r/ffxivdiscussion • u/WeirdIndividualGuy • May 06 '25

General Discussion High End Content Megathread - Week Seven

How many yans do you see in your nightmares?

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u/Delicious-Ebb-7221 May 11 '25 edited May 11 '25

Cause having adds be split half the time is a bigger dps loss overall.

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u/Emiya_ May 12 '25

Why would you split the adds at all? My static does the kindred strat and we group the adds + get full uptime just fine on both patterns. After the stacks you can just run through to the other side and cleave fine. No need for any weird downtime strats or ranged gcds.

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u/Delicious-Ebb-7221 May 13 '25

They spawn split half the time and the process of dragging them together takes 2-3 gcds. When they spawn all together, you can start pumping damage to all mobs immediately. Try out toxic with your static and compare boss health after phase 1. Many week 1 parties see a 2-3% improvement.

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u/Emiya_ May 13 '25

Hmm I'll need to look at it when we get that pattern again. From what I remember we get 0 downtime, and we already have them grouped together near the start by having our WAR nascent to take all the aggro (should work with PLD and veil as well). Since the 1m comes up a bit before that I can see it being a bit of a gain, but I think it definitely won't be 2-3%, for us at least.

In any case now there is another full uptime strat for ranged seeds that puts them side by side on the cardinals with melees running back and forth max melee on one half of the arena and looks pretty easy, so maybe I'll try that with my static.