Flexible DPS Limit Breaks

[kikix12]

Only question I have: Do you try to use LB when it's ready, or when the boss is at less than 5%? Because if it's being saved to kill the boss, then it's basically wasted. Since I main RDM, whenever I get paired with a melee that doesn't use the LB when it's ready, I will pop it because of the fact that most of that damage would have gone to waste using it for a killing blow(most of the time).

Yes. In dungeons at least, half of the melee that use limit break use it at the very end of bosses life, and I mean really end. Many of them don't even manage to get the skills cast go off before the other three members actually kill it.

And on longer fights, not using it when it's ready (unless it is saved for a specific phase, like at Chrysalis, for the meteor), means that you won't get another limit break which could be possible otherwise (even if one-bar one).

[Lodinn]

Only question I have: Do you try to use LB when it's ready, or when the boss is at less than 5%? Because if it's being saved to kill the boss, then it's basically wasted. Since I main RDM, whenever I get paired with a melee that doesn't use the LB when it's ready, I will pop it because of the fact that most of that damage would have gone to waste using it for a killing blow(most of the time).

Answer: I use LB whenever it's filled and ready and (preferrably) I don't have an important part in my rotation. If I have to use LB when fully buffed it's damage wasted as well and sometimes it's possible to delay LB but hard to delay the burst. In dungeons usually I would aim for no lower than 5% of boss hp, 10% if group dps is good. When playing NIN or having a BRD/MCH I'll try to LB asap to get the boss in the execute range. Basically I treat LB as just another class ability which I should try to fit into my rotation efficiently.
That being said, caster LB on the last boss in Bardam is a thing, and sometimes LBing trash is more worth, too.

[Rongway]

Sadly, I often get ranged dps doing LB all the time when I am melee dps.

Only question I have: Do you try to use LB when it's ready, or when the boss is at less than 5%? Because if it's being saved to kill the boss, then it's basically wasted. Since I main RDM, whenever I get paired with a melee that doesn't use the LB when it's ready, I will pop it because of the fact that most of that damage would have gone to waste using it for a killing blow(most of the time).

In dungeons, LB should be used by an AoEer to do an obscene amount of damage on a trash pull. Meleeing a midboss with an LB is a waste.

Once at the final boss, it should be a melee LB, unless the specific boss calls for raining down destruction from the heavens (e.g., last boss of Sohm Al HM).



AoE LB1 on two targets outdamages melee LB1.
AoE LB1 on four targets outdamages melee LB2.
AoE LB1 on seven targets outdamages melee LB3.

[Cakekizyy]

Only question I have: Do you try to use LB when it's ready, or when the boss is at less than 5%? Because if it's being saved to kill the boss, then it's basically wasted. Since I main RDM, whenever I get paired with a melee that doesn't use the LB when it's ready, I will pop it because of the fact that most of that damage would have gone to waste using it for a killing blow(most of the time).

Half the time they use it the instant bar fills while I am on GCD.