Quote Originally Posted by Sunarie View Post
It disables everything else. So perhaps the best wording would have been to disable all but one, or a majority of, the mechanics. To me, that's actually no different then having a healer stand in a tree to disable the add part of AK first boss.. both are cheap. They are both things I've done.. but they are still cheap.
I kinda have to agree with Sunarie. If it is a mechanic, I think it was a mechanic intended to give you a buffer at the very end of a fight if you weren't able to meet the DPS check, a sort of mercy that they intended to say 'hey, they might not pass the DPS check, let's kill them at the end after a few pulses.'

Think about it. A lot of your healers in the normal method might be bottoming out on MP by this point. Then this AoE damage starts, which if you aren't anticipating might quickly overwhelm them. You start AoE healing, but you wouldn't have the MP to maintain, I'm sure.