Carbuncle.Papesse said:
»RUN can boost Flaming Crush / Light Skillchains damage with Ignis Gambit and Armor Break with a great axe for Defense Down.
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Tried this setup with some friends yesterday, just three attempts on D, but it didn't work out. Maybe someone will help me understand what we were doing wrong. (granted after trying it I get a better idea of how the fight flows at least)
First 2 attempts setup:
RUN
NIN
SMN
BRD
GEO
WHM
Bubbles: Indi-Malaise, Geo-Frailty (BoG/EA), entrust Indi-Fury
DD Songs: Honor March (marcato), Blade Madrigal, Minuet 5, Scherzo
Mage songs: Ballad 3+2, Victory March, Scherzo
SMN buffs: Hastega2, Crystalline Blessing, Earthen Armor, Ifrit's Warcry, Ifrit Favor
Debuffs on Breadwinner: Dia2, Elegy, Nocturne, Silence, Slow, Requiem, Fire Threnody II
Flow of the fight:
After buffing the tank was pulling the Breadwinner to the corner, we would then proceed to debuff and place bubbles.
DDs would attempt Blade: Ten > Resolution > Flaming Crush SC.
This got *** up multiple times by the SMN not being ready. Wasn't his fault, there is a 22seconds cooldown after all.
Most of the time though the issue was Ifrit getting paralyzed or more often just killed.
Even when the SC went off the damage from Flaming Crush and subsequent light SC was nowhere as close as Papesse's.
Checked the SMN's gear and it's basically BiS in every slot except rings where he was using NQ Varar instead of HQ. So clearly gear wasn't the issue.
On these first 2 runs he was using Kusamochi+1 though.
We weren't using Armor Break (RUN didn't have Gaxe) and I'm not sure if he was using 3x Fire runes Gambit/Rayke.
Adds popped both attempts, got easily slept.
Us mages (except Idris) were standing away at around 21 yalms, but not sure that's useful at all, maybe we should stay close for Curagas. I mean after all the range of those Poison/Shock/Virus/Paralyze AoEs is like 25 yalms so what's the use in standing at 21?
Housemaker went for me (BRD) on first attempt, killing both WHM and the SMN thanks to his Earth-something move. I survived, huh?
Second attempt the Housekeeper went for me again. We survived no problem first time, then after a while it happened again and all us 3 mages died.
Third attempt was kinda the same, except NIN swapped to SAM, he was doing the first 2 steps of the SC alone (RUN focused on tanking) and he was of course landing Ageha beforehands.
This time I decided to stand away from the other mages, but of course the Housekeeper decided to go for the WHM instead of me (both WHM and SMN died)
Also SMN used Akamochi+1 instead of Kusamochi
Despite all these changes damage from Flaming Crush/Light SC was still kinda meh. Not bad, but not 90k+ either.
Also, WHM said he was struggling (probably because not everybody was in Curaga range) and he was using Misery instead of Solace for w/e reason. I know ***bout WHM don't ask me!