Our 1st run vs the Long-Armed Chariot boss NM at SSR.

I think if we had more time, were a little faster on the status removals, had a bit more expendables (ie: hi pots), and had a way of dealing with brainjacked, we could have won before time out.

props go to fili for attempting to kite 3-4 charmed melees.


But it was a nice attempt.

lol
wish I had taken more pics.

My failed kite attempt is over there in the corner... Who knew you can't use flee when you're knocked unconscious <_<

It does look promising though.

EOL

Aww that's nothing... try kiting an alliance full of people in Dynamis-Beauc on BLM >.>;;

j/k, I think your kite area was much smaller XD

Yeah, I got over to that corner and was like "now where do I go..."

EOL

haha that was fun! i did manage to escape death via HQ members, but fell to the next AOE from chariot :P

I read up a little on this boss...

as far as brainjack goes, he uses it once at 80-85% and quickly repeats it for a total of 4 brainjacks. now this is not good when you have a party of 9 ppl with 1 or 2 already dead :P

apparently after that first burst of 4 he uses them one at a time at specific hp ranges, probably like 70% 60% 50% etc like bahamut.

his aoe's are weak, but bind is kinda annoying. damage seemed to be ok, he is not particularly weak or strong to anything that i could see. magic dmg seemed resisted 50%.

what might work for this...
first off: 18 ppl. the route we took will allow us to get pretty well unlocked by the time we hit the boss. we can burn through faster and maybe tackle some more gears on the last floor too. our alliance of nine was close to if not fully unlocked by the 4th floor.
second: expendibles, may want to grab a few remedies for bind/gravity, a few au laits/yagudos and of course hi-pots/ethers.

zergability... i think with 18 ppl we can zerg this guy *after* he uses the 4x brainjack and we get them uncharmed, maybe around 60%? I'm not sure if he goes into spam aoe mode at low % or not. icarus wings would be nice for an extra sc/magic burst to start.

are we trying this next week?