Quote Originally Posted by Greatguardian View Post
I'm really not sure I'm following you, or that you're following me.

Once you have an XI, you don't have to roll again immediately to keep that XI bonus. You have that XI up for 5 minutes 40 seconds without merits (AF3+2 hands). I often find it best, if I'm only rolling Tact+Wizard's, to just wait a couple minutes between rolling again anyways. Once an XI is up, it's incredibly easy to spam up another XI, and you can still QD/WF while rolling whenever the timers/TP allow (especially important since overflow TP on WF is useless).

Maintaining an XI chain does not require nearly as much time or effort as you seem to think it does. And, as I said earlier, if it's actually important that I give legit and specialized buffs to the whole party (4-6+ rolls), where I may actually be rolling almost fulltime, then shooting steels/oberon's would just be a waste of time and gil anyways. Nothing about rolling prevents you from shooting QDs and Wildfires every time the timer is up though, no matter how intense it is.
You must be an incredibly lucky roller. Whenever i've gone out trying to keep the XI streak I've spent most of the time rolling. Plus with parties that tend to move around alot from one NM to the next, there's lots of times for the chain to break and you need to roll up and XI. Plus since I am invited to buff (I only play COR in non-Abyssea events largely since I don't have WF yet), I feel obligated to keep a miimum 3 roll rotation up and usually 4 or 5 rolls. And since players frequently move, asking them to stand still while you bust through 5 attempts at hitting XI is comical.

If you are WF/QD COR in aby just using Wizards and Tacticians roll, then I can see it being not so hard to do the XI chain. I think that is a specialized situation.