DPS/Healers pulling in dungeons

[Ath192]

I mean, if you wanted to optimize (i.e, complete as quickly as possible) a dungeon run, wouldn't that be the case? You'd want tanks and dps to stagger their sprint usage, in order to start engagements faster.

Tank pulls to the first wall, mobs are burned down before tank's sprint comes off of CD - dps sprints ahead and pulls up to the next wall. With arm's length/some other personal mitigation that the dps has, a shareable tank mitigation thrown on the dps, and maybe a bit of attention from the healer, that dps can easily survive until the tank catches up.

Not really. If you want to min max and go for something like a top speed kill the healer usually gets thrown out in favor of a dps and they all pretty much move together. There are some instances where a DPS with a gap closers gets there a bit faster and takes a few hits before the tanks pulls of aggro but arms length isn’t a discernible concern.

And in a more conventional setting everyone is usually hitting sprint at the same time to keep up with the tank. If a dps gets there first it may be by a fraction of a second but even when I’ve run dungeons on tank this actually isn’t something that happens. They tend to trail behind because usually (the good ones) tend to focus on maximizing the damage they do to the group of mobs and their positioning at the end leaves them slightly behind you, be it for positionals if one mob was left standing and they stopped aoeing or the fact they are casters and left some distance between you and them to avoid AOEs.

Here’s an older video of one:
https://youtu.be/qGJ7wiPusJk

Edit heres another one for more sources than just sfia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Salu...HatsukaRaigeki

You'll notice the trend that even at these distorted running speeds the tank still tends to be ahead and initiate microseconds before or at the same time.