Waughroom Shrine BCNM 40

Waughroom Shrine BCNM 40 - Royal Jelly Realm: Jeuno Start Area: Waughroon Shrine Start NPC: Shami (H - 8)
Type: BCNM Related Mobs: Princess Jelly Queen Jelly
Min Level: 1 Max Level: 75
Items Required: Star Orb
Items Granted: Buzzard Tuck De Saintre's Axe Dusky Staff Gold Beastcoin Goshenite Grudge Sword Himmel Stock Mana Ring Mannequin Hands Marksman's Ring Pearl Scroll: Air Spirit Pact Scroll: Erase Scroll: Fire Spirit Pact Scroll: Ice Spikes Scroll: Phalanx Scroll: Refresh Scroll: Utsusemi: Ni Sealed Mace Shikar Bow Steel Ingot Steel Sheet Turquoise

Turn in 40 Beastmen's Seals to Shami in Port Jeuno and receive a Star Orb. Trade the Star Orb to the Burning Circle in Waughroon Shrine. This battle is limited to 3 people and you have 15 minutes.

Fight 8 Princess Jellies as they try to merge into one final large jelly called the Queen Jelly. The jellies all cast Bind, Shock, and Thunder.
First suggest of setting up. I used 2 RNG and one RDM. For first time having RDM was best thing with his convert ability. RNG choice of food whould be Rice Dumplings. It will up your damage output by +20ish per hit and as much jellys you will have to kill. It really helps. For RDM yugado juice, having refresh never killed no one.

BATTLE PLAN 1
easy follow the steps and you cant possibly loose unless RNGs got really bad gears. Once in put shell on all members, no protect needed (your RNG if your close enough for jelly to hit you, just move away) go to your left and RNGs shadowbind 1st and 2nd jelly, it will stick them for good period of time. As they say 2 are better then 1. use that idea here, seperating RNGs to each side dont work. Both RNGs should go to rightside (opposite of where jellyt is shadowbinded) and start killing them off together. for RNG i suggest subbing WAR. NIN sub dont help at all and if you have decent gear, you will not miss even loosing extra Archer's Knife. For RDM just heal. Our RDM gets so bored though fight he started leveling his weapon skill on one of jelly while we kill others off (yes it became that easy)

So far we got 2 erase and 2 phalax. about 9 fights in total and planning to keep doing it til we run out of our seals. Hope you guys have better luck on drops then we did. Happy hunting

BATTLE PLAN 2
First off, all that business about using Bind, Gravity, Shadowbind, etc. to slow down the Jelly's approach to the center of the arena is completely unnecessary. All you need to win at this BCNM are 2 melee damage dealers and a healer. That's it. My group always goes as WAR/NIN, SAM/WAR, WHM/BLM, and we have never lost.

Jobs
Like I said, 2 melee damage dealers and a healer and you're set. DD's that would probably do just fine are WAR, MNK, DRK, SAM, DRG, RNG. With decent eqiupment those jobs should be able to tear right through the Jellies with no problem. WHM or RDM would make the best choices for healers, but honestly I believe that a BLM or SMN with a WHM sub could work just as well.

Preparations
After entering the burning circle, buff up with protect and shell, and use food. DD's shouldn't need anything more than a Meat Mithkabob, and as long as the healer as a Juice then he will be fine. Optional items would be HP Regen drinks for the DD's, and a pie for the healer. These items will help things run smoother, but aren't entirely necessary.

The fight
Ok, you're buffed up and ready to rock. Time to enter the arena squash some jelly. The Jellies are arranged in a circle pattern around the outer rim of the arena, and will be slowly making their way to the center. The strategy is simple, send a DD to each side of the arena and start tearing through those Jellies. The healer, obviously, just has to cure them. And that's it. We have never even tried to use Bind or anything to slow the Jellies approach, and honestly we have never felt a need to. By the time the DD's get to the last couple Jellies they might be a little close to the center, but chances are they will be dead long before they can even attempt to form together.

The loot
My group has made some very good money off this BCNM. We've had Erase and Utsusemi: Ni drop a few times, along with a ton of random weaponry. Also, since this is only a 3 person BNCM, you can look forward to a bigger share of gil if you are splitting the money after the items sell.

So if you're looking for a simple BCNM that doesn't require some crazy setup like 5 RNG's and BLM, here you go. Post any questions you might have here, or look me up on Ifrit. Good luck, not that you'll need it. :P