Quote Originally Posted by Chardrizard View Post
SC belongs to slow paced battle. nobody used it post-ToAU when everyone melee burns.
And the overall skill level of the general population of FFXI suffered because of it. Near the end of my tenure in Vana'diel I did hardly anything with a group larger than 6 people (a few dynamises with 10-12.)

And for 6 people to take down things like Byakko, or to do Salvage skill chains were a big asset.

Hell, we even did some samurai soboro parties where we did three part chains to speed the killing along. No, it wasn't ideal to sit and wait for everyone to have tp. But all it took was one person who knew the mechanic for skill chains to make them effective.

It wasn't the skill chains themselves that made them inefficient for exp parties, it was the nature of tp, and the tremendously different rate of growth every body had in FFXI.