Byakko... HM or EX ?

[loreleidiangelo]

Only reason its 'not that hard' is because you can cheese through it with tank limit break.If it wasnt for this factor i guarantee that most clear parties would be still seeing enrages.
Would be interesting to see if they made that phase instant wipe you regardless of tank lb.I guarantee most would be on forums crying and saying it was too hard.

Ding ding ding. I'm actually really hoping they patch this out so that parties where nobody breaks 4k DPS can't clear it by getting almost 20 seconds of free damage on the boss (also "no double jobs" is pretty frickin' annoying when you're an Astrologian, the class that can literally change their healing style to fit into any healer comp, including a comp with another Astrologian). I'm always sad to see non-melee-DPS LB use get punted to the side but I really do feel like being able to skip this aspect of it trivializes a big portion of the difficulty of the fight.

EDIT: I guess 3-3.5k is probably a more reasonable barometer since the boss has that long period of downtime.

EDIT2:

No they don't. People tank LB because it's faster. Ignoring Hakutei allows for significantly higher uptime on Byakko. Why wouldn't you take advantage of that?

I respectfully offer the perspective that people are tank LBing both BECAUSE it's faster AND because people are so bad they'll meet enrage without that extra DPS on the boss. It's a crutch for players who don't do decent DPS and a speed method for players who optimize. I don't think they're mutually exclusive.