So back in the original version of the event, no enchantment to use and no timing collection of malice from their mobskills, no trading to a '???' spot on the ground..all you had to do was beat them up. There was just one problem. The loot was a direct drop from the kill. Loot was at that time highly saught after: chocobo stables warp collars.
A free trip to the other cities? in an age with no teleports other than whm spells? SIGN ME THE F UP cried every player server wide. At the moogle all you got was another lv 1 GK with a different delay than the one you started with. nobody cared about that, we wanted those collars!
Now, the armor mobs dropped multiples, so if you solo'd you'd see a bunch of them hit dirt and be lost. But if you partied up, there were usually enough dropped for at least half your party (dropped up to 6, usually 2 to 4 per kill, often 3 - it appeared to be weighted towards the middle numbers). So evertyone was partying up, sometimes alliances of 9 to 12 ppl.
Now as you may know, there is one armor mob that was basically meant to be unkillable. That damn mithra. She runs up and one shot syou. She doesn't really follow a set path. She is coded to roam along one sort of - she roams to each other other mobs general area's, and a wider than normal agro range (I'd say 35-40 yalm) and is sort of "summoned" to the other armors after they use a number of mobskills and/or the mobskill has a random chance to call her over.
Its hard to tell how exactly she decides who to come murder. I've seen her run up, one shot a player, then run off without noticing the rest of the part only to come back a minute later and slaughter all of us anyway.
So, I put out the idea that maybe we could kill her people were saying it was unbeatable, and I theorized that she could die if we had a strat SE didn't plan for.
In shouts. In every town. Ppl were like "you're crazy man, she one shots us we can't kill that!" OH CONTRARE I said, we can set homepoint right there there just cycle out, as long as we aren't all dead at once we can hold her at the zone line and keep chipping at her HP 1 damage at a time.
After some back and forth repeatedly reminding people that NO they do NOT lose exp while capped at level one.. cough. I sucessfully convinced 483 people to set homepoint in bastok mines and participate in my lagfest. most of us went mnk/whm to be able to self cure when the mobskills wnet off, and blow hundred fists on her in rotation.
After a few false starst without enough ppl, we start her hp bar slowly falling (she doesn't regen, none of the armor mobs do) people started to have faith and spready the word "if it bleeds we can kill it" they cried, quoting Arnold from the 1987 Predator movie.
It took several hours of repeatedly dying but we did it! And everybody clapped And there was a lot of raging when all she dropped was 6 gold carp 😂
And she respawned 12 min later!
But we had a blast. This event has heavy nostalgia goggles going on with me, I admit it. They have altered it several times. Really all they had to do was make the moogle give the collars, instead they changed it to that weird trade thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯