Wandering Palace Speed Runs (and You)

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Technically speaking, the tank shouldn't be able to hold threat for that long to die there. Usually your DPS will be aoe-ing hard enough to split the threat, and balance out the damage. (though you do have to get stress on healing both sides is a different issue).

Blms should also be putting in a sleep-ga before initial AoE rotation, to steady the group enough time for you to top off the tank, and/or Stoneskin.

It's team work, and without it, stop shaving a few seconds, and just keeping keeping a longer run.

As a tank I disagree with you entirely, usually a blm will pull off maybe 1 mob that didn't get flashed because it was slightly out of range of flash #1 and its usually at 5% hp and 1 fast blade away from coming back to me.

As to the question from the healer, don't run into the first pull thinking just heal, be in cleric stance beforehand, swiftcast holy, normal cast second holy then drop cleric and top off tank, you just bought 6 seconds of 0 damage to your tank, also the tank should be hitting at least 1 if not 2 cooldowns just before the last mobs of pull 1. I usually pop rampart and foresight at this point, for pull 2 I start with sentinel then bulwark when it wears off, tonberry is usually dead then and we are ready to go into boss room.

As to the OP, DONT WAIT FOR THE TONBERRY. if he is pathing towards the skeletons run right through him, this timing puts the right side split tonberry walking away slightly so you can pull the skellies ghosts and tonberrys about halfway down the hall between the rusted devices. Once you catch the tonberry turn around and run back to ghosts, pop sentinel to buy healer some time because you are probably missing some hp from the tonberry smack but your group has just outrun it and you didn't have to wait 2 minutes for him to saunter past.