole line of mobs will aggro either way once a target is claimed. Might be one of those cases where we just need to make sure that Sleepga/Lullaby gets off immediately and then take down all the eyes asap to avoid any disasters, then pick off the demons in the usual order and fashion. It's a heavy pull and the eyes pop a lot of demons, probably more than the ones leading to the Animated Kunai (which is probably the case since that path leads to at least 2 Animated Weapons). Once that line of ramp mobs are down, it's pretty open leading to the Animated Tachi with only a few mobs to deal with.
Also another suggestion, I know that you (Heie) have the attestation for the katana, but I don't know if Redd has the one for the great katana. If he needs it, I suggest that we pop the attest NMs during our Dynamis-Beau run at the end of the month. Since our farming time will be cut down a bit because we need to do the whole process with the MB, this would be a good time to do this, as the attestation NM we need to fight is at the tower on the way to the MB. And killing the Nue tower eye NM doesn't take too long to do and it's a good use of our time if we plan to kill the MB, in my opinion anyway.
So after we clear the gobs, we'd need to clear the ramp of eyes/hydras leading up to xarc, then I can lead a squad to the Nue tower and take down the eye NM. I'd need 2 SAMs, 1 RDM, another DD type such as WAR or SAM, a THF, and myself to tank.
The problem is we will need powder boots for this, at least 2 pairs each, and having /thf sub for flee isn't a bad idea either, except for maybe the RDM, which may just need use 3 pairs of power boots instead. So some kind of preparation for getting this many pairs of powder boots will need to be considered in terms of who is buying them or if we have a supply of them somewere from before that we can use. The complete flee and fight strategy can be discussed with the squad later if we decide to do it.
While we fight the eye NM, the rest of the LS can kill the quads and the only other concern is that when we regroup and we go to fight the orcs, that we avoid the tower by the orcs as Mildaungeux will be popped there. Other than that I feel that it works out well overall and it's good to fight the attest NM as much as possible as the drops are random, so need to do it as much as possible for more chances for the great katana proof to drop.
Anyways, I'll shut up now. Just throwing out some suggestions and strategies so we can get ready for whatever we decide to do in the end.
