Quote Originally Posted by Alerith View Post
I'm going to call bull on this. Even if you had only Perle, there is no possible way you would have been one shotted the moment the fight started.

The only possible way for this to happen on even a poorly geared PLD would be for the Taru to open with a Ascetic's Fury followed by Final Heaven for a Light chain. And in all the times I've done the fight, he's never opened with a skillchain.
I could see an abyssea burned, not-skilled-up PLD getting wrecked by a single WS. Not saying that's what Sealdorie is, and it'd probably take a degree of bad luck for that to happen, but it is possible.