We soloed just last night as pld75/rng01 (me) lol and rdm/blm. We went repeated times just to get ToD, but never got any. So 20 hours after update we're early, waiting on pop. He finally does at almost exactly 24 hours after restart ended, and I managed to out-flash about 5 people. The Rdm had just gotten aggro from 2 leeches, and we'd killed the one and 2nd was about half-dead when I saw new bloodsucker on widescan. He slept II the leech and we ran and I claimed him. Lucky! Unfortunate for us, slept leech woke up and linked 2 more on his way to us. Strangely, he didn't de-aggro quickly like the others did. I kept NM claimed while rdm sleepga'd and started Blizzard III and Thunder IIIing the nm. NM was about half dead when all the leeches started waking up, so I cured rdm and sentinel'ed, which bought us a little time. I cure-bombed the rdm and he converted, Cure IV'd, chainspelled, and nuked the living crap out of the bloodsucker nm. It died and dropped ruby and ring! Yay! I lotted super quick and we both died XD. I got it though! 1/1, which is crazy, my luck's never that good :P.
All in all, you don't have to be a blink tank to take him :P Sleep is the only thing that saved our butts though, rdm pretty much completely soloed him. I just took care of links. Was pretty quick fight, lasted maybe a minute or two. Fun ^^