DPS check for turn 8?

[Askarya]

1.

Not having issuesor being able to kill something doesn't mean that it's efficient or that the person does the best he/she could do.

2.

Correct it's a choice. Like i said before you can choose between playing the most efficient way or you make adjustements and sacrifice some of the efficiency. Because if you boil it down every other strategy was at some point part of the most efficient Strategy. Your opinion on an strategy doesn't determine the efficiency of it, it only determines which strategy suits your group the best and that's a difference.

3.

If you have sometimes trouble skipping the dread than it just proofs that your strategy isn't as efficient (from your bragging how easy your groups kills t8 everytime easily and that you have no problems i assume that your average group ilvl is 100+). Because with that ilvl you should be able to always skip the dread especially if your Sch is dpsing all the time and you're throwing some dots in while you have downtime like you said before. And like i also said before there is no possible random hit except for homing which will hit the group. Maybe a mine but that shouldn't hit more than 1 or 2 additional people and they should survive even if you don't instantly top them off :P
But regardless of that, if it works for you group then it's fine. But you shouldn't assume that your adjusted strategy is that good for other groups, especially when it's a group that still sturggles with the dps check. Rather try to give them a more neutral strategy without too many adjustements. that gives them room to find there one "best" strategy.

I also disagree with the fact that SMN needs ballad in t8.

Not quiet sure about this one since i couldn't test it often enough, but a SMN should profit more from 1 more foes and using energy drain than from a ballad.