Coulda used your WHM Et! So that run did not go as planned. First thing: I'm not upset, and nobody did anything wrong. When things start to circle the drain like that I do get cranky, but everything I say is to try to instruct people on how to proceed while keeping calm. So, I'm sorry if anyone took any offense to anything I said in the heat of the moment... nothing was intended as a personal criticism. It was a good effort by everyone, but just a couple of points to avoid problems in the future:
1. We'll make sure to dedicate more healing to our tanks. Along with this, SCHs in tank party should not have to worry about nukes and should be dedicated to Stoneskin and cures. Two WHMs, a RDM a BRD and a SCH should be more than enough to keep everyone up.
2. Less physical DDs. Sorry guys, I know manaburn is boring and everyone wants to come as a DD but I'm going to limit the number of physical DDs on Omega (or Ultima) to two max. A big part of why we were out of MP was that there were 6 people feeding TP AND eating every AOE they caused. Since we have a couple people with only DD jobs, that means nearly every member with a non-DD job is going to have to come as a mage/support/tank job to boss runs. It sucks, it's boring, but it's worth it to prevent losses in the future.
3. ALL casters and /NIN need echo drops for Omega. No exceptions.
4. Positioning is more important in this fight than many realize. The tanks did a great job with this, even with hate as wonky as it was. As you enter the battlefield, the mages should all be right between the pillars, with omega directly in front of them in the open area, out of AOE range, and the tanks holding the mob facing 90 degrees to the right or left. If a mage/DD pulls hate, run straight to the PLDs. You're not going to outrun Omega. Let the PLDs get hate back then everyone reposition. Spread-out mages and DDs make life really difficult for support members.
5. Slow DD at start. VERY SLOW. As I said in-fight, we're fighting the mob for 30 minutes regardless of how fast we're able to kill it. We had the mob down to 20% by 15 minutes in before things went real bad. That's actually ideal for pod farming, but we need to control that much better. That control will come from BLMs.
6. It wasn't as applicable tonight, but I'll still mention it because I did notice it. Free stuns help a LOT with keeping tanks up. We could have used more of them; use them liberally. I know it was tough tonight with so few stunners.
That's all I can think of atm. Any other thoughts/suggestions? As for what's up next: we have 3/4 Omega popset. I don't believe I was around when we did a repeat for a failed boss, but I'm OK with it if that's what you guys want to do. Any objections? Let me know.
Ruby
Sass
Redd
Chii
Heie
Dwo
Omar
Alexia
Yels
Ari
Kura
Losers
Nekio*
Varda*
THF > free
BRD > Sass
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