Quote Originally Posted by LauraAdalena View Post
NEVER delay SL. That’s terrible advice. It’s more of a loss to delay SL than just hold them because it’s not just your damage but the party’s. Now that being said you are correct that the new skills do fill the gap enough and as long as you remember to use everything within the summons phases you’ll never have to delay anything unless you have horrendous spell speed.

Holding Bahamut/Pheonix each for a GCD or two should fix it and makes it easier if the boss has downtime. And if the boss does have downtime adjust based on its length.

Edit: just a reminder SL is long as heck and 3% damage in that length, that’s pretty beefy.
Just to be clear, when i said delay it, i meant only for a few GCD's and thats only in relation to this specific issue. But it always depends on circumstance and the reason why you would delay it. Even if SL lasts for a long time, if it drifts far enough, it may be worth delaying a few gcd's to bring it closer to align with other buffs.

But the point of the advice was thus: Given the choice between delaying Bahamut or delayng SL - You should Delay SL. Delaying Bahamut for 5-10 seconds is really not a good idea given how rigid SMN rotation generally is. Of course in an optimum setting SL would come off cooldowns 1-2 GCD's before bahamut is ready so you can fit it into your last few Garuda/Ifrit/ titan GCD's. So in the example above I was merely refering to the circumstances listed in OPs post.

I agree that holding bahamut for 1-2 gcds wouldnt hurt but for 5-10 secs? I can't see how that would ever be a good idea.