Dear melee DPS...

[Krylo]

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And if the DPS can't AoE down the entire pack before you run out of cooldowns/HP then the DPS isn't good enough for you to be multipulling.

Edit: Let me put it another way:

If you AREN'T doing AoE rotations, why pull multiple packs? The only reason to do so is to AoE them down and kill them faster, but if you're doing 8 mobs and single target DPSing them all down you kill them at the same rate as if you had pulled the two-three packs seperately. SLOWER actually, because you aren't getting out of combat TP/MP regen between kills, which can become a problem on large packs.

[Lantia]

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Sorry but are you serious about this?
8 Mobs as NIN:
Start Fight:
Rotation: Katon + Kassatsu Doton
Should I now cast deathblossom until I can recast Katon/Doton? Wuhahahaha never ever. To less dmg on single targets. As a poster was posting above: 3200 dmg every 3 secs just because you would like to be "faster" and kill all at the same time is insane as healer cannot do DPS and tank will also have a hard time. Totally social

Take the 20 Secs more per pack and life with it.

[Colorful]

Sorry but are you serious about this?
8 Mobs as NIN:
Start Fight:
Rotation: Katon + Kassatsu Doton
Should I now cast deathblossom until I can recast Katon/Doton? Wuhahahaha never ever. To less dmg on single targets. As a poster was posting above: 3200 dmg every 3 secs just because you would like to be "faster" and kill all at the same time is insane as healer cannot do DPS and tank will also have a hard time. Totally social

Take the 20 Secs more per pack and life with it.

Not to mention that you'd be running out of TP even with Invigorate incredibly quick, and if you're continually pulling large group after another then that's a bad idea.

[Zfz]

If you AREN'T doing AoE rotations, why pull multiple packs?

As I said way back in my first comment of this thread, I'm not talking about using single-target skills to burn down those. Trash is trash and they can be annoying, at worst you can wipe if people are running it absent-minded (I believe most of us are, by the 100th time we're running the same dungeon).

What I'm talking about, is your single-target skills. For example the BLM will still do Fire 3 after Transpose to go back into Astral Fire. There are often single-target skills within AOE rotations. Those skills should land on the most annoying/dangerous targets, to take them out a few seconds earlier.

I'm not talking about focus fire on single targets in a pack of 6. I'm talking about AOEing and dumping your single-target parts of that AOE rotation onto priority targets.