Quote Originally Posted by Adol View Post
Are you honestly expecting someone to keep track of every single skill every dps in your party is using? That is absolutely ridiculous to expect of people who are busy pulling their own weight and doing their own job right in a fight, especially when such fights can last over 10 minutes.
For debuffs on the enemy you will see them naturally by keeping track of your own debuffs. It's all visual, it takes less than a second to note the little icons for everyone else. And sometimes you should be following them naturally anyway, SCH/SMN should be watching for Antibody, and BRDs should note when a DRG is using Disembowel (if not they should ask them to work it into their rotation).


Quote Originally Posted by Lemon8or View Post
You can only see 5 buffs/debuffs total on the party list. Protect, Stoneskin and Galvanize count and has priority over individual buffs....

...If you can track all that, it still doesn't mean they have enough DPS to beat the fight. And really if you can track 4 other people's buffs, debuffs, timings and all that good stuffs, they should put you into a research facility.
Most DPS won't have SS up except at the beginning of the fight. Even if all three of those were up constantly you'd still be able to see two other buffs. It's how I know a tank is rotating through their defensive buffs when I play SCH and not just leaving me to brute force heal through everything. And if anyone is going to have all those buffs up nigh-permanently throughout the fight it's the tank.

It doesn't require you to watch the party list like a hawk, but it is a good idea for DPS to glance over occasionally. BRDs and SMNs should already be doing this since they have a lot of support abilities. Then you just note whether you frequently see people buffed or not. I honestly just thought of that as normal gameplay. I "double-check" the party list no matter what role I'm playing because it just...makes sense.

Between that and the DPS that can't dodge you should be able to pinpoint the weak points in your party. If you're playing in a static or with an FC member you do 4-man content with it should be even more apparent.

*Also for MNK I meant switching between Fists of Fire/Earth/Wind not GL stacks. GL stacks don't really mean anything, haha. I met a MNK who would switch to Fists of Earth for big unavoidable AoEs and I was like "omg duh, why didn't I think of that!?" Ever since then I glance at the MNK in my party during Geocrush/Hellfire etc. I don't hold it against them, but it kind of helps distinguish the cooler MNKs.