(02-25-2014, 03:54 AM)synaesthetic Wrote:(02-24-2014, 12:33 PM)ExKage Wrote: Is this what I should be doing or should I be doing something more?
Wave 1:Â
Spam Fire II and Freeze on the bugs. Don't go crazy with Flare or you'll pull aggro.
Wave 2:
Kill soldiers one at a time with the other magic damage-dealer in the group. Don't touch the knights.
Wave 3: Burn cooldowns and open up on the dreadnought as soon as it eats the bugs. Make sure it dies ASAP, but don't pull aggro or you'll get a 3.5k cleave to the face.
Wave 4:
Burn down the rooks one at a time. Kill as many of the bugs as possible--don't AE them, just single-target one until it dies, then another until it dies. If you're quick and have good damage you can kill two or three of them.
Wave 5:
Use potions and any other available cooldowns and burn down the dreadnought. Once the DN reaches very low HP, watch your enmity list, but keep throwing fireballs at it until it dies.
Wave 6: Click the "new" (as in, the one that just spawned) Clockwork Soldier from the enmity list. Start spamming Scathe and Swiftcast Fire III to get it to chase you. Burn Sprint and kite it around. When the rook dies, pop Manawall and stop to kill it with your other mage. It'll hit you pretty hard so use Virus on it and burn it fast. Switch to the "old" soldier (the one that the OT started tanking/kiting in Wave 5) and kill it. Switch to the DN afterwards and start killing it.Â
Once the melee finishes with the knights, everyone stacks on the DN's butt to make healing easier if Emergency Override starts spamming AE damage on the party.
If this works for you, then it works, but it seems like a curious way to go about it. BLM's should not have to to worry about AOE thread in T4, on the off chance they crit too many aoes and pull the whole mass of mobs, the tank can cover them, and all is well.
As far as the kiting, having the BLM do it seems like a recipe for disaster, even with sprint, they pull you back towards them, and you'll only be about to do a fraction of your dps. A i80+ tank and healer can easily manage all four clockworks, and that way you would be losing DPS by having the best DPS class in the game running around kiting mobs.
