Speed runs aren't actually that speedy

[Yumi_umi]

How to whm in a speed run ;0
1) divine seal -> medica 2 + regen on tank.
2) use Shroud
3) go into CS and holy till mobs are like 40%-30% hp
* by the time u r done spamming like 4-6 holys u should have about 40-50% mp because of the shroud ticking while u spammed.
4) swig a mega ether or something and repeat!
*Its funny when ur holy crits for 700+
Note: apply aero and aero 2 in CS on the enemy that has the highest hp out of the group before spamming.

[AniCelestine]

I got 11m on the dot last night.

Thank you for the tips.
We're using PLD/WHM/SMN(I'm thinking of trying on bard, but smn is more geared)/BLM.

Tank and WHM is full ilvl90, me and BLM are bit lower, and none of us have allagan weapons, so by the looks of what you said there, it's DPS's gear/dmg that's making that 4min difference(and possibly that we've used SMN instead of BRD, gotta try that.)

[SarcasmMisser]

I think the difference is 100% gear but also job optimization, the tank has to be very fast and smooth with big pulls, the healing is really tight on the first pull after the first boss and the final pull, and the dps have to be kings of burst.

BLM and bard combo is really important imo, it's all about burst DPS and they have amazing synergy

[lxSch]

Recently i had a City of Amdagor from the expert roulette. Tanker did not notice my darklight gear and decided we should ignore door mechanics at the last boss (i realized it when we wiped). Wipe1 - tanker starts yelling i should stoneskin everyone - ok (i also succor them), wipe2 - tanker said i am seriously very bad and i should also dps (was my 2nd run) so we probably would kill it before the 2nd nuke. There was not a wipe3 - i apologized and left. Not sure if it was a very fast run.

[Ooshima]

It all depends on who you run with.

[Steffie]

My experience with Speed runs are as follows

Rouletted into a dungeon. Healer or DPS ask me to speed run it. I said ok. Pull 2 or 3 trash group at a time. Pop up CD, and watch the health bar of the enemy go down slowly. Kill bosses, by the time it ended, it's about the same speed as normal runs.
I have a feeling that most ppl requesting speed run don't even know how speed run works. I know for sure that i don't know how to speed run. For me speed run just mean pull more than one group.

[Noahlimits]

My experience with Speed runs are as follows

Rouletted into a dungeon. Healer or DPS ask me to speed run it. I said ok. Pull 2 or 3 trash group at a time. Pop up CD, and watch the health bar of the enemy go down slowly. Kill bosses, by the time it ended, it's about the same speed as normal runs.
I have a feeling that most ppl requesting speed run don't even know how speed run works. I know for sure that i don't know how to speed run. For me speed run just mean pull more than one group.

I've had the opposite experience. Bray HM for example; Tank pulls every enemy until the first locked gate. I CS holy until he reaches about 2k life, I benediction him and continue holying. The pulls from the next door we did/do the same thing except I stance dance when needed to keep him up. We finished in 14 minutes.. in a random duty finder party. It's not hard to average or beat this time with a pre made going into duty finder either.

[Emblemelite]

Looks speedy enough to me

[Menae]

Is it faster to pull to the first door, or just pull up to the pack that drops the key (4th), kill it, and sleep/lock the rest out of the boss?

[SarcasmMisser]

Is it faster to pull to the first door, or just pull up to the pack that drops the key (4th), kill it, and sleep/lock the rest out of the boss?

Probably not faster but easier.

Also to the screenshot above, you can save a lot of time if you skip the mega bomb phase. The boss phases at 5% so if you save all your CDs till about 10% and get people to burst as it phases you can kill it before it loses it's hitbox. I pop raging strikes, fish for a firestarter proc and use it with a swiftcast flare.