Quote Originally Posted by Mortex View Post
The problem was that without sac strat you never have enough mana for the fight on min itemlvl. Ironic that the sac start was less mana intensive then keeping nisis for 3 minis I mean why would you make the tick dmg at the start for around 4-5 k hp in a fight we’re you had tons of aoe and was forced too take laser. Also a random death on nisi player was still a wipe and even when you had nisi, royal pentacle did deal a lot of dmg too these player. Also jagd doll aoes and nisi not even on the last phase no they made that stuff on leg 4. Like the hassle to keep it through so much stuff and like I said the healing and mana required too get them even there was atrocious.
Also, back then, White Mage had serious MP problems, and Scholar was a near infinite mp battery. The issue was Scholar was exceptional at single target heals, while very weak at AoE healing, meaning for all its near infinite MP, it had to rely on White Mage for the brunt of the AoE healing. Which is why people said screw it, and developed the same strategy.

Gordias was brutal for the sake of gauging difficulty, where as Coil was brutally hard because of the 8 second latency and unmarked mechanics.