So few raid groups that have a SMN in this thread ;-;

I run MNK/NIN/BRD(me)/SMN and it is so easy for a SMN to take care of all the blue fires because he can apply fresh dots to Phoenix and pop Sprint to handle redfire every time.

I did it at first until I read the tooltip of blue flame (Ooshima some of do actually do that!) and realized I was being nerfed for 5-6 seconds hardcore so we switched it up. I swap the purgatory with our SCH now and we let our WHM tunnel heal. Also my SCH and I both rock about 7k HPs and our WHM doesn't have any crafted i110 so his HP is considerably lower. Works very well for us.

I'm also interested in one of the comments I read where the melee help burn Bennu? Melee doesn't leave the boss in my group. For us, it results in faster pushes. I just manage my CD's differently than normal in 1st/2nd phase. I literally blow everything I have and solo the first Bennu, not even dot help from SMN. 2nd bennu the SMN banes the boss and spread his dots to bennu and may throw an additional Ruin at it but aside from the dots, I'm the only one who actually focuses 2nd bennu. Should be noted that our PLD grabs first Bennu and our WAR grabs 2nd bennu so his DPS helps the push on non-CD Bennu's as well. 60sec in between Bennu, 2 min CD for Raging Strikes. By 3rd Bennu spawn I have all CD's back and repeat the whole process. We normally get 4 bennus with about 20-30 seconds before 5th would spawn.


But we learned long ago to be flexible with strats. Not everything works for every raid set-up. We experimented and found what works best for us. It's cool to read the different ways people handle these mechanics