I know I have a couple PLD friends that will Stoneskin themselves before a boss or a large pull just to save me the trouble (and mana) of doing it for them, but they don't stop mid-combo to Stoneskin party members. (I actually lol'd because the tank I had made a point of never giving me a Stoneskin the entire run. Lol okay, whatever dude.) Ofc, they also use cooldowns for tankbusters and don't Divine Veil at strange times (this tank used it before we even pulled trash/bosses; yeah that's probably useful for the pulls with the slimes in Sohm Al incase Blaze does go off, but for boss fights, it wore off before we took any worthwhile damage).
In other news, I did a Fractal Continuum run where I had the hugest DPS. On AST. The two DPS were new, and the tank insisted on doing as big of pulls as they possibly could. I wasn't concerned with the healing part, but with the fact that the DPS weren't really AOEing. I can kinda understand why the NIN would only drop Doton and Death Blossom a couple times, considering we had a SMN. However, the SMN spent more time jumping around and using Miasma II rather than AOEing. I think they used Deathflare one or twice.
The last boss was a fustercluck. DPS died left and right, stood in the paralysis bomb things, I'd be trying to Esuna the Bomb debuff off of them while also trying to keep them alive and kill the Alarums before the entire floor was covered (and there was one wave with only one open square).
There were six waves of the Alarum adds. I have never seen more than three, so I was just completely speechless by the end.
