I suck at speedruns

[Symbiant]

You're going to encounter runs that have bad healers / bad dps. Bad healers are the ones that stand in the stupid or wait until you have 1/10 of your hp and try to heal you before you die. Bad dps either don't have enough dps and the healer runs out of mp or they start a Flare / Aoe before you even get the pack into position. They also stand in the stupid as well.

Then of course we have tanking issues. Then thing about flash is it has a very limited area. If you don't round them up properly you will miss the flash a couple times on some mobs. When that happens they start molesting the dps / healer.

It seems your tactic is similar to mine. I don't lob or touch any of them at all. I just run straight through and at the last cat I pop foresight and that turns them all from orange to red. Once I get to the log close to the gate I pop FoF / HG. I run into the charging pack flash once towards the front of the pack flash another times towards the back. Then I start circling to round them up tight. I pop Soc. Then I pop Sentinel (while circling and flashing / CoS) before sentinel goes down I pop off Bulwark / awareness. Then rampart / Convalescence.

As far as flash / mp goes I spam flash until I am down to about 2 flashes left after that I just use the Riot blade rotation then flash / cos when its up. I keep the extra 2 flash mp just in case its needed but, typically it's not needed.

You basically have to learn how to recognize what the actual cause of the wipe and it's not always your fault.