[Dust601]

quick question on this guy
if you by chance spawn him and try to fight him with a gimp pt setup and have to escape out and he despawns. does he respawn or do you have to wait another 3 days?

[Harmlesstwos]

If the cherry saplings are gone then you probbably have to wait for another 3 days

[Dust601]

well after waiting around a hour we found out if you escape after fighting and he despawns if you wait about a hour his ph's will respawn and you can pop him again.

first time we tried to straight fight him with a mnk in the pt which bassicly = death because he does a tp aoe move that will mess up your pt real fast.

so we tried kiting and it was a pritty simple fight really

[6souls]

also keep it away from the mages when fighting. Paralyze-ga & sleepga sucks ass. >.>;;

[ummhi]

question... is it soloable or just to hard?

[6souls]

no where near soloable. i did it with 8-9 ppl.
WHMx2/RDM/BRD/SAM/THF/ and i forgot the rest of the set-up. all i remember is that everyone but me and the thf wiped. i think it only took about 5 minutes to kill it though, the ga spells are the only real kille in this battle

[Tiesto]

If it despawns the Saplings respawn after 30 minutes.

[Brennon]

no where near soloable. i did it with 8-9 ppl.

A very good RDM can solo it.

[Pringo]

A very good rdm/nin DID solo it..just takes a few hours...and a LOT of concentration.

[Brennon]

If you're talking about Avesta, then we're talking about the same person

[MorathiRDM]

It's definitely soloable by RDM, although you can't just show up by yourself and fight him because there is no possible way that one RDM can kill all 8 of the cherry saplings before they start to respawn.

And you don't solo it as Rdm/Nin either, you solo it as Rdm/Drk. Bind and Gravity are basically never, ever resisted so you don't really have a problem there, and unlike most HNM Bind actually holds through multiple nukes (at least it did quite a few times). Aspir owns (60-100 MP per cast with torque/crimson hands) and obviously speeds up the fight a ton because you barely even ever have to convert.

So basically the only thing left to worry about is his spells (Sleepga, Paralyga, Graviga). At first I figured /WHM would be best to erase/paralyna but then you still have the Sleepga problem (poison potions or waiting for him to break stoneskin) and with /WHM you don't get Aspir. So, my recommendation is /DRK and just Stun all his magic. Don't nuke ever until after you Stun just so you don't get caught in the middle of a spell.

Only thing that sucks is because of the way that enemies use TP based on range, ie when you solo/kite Amikiri he only uses Sharp Strike because it doesn't require him to be in range or he uses breath if he's close enough for that and death scissors if he's close enough for it. Well, Cherry's only long range weapon skill is pinecone bomb which obviously sucks ass and it always hit me so I don't think you can get out of range.

Other than that, just be prepared for a pretty long fight as he has a ton of HP to take down, but Aspir makes it bearable.

[Dragonix]

Morathi, you totally rock.