Help needed on T9

[Hippo]

hi,

I am just started on T9 now practicing phase 1 and I keep losing to a BARD in DPS. Is this normal?

[NintenPyjak64]

Are both of you equally geared? If no who is higher geared?
What are both of your weapon iLevels (note: I still count Atma as i90 until that final book)?
How much downtime do you as a MNK have on the boss compared to the Bard?

Also not a good idea to talk about DPS on these forums. Parsers/parsing has become a ridiculous taboo

[Hippo]

Both the bard and I have il110 weapon, we are about equally geared. The bard has more hate than me so his damage must be higher than mine lol

I have downtime during the double swoop but besides than I have me GL3

[Sygmaelle]

Is nael doin her jump before Iron chariot ? if yes your group is doin it wrong and you gotta shoulder tackle in her aoe, do one gcd, then go out and do two gcds, while runnin toward the boss when you re doin the third.

[Itseotle]

Is nael doin her jump before Iron chariot ? if yes your group is doin it wrong and you gotta shoulder tackle in her aoe, do one gcd, then go out and do two gcds, while runnin toward the boss when you re doin the third.

I am curious, is there someway to stop her from Jumpping?

[PuroStrider]

I am curious, is there someway to stop her from Jumpping?

Ya, you need to sweep her leg with DRG's "Leg Sweep" Ability and do it right before she jumps. We've managed to make her fall down a couple times where she would be stunned for about 2 seconds, but it's not 100% though.

[Sygmaelle]

I am curious, is there someway to stop her from Jumpping?

Just like in phase 4, everyone stack up on melee range. She ll still do a jump but a really small one so you wont be that much handicapped / losin auto attacks

[Lemon8or]

It's completely normal when you first started out to be lower than a Bard since they have the easiest time to adjust to a new fight. Kuroyasha has mentioned several things I do in this fight to continue keeping my lead of about 30-40 dps on the bard but that was when we didn't have a dragoon and bard is 3 ilevel lower. Just inform the healer that you might not stack for thermionic.
Even when thermionic mark is on you, if your group stacks just right outside of iron chariot's range, after iron chariot you can slightly move into melee range, hit the abilities, run back to the group while the animation is going on, run a bit past the group while the group is still in range of thermionic, wait for thermionic to go off and run back to the main tank. You will hit 1 less hit (2vs3) than when you're not targeted by thermionic but that's about the best thing you can do while not dying, keeping up GL3 and not having the group move into melee range after iron chariot.