Promyvian missions done.Follow

So I get on last night with the sole intent and purpose of getting lv74 so I can use Utsu: Ni. Lookin forward to it, 14k to go. Can do this.
Log in, get a /tell "Hey, come do pro-Mea with us"
Damn.
Been putting this off as long as possible. I've actually avoided it due to a run to Holla that took 5 hours (full alliance is definately a bad idea) to get there and 3 failed attempts at the boss. But, it needs to get done. (Party set up RNG, RNG, NIN, SMN, WHM, BLM (Wakko, Lelan, Madrush, ImperialKnight, Marthastewart and Messenjari))

Pro-Mea:
We get there, another party is coming with us and things are going well.
First hang-up. I'm doing the suicide run to the castle, clear the path, the alliance follows in safely. Get tractored and raised, walk inside, heal, go have a smoke after saying AFK. Come back, parties gone, alliance disbanded. Oh no. I run to the wall, cleared to enter but can't access while pt's engaged. Damn.
They come back out, last man out died (Wakko), we heal up, get ready to go back in (other party had gone in and came back out in a neat little pile). Get back inside, kinda/sorta get into a position (mages away from the mobs and melee up front) and go to town. We did manage to get it down quite a bit, but then it started spamming it's AoE and we got wiped pretty quickly.
Then, BAM! Neat little pile outside.
Get raised, heal up and the other party disbanded. So we figure, if we die again, just HP and call it a night. New formation though. You enter from the north with the mob to the south. I (rng) go to the east, Wakko (rng) goes to the south, Madrush (nin) goes to the west and the mages to the north. The idea is simple. Keep hate till your shadows wear and somebody will voke/WS it off you. We're on opposite sides so the thing was basically spinning in circles in the middle for a good portion of the time while the rest of the time it was getting eatting through our shadows with the occasional hit. It dies, we win (yay!). Next up, Holla.

Pro-Holla
Martha and IK died in the last seconds of the boss in mea so they just HP'd. Picked up supplies (Holy water, reraiser, poison potions, icarus wings... the wings were just for fun), picked us up at mea (Sidewinder + 1600 dam = dead rarab) after a little screwin around, get to holla and start.
Getting through with 1 party is so much easier then an full alliance (there's always that one guy that isn't paying attention). For the MR's, I'm spamming arrows, Wakko is taking care of the Strays with one shot, IK (smn) is goin to town on the MR with Leviathon, Mess (blm) doin his thing, Martha (whm) doin her thing, and Mad (nin) takin care of anything that might have slipped by. Really, really easy.
Get to boss with one death (suicide run to the castle, at this point I begrudgingly gave up that position to carby...). Get in, same party setup, same formation. Wasted the thing, no animas, just took our time, wore it down (fight time was like 6min or so), and it died. IK 2hr'd for fun (no need for it but it's cool to see) and nobody died. Wakko almost did from the poison potion but Mess saved him. They get to the new area and we're stuck outside (IK, Martha and me), they come back to the dunes, walk to the crag and we're ready to do Dem.
Note about the formation we were using:
It used it's AoE curse, sleep, blind, etc... 2 or 3 times. Each time it only hit one person because we were spread out so far. Martha got slept once cause she ran out to cure wakko so he could wake up, but Mess took care of her. Bounced hate around, watched it spin in circles and die.

Pro-Dem:
Same thing, I 2hr'd one of the offspring for fun Wakko and Mess died at the VERY end due to an attack and they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

We used one anima on the first mea fight, other then that, we went in, kicked it's ***, and left with chapter 2 to face.
~Lelan

PS Whole thing took about 6 hours start to finish.