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  • FOR THOSE ATTEMPTING SMALL PARTY TRY: it is NOT necessary to clear ads and fight in the room. you can simply pull Balor out. Sneak out and try this. First position yourself facing the door and having the "???" behind you, Then trade and run to the door ASAP open and get to the hall. You should have enough time to get out before Balor gets to hit his first shot.
  • Solo'd with some difficulty using Beastmaster with a Familiared Blubber Eyes, by pulling to zone in, using several Pet Food Zeta, some Courier Carrie's, and the DC pets near the entrance.
  • Also duo'd easily as 2 Beastmasters with 2 Familiared Blubber Eyes.--Bremenn 14:02, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
  • Killable with some difficulty by 1 Ninja, 2 healers, and 1 DD.
  • Killable by a Ninja, Paladin, Thief and White Mage with the Ninja main tanking and Paladin used for SATA. Was relatively easy. Siphon 22:28, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Trio with some difficulty using 2 Ninja, 1 Red Mage. Very difficult to clear room of possible adds with this set up, but was able to do it.
  • Easily trio'd with a BRD/WHM, RDM/THF and a well geared NIN/DNC.
  • Laughably easy with a PLD/WAR, SAM/DNC, THF/NIN, SAM/NIN and WHM/BLM, could even be downed without the extra sam.
  • VERY easy with RDM, NIN, BLU, THF, WHM, SAM. Eagle eye shot hit NIN for just over 1100.
  • Trio with BST DRG and RDM
  • Note for PLD: I opened with Voke, then about 25 seconds later popped Sentinel. He uses EES around 50-75% life and it was up each time he fired it. Hit me for 340ish, then about 110 the last 2 fights with it up. --Vaala 17:50, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
  • The difficulty of this fight largely depends on whether Balor decides to spam Aegis Schism (75% defense down) or not. Eagle Eye Shot with Aegis Schism on your tank will result in 900 to 1000+ damage (if not absorbed by Utsusemi). Without Aegis Schism, the damage is 100-250. Even with a WHM casting Erase, sometimes Balor spams the move over and over, virtually guaranteeing a dead tank. Aegis Schism spam can occur even if you don't fight him on Darksday. However, my group of 5 (PLD, WAR, WHM, THF or SAM, RDM) was still able to win both times Balor decided to spam it, so if you have a second tank the fight is very winnable in any case. Phoneybone 01:57, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
  • Laughably easy with NIN, NIN, DRK, WHM, RDM. Brought DRK for Stun, never needed it. Occasional need existed of the second ninja to offtank. WHM ended battle with full MP, RDM near. Both NIN were dual boxed as was the DRK and WHM.

/sam?

I was going to post something about it being /mnk (with my reasoning too!), but it seems someone has noticed and adjusted the page accordingly. What I'm really torn between, however, is whether Balor is /sam or /drg. I have never fought him extensively to take note of the small details that would make him /sam (zanshin and, possibly, abnormally high tp gain) over /drg, but I was wondering whether he is /drg or not. If no one can take note of zanshin, then it is likely /drg. It's a pretty nit-picky observation, I know, but meh XD Oobdinglada 05:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

true sound?

Was doing the Sacrarium exp scroll quest this morning. When I checked the Hume room, Balor was up and unclaimed, with no one around. He aggro'd me despite having sneak up and full HP, so I wonder if Balor - and other Swift Belt NMs - are True Sound. It's a situation unlikely to occur though. MithraDooom, 27 September 2009

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