Lost In The Crowd

I have fought Odin numerous time before but yesterday one was the most exciting fight so far, even more exciting than my first Odin. Maybe exciting isn’t the most appropriated word for it, it was mixed of worry and exciting feeling. I was worried because this is first Odin of linkshell I’m in and I can’t positively say our group is well geared and skilled, loots never came to my mind at the time just win the fight is already a big accomplishment. Oh another thing that make me could careless about loot is they stated that they don’t let me lot anything, however I set comment to lot anyway plus somewhat cute face hoping for they might change their mind!

We have total of 33 members for the fight, consist of the following jobs.

• 1 BLU/THF
• 3 BRD/WHM
• 1 COR/RNG
• 1 MNK/NIN
• 4 PLD/NIN
• 3 RDM/NIN
• 2 RNG/NIN
• 1 RNG/SAM
• 1 RNG/WAR
• 4 SAM/THF
• 2 SCH/RDM
• 5 SMN/WHM
• 2 WHM/BLM
• 1 WHM/SMN

Party setup is different than what I used to do with, mainly is they use SMN for DD and healing power is rather lacking. They did good job on preparing thought, the leader make everyone who can use Spirit Within (even a BRD and RDM) sleeping for 300% TP before enter but an asshole like me who believe this is overkill doesn’t do it. They use 3 PLD/NIN tank Odin and have another PLD/NIN as backup tank and helping RDM/NIN with adds, alliance I’m in consist of tank party, RNG party and SMN party. SMN party is absolute nightmare for me, a RDM, I need to refresh everyone and keep them alive. Keep myself and other 5 people in my party refreshed is enough to make me occupied let alone curing SMNs that get hit by an unnecessary AoEs ._.

The fight went fast and smoothly at first, army of Spirit Within ditch about 10% of Odin’s HP just about instantly after we engaged and we got Odin down to 80% few minutes later. Thing went well until first set of adds pop, RDM/NIN tag them way too slow and after they kill one of PLD and another SAM one of them come after me for and beat me to death then proceed to kill another SMN in my party before RDM tag it also other loosing add killed one of WHMs too. The fight get more messy after that, SMN and RNG still damage Odin while melee and tank are struggle to survive because we lack healing, one of WHM is weakened and other 2 is just not enough to keep 3 tanks and 5 melees healed. So our melee starting to drop down and at one point Odin start come after WHM and killed one then went after RNG instead. I feel like they got the fight tempo wrong, IMO it is much better to slow down a bit and heal people up before continue damage or using BP because most of annoying/dangerous move of Odin is predictable since it is HP based move.

Anyway we manage to get it down to 10% when 10 minutes mark show up and surprisingly all tanks and melee but one avoid Zantetsuken and RDM get pops off them quickly, one of RDM/NIN die after kite pop for awhile thought so I took over by bind it few times before it start losing agro. We win with about 5 minutes left on lamp and got pretty ugly drops, here.

Oh I forgot to mention that they don’t have THF present for Odin. Personally I think TH affact Odin drops because item is actually drop from him not from chest like in other chamber in Einherjar but when I sent leader a tell to ask if we could have THF for Odin before we enter he didn’t respond me but say something shi-fu (which is THF in japanese, only word that I recognize entire paragraph ._.) in linkshell channal so I assume (again) they either not believe in TH affects drop or figure it isn’t worth it to change party setup around, but whatever at least they have some sort of JP-button things and make 4 drops instead of 3, too bad all of them pretty suck.