Quote Originally Posted by Akujin View Post
Please don't do that.

If you're going to mock one person's argument because they don't have a spreadsheet of parsed numbers between XX DPS versus XX BLM, don't assume his own argument is simply invalid, as neither of you are providing anything beyond opinion at this point.

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Also, just to toss it in, depending on the type of content, such as Brayflox, I'll take a second BLM over any other DPS any day of the week. It was one of the things I specifically looked for during my own speedruns for my animus grind. Because whereas another DPS will require a third, or possibly even fourth flare to clear groups of mobs, a second blm 99% of the time ensured that we had everything dead by my second flare, theirs as well. So again, it's all about the situation.
Another redundantly belittling/condescending comment against someone else's opinion you open with there, much like "you were doing good until...", sir.

Speedruns with 2 BLM on BrayHM, IME, are slower than BLM+ any other dps because the bosses take longer. And the amount of time of BLM+BLM saved over BLM+BRD or BLM+DRG on AoEing the big pulls is usually ignorable by comparison. With BLM+BRD it's usually not enough time for another Flare, for with DRG there might be, but the speed at which the bosses die is better than the couple of seconds saved on the three big pulls each.

And I don't have spreadsheets to fall back on, but it's not just opinion. There are instance timers and buff timers like from Protect to measure the exact amount of minutes.

If you don't believe me, try it out.