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Eh, you said, "Thunder has no place in a level 60 rotation". You didn't preface it with under certain restrictions, just "no place". Also, I am not really sure that...

Defiance increases HP and increases the health gained on healing spells, which works out to effectively the same thing as damage reduction.4

For example, say both tanks have 100 HP, and are...

The damage reduction

This has definitely become more common. My last 5(?) runs have all done this. That said, I often tell them to do it and then AoE LB.

Indeed, and that is the point the person was making by showcasing how horribly low the healing requirements are. The dev team needs to tune new dungeons to a more appropriate level.

The issue that Taika is showing is that the content is not gear properly for the playerbase. That is the point, she is vastly overgeared upon the first entry into the content. There is no reason why...

Why would you test going into these dungeons in gear that is 12 months old?

The issue comes down to what you find fun. I personally find it very unfun when the runs go slower, for no reason.

I also have a hard time believing that a healer who does the current expert...

I may have missed it earlier? I don't think most DPS complain about healers DPSing due to missing DPS checks, do they? My thoughts was more just complaining that the healer isn't DPSing, because...

Memorizing all the mechanics, and knowing when the damage is coming in are completely separate things. You go in, heal 100% uptime, no DPS. You pay attention to when you're doing nothing, and then...

Guess it depends on the person. One run was all it took for me when Sephirot Ex came out (use this an example, because right after that I swapped to SMN for my static).

Indeed. Keeping your team alive is obviously more important than throwing out some extra DPS. That said, balancing the two is incredibly easy. Once you've done content once, as long as you're paying...

Except, a healer dpsing in addition to a DPS dpsing is beneficial. Whereas a titan-egi tanking in addition to a tank tanking is not beneficial.

You're partially right, in the sense that the overall damage would also be lost by you not being present for a short amount of time. That said, it is better to go back to the start and take the...

I thought it was HM, but I don't see why that matters.

I should clarify, that while I disagree with your stance on not raising to start and agree with the SCH, the only reason I started taking...

It's not quicker, it literally takes 20 seconds to run back - and the DPS loss on the boss would be a bigger detriment. I mean, I guess I am assuming you know how to DPS as a tank.


I believe the...

Eh, weakness is pretty terrible, and running from boss to next boss in Gubal doesn't take 2 minutes. It's barely any time at all, especially if you pop sprint.

I am not sure how you even died in...

Technically, you can do a sac method. I've only ever done it in Aurum Vale, but I don't see why it wouldn't work in Brayflox too.

That is, you send the tank to pull everything and all mobs to the...

I am not sure, it's clearly the faster of the two new dungeons. I mean, it's like 12-14 minutes for Xelph and 13-15 for Gubal (or so), but still.

Pulling slow didn't even make sense when we were in i170 gear :|

/comfort

Mathematically, it is impossible to lose out on DPS. You will gain DPS if generally you finish a fight above 0 TP. If you finish a fight at 0 TP, it's likely the Arrow will give you no net benefit or...

I get that, what I am sayng is there is no "dps loss", you are just doing more DPS now and less later for an overall higher DPS. You still get your TP back at the same rate, so you can still do at...

That makes sense; however, I can't think of any current content where that actually matters. Content like Odin, or Bismark EX, there are clear DPS checks later on that you need to hit. Most current...

Exactly, you get the same TP back, you don't get it back slower. So you're not sacrificing it. You're just doing less damage in the same time frame for no reason. There is no consequence....

That argument makes little sense though. Arrow doesn't make you eat more TP per damage spent. You'll do the same amount of damage when you barrel out your TP, whether it is 30 seconds or 25 seconds,...