Quote Originally Posted by SongJoohee View Post

I'm gonna bold this as people seem to think it's Blood for Blood causing the death, it isn't. It's their party composition (and the Tank LB being late, but their argument still stands, as everyone else.....
This. If you choose to stack two scholars, you would know that you won't have the increased magic defense. If you had at least one white mage in the party, that would be different circumstances. To me that's like having two bards and two blackmages in a party. You are sacrificing a single target limit break so you can have all ranged. So you are sacrificing increased magic defense because both healers like to play scholar. My other raid healer and I both enjoy playing scholar, but I choose to play white mage because I know that it's better for my raid crew than me not wanting to play what you guys think as "boring".

Also, if you did have a white mage, that stoneskin would extend to 18% which would be about 1000 damage absorbed, on top of adloquium and the increased magic defense from enhanced protect.

I'm not saying your raid is bad, because that's awesome that you guys are in final coil! But just like having all ranged dps, having two scholars comes with its positives and negatives. Dragoons have always had low magic defense, it was never a problem until recently. I only remember one other thread during Garuda Extreme, that's about it :/