(02-25-2014, 03:18 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote:Its also skill input, when I pugged coil for a bit I even saw i90 tanks losing hate to dps.. gotta factor that in as well. I tell my dps to never hold back in T4 because its a race lol but it does seem like you're workin around the tank though Aeri. o.o(02-25-2014, 02:59 PM)synaesthetic Wrote: I pull aggro off i80 tanks without even trying.Â
I do Wave 1 the way I do it because I want to save Quelling Strikes for the Wave 5 dreadnought.
Also the rest of your response shows that you're working purely with theory and not experience.
Additionally, BLM is not even close to the best single-target DPS in the game. We're behind MNK, DRG and SMN. My SMN is (slightly) lesser-geared than my BLM and has only 15 points into INT and yet they parse extremely closely.
Ahh, just saying I have i90 PLD and do T4 every week. I never have DPS pull mobs off me. I think your strategy is a work around for a tank that has low threat output. Like I said, if it works for you it works for you, but it just seems a rather convoluted way to go around it. Good tanks in T4 should have no problem with threat, regardless of the amount of dps, and since most groups wipe because of a lack of DPS, telling a new BLM to worry about threat is questionable advice. BLM should be worrying about maximizing DPS, kill orders, and when to use cooldowns, it's the tank's job to worry about threat, not theirs. If you are a BLM and you pull threat, don't sweat it, I'll cover you.
Just because I don't think your T4 strategy is universally applicable for all BLMs in all groups, doen't mean I "am working purely with theory and not experience".
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