PANDAMONIUM WARDEN TAKES 18+ HOURS TO BEAT??????????

Am I reading this right? I hope this gets fixed before I get there!

http://kotaku.com/5036371/final-fantasy-xi-boss-takes-at-least-18-hours-to-beat

18 hours of full-time combat, and still did not finish it! The article and its references do not go into detail what the lvls of the party was, but by the sounds of it they were probably in the 70s.
Does this new boss really take that long? Is there more to the story? I mean really even the hardest battles should only be designed to take 2.5 hours at the most........

What are your thoughts?

-Damocles

i have heard of pandemonium warden before and i know that it spawns with several lamps or something and they somehow keep spawning or changing forms or something like that.. im not sure myself.. but any battle over 2 hours just seems stupid.. 18 hours is almost an entire day so i dont understand why a battle would take over 18 hours? i know for a fact that i am not fighting some 18 hour long battle if that is true.

I agree, While I do think that a massive 18 hour long battle is epic, I wouldn't expect anyone in their right mind to do it, or put it into their game.

Perhaps there is a special trick to beating him. (Keep him from changing forms perhaps?)

Anyways I'll cross the chasm when I get there ^^