Speed run instances are killing PLD

[SwordCoheir]

I don't think "requires" means what you think it means. Someone already claimed this in another thread, and docmog ran an "all jobs" AV 5chest run (including PLD tank) and won first try, recorded it, and posted it. When decent LSes run these dungeons with "stacked classes" there are several minutes to spare at the end. That's plenty of extra time to do it less efficiently if you want. What you're really asking for is to be able to 5 chest with inefficient classes without knowing how to play.

Taking into account for the average players skill, experience, and other factors like job availability however, most don't have the experience or ability to pull off speedruns. Even with an optimal setup your playing a game of Russian Roulette on time because of a plethora of factors that may happen unexpectedly, especially with inexperienced AV/CC people. Playing with the cookie cutter setups really just gives players the easiest option to combat against the time constraints, even though it alienates other jobs in the process.

That's not to say an experienced enough group can't do it with a horrible setup, just cutting potential liabilities out of the way makes the goal easier to reach, and when your just trying to reach that goal to begin with you go for the best proven way to do it. (By potential liabilities I mean like DD's who can't AoE reliably slowing kills, close ranged DD's on Coincounter potentially getting hit by 100 Tonze Swing that sort of thing.)