Quote Originally Posted by Korpg View Post
You are right, there are times you shouldn't have the avatar on the mob, that doesn't mean you can't use a BP on the mob. Guess you didn't know this, but the damage caused by the merited BPs, they don't give TP....so you are basically handing out free damage without retribution.
You're again missing the point of Avatar's Favor. Let me explain this to you one more time. Quoting the wiki page:

* Determining the time that Favor has been active is based upon the lowest time of the following three conditions:
* 1) Activating Avatar's Favor
* 2) Summoning an Avatar
* 3) Any Blood Pact.

#3 is the important one. Using a Blood Pact causes the effect of the favor to drop. Therefor, if you want to get the most out of your favor, you want to blood pact as little as possible. Since when I have Diabolos out I am using Wards every 3 minutes, it's negligible. However if I were attacking every 45 seconds like you suggest, it would have a much bigger effect.

On a side note, do you solo as SMN? Have you killed any NMs? I'll give you a challenge, since you gave me one.

Go kill Vouivre and get a SS of him near death by yourself, that is an easy NM to kill with moderate type skill. That would at least give you some weight for your argument.
I solo quite a bit. I soloed much of WotG, as well as various other NMs. Most recently I soloed the KCNM The Palborough Project, something not soloed before according to the Wiki. You'll notice the suggested number of people is 2 or more.

I'll go try to solo that dragon. I'll post back if I succeed or fail, but it doesn't change the validity of my argument. The numbers don't lie.