[Telera]

I only did Dem before I quit. But we took 3x SMN (including myself), a WHM, a NIN, and I think a SAM. With 3 summoners AF'ing it was overkill. But it went very quickly.

I don't think anyone even *used* an anima.

[Vyuru]

Ziero and IfritnoItazura hit the nail on the head.

I'd disagree with Ziero that Terro anima is useless, it IS usefull, but it's the anima that is to be used after the others and the boss STILL isn't dead. Or you could toss them onto the babies as IfritnoItazura said and keep them busy for a little while.

And from my experience all Strays and those little baby mobs that the Dem boss spawns always went after me >.>

Surefire way to win though, designate one, and only one, leader of your CoP runs who handles EVERYTHING (in regards to plans, calling out when to use anima/other special things, etc), for every run, from here on out. It is imperative that you have a leader to cut down on confusion during the fight and so that you all know what the plan is.



Some general recommendations:

Bring meds (it wasn't mentioned so I don't know if you did) standard meds for the jobs (drinks and stuff for mages, hi potions and stuff for melee) The Hi Potion tanks are easily obtained from Assaults, and if you can't do those then they are almost dirt cheap on the AH. Make sure your inventory is as empty as you can get it and fill it up with Hi Potions before the fight.

I would highly recommend you stock up on Hi Potion tanks if you are going to continue with CoP, they're really quite usefull (sitting on 10 of them for when I start back up with CoP >.>)

The drg might want to come /mage if he isn't already. It doesn't really look like you need the extra healing power, but you'll be glad of it if things go wrong. Also this helps the drg survive a bit easier since he won't be pulling so much hate.

[Skoal]

Dem is by far the easiest boss fight. We have done the ENM and boss fight back to back a few times since ppl needed it for the mission.

I think our success was mainly due to the fact that we had people in our group that had completed multiple promy missions before. My suggestion is to ready up on the mission, bring correct supplies, animas and try and bring a couple of ppl who have completed the mission before.

Smns definitely help but I have done plenty of promys w/0 one. We completed the Dem ENM with 4 ppl. Rdm, war/nin, mnk war and nin/war. The mnk died early but we managed to win.

Keep your cool and have a well planned strategy before you even start forming a party.