Vadleany - a pretty little nice looking friendly looking lady bug.
Ok, seriously wtf is up with this lady bug it's been a while that an NM has given my friends and I as much trouble that this little *** has. Especially a friggen 5th Echelon, I just feel like I am doingitrong.
How are people effectively killing this NM, the testimonials I read on wiki make it seem like I'm fighting an all together different NM, the NM I am fighting has really high evasion and great accuracy and hits hella hard, a THF and I tried to duo it a month back and had a very difficult time trying to evade. We didn't have a THF last time we tried fighting it just a couple MNKs and a NIN.
Perhaps it needs to be a kite fight, we just weren't setup for that we haven't needed to kite anything in quite some time. The first time we made the mistake of DoTing it. The next time we tried to straight tank without any debuffs and that didn't go well. The next time we tried stun locking it (we thought maybe stuns wouldn't raise the DMG of the AoE move because it will wear by the time it can use it) but that didn't go over well with the 2 people we had that could stun + a BLU who's stuns got resisted rather quickly.
I am not positive what spells exactly will raise the dmg of Spiral Burst it seemed like even when we did not DoT/Debuff it they still 1 shotted our guys. Maybe it should just be a kite/nuke fight we didn't try but I thought I would hear what others had to say. After a few tries we just ended up buying the damn pop items rather than trying to spam him.