Help me understand t10 a bit

I don't think I saw it mentioned yet but even things like exactly how you're handling the mechanics can cause huge DPS loss. I can't comment on T10 specifically but when I was pugging SCoB, I saw a lot of crazy things that were horribly inefficient, like melee moving to break chains instead of ranged in T6 or dropping a single meteor in T9 in each segment of the arena; after 3 meteors, effectively half of the room was gone and it easily pushed into 5 meteors because everyone was having to move to compensate for the lack of space.

Once you learn the mechanics and how to safely and consistently deal with them, you want to figure out how to keep DPS on the boss as much as possible by minimizing movement. Just general advice.

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Originally Posted by Ooshima

Zeta BLM should at least cross over 500. Your 2 melees should be able to plus another 50 based on average standards on i120+ gear while your BRD certainly can push for another +100 :x

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for an average player, these numbers are high.

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NIN 477
BLM 469
DRG 450
BRD 361

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the average player you'll see will be around this :

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melee 400
BLM 350
SMN 320
BRD 280-330 depending on how well they manage the auto-hits.

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in fact, a lot of people are far lower, but if we restrain it to people who cleared or are working on T9, that's about it.

Yeah, good to excellent players are far higher, more like

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melee 530-550
BLM 490-520
SMN 460-480
BRD 450-500

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but these are really just a few.

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Originally Posted by Aeliott

28% is insanely huge :S even if every dps was playing their class in a somewhat lazy way that's still almost unheard of. And yet your add phase stacks sound perfectly normal, so your DPS can't be playing their jobs in such a bad manner as to be 28% behind schedule. There's a lot of breathing time for BLMs to cast between mechanics which come every 30s or so, it just doesn't make any sense unless people are dying left right and centre in the last phase. Don't suppose there are videos of these runs?

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I got another run tonight along with helping some people in my FC get used to the fight.
Funny thing is, i still think t9 is harder and we wiped the floor last night

plus i tried out the rotation mentioned previously and we seemed to push phases much much faster than normal x.x

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Originally Posted by Kyomagi

I got another run tonight along with helping some people in my FC get used to the fight.
Funny thing is, i still think t9 is harder and we wiped the floor last night

plus i tried out the rotation mentioned previously and we seemed to push phases much much faster than normal x.x

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Another way to boost your own DPS, and I don't know if you're doing this -

X-potions of INT
Potent Poisoning Potions (Most BLM's I see will use this during the 'stack' after killing adds.)

MegaEthers are nice, but take the same CD From X-potions of INT. You kinda have to pick and choose which one you'd prefer. :)

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Originally Posted by MythToken

If you can't eat the charge, just let the marked person die.

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If the OT gets the tether on the last phase they can holmgang/hallowed ground it which will allow more peeps to stand in for the charge,

Dunno if this has been said yet, but is your scholar dpsing?

They should be when not looking for preys.

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Originally Posted by Sapphic

If the OT gets the tether on the last phase they can holmgang/hallowed ground it which will allow more peeps to stand in for the charge,

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if the OT gets the tether in the tether + charge phase, there is something wrong (OT not being 2nd in enmity or whatever). Or my group has been extremely lucky all this time.