Tips for solo healing T8?

[Lyrinn]

What is your group composition ? 1 Tank, 1 Healer (Whm) and 6 DPS ?

PLD, healer, MNK, DRG, BRD, BLM, 2 SMN

Perhaps reevaluate how you trigger the towers? I understand there's multiple ways to handle the towers as well as when to push phase etc, but if you're solo healing, probably find the best method that has 0 AF threat (You no need to stoneskin/adlo the AF victim), and your above mentioned landmines + defensive tower combo.

That's what I was thinking but the group doesn't like to make huge adjustments, even though I think it might be necessary if we're to make this work.

I'll list out what my static does that gives us the above conditions:
Wave 5(? I'm not sure which exact wave, but it's the 1 with mines and defensive tower), 2 on Mines, after clearing mines and during second brainjack, push boss below 45% (10 second window, with an extra dps, you probably need to hold dps and wait for the 2nd brainjack, if you can't meet this requirement, sorry can't help you further ), if you did it correctly, Avatar will straight away cast AF, instead of Ballistic Missile.

We did get a Ballistic Missile at around 35% I think, which we thought was weird, but it didn't cause any problems. We skip set 5 though and I'm sure most groups do.

Wave 7, 2 person on Defensive tower, 1 person on mines.

I'll bring this up with my leader and see if we can try it, thank you!

Is this for progression sake or for self achievement?

Self achievement mainly, though my co-healer is also a DPS main who was stuck healing so I think he's happier with this too. Ever since my group tried it with T6 and found it laughably easier, everyone has been liking it so we've been trying to do this with everything.

Are you sure it isn't the 6th set right after the first allagan field?

You might be right, I don't clearly remember because it was hectic trying to keep everyone up. It might have been landmines from 6. All I know is that the way we normally do it (with 2 healers) is after landmines go out, tank triggers the last stack on defensive and that's not working out with solo heal. >>

Also, any comments on the bard situation? I'm assuming this is doable with just one bard? Or is two recommended?