Please stop with the "no duplicates" and pigeon-holing our DPS into tiny windows

[Fynlar]

Lmao. The devs themselves said it was unintended, so are the devs full of it when they didn't see precedent for it?

Saying the tank LB strategy was unintended when it clearly lets you survive an ignored mechanic (and isn't being addressed/fixed) makes about as much sense as saying it was unintended for FFXI NINs to be able to tank after giving them an ability that lets them completely avoid attacks. What did they THINK was going to happen there? It isn't fooling anybody, certainly not me.

So yes, I'm saying anyone who is calling this unintended is full of it.

It's not even an enrage, soft or hard. It's a DPS check, you don't meet it, you don't kill the boss.

Except it isn't a DPS check at all because the DPS can completely ignore it and you can very much still kill the boss.

To which I (again) say Turn 2 Enrage strategy. When a boss enrages, normally the raid wipes and you have to start over. Not the case with Turn 2. ADS' enrage is survivable, but it requires constant AoE healing. This was clearly not what the devs intended, as it completely negates all mechanics of a fight (not dealing with Allagan Rot being the biggest reason why people did it). Despite this, they never fixed the enrage (and as said before, they had to unfix it when a patch made it impossible to do the enrage strat).

You're only proving my point.

If that approach were unintended, they'd have made it such that running out of time in turn 2 would just instantly wipe you like it would in any other fight with an enrage. Yet as you say yourself, that isn't how it works (and as I've pointed out already, Coil was *no stranger whatsoever* to mechanics that would just flat out instantly kill individuals/parties for failing them, so the fact that they diverted from that here is notable). Same deal with the tank LB3 on Byakko.