So I want to point out something.

Mechanics are not hard.

Many of them, if not all, a lot of players have seen before in some form or fashion as they progress through the game. Fights are not hard, especially when you've got a good healer or two plus a good tank or two to help. When everyone does the mechanics correctly, the fight progresses and you clear. Easy right?

Then please tell me why, oh god why, do you just stand there like you've got a dial-up brain in mechanics and just repeatedly eat them in M8N? There was a pair of dps (a NIN and RDM) in there that I had to constantly scrape off the floor, and at least 5 times the RDM in our party let my raises time out. Yes. They let the Raise I dropped on them time out. The amount of mp and other resources I dumped on these two would make a BLM blush. The rest of them, including my cohealer, had some serious trouble with staying alive.

Counting your toes does not count as doing mechanics. If you have to stop dpsing to do a mechanic to survive, then do that. DEAD DPS DO NO DPS.

I also want to point out that, if you just lie on the floor, that's one less person to help take the stack, and at minimum you need 5 people with heavy mitigations to cover it. And I mean HEAVY MITIGATIONS. Your Addle/Feint count as mitigations, and you need to make use of them, dps. It really shouldn't be THAT HARD to read your toolkit.

If y'all are wondering, yes, we wiped 4 times because people kept failing mechanics repeatedly, three people left, and our deadweight of a RDM was on the floor for a good quarter of each pull. Of the three people, one pulled a forced dc, most likely to avoid eating a penalty and have me kick them.

To the person that forced-dc'ed to avoid a penalty: you suck. Learn to be a team player.

To the NIN that tried but kept eating mechanics: mechanics over dps. I'd much rather heal you than have to dump yet another 2400 mp to scrape your butt off the floor.

To the RDM that kept timing out my raises and causing us to wipe: Get off of RDM so I don't prioritize you for raising to help raise. I dumped far too much acceptable MP on you when I could've used that mp to help keep the party alive.

To the two people that left in a huff: thanks for nothing.

To the rest of the party that stayed and tried: y'all are good cookies.