Me and a friend are trying to duo old content made for 8 people. The game has had 2 expansions since that 8 man came out, we're only far enough to be geared for the first expansion, I am raid geared for the first expansion, my friend is late dungeon geared for the same. (even though it's old content we are waiting for a friend to catch up in story so we are gearing up while we wait It will carry us through much of the next expansion anyway)
We just never beat that particular 8 man fight, and were getting no luck with full group queues, so we figured we were geared enough to do it solo. I enter as DPS, Machinist. My friend enters as Healer, Scholar. Ifrit Extreme difficulty.
Things are going reasonably well. Despite being a ranged dps, my defense and hp are far higher than any tank this guy was tuned for, and I do the job of 2 tanks, essentially having enough defense to ignore his tank swap mechanic. And as as a ranged dps I can hit his adds that need to be killed before he does his wipe mechanic, without even needing to move the guy.
Last few moments of the fight, he's close to dead but one more set of instawipe adds need to be killed before it's smooth sailing. Then over voice comms comes the last words you ever wanna hear from your healer. "I'm out of mana". 10 seconds later, Dead.
We tried this for a good hour, each time during the last stretch we run out of mana and die. If we had a limit break we'd be able to kill him, he's that close to death, but you need 4 party members minimum to use any kind of limit break. We give up, defeated.
Final Fantasy 14