Yesterday I was camping Proteus with my brother and my Boyfriend... setup was:
Knightblazer, My B/F(75NIN/37WAR)
Phalanx, My Brother(75WHM/37BLM)
and Nagoshi, Me(74BRD/37WHM)
A long while ago my b/f and I almost duoed it to about 20% as just NIN and BRD and we were winning and things were going smooth until I ran out of MP to continue healing him... Earlier today I rode the boat alone and he popped and I was standing near the bottom of the stairs, not paying attention and he kicked my ***. We HPed in Whitegate and rode the boats from Whitegate > Nashmau only, warping back and hopping every boat departing in Nashmau to meet up with Proteus again in approx 2 hours from when he kicked my ***.
Honestly it was a very easy fight and I was even dual boxing my brother's char. I barely had to use him. I threw Double Mambos on my b/f as though we were fighting Charyb and I threw a haste on him with my bro with an occasional Regen 3. I would Elegy him and dispel his evasion bonus and regen effect. I had to keep making my bro Dia II him and eventually I helped meleeing after seeing he wasn't a threat to try and kill him before the boat docked.
Well... we succeeded in killing him, I think we still had a couple mins left... we obtained both items from him http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/Knightblazer86/ProteusDrops.jpg
Congrats to Phalanx on his new sword(even though he wasn't really there)!