New Quest to teach Tanks what Marking is for. Mandatory Please.

[YuriRamona]

Even with zero aes it is still better for everything to die at once.

Assuming everyone is playing to their potential...

All dots are rolling on all targets immediately until they die. Aes when applicable.

You and others can do what you want, mark whatever you want or even hold meetings between pulls for all I care, but optimal is what is described

I hope he's bad at explaining. If your party is well geared and has jobs that use dots it would be more effective to spread the dots last to their full duration. If party single targets monsters and they die much faster than the dots full duration the dots are not as effective.

It's better to single target down monsters if the healer is stressing out healing the tank and/or tank is not geared/skilled enough to aoe tank.

Different play styles are optimal for different situations.

Wow, thank you for the voice of reason. Everyone else here is dismissing it immediately without even an explanation. DoTs are the best damage, second to AoE (on three or more targets, usually), and there's just no other way to do the math.

I started a thread in the tank forum on just this very issue. You might want to spare yourself the facepalming, though.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...y-mark-targets