In all honesty, it was both. After King used his Memento, I Divine Veiled and flashed and provoked him. I was able to keep him an about 4 of the other moogles on me but that was it. 3 jumped on the bard like he was a piece of red velvet cake. I hit sentinel and rampart hoping it would turn their bars from yellow to red (I was able to get the entire party in range with the rampart) but they didn't budge. Before flash was ready again, the brd went down. Then shortly afterwards I hit the ground because of the 4 moogles and the king.

The WHMs were doing their best but there is little you can do when an HP bar goes from full to dead so quickly. So I know it had to be something I missed or didn't do correctly.