Taming the Tempest (Hard)

[Kaeko]

Exactly right.

I also don't feel like this is a zerg exclusive to Black Mages. Our MNK a few days ago was putting numbers up nearly equal to our top Black Mage and this on his first and only try. A front line zerg would lose DPS during jumps but if geared properly I definitely see it being possible.

I think you're absolutely right here. It doesn't teleport during the 1:45 window you have to kill it in your "attack phase." This was the biggest issue for melee DD. I think if this is no longer an issue, a DRG or MNK ignore adds and going full Garuda could probably out-DPS BLM spam. I know our group isn't strong enough at melee spam to pull this off but I'd love to see another group with more melee expertise like BG try this. I know when we beat it first time copying you guys we cut it so close it actually teleported to the middle to Aerial Blast us and we killed with as it was readying with Thundara.