This savage is getting really headache inducing...

[Miziliti]

Being flexible is more of a having chemistry with your static thing. PF usually sticks with a strategy/rule/script because everyone is constantly reminded in doing as much damage as possible. When one makes mistake in group mechanic, it is often hard to recover due to how the design is intended, so the whole ship sinks altogether. The problem is at least one member in the party not being on the same page as the rest.

[technole]

It depends. Circle is significantly easier to deal with as a Healer because you're putting everyone within healing range of both healers. All the healer bubbles (Asylum, Sacred Soil, and Earthly Star) work extremely well here because it can cover the entire area around the boss' hitbox and letting the Healers forgo using GCD healing.

Everyone is in healing range in the separate triangles. You can still throw soils, fairy, star, etc and everything provided the healer is in the boxes drawn on the platform.

[RyuSaarva]

Nobody can even agree here, how about you just do the startegy which the party leader decides and if it's not good enough for you then make your own party.

[relhsur]

Everyone is in healing range in the separate triangles. You can still throw soils, fairy, star, etc and everything provided the healer is in the boxes drawn on the platform.

Most pugs don't squish in that much in my experiences and with circle it's less healing needed because it's split 8-ways instead of 6-ways. I can't see any reason to favour triangle over circle unless you're a f-ing sadist towards your healers or just being lazy and don't wanna learn a new strat.

.. or you're a greedy BLM.....

[Enla]

Most pugs don't squish in that much in my experiences and with circle it's less healing needed because it's split 8-ways instead of 6-ways. I can't see any reason to favour triangle over circle unless you're a f-ing sadist towards your healers or just being lazy and don't wanna learn a new strat.

.. or you're a greedy BLM.....

This, circle is insanely easy to heal and as a SCH I sacrifice barely any uptime at all on the boss due to my oGCD's covering most of the healing.

[KageTokage]

It's funny how making mechanics more flexible actually can make them harder in PF due to there being multiple viable strategies as opposed to only one that really works.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Reminds me of O9S where people couldn't agree on DPS in, DPS out or line strat.

[Crushnight]

Wait until you reach E8S OP. :P

ilya/forsaken/bowtie for LR.
T N/E H S/W or T N/W H S/E.
HRTM/HTRM for adds.
Uptime/normal for mirror 4.
N -> S -> 3/4 or Relative for double ark rhais.

So many different ways and as a pug gotta try learning them all to increase the number of groups you can join.

[grinkdaboy]

ive had people fuck up triangle more often that i've had people fuck up circle

[Waliel]

As for the strats, we prefer triangle as circle means getting the main tank involved so that they have to take CL and a tank buster at the same time, which is just asking for trouble.

Well it did average 9k on one of our tanks.