More smn questions (primals)

[Andres_Lonegrief]

Hi, I'd like to ask something about primals (and boss fights in general) too.

This is my favorite job and I wouldn't change a thing about it. Still ... there's something I can't understand. As long as SMNs have to deal with the main boss or a single target I just use my ordinary rotation (Bio 2 Miasma etc) + fester. What I can't figure out it's how I am supposed to play when bosses like garuda call adds (feathers) and DPS should kill them all quickly (same thing happens in CT with Behemoth etc). The usual rotation wouldn't be fast enough compared to other DPS, while spamming Ruin+Ruin2 deals too low damages (doesn't it?). So I'm not sure it's worth it.

Shadow Flare do help, but I'm afraid that's not the play-style developers might have thought when thinking about SMNs. What if I end up in a party where all DPSs are SMNs?

I must be missing something ... so ... please shed some light!

[PriyaJugulataris]

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You can typically let the black mage and white mage deals with feathers, and other dps class deal with the adds in behemoth, focus on the boss and the iron giant.
I mean personally throw down shadowflare around garuda (if satin is around her, a bane) so any feathers near her get damaged as well, and if 3 or more feathers are clumped together, maybe I'll do a miasma II but it's typically unnecessary in a good party.

[Kuroyasha]

Dat jibber jabber

Honestly just don't worry about it.

Garuda- blm/whm should have plumes. Not your responsibility. You can help if you want with a bane for those next to garuda but shouldnt be needed at all.

In titan whenever I have 3 melee i just focus on the boss. They kill the gaols just fine. If there's a blm I SHOULD be able to still focus on the boss if they hardcast flare so it hits titan and the gaol just as the gaol appears. You can Bio2 Miasma Bio fester the 2nd gaol while they are working on the first if you want; Bio2/Bio/fester gaol on the heart phase since he stomps a little faster as it should bbe enough to help them break gaol.

Ifrit just Bio2/Bio the first and second nails, then Bio2/Miasma/Bio/Bane the double nails of last set, maybe pop a bio2/bio on single nails ahead of grp depending on your mp from all the spells at one time, and then atk with the grp. I dont apply DoTs to ifrit during that phase. Tried to one time and i pushed his hp too low, so he hellfired early. lol