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PLD first? sounds like they kicked the only person that knew how to win. My team eats moogles for breakfast, BLM is always first. PLD may rape mages, but he does it one at a time. BLM rapes everyone at once.
It's water under the bridge. Go with a different group.
I look at it this way: Parties like this exist to make me a better WHM.
It's a Heal Test instead of a DPS test.
This is our usual order, Shaggysong [BRD] > Pomburner [BLM] > Koop [Glad] > Kipp [WHM] > Tailturner [THF] > Kogi [ARC] > King > Kapa [MAR].
Granted we only do melee burn (mostly DRG) most of the times, so it might differ with everyone else. Most of the time we have 2min on clock left for speedrun after king dies.
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Moogle kill order really depends on what group you are running with, and what they think the most threatening moogle is. I could see why they may want to kill the GLD first, the GLD running is annoying as heck, and if you were running with a bunch of blms its not to hard to burn him down fast. Not saying its the best idea to kill him first, but I could see why they might.
Either way, though I can't say for sure because I wasn't there, it just sounds like you got into a bad PT in general, who just likes to blame people they don't know. I was in a situation like that a month ago or so. I was doing Ifrit Hard with a LS WHM friend of mine in a pick up party to help them get primal weapons. The players were pretty bad, people were just dieing to the eruptions that were going off. The pick up group decided to blame my WHM friend, saying he wasn't curing enough, but most of the party was eating a bunch of plumes and eruptions. PUG are just bad in general, you just have to expect people dieing everywhere and those same people dieing blaming people for their own incompetence.
There are some other legitimate orders depending on party build and awareness.
Just stick with what the party agrees with; although, being a WHM in most cases you dont even have to attack lol - so long as you were doing a good job curing/buff I dont see a logical reason why they would cry at you.
When I've went the WHM does whatever they want as the BLM and BRD mop the house.
(There is a WHM burn possibility for Moogle btw :P)
I've done GLA first successfully many times. People do this because he chases mages, you can't outrun him, and this takes away 1 DPSer and gives the WHM(s) a second target they have to heal. (Nobody tries to bind him anymore from what I've seen. -_-)
Honestly it sounds like the party just had poor situational awareness. Even if you're not going GLA-first, you have to be wary of any moogles are near the party, especially BLM, MRD, and THF (and king).
If there are rogue moogles chasing mages, your tank isn't doing a good job holding hate on them. I use a WAR and do the collusion > flare trick as well as use a maddening pot during the song. That's usually plenty to grab and hold hate on all the moogles through the second half of the fight (regardless of the collusion nerf). If one occasionally runs off to attack a mage, target it > provoke or flash > keep kiting.
GLA resets hate periodically. That's why he's number 2 on my list after the BLM I would rather spend my provokes on the king or Ruffletuft.
My order is usually BLM > GLA> BRD > THF > ARC > WHM > MRD > King, I've done it a few other ways (especially on a mnk burn) but it's always been BLM first.
GLA first to me sounds kinda crazy though admittedly I've never tried it that way and usually the tank can get the GLA off me (as I'm whm) or I can hold it for a little while people get the BLM down.
For them to blame just you for the party's wipe is kinda silly, it's a team effort!
My LS order is BLM > BRD > PLD > WHM > THF > RNG > WAR > King.
BLM dies stupid quickly so it gets an extra target out of the way and avoiding the King's flare is easy if people aren't dumb about it. BRD is annoying and king making himself giant makes it easier to kite him. PLD moogle dies really quickly with 1 or 2 mnks or blm (hell in a good enough party whms can nuke him too) and DRGs can Dragonfire Dive on him.
Most people save MRD for last but we always kill the King last just because it makes his Defense drop like a rock and it's not difficult to keep everyone alive through Moogle-go-rounds with a PLD tank, Divine Veil, AOE regen and Curaga spam.