Why won't you limit break?

[Taika]

This has been a pet peeve of mine in the past, but I've felt it's gotten even worse in Stormblood somehow: DDs not using limit break at all! The bar fills before, during, or right after the first boss in the dungeon. A melee doesn't use it on the boss, and the caster / ranged DD doesn't use it on a huge pull where it would be a huge DPS benefit. Why not?

Why aren't you using it?

(And I'm not talking about content in which it can actually be beneficial to save LB for healers, such as the last story fight, but standard dungeons and trials.)

[BorisDaBlade]

Because if I LB, it's probably going to clip my rotation. And MA DEEPS dot benefit from the LB

[BorisDaBlade]

*don't benefit (can't edit on mobile)

[technole]

We all know the standard protocol is for the DPS to only use LB when it's full, and at 1%. Where the boss dies before the LB or animation even goes off. Usually done by a DRG.

[Hikuras]

I hate using LB on the first boss. Cause everytime someone does I never have 2 bars at the end on the last boss where it counts. So Yes I save it until the last boss.. and around 10% cause it's kills instantly at the percent. But it only works if I have TWO bars.

[silverlunarfox]

DPS can tunnelvision and/or forget say if they usually main tank or heal.

It happens. To let it be a pet peeve is silly.

[Taika]

I hate using LB on the first boss. Cause everytime someone does I never have 2 bars at the end on the last boss where it counts. So Yes I save it until the last boss..

But even if you had 1 bar at the beginning of last boss (which you'd have time to get even if you'd use LB1 on first boss btw, the sooner you use it the sooner you can start recharging it), it's not likely for your party to be slow enough to get LB2 for the last boss... Apart from bosses which have mechanics that fill the LB bar, in which case you aren't likely to need that one full bar anyway.

DPS can tunnelvision and/or forget say if they usually main tank or heal.

I've been main healer, and whenever I DPS I can ensure you the first thing I do is make sure I get to use LB (assuming my LB is the most beneficial to the party in that content of course). I just consider it to be a part of the DDs' job to handle it the most beneficial way.

You are not everyone, and everyone is not you. I said, DPS can tunnelvision or forget. I never said you did. I am addressing the fact the playerbase doesn't play perfectly everytime.

So mistakes happen. While it is part of the DPS's job, forgetting to LB happens. It's why as a tank/heal main I simply remind DPS to LB when neccessary and boom, a LB follows. Hence why it is never a peeve of mine.

Oh sorry, I didn't mean to say you claimed I do, I understand what you meant. I too remind DDs to LB, I just find it silly I need to be the one to tell them to do their job.

[Gabrielleblanc]

I usually forget limit break is a thing when I play melee, got too used to tanking and ranged dps.

[Andanie]

I usually use it on trash if the tank pulls especially big. Since I play casters, I don't usually use it on bosses unless there's no melee or they forgot and the boss is almost dead.

I don't really understand the mindset of "My deeps" or "I hate not having two bars for the last boss" though. The whole point is to do a bunch of damage and speed things along. At least of the dps limit break. Better to get two LB uses and help two fights/pulls go faster than save it do the whole friggin dungeon and save it on one boss to me.

[Serilda]

I'm so used to internally raging about the lack of LB as a healer that whenever I play DPS I use that thing every time I can. It seems to be a law of the game that the person most suited to using it never notices it's there.