Quote Originally Posted by Nemekh View Post
While improved, the SMN sequencing is still not ideal.

The 5th GCD Bahamut also having a Ruin II in the opener from the R4 following the 2nd enkindle is pretty yikes.

I'm really not sure what your goal is here advising things that are losses.

Openers here, openers on youtube. Today sure has been eventful.
Ah. I see what you mean. Unless you have a 15% damage buff for the final R4, it's better to just R3 and R4 to double weave the Energy Drain and Fester. Thank you for pointing this out.

So I have to ask. I actually do encourage the use of openers where raid buffs and the like come out earlier if it gains you an extra cast overall. But if you still get the same number of casts across the board regardless of buffs coming out early or late, what's the problem then? It's common knowledge that not every class's strongest moves fit in the raid alignment of early raid buff openers and I've already proven that it is possible to line up raid buffs relatively uniformly here, so what's the issue then?