Opening as a Dark Knight?

[Sarcatica]

I don't know what is the most optimal way, but in my group the WAR pulls, I tank the EDD as DRK and take over when it's dead. In a similar vein, after Eternal Darkness our WAR takes over again in order to abuse Holmgang on the double tank cleave, which leaves the EDD to me again, and I take over after it's dead. Same repeats in the last phase, WAR takes over just before Propeller Wind and eats cleave before EDD with Holmgang. I don't take over after the EDD there anymore because the boss is almost dead.

If your DPS is enough, you can skip 1st Optical Sight straight to EDD. AFAIK this is easier to achieve if WAR pulls first, this is also useful for later because you want to get sub 61% to skip the whole Lapis Lazuli phase. You want to push Limit Cut asap or boss will run away if you get 63% before sword which happens quite a lot for my team because we still have me pulling that fight and we have to actually stop dps a bit to ensure we get the skip.

The logic behind trying to push boss asap to cast Limit Cut is because the more you let boss casts Optical Sight, the more dps you can output which leads to the 63% jump straight after the Limit Cut, normally jumping before boss casts the left/right sword.

Link: https://youtu.be/bYjYswK60S8