I've been running with a small static for the last couple of months now, compiled of my husband, and some close friends. Our setup comprises of whm sch pld blu blu geo or rdm when 1 of the blu's switches. As you can tell, we rely heavily on sch immanence setup to MB off with... we've only attempted a few of the t1's Reisenjima as of late, and this Marlboro has us scratching our heads. I know his hate bounces with any type of magic damage. I'm just wondering, if anyone has any better ideas on how to properly take this guy down AND with our current setup?
A.N I've seen the video posted by Tychefym. I'm wondering how the rune was able to keep hate considering the scholars were doing fragmentation left and right. lol
How good are your BLUs? If they have any real skill then just stop trying to use a strategy designed for backline nukers. Have your GEO switch to Vex + Attunement and your BLU's go /WAR with occulation set and just melee blast her into pieces. We beat every T1 and T2 using a similar strategy with the exception of Gold Kiss and Crom.
Our most common setup was
PLD
BLU
BLU
GEO
COR
WHM
Seems very similar to your group. BLU's are really bad at MBing stuff due to BA timer but really good at either chain nuking Light / Dark magic or meleeing something down. It's not very useful trying to play towards your groups weakness's instead of towards their strengths.
It's level up mechanic is really easy to avoid. Whenever it use's it's vine moves it can absorb HP and if it absorbs too much HP then it will level up. All those moves are blinkable so if your BLU's just keep Occulation set and stand to the back left or right, you shouldn't run into level up issues. She's really easy to kill, in fact most of them are.
For Golden Kiss we strated with a melee method, and were able to defeat it, slowly and with much pain. Eventually we switched to a SC + Death MB with a BLU chain nuking dark magic. Crom is really easy, have the BLU's just spam Light nukes from over 12 feet away with Maliase + Accumen / Focus.