Some Help and Criticism Please

[Peptaru]

The only time not to mark is when everything is dying to AoE, because it will all die at the same time anyway. Not marking when everyone is single target makes you need more healing because split DPS leaves things alive longer. People who don't mark are just very, very lazy for the most part. You don't even have to slow down to mark a 1 on something, do it as you move into range. I don't bother with 2 3 4 5, etc, but at least put a 1 up on what should be killed first. Yep, I'm lazy, too.

[Truefaith87]

A bit of advice i learned myself, not all too long ago, is for starting a pull, Berserked overpowers makes for one hellova giant emnity gain, easily sticking a whole pull to you for most if not all of a fight. At this point i try to keep as many skills on CD as i can while effectively managing what i feel i would need. need the quick emnity boost? internal released or bloodbath, berserk, throw out some overpowers. hate is sealed. higher lvl you need some dmg cushion quickly? vengeance + foresight is a nice, quick bounce in your damage reduction. just 1 huge thing to remember, no matter the level of content youre at, is if its humanly possible for you to dodge an AOE, do so lol. very rarely will you run into AOE you cannot dodge. so put every effort you have into taking less hits.

[GuardianX]

Help me understand, maybe I'm wrong but as a healer, seeing marked targets helps me focus on the primary target faster so I can stone 2 them down fast. I knowing marking is useless in speed runs where everyone is aoe down. On those occasions where we are single dps target, marking helps me to pick out those targets so I don't have to cycle through to guess who we are dps. I try to be an effective healer but those times where I don't need to heal, I aero and dps.

[Kitru]

Not marking when everyone is single target makes you need more healing because split DPS leaves things alive longer.

Actually, if people are splitting DPS but still multi-DoTing and using ground AoEs (like Flaming Arrow and Shadow Flare that BRD and SMN should both be using as part of their ST rotation anyways), stuff will die faster in the long run because you're getting more total potency per GCD (and not wasting DoT uptimes on targets dying before the DoT can tick fully). It is true that focus targeting reduces incoming damage on the tank is all about reducing damage taken by the tank, but that's all that it's good at. If you want to kill stuff as fast as possible, you actually want to split DPS and multiDoT to get the most out of all of your various abilities. The only time this isn't true is when you have specific class synergy, like DRG and BRD (DRG piercing debuff increases BRD damage which is can't get otherwise) or WAR and PLD (same thing only with slashing debuff), and, even then, you get more by multiDoTing than you would by focusing entirely.

[Peptaru]

Stuff

Brds and Smns.... that's an AoE party, and I covered that. By the time you've put up the Smn/Brd DoT's with Bane, things should be half dead already . . . and everything is going to die at the same time. Or maybe we are supposed to extend that to Drg and Mnk and Whm are supposed to multi-dot as well. Sch does, on the other hand, multi-dot well because of bane and shadowflare.

Should a Drg Ph and Fr every mob or just put up HT and drop a huge potency combo on one thing? ~Just as an example. People are simply to used to AoE'ing everything, which is why i mentioned it specifically.