Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
Most players will take the 'easiest' route and will readily skip mechanics rather than learn how to handle a fight as a whole. It happened with Zurvan (EX) and it's happening with Byakko (EX). I can't really blame players for taking that route but I do think it is a real shame and that the developers should have made adjustments to the fight once the tricks were discovered. In the case of Byakko (EX) there's a real risk of hostility if there's more than one of the same job hoping to compete for a spot.

It's also very interesting that so many of these groups cannot handle the fight as intended.
if it's more efficient and time saving, why wouldn't you do it? You can run trials at min-iLvl to "handle the fight as a whole" but how many people are going to do that? And using the tank LB3 =/= "cannot handle the fight as intended", lol. If you're going to farm something, you're going to naturally find the quickest way to do something.