I thought this was common knowledge now, but since some of these posts are pretty recent i'm gonna have to mention it anyway. First off, it's not an 18 hour fight, this monster has some sort of trick to beating him... Square-Enix had a public display of a team of 18 players taking him down in under 2 hours. However, there is also a trick where you can stop him from doing major damage to your players by doing minimal damage to the Pandemonium Warden, this will cause the fight to last a very very long time. In response to seeing this trick causing people to waste their lives on this monster, Square-Enix patched the game and made Pandemonium Warden DESPAWN if not defeated in 2 hours.
Congratulations should go to Apathy of Remora. They have reported beating Pandemonium Warden and confirmed Shenlong's Baghnaks and Hachiryu Haramaki has potential drops.
Yahoo should really do a follow-up story on the measures square-enix has taken to ensure people aren't fighting 18 hour battles. Now all that remains is wondering what is the trick to making this monster stop healing itself so that it can be killed in 2 hours?
yeah, i heard about there being a trick to beating him the same day i read this story, but then again, i like to research stuff like that before i make an opinion ^^;
After going on almost 4 yrs of playing FFXI, it's for reasons like this most ppl quit. Although, it's almost tempting to start my character back up and try this thing out....completely doubt that will happen; i'll just stick to WoW like cartman. Either way we'll see some JP linkshell take it down in about a week now since it's "big news" and they tend to do that kind of stuff.