Turn 12 Tank DPS

[Ehayte]

Our Pal said he will provoke at start of phase 4 and HG the Revelation so we can get it under control. Either way I think should work though.

You don't need to do that, really - just save Vengeance and use IB > (Rev) > Infur > IB to recover - make sure you get Storm's Path up and have your MNK get up Dragon Kick (that's a 20% reduction right there) - have your SCH use Virus as well. With all of those, and Veng/IB up, it shouldn't even hit you for more than 5k if you are SS/Adlo'ed. Use every other CD if you want during Bennus.

[Abbul_Stonecleaver]

Yea we're going to try that tonight. Now we're well more prepared for the last phase, so things should go much better.

[Ehayte]

Yea we're going to try that tonight. Now we're well more prepared for the last phase, so things should go much better.

Get your clear?

[Abbul_Stonecleaver]

Yes Thank you for asking. Took us 3 hours or so last night, last chance before 2.5.

To win, we decided to change up our Fountain strat from OTx3-Ninx2- Monk x2- Bard x1 to OTx3- Bard x2- BLM x2- Sch x1

The first way, the MT would drag Phoenix after Revelation near the Fountain. Unfortunately, we were having issues with people getting killed due to various reasons. With the second way the MT would just leave the boss where it was, and so OT would lose a lot of dps uptime.

I pushed hard in first 2 phases, but I don't know what my dps was for that section. I imagine ~260 or so as I have heard that a few times. I was extremely conservative in last phase though, Defiance on full time, lots of SP, downtime, etc.. but I wasn't concerned with overall numbers at this point, just the clear.

I finished just over 200.

[d4gz]

you couldve left the brand mark on mt. so when flames of forgiveness is being cast, OT without brand runs to MT with brand then provoke. new MT gets brand. OT wont lose dps coz hes not scared to brand other dps

[SirTaint]

you couldve left the brand mark on mt. so when flames of forgiveness is being cast, OT without brand runs to MT with brand then provoke. new MT gets brand. OT wont lose dps coz hes not scared to brand other dps

We just let healers handle Brand the entire fight. Really cleaned up that turn for us. Tanks can go full DPS last phase and ranged DPS don't have to move at all. (your casters will thank you)

There is very little raid damage the last phase, no reason healers shouldn't handle it.

[Ehayte]

you couldve left the brand mark on mt. so when flames of forgiveness is being cast, OT without brand runs to MT with brand then provoke. new MT gets brand. OT wont lose dps coz hes not scared to brand other dps

This is exactly what we do and it works awesome - 100% uptime on all players DPSing.

We just let healers handle Brand the entire fight. Really cleaned up that turn for us. Tanks can go full DPS last phase and ranged DPS don't have to move at all. (your casters will thank you)

There is very little raid damage the last phase, no reason healers shouldn't handle it.

That works if your DPS don't derp all over pinions : D tanks don't take as much damage from it and Flames is a great time to swap. When we switched from healers doing brand to tanks it cleaned the fight up for us - I guess it varies group to group, of course.

And grats : D

[SirTaint]

This is exactly what we do and it works awesome - 100% uptime on all players DPSing.



That works if your DPS don't derp all over pinions : D tanks don't take as much damage from it and Flames is a great time to swap. When we switched from healers doing brand to tanks it cleaned the fight up for us - I guess it varies group to group, of course.

And grats : D

We did it to clean up Fountains. We Do:

WAR3,PLD3,NIN2
DRG2,WAR3,PLD3

Ranged DPS and healers just stay way back.

[Abbul_Stonecleaver]

We have MT keep Brand until FoU. Then OT takes it and still does dps standing to the side. We tank swap during Flames of Rebirth. I suppose we could tank swap during either Flames cast, but this worked. The only issue is OT not attacking during the Fountain, but it's not a big deal.

Now I need to remove Defiance after I get out of Fountain. I won't need it until we swap, even with Brand hitting me as OT.

Also, I found Warriors make Revelation last phase easy mode. Vengeance + ToB + IB and SP for all of them in which War is MT.

[SirTaint]

We have MT keep Brand until FoU. Then OT takes it and still does dps standing to the side. We tank swap during Flames of Rebirth. I suppose we could tank swap during either Flames cast, but this worked. The only issue is OT not attacking during the Fountain, but it's not a big deal.

Now I need to remove Defiance after I get out of Fountain. I won't need it until we swap, even with Brand hitting me as OT.

Also, I found Warriors make Revelation last phase easy mode. Vengeance + ToB + IB and SP for all of them in which War is MT.

Last phase in general is a joke. You only see 4 total revelations, maybe 5 if DPS is slow. WAR can pop everything. PLD can sentinel one and HG the other. Healers are really just DPSing with some minor curing needed.