My first time through Cutter's Cry was a breeze. The tank was very good, so that first time didn't prepare me at all for subsequent runs.

The second time through, we got to the first boss, and I ended up with both the big ant adds plus a few small ones eating me. We wiped. The tank asked about strategy, and the MNK said I was supposed to kite the healer ant. Which was news to me. I tried, but it just wasn't working, especially since I ended up "kiting" everything every time. Next was having the DPS hold the healer ant, which might have worked, except the DPS and tank ran to opposite sides of the room, leaving me to run back and forth to alternate who was in range for heals while trying to not to get eaten by the Guard and more small adds. Everyone said the same thing: I don't know what's up, last time this was easy. So every one of us basically got carried our first time through. Eventually, we finally tried having the tank just actually tank and we got it down anyway, with myself and the tank dead with the boss at probably 2%. But we'd taken so much time, we had to rush to the end boss, and only had time for two and a half tries on that.

At which point, I learned that apparently, the French game client doesn't tell you what color the chimera's eyes are glowing in the warning that pops up. Our tank was playing in French, and said that regardless of what's being cast, the warning says the exact same thing. Awesome.