Quelling Strikes

[Wintersandman]

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My comment was reaching and so was yours which was the point. DPS go sometimes go Schizo and Healers sometimes medica, you can't make anything idiot proof because they always build a better idiot. Switching targets isn't even relative to this thread of QS.

I'm not sure how else you'd maintain aggro on 20 mobs at a time as a paladin while you have DPS aoe'ing them down. Cycling through them and hitting a grand total of one of them each GCD would be even less effective.

Tell me in what instance do you have 20 mobs?

Here's another example - Shiva EX. The tank is responsible for positioning Shiva so she is facing away from the party for bow phase. Sometimes though, things happen (especially in single tank runs) and she ends up facing an odd angle. Do you a) move the hell out of the way or b) sit there and eat Glass Dance then cry that the tank got you killed?

Haven't run Shiva EX so don't know the mechanic or what it does. So I can't make a judgement call on that specific example.

[Ashkendor]

Tell me in what instance do you have 20 mobs?

I probably should have just said 'a bunch of mobs' to avoid exactly this brand of nitpicking. AK, WP, Snowcloak, Brayflox HM, Haukke HM, Tam-Tara HM, CB HM, Halatali HM, and SV HM come to mind as examples of large pulls. Even the first part of Pharos Sirius and DD. Any time you're doing a big pull with the intent of your DPS aoe'ing them down, using Flash is going to be far more productive than cycling through the mobs one by one. While I'm hitting a total of three mobs with my hate combo, the BLMs are already on Fire III > Fire II and probably won't make it to a second Fire II before they get eaten alive. If not Flash, what would you suggest?

[Wintersandman]

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Personally I don't like over dramatizing for effect. Flash is only effective for group pulls when weaved in with other abilities. You can easily fast blade one, flash, savage blade another, flash, RoH another, etc.

When people say flash spam I literally picture someone spamming flash which from what I have seen isn't effective. Your definition may vary.