Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
SMN is NEVER, EVER a hinderance in that fight. SMN increases the damage output of your party by far more in that fight than adding a DD in its place.

Screw the rarab tail. It's a waste of time to obtain it when the fight is perfectly beatable without it. The first time we ran it, we considered getting them, but nobody wanted to wait for it.
No, in the setting I just described SMN is a hindrance. Plain and simple, and the time factored into getting a rarab tail (easy anyway) is irrelevant.