The Chimera, the Monk and the Guard

[fusional]

the community cries for class/job identity, and they get it. Job X performs better than Job Y in situation A. Job Y performs better than Job X in situation B. and it makes sense. except...

then they cry for everything to be homogenized again, because they want to be able to do alllllll the things every other job does just as well as those other jobs, in every single situation.

nice vicious cycle the community is perpetuating. because it just keeps happening.

WAR Burn is easily the most efficient way to kill Princess. We usually kill Princess before 3rd guard pops. (sub 2mins).

it's also entirely easy to accidentally kill the marshal before princess with all that faceroll aoe. DRG does better single target dps and also has two solid aoe WSs to choose from, so when it's geared and played correctly, DRG also easily capable of 200+ dps on the encounter and you're generally at much lower risk of accidentally owning marshal too soon.

you don't have to do any kind of awkward damage control like dragging him out of range to make sure he lives, and yes, you can still very easily grab sub 2min kills just the same.

anyway, point is- i'd be careful about calling it "easily the most efficient way" when there are actually other ways that are as good or better. (ie: 2-3 wars and 2-3 drg)