Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Archulak]

Getting people to do that during the middle of a fight is pointless.

If I was a tank I'd go in with a macro that indicates twisters are being casted. There's many alternatives but a surefire way for a fight like this is VoIP since we don't have access to DBM in FFXIV.

This is not something you do in the middle of a fight you set it up before hand(Target bar and Focus Target bar are 2 separate hud icons that you can have at the same time)



You can clearly see that I have one mob targeted and another focus targeted and exactly when the one that is focused is casting a skill even though I'm not targeting it.

When the timers are made so that every skill comes out in a precise order, that's called a rotation (hence the mechanic > mechanic > mechanic > mechanic ). T5 is a bit particular because all the mechanics are timer based and overwrite themselves, it the order DK stun > plummet > DS > whatever else. In T6 (for example), I have never seen mechanics overwriting others. Nor in T2 (except phase changes, but it seems normal right ?)

The timers arn't made so that there's an order to them, the order happens because that's the way the CD's are used. Sure it's "scripted", but you can make the fights hit harder and bring you to within an inch of your life because you know that it's not going to happen again for a while. If you just bring in a bunch of random atks then you end up with fights not being determined by skill but by luck in which RNG pattern you happen to get, you also need to make sure that it's actually possible to survive the combinations that can occur meaning that even your hardest hitting skill a boss can have can do NO MORE than half a players hp pool if it can happen twice in a row.