Quote Originally Posted by Eliseus View Post
Before you mock the OP you should probably get your times correct. I assume by your "averages" the first number is suppose to be at it's best (considering you put 18min prae run). Not only are most groups at it's best not doing 18 runs still, but at it's best, people can do 17, 18min AK runs (even faster then that, but I put some leniency due to the fact that not many people will be). On top of that, you can also turn AK gear in for GC seals if people like that. And offers more gil for the trash mobs that are actually killed.

A lot of this is based off of "great groups" also since you point out one for Garuda mind you.
This is based on "average time people would expect out of speedruns with a full DL group". Yes, it could be even FASTER with a full relic+1 group that's on voice chat and using unorthodox techniques (pulling half of AK and doing it in one big aoe pull, etc). But those are the exceptions more than the norm.

Point being, 8mans aren't useless AT ALL, and doing AK all day every day gets old ANYWAY.