BCNM40: Steamed Sprouts

[Ikonic]

Today I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in BCNM40. Everything turned out well. Our PLD managed to live through flood. We only had one death (the DRK), but he was raised and we were able to win the battle anyways. Most of our times ran about 22 minutes.

The Team:
BRD/WHM Narel (leader of the event and great BRD)
DRK/WAR Huguesdepayen
MNK/WAR Ikonic
SMN/WHM Skatelife
WHM/SMN Siybye
PLD/WAR Justyn

We only managed to do 5 of the 6 orbs because of time constraints. Here's the Drops we received.

Run 1
Balance Buckler
Survival Belt
Enhancing Earring
Guarding Gorget
Ice Spikes
Phalanx

Run 2
Survival Belt
Enhancing Earring
Guarding Gorget
Ice Spikes
Oak Log
Erase

Run 3
Balance Buckler
Survival Belt
Enhancing Earring
Guarding Gorget
Utsusemi: Ni
Fire Spirit

Run 4
Balance Buckler
Survival Belt
Enhancing Earring
Guarding Gorget
Refresh
Absorb-STR

Run 5
Balance Buckler
Survival Belt
Guarding Gorget
Ice Spikes
Erase
Reraiser

I parsed the results for curiousity sake and to test dex vs str. I found out that at lvl 40 a MNK should opt for dex.

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One thing to note. Make sure to have a good strategy beforehand. Narel was very good at setting up the strategy and making sure everyone knew what was going on before we started. I'll detail how we proceeded to do this BCNM.

Everyone rests to full before entering the arena. Once inside buffs are cast (protectra, shellra, accuracy and attack songs for melee and mp regen for mages). Wait for mages to heal mp to full again.

Then go find the black mandy and target it. Do not get close enough to have it attack you, but just enough for you to see it. Once you have it targeted and everyone is ready have the PLD attack it. This will cause every mandy to attack the PLD. At this time the BRD is able to sleep the lot.

Then have the PLD pull the black mandy away from the lot. Proceed to attack it until it is dead. All the while the BRD is sleeping the remaining mandies. Once black mandy is dead PLD targets another mandy and melee attack it. When that mandy's hate is on the melee pull it away from the lot. Once it's dead find another and repeat.

When down to the last 2 mandies have the PLD and DRK attack one and the MNK take on the other. Both mandies should die about the same time.

In our pt the SMN was the healer of the melees and the WHM of the BRD. Only time they would swap any is if the BRD, WHM or SMN were slept and then only cast if the PLD was sleeping or out of mp.

I may not have the full details correct, but this is the best I could notice and remember.

All-in-all this was an awesome experience and this pt worked wonderously. I'll be open to do BCNM40 again with such a setup as it was successful.

Oh, and as for loot it totalled up to between 870K-930K. That's between 145K-155K per person.

Edit: Changed links to a different host.

[Ikonic]

If you check out the numbers (parser results) you'll notice that I did around 50% of the DMG. Now I'm not saying I'm a god of this BCNM, but I'm curious as to how other melee would work in this BCNM. Add to the fact that I could tank these and the DRK didn't even use stun once I wonder if maybe another MNK and a RNG would be a better combo? As it was our clear time was around 22 minutes and the record was about 10.

[Ikonic]

Generally BCNM runs try to do 6 times (or 5 if the BRD doesn't have an orb). You get the orb from the guy in Port Jeuno beside the cover of the stairs leading down to the AH (on the left side as coming from the MH).