Dear melee DPS...

[Vartio]

Dear Summoners, feel free to actually kill things before I run out of TP.


That'd be great.

But you're a conjurer...

[DkDerek]

A good melee will target swap to burn all mobs fairly evenly, greatly contributing to the speed of the run.

A good melee will actually AOE the entire pack.

[DkDerek]

But you're a conjurer...

Is there a way to change that? I literally haven't played Conjurer in over two years. I don't even own a staff.

[Saggo]

Yeah, I didn't say that. Every mob a DPS kills short changes a caster AoE. The more you target the wounded the more you slow down the caster. That's stalling the fight.

The only thing that influences that is pressure on the healer. Not really sure where you get this "only exclusively" stuff.

[Nadirah]

Just gotta say.... wow.

So many of you people only care about padding meters. Lol.

*shakes head*

[Vartio]

Just gotta say.... wow.

So many of you people only care about padding meters. Lol.

*shakes head*

Dunno if you mean me, but I care about efficiency. As a tank main (despite having a 60 Dragoon first), I know the pain of dealing with huge pulls and my team doing all the stupid stuff. : |

[Ashkendor]

Dear dps.

Learn how to click on the limit break icon once its full.

every single fucking time, i have to scream and spam the chat because our 2/4 dps never wants to LB.

Just start using the tank LB. They'll learn. :3

Dunno if you mean me, but I care about efficiency. As a tank main (despite having a 60 Dragoon first), I know the pain of dealing with huge pulls and my team doing all the stupid stuff. : |

Nah, she means the people complaining that casters are getting "shorted" on their AoE damage somehow.

Honestly, the BLM's parse is about the last thing on my mind when I tank/heal a big pull.

[Coatl]

Why would a melee DPS even single target a group of 6-8 mobs? I don't care how good you are at burning a single add down, you will always do more AOE damage so long as you have the TP for it.

[Vartio]

Why would a melee DPS even single target a group of 6-8 mobs? I don't care how good you are at burning a single add down, you will always do more AOE damage so long as you have the TP for it.

Two Reasons:

1: because killing high damage targets makes it safer for the tank+healer combination.
1b: To clarify, this means the healer can provide DPS at points.

2: because their AOE sucks. I know I'd rather my ninja just spam Doton and Katon when those are up rather than use their GCDs on the Death Blossom for example.
2b: because worrying about the healer/tank succeeding is more important than lowering all the enemies HPs simultaneously for little reason than "I want to buffer my DPS"

[Makeda]

When on my DPS alt I tend to put the tank into focus, and my priority is whatever the tank is spending the most time on, unless I see something peel off and go for a healer.

There's no DPS meter in this game to ePeen about - so all that matters is keeping the tank alive until the end of the pull. Whatever makes that easiest to do, is the priority.