Wife went to do some command missions to raise her Grand Company level - been casually playing for only a couple months. A lv60 BLM equipped with all lv60 Allagan gear to match, and all class quests up to date. She settled on Brayflox's Longstop (Hard). All was fine until she hit a snag on last boss, and her squadron being dumb as a brick. A few wipes later, asked me to do it on her char. No go. I too couldn't make it. Thought it could be her squadron not being too buffed, so I attempted with my toon. I have "some" experience in the game, playing for the past years since late ARR/pre HW, all jobs on lvl90 (or lv70 for BLU *sadface*), done almost all the game has to offer, including my feet wet on Dragonsong's Reprise Ultimate.

I could not believe how stupid the squadron is on this particular encounter. No matter how I change their tactics or combinations, they are less useful than paper weights. The tank NPC keeps running like an idiot, chasing the un-targetful boss, while bombs are on the ground - regardless of me spamming the attack command button on a particular bomb. Then the reaction time of the remaining NPCs whenever called to retreat by my location: most of the time, the other DPS is dead during first bombing explosion, with the healer down by the second set.

With me as a tank, it is doable - mostly because I have an easier time to give quick hits into bombs to make one safer (yet run-over prone) corner faster than to blow up one of the bombs as I had to do as a BLM.

Could anyone care to post a video of such run, as a BLM, achieving success? All I found were either 2+ year old videos and the recent ones from healers or tank perspectives.

I recall this dungeon as CM being annoying, but after the dungeon was revamped on recent patches, I have my doubts Square-Enix cared to play it at all.