Quote Originally Posted by EasymodeX View Post
The main issue with T4 is the extreme skew towards SMNs and BRDs for the clockwork multi-target non-AOE phases, versus the heavy skew towards BLMs and DRGs for the AOE phases. The AOE phases themselves are problematic because a second player's AOE DPS will eat away from the first player's. As a general example, the highest SMN parse I've heard about for T4 was in a group where they (and another SMN) were the only AOE/multitarget DPS.

In a group with a BLM, the SMN would never have hit those #s because the BLM would have wasted the AOE phases too quickly for DOTs + multi-Bane + Shadowflare to really deal that much damage. When you throw down a BLM + DRG + WHM Holy, then all of a sudden you have so much AOE DPS that neither DPS player will really rack up huge #s in the final parse.
I'm assuming you're referring to the 402 dps parse I linked a bit over a month ago.

Here's with a BLM present. http://i.imgur.com/VpttB7I.jpg
Here's with two BLM present. http://i.imgur.com/1wt7D3n.jpg

I see fairly consistent dps regardless of the group. I don't think group makeup matters that much. Maybe 10, 20 dps at most. SMN should always be able to get around 400 on that fight, considering all phases are good for them.