Bhaflau Remnants - 2007/08/13

Summary of 2007/08/13
Bhaflau Remnants
Participants:
Ayume (Six) [MNK/NIN]
Falcor [BLM]
Gremlin [BLM]
KenZSMasters [MNK/NIN]
Kistos [WHM]
Krenna [MNK/NIN]
Mandrake [BLU]
Mikais [WHM]
Rumari [RDM]
Seagalka [THF]
Shaman (Drew) [DRK]
Taekichi [BRD]

Loot this run:
Enyo's Leggings (Ares Feet lvl 15) -> Kistos
Anu's Tiara (Marduk Head lvl 15) -> Falcor
Bhaflau Card -> KenZSMasters

Objective this run:
Defeat Long-Bowed Chariot

Progress Within the zone:
1F: Regular route we take for Bhaflau, we went west and killed almost everything in our path, geared up most people, we had 12 members this run so it was necessary but things went relatively fast. Mad Bomber was not up...; ; Spent 30min here I believe (I was a noob and forgot to check the clock as we entered so was a rough estimate...><)
2F: Since no MB, we went ahead and spawned the 2F Rampart. Got the Enyo feet and Anu head from beating up those puddings. The nightmare of the bees....as usual...no NM spawned...:/ we only took it down to 50% before killing it and continuing on. Now we went SE for stat cells from scorpions. cleared out the small room then killed all the trolls in the bigger room and then teleported up.
3F: We were lacking some cells from this point so we cleared 2 rooms full of puddings while having Drew on standby at the porter. Puddings went down fast with our 2 blms hehe
4F: Drew went straight to the porter as we tried to kill some gears, we ended up killing 2 gears, I intentionally link pulled since I knew we were gonna get ported anyways. The first gear we killed was nice and dropped us a lovely bhaflau card....:D
5F: LBC time, we had roughly 20-25min

Mega Boss Fight: Long-Bowed Chariot
The noob I was, I only had a rough estimate of our time in the zone and we have heard from other groups such as mini's that the fight will take around 25min or so, at least for them when they first started. So we begun fighting intimidately, from 100% to 40%, things went okay, tanks were getting alot used to the turning that LBC does to avoid Homing Missiles. As a tank, I just couldn't keep up with shadows with LBC double attacking so often, Im not sure if Rumari was able to land para/slow and if tae landed elegy as I was more focused on keeping the shadows up. Since we had 3 mnks + blu casting on it, at 40%, mp was almost completely drained out from our mages. Then what many feared happened, Homing Missiles landed on us...; ; GG Krenna!!!
The chariot went on a killing frenzy at this point, by the time we were able to recover back hate, our mages were laying on the ground and we eventually fully wiped. We were able to give up as most thought we had less than 10min left but then realized we still had 10min as the warning message popped up. Grem was our brave one tonight and zombied LBC as we tried to recover. By the time we had fully recovered and all healed up, we had less than 5min left, mages still needed to recover mp and LBC was at 34% HP. In a sudden rush, we went all out in power and took it down to 5% before being kicked out. But before we got kicked out, a good amount were dead but it does show why zerging LBC is effective at 25% when it gains auto-tp, if he had that HP when we started the zerg, he would have died...:O

This was our first serious attempt on LBC as a group, I am very happy with the progress we had tonight and if we get the same amount next run, we can definitely take down the chariot no problem! Also may consider gimping the chariot as it will make him alot easier as well, we'll see...^^