There is no fraud or people disbanding for screenshots, we won with only 13 people for the run. The setup was this:
BLM
BLUx3
DRK
MNK
NINx2
PLD
RDMx2
RNG
THF
I wanted to get a video of the actual run, but the strategy involved me kiting most of the enemy so there would not be much to see. Furthermore, there was nobody else that could do the recording for me in that run. As far as the strategy, essentially what I did was load myself up with powder boots and kite everything back and forth. At least that was what was supposed to happen. As it turns out, everything that could go wrong, did. The Elvaan shield bashed me right in the middle of the circle, I get stuck up the stairs, the angry mob of ArkAngels slowing me down in the hallway, etc.
So the second and winning round was done like this: I begin the fight aggroing and kiting everything. The Tarutaru gets taken down quickly, the Mithra gets tagged and kited, the pet held by RDMs. This leaves me kiting the Galka, the Hume, the Elvaan, and the wyvern. All went dandy for a while but I'm not sure on what exactly happened. All I know is I started to lose the ArkAngels I was kiting somehow and the group is slowly dying off. We managed to kill the Tarutaru, the Mithra, and her pet before wiping. Then after reraising and recovering, we resumed the killing.
Just like before, I started to kite like before and let the group focus on the Galka. Again I was losing some of the ArkAngels somehow, but nevertheless we managed to kill everything one by one. Luckily the Hume used Mijin Gakure right before we wiped the first time, which saved us trouble of him using it when we were actually fighting him.
I had several reasons for doing this run the way I did. First, I was tired of everyone following cookie cutter strategies. For a while, the way to win was the multiple kiters method, manaburning, or monkburn. Eventually the supertank strategy was formed, but from what I understand it was originally used because the person organizing the run did not want to rely on other players doing their job properly (in kiting the ArkAngels). This was something different, which I think what people should be doing with battlefield fights. Second, I felt that the fight was old enough to the point where people should be doing with fewer players. Since the introduction of this quest, there have been much equipment, merits, job abilties, and other tweaks added. The capability of 18 players back then should be matched with capability of less, possibly as few as 10. My third reason is it would be more or less a precursor to my plans for making a low-count LS. In the future, I plan to make a linkshell that fights with far fewer players than what most linkshells fight with today ( like 6-person gods runs, 3-person demi fights, etc). I wanted to see if I can pull it off before I dig a deep hole into that LS.
This run is still rather an amazing feat. The majority of the players involved do not have extensive gear/merit/experience/skill. Most have not been involved in endgame, if any at all. Because of this, I suspect it might be possible to cut the numbers down towards 10 or 9 with a very solid group. Not that these are poor players, most of them are pretty good, just didn't have best of the best of gears.
I think thats all I am going to write about after this emotional roller coaster (had thought my chances of winning were bad after seeing what happened in the first run, then later was ecstatic when we were winning). It was a great run and everyone enjoyed it. Till my next post, good night!
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