Help Forming Parties for Subclass Raids

Can anyone comment on the number of parties and mix required for the following RB in C5:

1> Cabrio
2> Death Lord Hallate
3> Longhorn General Golconda
4> Kernon
5> Baium

I can answer on Baium = just you...you need to touch him once and thats it.

You may want to bring someone along to wake him up for you, since there's a chance he'll one shoot whoever does that..

Yes. I hope to bring someone along to wake up Baium. :D

Has anyone done any of the first four listed RB since C5 that is willing to comment on the parties used and how it worked out?

we done longhorn
not much i can tell you except the first try wiped half my alliance
we had a full zerg of melee and a bunch of mages
the tank ran around in circles and kept him away from the mages since his aoe has a good chance of 1 hitting anyone lower than 70

For the Longhorn raid can you give me some indication of how many were there, the level ranges, and class types? I'm trying to form groups to do these raids and want to know about the number I'll need to line up to be (somewhat) successful.

Are each of the DD types equally useful with Longhorn? Does he have strong Mdef or Pdef? Trying to figure out what types of DD should be brought: nuker, archer, dagger, or the other types (Tyrant, Destroyer, Glad, BD, SwS, summons, etc).

I was talking with someone that told me that the RB for crystal leveling and subclass quests are signficantly stronger now and some have very high Mdef with nukers doing only 50 damage. Is this really true? If so all I can say is WOW, 4X HP and 1/10 damage is a huge boost, bigger than I thought. But then another person said if you bring the right classes you could still do raids with 2 to 4 parties... :confused:

it takes forever for raid bosses to regen hp
basically we nuked him till the mages ran out of mp then the melee kept him busy for a while
the average melee my lvl got about 1/3 of my raid points so if i had to guess they do about 1/4-1/3 the damage a cdling necro can do (counting downtime)

We just completed Cabrio. We had about 25 people. Pretty sure they were all 70+ most of them 76+. About 13 nukers hand full of melee and healers. Took us 2 tries. We beat on him until out of mp, logged and came back. Got setup again and went for it.

I think to do a raid properly in c5 you need ALOT more people. The minions respawn faster so I think you need to have parties dedicated to keeping them down. You also need to ability to keep your tank alive for an extended period of time. To make a raid go by as easy as it did in c5 I'd say tank + many healers, 2 nuker groups and as many melee groups as you can string up. They may kill the boss slower, but one long battle with no deaths is better than 3 short ones where everyone dies.

-polarity