| Re: TP Burn I've personally started referring to TP burn as "tardburn," because it basically boils down to the loss of skillchain and magic burst damage in favor of killing T or VT and hiding behind Utsusemi. It may be "efficient" in the minds of some, but beating on weak mobs is nothing to be proud of.
Worst part is it seems to make people function weakly in high level or just critical situations and that it is also very taxing on the sole mage you invite as main healer. These mobs might be weak and while people may go /NIN to think they're helping not become a MP sink, there are plenty of mob AoE and multi-hit attacks to wipe those shadows and turn them into an MP sponge anyway.
The best setup is still the balanced setup for most mobs, people just refuse to go the traditional route these days out of pure greed, the Sanction buff gives an EXP bonus and with Empress Band or Corsair's Roll factored in, people just look at the bottom line EXP rather than balanced PT mechanics now.
As a result, PLDs, SMNs and BLM suffer for invites when they honestly shouldn't and even with RNG quite un-nerfed, we still seem to go ignored. As RNG I can't even get a good BRD to play Minuet x2, I get March x2 or lolPrelude instead, which does nothing for me. I could have sworn BRD was supposed to play what was best for all melee and not what was best for the /NIN subbers.
People like to post high number chains from TP burn, but the fail to post current numbers now that TP burn is so common and camps are so crowded. Really, you could burn more efficiently on weapons in sky now, but no, we're gonna go Mamool Ja Staging point again with the nine other other PTs because some 75 BRD with a zillion merits never got sky. Thankfully, most MNK burns I get invited to still go to KRT and we usually have the place all to ourselves. |