Limit Break

[Lemon8or]

That's because you're only level 27. Below 50, there's almost never a reason for a tank or healer to use their limit break unless something catastrophic happens like undergeared people going into Garuda and cannot survive The Reckoning then you need tank LB. I think Yoshi intends for the game to really start at 50 which is where you see different LB at different level being used. DPS is still the most useful to lessen time on dungeons and bosses. And for Ifrit if you don't have AOE LB, use single target LB3 on 1 nail, focus on 2, use LB2 on the last one. You'll burn it down just as he jumps up.

[seekerofpower]

In HM Ifrit you get to use 3 of the 4 in 1 fight. Wait for the nails, BLM or SMN casts Doomsday, This usually does enough damage to put the LB bar back to ~2 full bars by the time Hellfire goes off. Once it does, use the Healer 2 bar limit, just as the fire covers the screen, for instant party heal. Then, you usually get to use the melee DPS 3 bar limit sometime after that as well. The only LB you don't see in that fight, if done properly, is the Tank LB.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

Parties [as they get more familiar with the content] may have their own individual strategies for using limit breaks so I tend to ask just in case.

My first try with Limit Break was an embarrasing nightmare because when it was requested that I use it, I did not know how to apply it so I just pushed the button and waited LOL .

A more experienced ls member later explained it to me and for that I am grateful.

[Maero]

So consensus is tank lb is useless? For Ifrit I actually helped attack the nail, and actually had no need for a LB. Anyone know or try one as a Lancer/dragoon?
I am working at switching to that class

[Niytshade]

So consensus is tank lb is useless? For Ifrit I actually helped attack the nail, and actually had no need for a LB. Anyone know or try one as a Lancer/dragoon?
I am working at switching to that class

In Ifrit parties I had that didn't have an AoE LB I had dragoon use theirs, it's only a single target regardless..but it can work.

[Brises]

Prior to 50, I was never in an instance where limit break was needed. Post 50 it becomes more important for certain fights.

[CrisGer]

I had no idea what to do with Limit Break it is not described well in the instrucitons and just that button on our skill page. As a Tank then we shuld not worry about it and just tell the Healer to use it when needed in an ermgency?

[Lemon8or]

Tank's LB decreases damage on near-by party member. Healer's LB do a massive heal and resurrection at level 3. Melee DPS do huge single target damage. Caster DPS limit break do massive damage in an AOE circle. Bard use healer's LB. Most of the time, if your group is competence, you'll only use DPS limit break till 50.

[CrisGer]

wow thanks that is a PERFECT summary thanks so much. it looks like if i do my job and the rest of the group knows what to do we will be ok. Does each of us have a Limit Break to use or of one person uses it does that wipe it out for all of us? i was not sure about that but assumed that was the way it works. Only one LB for the group per run?

[Lemon8or]

You all share a LB so if one person use it, it's gone. However, it can fill/refill during the run as you do various actions in a fight. How fast it fills up depends on how "strategic" you play, whether it means more damage, more dots, doing more heal or stunning bosses.