Okay, so sorry about short reply earlier; I was in the gaming room and trying to alt-tab between pulls but now that we're taking a break for the night and I'm on my bedroom computer, I can more properly respond to what was said above:
RE:Hawklaser: We don't have the Mythic Weaponskills yet, but I started reading up on Nyzul Isle (we've never been there). Hope to try it after the campaign is done sometime.
Also, the lag thing, I don't think that's what's happening... Tenzen is using strange weaponskills that make no sense after we do our weaponskills. When he uses the correct weaponskills, we chain fine. The only time a chain fails is when he outright misses (which he does occasionally). For example, RS or CDC -> Hanaikusa will *always* create Fusion. Lag has never caused this to fail. RS->Tsuki will *always* create Darkness.
The problem is when he decides to do Yukikaze or that Enpi clone which I'm pretty sure does not chain, or if it does, it just impaction or scission or something stupid like that. That's why I'm thinking he is trying to make his own skillchain, because he always tries Enpi first, and then about 5 or so seconds later, he will then throw a Yukikaze into it too.
Though after looking up skillchain properties of these weaponskills, THAT doesn't even make sense... but now that I'm reading this, I DO remember him throwing his own version of Jinpus as well, so what I think he's trying to go for is he wants to do Enpi -> something... then he gets interrupted, and then he tries Yukikaze and then he'll throw a Jinpu in to make Distortion. Not sure what's up with the Enpi... it doesn't make sense whatsoever, but whatever. *shrug*
Anyways, I did try calling Iroha II out and... they were throwing Distortion and Fusion left and right... and a couple Light. Iroha's Flare II MBs were only doing 1,200 damage which isn't even worth it. I tried to CDC ontop of one of their Light, but I think I was a sec late because I wasn't expecting it and it didn't work. So eh... nowhere near as good as Shantotto even with Tenzen screwing up skillchains.
@Nyarlko: Ulmia is locked for me because of that stupid Bahamut questline that I should do someday. I finished "Dawn" before the Trust Magic system, and back then I had no access to an Endgame shell (still don't...) but now that we have 119 gear, maybe I'll go and nail that down so I can pick up Ulmia.
As for her anti-social thing, I mainly meant that as a reason why we don't join full groups. It's usually just the two of us killing raptors. We've been doing OK; she's on like 1300 almost and I'm ~800. I'm mainly shooting for 1200 by the end of the week... if we miss the goal, it won't be by that much I don't think.
We can kill the stuff at a reasonable pace, my main point in this thread is that we could do so even faster if the trusts would cooperate a bit more.