so if duty finder puts you with 2 whitemages the whitemages simply have to learn succor and sacred soil to complete the duty ?
Even assuming your numbers are correct, which they aren't, an unmitigated attack without stoneskin still shouldn't kill the scholar in the video. Protect is 20% damage reduction, 3000*1.25 =3750, which is less than the scholar's health.
But here's your chance to fudge the numbers even more : )
EDIT: I also don't know how an attack with shields and soil does 2k and without does 3k. Sacred soil is 10%, Succor is 125% a cure potency of 180, so I very much doubt those add up to a thousand extra damage points shielded in that fight with level 50 players TBH. Even with stoneskin ... maybe a thousand on healers. Possibly? MAYBE?
How you get that number? With full left side at i45 without any accessories (i know min ilevel is i54), i still get 3.6k hp. Only explanation I have why his hp was so low in the first place was cuz they didnt wear a hat in the video or some armor piece broke
https://i.imgur.com/Ap2NR19.png
https://ffxiv.ariyala.com/1D0FU
I mean I guess you can strip till you're technically i54 with 1 item but what do you expect at that point?
So yes @Zumi is right. Any mitigation would've sufficed.
Yeah, stoneskin -could- almost eat the full damage back then, because the damage back then was closer to 800, not 3800. Moogle mog is literally doing 3k more damage on his opening attack than pre 5.1, it's a huge difference, and its a straight up bug. Contrast Leviathan, the primal coming right after, doing basically < 1000 damage if you fufill the criteria to not die to his ultimate. Mog is doing nearly 4x on a 'fufilled the anti-death criteria' ultimate then every primal that comes after it. It's a bug, and considering its potential to one-shot people at or close to the min-ilvl, it's clearly not intended.
While it does become "normal" for phase transition AoEs to be potentially lethal without mitigation stacking at higher levels, having that be the case here is kind of silly when it used to tickle as previously mentioned.