I gave up on soloing 5-1, couldn't get the boss below 33% before timing out and I can't really think of a better strategy that doesn't involve spamming nukes and meds.
Well, there was 1 other strategy...bring a MNK!
This was much easier and didn't require any meds :3
Maybe if I just ignored the adds and meleed the boss for the enitre duration of the fight, hoping they don't sleep me/nuke me too much, it might be doable but I can't be bothered to try now. The RDM solo video I saw is very old, and I'm pretty sure he enters the BC fully buffed, so there's likely been some changes since then. Also, nobody knows about it so I can deny its existence.
With that out of my way, I can get back to finishing this damn mission line.
The Shadow Lord is an absolute pushover. First time I went, I forgot my shihei and with no northlands outposts or warp on me, I just logged until warp was ready because I didn't fancy walking through Xarc > Beauc > Ranguemont Pass > Ronfaure > Sandy and back again. In hindsight, I probably didn't even need shadows. He never even broke stoneskin in his second form and it took about 10 mins to kill both forms after I'd buffed. First form I could have gone afk for, were it not for casting shadows but he didn't hit that hard anyway.
RANK 6 GO
6-1 I had to collect a ridiculously rare flower for the dead queen's garden because she thought it was perfectly acceptable to put it in her will and have somone run to the other side of the world every time the old flower died out. Bitch.
Naturally picking the flower spawns a cactuar NM who, according to the wiki, "SPAMS 1000 NEEDLES CONSTANTLY ALL THE TIME OMFG DON'T FIGHT THIS JUST LOG OUT AND UNINSTALL SAVE YOURSELF ARRRFGHHGHZGGHGFNGH".
This led me to believe it might be rather dangerous, so I took care and opted to kite/dot/nuke as RDM/NIN, which apparantly can take up to 1 hour, 45 minutes. I was genuinely worried about 1000 needles spam, especially when I forgot to bring my NPC to soak up damage. It took me ~20 minutes to kill, and although it spent most of the fight within 1000 needles range, it didn't use it once. Cactuar guy doesn't seem to spam TP that much at all either, maybe uses it as soon as he gets 100% but really didn't use anything that often. So wiki people either lied, or had 4 MNKS hundred fisting it with level 1 clubs.
Another easy fight, and many of the fights later on follow this pattern of force-pop mobs that you can pop and then pull 1, and let the others despawn.
From the looks I can solo every mission up to 9-2 from here, so should make speedy progress now. Shame I couldn't beat 5-1 though.
Your missions suck and you should be ashamed. I like Halver more now for some reason, eh's a pretty cool guy. The rest of the Elvaan are pretty dull though.
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