Worthy of His Back solo duty cannot be completed on default difficulty

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Congratulations to beating the fight eventually.

I'm going to base my thoughts on this footage of Normal Mode MNK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbQTUj8mcqA
I also have checked a Normal Mode RPR version, very similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAU6jI2CCDc&t=0s

If the fight still operates as advertised in those videos with the blue orbs having a large heavy (movement slow) and red orbs with a medium heavy, then going from orb to orb prioritizing red orbs followed by blue orbs should not be an issue. In the MNK example they primarily cycled their base rotation without going heavy on using Perfect Balance & Blitz, occasionally using Forbidden Chakra.

Both of these players are FAR from optimized and were done when the expansion released - meaning they had LESS potency on their attacks than we do now, yet they both make easy work of the orbs, even with a large loss of uptime in between them.

If you are at minimum in full Augmented Cryptlurker gear (bonus but not needed: Materia melds) or better (i530+) then you'd have sufficient damage and HP to deal with the duty. So without trying to sound rude, this leaves me to three possible conclusions:

1.) There is a genuine bug and the Heavy effects of the orbs don't work as intended
2.) You are actually joking despite saying that you don't for the sake of April 1st
3.) Despite your 12k hours of game time and veteran status, you are actually not that good at Monk - which for the purpose of this duty, you could do it by spamming Dragon Kick and occasionally refreshing Twin Snakes (this was and possibly still is an actual thing, I'm not kidding). It isn't a bad thing if you are, it simply indicates you may have improperly learned the job or are actually struggling at switching targets fast enough.

My apologies if anything of this offends you, it is truly not meant that way.