Talk:Caldera Crab

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--- 1st attempt with 85mnk/nin, rdm/whm, blu/rdm. failure @87% due to venom shower wiping support. this had me thinking... --- 2nd attempt came back again with 85mnk/nin, random DD, rdm/whm, rdm/nin (don't ask), sch/rdm, 2x blu. this was not my optimal setup for this encounter but we tried it anyway - just to calibrate. i decided to clear out the first area and the stairs then fight the crab on the stairs for a height difference. the fight went pretty bad to start off. the crab ended up already having stoneskin up so i couldn't get hate worth shit and all i had was to pop counterstance, perfect counter, focus and dodge for whatever hate i could get. i then broke stoneskin and the crab got it off again. i stabilized a little bit -- the blu's came in and were head butt'ing any spells. i was doing perfectly fine tanking even with counterstance up at times (proccing a lot) and nothing more than haste. venom shower of course came at a bad time and wiped out almost everyone, especially the taru's haha. i tried recovered fine due to chakra however mega scissors sent Caldera heading for the support that got caught in the crossfire and it ended in faiure around 70%. my optimal setup would be 2mnk/nin tank, rdm, whm, brd, and a couple blu. mnk/nin as tank because they are awesome and chakra can remove the potent poison from Venom Shower, brd and whm for water carol (possibly), marches and barwater and the blus to keep Caldera crab stunned while also quickly defeating it's stoneskin with a Quadratic Continuim/goblin rush etc... fight the crab on the stairs with support below. to compensate for mega scissors hate reset it may be advisable for everyone to be /nin. it may be smart for the blu to be /mnk as they will most likely be caught in the venom shower and /mnk will allow them to chakra it away. i will be testing this setup soon. --Ejiboo, Leviathan