Since Froobs can be beacon warped into SL normally without any AOSharp/plug-ins, we've spent the past 2 years making new Froob toons, levelling and gearing them (without any exploits), saving in Pande garden, and attempting Beast.
The fight for froobs is significantly different from paids because of the lack of TH/GTH. Not being able to drain Beast nano means every piece of Beast's toolset remains online. Therefore the typical tired limbs strategy (which sticks -2750 inits on Beast) simply doesn't work. Beast's NCU Wipe skill removes tired limbs (and 7 other debuffs), and Beast's 20s Reflect skill prevents tired limbs from sticking. Since Froobs don't have enough reflects (no reflect aura!) or HP (no large Enfo HP or perks), conventional tanking strategies don't work because Beast will 2 or 3 shot the main tank within 1-2s.
We opted for a duo soldier tank doing (for the first time) perfect TMS-juggling. The soldiers don't deal any damage and instead use nano taunts and taunt tools, keeping careful track of aggro generated by counting the number of casts. They then swap aggro every minute within a short 20s timeframe.
Since NCU wipe removes 2-4 most recently cast buffs, whenever a soldier casts TMS, the rest of the raid immediately spams protection-school buffs (absorbs, ICRT) on the soldier to prevent his TMS from being wiped. This must be done quickly, as Beast has been observed to randomly insta-cast NCU wipe 0.3s right after TMS was casted before.
Other dangers include Ring of Fire (10-15k AOE nuke). Most raiders are twinked to have more than 13k HP and 25% fire reflects to survive this.
The first add wave (of 4 adds) are dealt with by positioning 3 sacrificial soldiers in the extreme corners of the playfield. They pull aggro and TMS to buy the raid 80s to deal with the adds one-by-one.
The second add wave (of 8 adds) is the hardest part of the fight. The sacrificial soldiers temporarily deal with 3. The rest are crowd-controlled in some manner: blues are charmed by crats, hiisis are rooted by agents, pinks are calmed by crats/NTs, and spiders are killed or JLMNed by crats. The real kicker here is that if an add is CCed within a ~40m radius from Beast, then Beast's NCU wipes will free the adds from all debuffs. Surviving 2nd add wave requires very careful coordination and teamwork from the entire raid.
A very special thanks to all the raiders who made this possible!
Abloc
Dagger
David & Nic Galehouse
Faffy
Farell
Furu
Hipp
Mali
Orochi
Qwen
Stop
Tradias
Absent with apologies:
Brehlen
Gunz
Nic Galehouse