Unchained. Seriously, why are we not abusing this skill?

[Sarcatica]

So. Yeah. Experience is key. More experienced groups will be more optimized. JP linkshell groups are a good source of this as they don't raid to compete in the world first footrace, but rather build off existing strategies and fine tune them as they don't feel rushed. If you look back at Lucrezia's style, they played like bulls - they forced their selves through mechanics in whatever way seemed possible, correct or not (you can look at their T11 prog for this). This is the style of a team focused on competing, more "what will get us through this" rather than "what would be the best way to handle this". The latter is what you'll get out of the slower JP groups, and that's why they usually come up with the best strategy (easy example is NA's Garuda EX strat vs JP's Garuda EX strat).

You are comparing apples to oranges at this point. The JPs don't have to worry about DPS because they know themselves that they aren't pulling small numbers. Compare that to most NA/EU servers that have a much lower pool of players capable of doing same/better DPS.

Like I have been saying to a lot of people, people who have good DPS will have less problems to worry. Again, compare to groups that are not good at mechanics and also not on the clearing track for DPS wise. They are so snowbally and either the community or perhaps SE needs to step up to improve the players as a whole. We aren't going to be like the Chocobo server level at this rate, whether soon or later.