The broken FFXIV Holy trinity

[SDaemon]

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You mentioned farming them at launch for darklight gear. That would be WP and AK for philosophy tomes, which were well before CT or soldiery tomes, unless you are mixing time frames together, in which case a clear timeline point would be nice.

WP and AK weren't speedrun-able in the way we do it now. When WP and AK were current endgame starting dungeons, the "speed-run" method was for the tank to pull everything (running like mad) and die, healer revives the tank and you move on, skipping the trash (which ended up being nerfed). No one pulled everything and burned it all down like we do now. No skill invovled (if you were trying to equate speed-running to skill of all things.)

The dungeons weren't hard, don't get me wrong, but they weren't the speed-runs we make of them now.