Tips for SCH in T5

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Good advice here for the OP, mainly about lustrates and pre-DS adloing, pre-succoring fireballs, placing the fairy close to the 2nd neurolink during divebombs, as well as saving some stacks for the snakes -part. All stuff I agree with. Some other things to consider (didn't see them mentioned but if someone did, props to them):


- Pay attention to tank cooldowns and know what a given tank skill does coupled with its icon so you can recognize it. Eg. if you see that a tank has Sentinel up just before a DS, you know the next DS won't be so nasty. So depending on other variables such as having an E4E proc up on Twin or having a WHM-stoneskin up pre-DS, you might want to cast a Physick as opposed to Adlo (if the tank is topped off enough), so that the heal lands just as DS hits, applying the heal before Infirmity hits the tank.

- ...On that note, start casting a heal when you see Twin's castbar at the "D" -ish of "Death Sentence" for optimal timing to have a heal land post-DS hit, pre-Infirmity being applied. (Remember that doing or not doing this depends on how well you timed your Adlo just before she starts casting DS and or stuff like which tank CDs are up, if an E4E proc is up or not, if virus is applied or not; your priority is obviously to mitigate damage and if the tank gets one shot or comboed down before you can lustrate post-DS, that would not be good).

- Mitigation-wise it is better to have some form of mitigation for all DSs as opposed to mitigating one DS with all guns blazing and then not having any bangs for the next one. This depends a lot on how good your tanks are with their CD management, whether you are doing the solotank method (like us) or not, how many E4E casters you have in the party and so forth. Communication is key here, but for PLD-solotanking at least, there are certain situations wherein a tank will not have a CD for one DS (so our PLD tends to use a mega vit pot then), meaning more vigilancy is to be exercised. Communicate well and or camp the status bars of your party members and Twintania for cooldowns/stoneskin/E4E procs etc. In our party I am in charge of the virusing with our SMN sometimes doing one virus on Twin during mine being still on cooldown for 20 seconds~, when the Antibody buff has worn off and before the next DS. Just be careful that no one ever ruins your virus rotations; you will want to have it up if your tank is out of the big-boy cooldowns and if there is no E4E proc etc, to buffer those DSs a lot.

I tend to use Eos (we only do the solotank method so everything helps, DPS we have plenty of to begin with) and have her on both Heel and also placed. I place her when we stack for the fireballs in our groups, because IF you do get conflagged, she will move with you a bit and potentially not move back to stack tightly enough for fireballs. I then re-place her for the divebombs so she doesn't get hit and can keep healing while I dodge. After that, the next time I place her is for p4 so that WD reaches the tank when it is available for use (everything helps). As far as DPSing or not DPSing goes - only do it if you are truly comfortable and have the time. If you are doing it the solotank method, you will realistically never need to DPS, unless someone fucked up on divebombs and it seems like the snake-DPS is lacking.

That's all I can think of for now. Remember that communication is the key Good luck!