Hey all! I don't know if this is a known strategy or not. I just see that people run 2 tank/2 heals groups to farm this and I was even told in whispers by someone when I tried to make a learning group for my first time doing the fight that it did require 2 tanks/2 heals. That is not the case though. Me and a friend came up with a custom strat to do this with only 1 tank/heal to farm it faster.
Here is a video for proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tpzINLBOC8
Let me break down the strategy.
Note: The healer has a lot of responsibility for this strat, as it's pretty healing intensive and requires proper timing of shields for the strat to work. Make sure they are on top of their game.
The tank mechanic "Cursekeeper" can be shielded or invulned with hallowed ground or superbolied and cause no damage to the rest of the team. We used a SCH to basically shield the entirety of the tank mechanic with Recitation + Adloquium. The DRK in the vid used TBK as well but it's not needed, as Reci + adlo was enough. An AST might be able to do the trick as well with the shields but we didn't test it, we went with SCH to be safe, however WHM would not be able to do this strat with the low amount of shields it can provide.
Next up the tethers after the wheelfaces zoomed off we're tanked by 1 tank and 1 dps that we're assigned. Even as a red mage (a job with lower hp than most jobs) I could tank the 2nd tether with no issues. Just take them off to the side like normal.
With good dps you can skip the circles phase at the end of the fight. This requires about 86k team dps to do, but if you don't skip it, just make sure people without meteors go find a circle. If 1 or 2 go off its not a big deal as you can tank/heal through it.
The final thing to worry about (which wasn't shown in this vid) is the stack mechanic soon after the circles. Just sacrifice your healer and make sure the raid is spread out instead of soaking it as the boss should be dead about then anyway so it doesn't matter if there are a death or 2 from the mechanic. You need about 72k dps to skip the tank mechanic that comes right after that beam soak, which is fairly easy to accomplish at level 80. However if you do not make it in time, more shielding is enough to deal with the tank mechanic anyway.
With this strat the kill time goes down to about 4:50-5:30 depending on the dps you have. Hope this helps and good luck farming for them scales and woofers!
P.S. sorry about the lower quality. Had to record with monitor capture to get ACT in the vid as well, as it didn't let me do it with game capture, so the video might be a bit choppier than normal.
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Here is a video for proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tpzINLBOC8
Let me break down the strategy.
Note: The healer has a lot of responsibility for this strat, as it's pretty healing intensive and requires proper timing of shields for the strat to work. Make sure they are on top of their game.
The tank mechanic "Cursekeeper" can be shielded or invulned with hallowed ground or superbolied and cause no damage to the rest of the team. We used a SCH to basically shield the entirety of the tank mechanic with Recitation + Adloquium. The DRK in the vid used TBK as well but it's not needed, as Reci + adlo was enough. An AST might be able to do the trick as well with the shields but we didn't test it, we went with SCH to be safe, however WHM would not be able to do this strat with the low amount of shields it can provide.
Next up the tethers after the wheelfaces zoomed off we're tanked by 1 tank and 1 dps that we're assigned. Even as a red mage (a job with lower hp than most jobs) I could tank the 2nd tether with no issues. Just take them off to the side like normal.
With good dps you can skip the circles phase at the end of the fight. This requires about 86k team dps to do, but if you don't skip it, just make sure people without meteors go find a circle. If 1 or 2 go off its not a big deal as you can tank/heal through it.
The final thing to worry about (which wasn't shown in this vid) is the stack mechanic soon after the circles. Just sacrifice your healer and make sure the raid is spread out instead of soaking it as the boss should be dead about then anyway so it doesn't matter if there are a death or 2 from the mechanic. You need about 72k dps to skip the tank mechanic that comes right after that beam soak, which is fairly easy to accomplish at level 80. However if you do not make it in time, more shielding is enough to deal with the tank mechanic anyway.
With this strat the kill time goes down to about 4:50-5:30 depending on the dps you have. Hope this helps and good luck farming for them scales and woofers!
P.S. sorry about the lower quality. Had to record with monitor capture to get ACT in the vid as well, as it didn't let me do it with game capture, so the video might be a bit choppier than normal.
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