Beat by a Team of 4 - the heroic SAM90 Razorback, the filigree SAM86 Hamamelis, the dexterous RDM85 Mixxey and myself as WHM86. You can die towards the ramp and reraise without getting aggro. We entered and meditated for 3 full cycles till recast was back. One of the SAMs engaged Portia and one engaged my clone. The RDM used Gravity on Ragelise and I as WHM/NIN Flashed Larzos. Gravity landed no problem and Larzos hits REALLY slow - anyone sub /NIN can tank him easy. Our SAMs then continued to go all out on their targets. Portia went down easy but Ragelise somehow shares hate with her, trying to protect her. Also my clone came back to me, despite the massive hate the SAM should have had - so maybe your clone has a special hate towards you. Portia got AOE doom off and hit out far away RDM with it, so maybe conal. As our RDM died from Doom and my clone hit me hard we decided to wipe at the ramp. I want to note that you don´t want to go all naked, the clones h2h damage was still good. I would much rather have prefered entering with a Staff equipped. We reraised without a problem and killed off Ragelise and finally Larzos. Larzoz has a 2hr animation but for all we could see it was not 100 Fists.
--Lyramion 01:13, December 12, 2010 (UTC)
Trio'd. 90MNK/NIN 90RDM/BLM 90WHM/RDM. All used Instant Scroll of Reraise at start. Went in and aggroed them all. RDM casted gravity on the Ragelise and bind on Larzos. Tanked Portia, at some point RDM did lose hate on Ragelise and came to fight me instead (assumed shared hate?). Portia used Melancholy Jig and I wasn't able to remove in time so we died at the entrance. Reraised. Re-aggro and fought Ragelise. RDM casted gravity on Fourth Spitewarden. Hate was kinda loose on Fourth Spitewarden, so proceeded to kill that first. Used Essence Jack on RDM (they entered BC first). Then finished up on the Larzos. 20min fight. (With a good healer shadows are not really needed. I counterstance tanked the fight with the use of Perfect Counter if my HP went under 1k.)
--Myinre 05:59, December 15, 2010 (UTC)
Screamed through this as BLU/NIN (me) at 90, BLU/NIN RDM/BLM SCH/RDM all at 85. I brought meds for myself, probably didn't need them (except to just save a bit of time), even showed where we'd all gotten rusty and the only people that died were the Spitewardens. #4 > Ragelise > Larzos > Portia, had the SCH and RDM sharing the job of kiting whoever wasn't being fought. Ridiculously easy battle if you don't start getting jittery over fighting four at once. We didn't even see Essence Jack go off, and by the time Portia got round to Melancholy Jig, one of us was halfway through a self-skillchain so it didn't matter.
--Lucinus 08:48, December 21, 2010 (UTC)
The fourth spitewarden
This page has TWO very different, misleading things. It says the fourth spitewarden copies one person in the party's appearance, job, and the type of weapon they're using, and gain access to the weaponskills of the weapon (not necessarily the ones the job can use, so theoretically, a blue mage with no weapons equipped will start using hand-to-hand skills and blue magic). That I believe. It says the spitewarden doesn't gain stats from the gear the copied party member is wearing.
Now AFTER that, it says it suggests ALL party members enter naked to prevent any stat boosts from gear of the fourth spitewarden. I haven't done this fight, but I seriously DOUBT that, especially since it contradicts the statement about it not copying your stats from gear or anything like that. This sounds like old Maat advice, in that people suggested you go in naked, because he copies your stats from gear, which wasn't true. Maat doesn't gain your stats, so going in naked didn't matter. Back to the point, this sounds like the Maat fight (except you're fighting a few other bosses along with the spitewarden who has some of Maat's traits), and given what I've seen in the game, I doubt SE would design a fight where a boss would copy your stats and gear. I'm sure he just copies your appearance, and gives abilities/spells appropriate to what you have equipped. But why are there two wildly different, contradictory statements on this page? I'd remove it, but I haven't actually done this fight before, so I can't say myself. But this needs to be cleared up. --Sabishii 18:05, December 20, 2010 (UTC)
I've cleaned this up myself. Considering #4 uses Ebon DD-gear from the waist down and only seems to copy your top half, my suspicion is that it's just aesthetics (not to mention the sheer problems SE would encounter in coding, and making the servers scream, if #4 was going to be an exact carbon copy down to gear boosts). When I did the fight, we went in in dinner-suits for aesthetics over seeing naked-armour (due to people worrying) and general uniformity of gear.
More's the point, advising players to fight a Hand-to-Hand #4 is just dodgy information when we consider the huge number of multi-hit WS to which Hand-to-Hand gives access. I've advised a Staff instead, on the basis that although it does have AoE WS (Earth Crusher and Cataclysm), it doesn't have anything multi-hit. --Lucinus 08:41, December 21, 2010 (UTC)
The Fourth Spitewarden definitely does not copy your job. Mine was completely unable to cast magic, yet had access to Cataclysm even though it copied a BLU/NIN. Additionally, I didn't get to check this because I wanted to play a very elaborate practical joke, but it appears that if the copied player has two weapons equipped (from Dual Wield) the Spitewarden will also have two weapons, effectively making it possible to give your Spitewarden the Dual Wield trait. I haven't seen it copy any other Job Traits (like Double Attack), though. --Eremes 20:43, December 29, 2010 (UTC)
Killed with SAM/NIN, MNK/WAR, 2boxed WHM, SCH/RDM, BRD/WHM. Did Portia>>Ragelise>>Fourth>>Larzos. BRD entered with funny hat and manteel and staff. SCH opened with Graviga and kited with Desert Boots while the rest of the team went to work on Portia. Portia barely had any time to react - or do anything at all- as the SAM did almost 6000 damage through his self-SC. With Portia down and not curing anyone the fight became fairly straightforward. Mifaco 00:39, January 10, 2011 (UTC)
Basic Strat and to the Point
Kite galka, supertank it and kill down the other 3. Start with Portia>>Ragelise>>Fourth warden>>Larzos. Done with 90 Rdm Whm Blm & Mnk. --Endlesspath 09:09, December 21, 2010 (UTC)