Missions: Rovont and the Shadow Lord (San d'Oria 5-2)

Rovont (PLD60/WAR30) wanted to get Rank 6 this past weekend, and recruited Itera (MNK75/WHM37), Grym (THF75/NIN37) and I (PLD75/RDM37) to help him fight the Shadow Lord. I was curious to see what the fight would be like at 75, since it was pretty challenging for us as a well-balanced party at level 56. Splinte was supposed to come with us as well, but he got waylaid before we got to the fight. It's a lot easier making our way to the Throne Room at level 75, but even without needing to worry about sneak and invisible for anyone but Rovont, it still take quite awhile to weave through the rooms and wait for the teleporters to be active.

We buffed up and headed in to face His Massiveness. Getting antsy while Rovont was busy with his cutscene, the three of us went ahead and got started on the fight. We had Itera Chi Blast at the start, then Grym SATA'd on me to make up for my lack of Provoke. The Shadow Lord wasn't a pushover, and even with all my MP as PLD/RDM, I pretty much used all of it (plus autorefresh and a couple of melon juices). When the Shadow Lord became impervious to physical damage, Rovont and I used Holy and Banish, and Itera used Chi Blast to keep the damage up. I also had enblizzard on, so though my sword hits were doing 0 damage, I was still getting additional damage of 15 from the effect. Grym was hoping to use bloody bolts for the HP Drain, but hadn't really mentioned it to me, so I had cured him when he took damage, negating the effect of the bloody bolts. Sorry about that. Through the course of the fight, we all ended up taking quite a bit of damage from his AOEs, so I used a lot of MP curing myself and others too. It was a fun fight, and Rovont now has Rank 6!