Dynamis Windurst.

[Shenrien]

our LS seems to have a bit of trouble with this Dynamis and I was
curious to know if their was an alternative way of doing things to cut
time.

our puller thinks we can skip the top half of the AH and only pull what would aggro when going for mega boss after its been spawned.

we sac pull the MNK NM and the SMN NM.

and before we go to the SMN house we take the path down to the time
extender.

last Dynamis Windurst we had, we had 10 minutes to kill the RDM NM
and then get to the Mega Boss.

during that run we had one of our strongest BLM go afk for about 20min
holding up the run. which means we could have had 30 minutes at the
end to do everything not rushed.

is their any suggestions you can throw at me :s

[Drex]

don't stop the entire run because of one person going afk

[Dammerung]

You give no relevant information about your linkshell composition, other than 1 BLM going afk ruined your night.

Get more BLM to control the stones? 1 BLM being afk shouldn't compromise the run.

Build proper DD parties and don't suck at killing things? If you are that low on time, your kill speed is pathetic or you are wiping constantly due to poor crowd control.

[Sephknight]

Made out of my head in 5min, hope it helps u,
is how i do it anyways.
took it of since it makes no sence aparently @.@

[Vedder]

Make no cent. That map, it make no cent.

[Day]

Do you have only 1 BLM?

1 BLM is enough for statues if they have a brain.

[Deband]

Awesome map LOL

[Zidiane]

5 or more blms make windy easy-peasy.

In all honesty if you've 30 people in dyna and you're not clearing theres major issues with your set up.

You could go the route to sac everything and get the clear but thats well, shit. Sometimes its clearier to clear a set of mobs rather then just chose to skip because having space to move and kill stuff really helps. Windy has little space. If you can get to a point you've a clear kite circle around windy bar the death house and smn house, you can just pull them all and kite them for ever around windy.

I'll pm you a guide I wrote for my Old ls.

[Sephknight]

ok =/ i tought was kinda simple , not like i expent more than 3min doing it ;;

[Shenrien]

Here's our usual setup.

Party 1 - Front Side
Drk
Blu
Blu
Mnk <- idk
Rdm
Whm

Party 2 - Front Side

Blm
Blm
Rdm (sometimes swapped out for a Blm if they show up </3)
Brd
Whm <- Curaga if Sleepga gets a chance to go off

Party 3 Front Side

Pld
Pld
Pld
Pld
Pld
Sch

Party 4 Back Side

Nin
Nin
Sam
Rdm
Rng
Sch

Party 5 Back Side

Rng
Blu
Rdm
Whm
Thf
Thf

:X our server lacks BLM and one of our's in our LS just recently
decied their gonna D.box another BLM for the LS because they apparently
have no life what so ever. ;

[Dammerung]

5 pld..

Yea you're killing way too slow which is your problem. I bring in like.. 1-2 PLD for cities/beauc, 2 on CoP and Xarc. They are there for NM and MNK mobs, and spamming Cure4 on me when I'm dying (vent is cool). PLD can toss a cure on your main sleeper(s) and then pop sentinel when they all wake up.. it works well.

[Minihex]

Ya 5 PLD is way too many for any zone. 2-3 would do ya fine in every zone and in if one of them is particularly good 1, with a solid war/nin to tank for the few minutes if EES goes off when is less than full etc happens.

Assuming at least 3 of your paladins can't job change into something else, You might wanna consider a setup like this:

Party 1:
PLD
PLD
SCH
RDM
PLD

Party 2

DRK
SAM
SAM
MNK
BRD
WHM

Party 3

NIN
BLU
NIN
MNK
RNG
RDM

Party 4
BLM
BLM
BLM
RDM/BLM
BLU
BLU

Party 5
RDM
WHM
THF
THF
RNG
RNG

A bard for blms is complete overkill, with that few blms only thing they really will be doing is handling statues and assisting on sleeps. Consider using 2 blus and your rdms for initial sleeps and first set of resleeps. For example RDM A. casts initial sleepga on pull, each rdm picks one mob to cast sleep 2 on and babysit.

This frees up your bard to be in a melee party, which has a significant impact on your kill speed. If you can add melee or support jobs it would be ideal in your situation. BRDs and CORs are a melee's best friends. Another thing is assign one blue mage to just frightful roar and infrasonics every mob. Both of these spells should consistently stick on dynamis mobs with standard gear, and it'll up your kill speed considerably. Blue mages spamming tp spells in dynamis is never a good thing.

Minihex

[Eldelphia]

A bard for blms is complete overkill, with that few blms only thing they really will be doing is handling statues and assisting on sleeps. Consider using 2 blus and your rdms for initial sleeps and first set of resleeps. For example RDM A. casts initial sleepga on pull, each rdm picks one mob to cast sleep 2 on and babysit.

This frees up your bard to be in a melee party, which has a significant impact on your kill speed. If you can add melee or support jobs it would be ideal in your situation. BRDs and CORs are a melee's best friends. Another thing is assign one blue mage to just frightful roar and infrasonics every mob. Both of these spells should consistently stick on dynamis mobs with standard gear, and it'll up your kill speed considerably. Blue mages spamming tp spells in dynamis is never a good thing.

Minihex

Whilst I agree they need more damage and so the BRD is best placed in DD party a BRD (or better still a COR) isn't a bad idea for a BLM party. If nothing else it stops the RDM going nuts.

To the op, you don't need that many PLD. You need another BLM and some more melee. You can do it with 3 BLM as long as they're competant but 4 or 5 would be better.

Don't have tanks voking slept mobs, just have one tank to pull the mobs back to the melee and one to tank them on the way in. As you get more confidant, you can have 2 alliances with two pulls going on at once.

So you'd have a tank party with for example PLD, NIN, WHM, RDM + others in each alliance and at least one DD party associated with each tank party. BLMS can be separate or you can have them join one of your alliances.

With the jobs you mentioned something like this

PLD
NIN
RDM
WHM
Blu
Mnk

PLD
NIN
RDM
WHM
Blu
Rng

Sam
Rng
Drk
Sch
Brd
Thf

BLM Party

Rdm
Rdm
Blm
Blm
Sch

Leaving

Pld
Pld
Pld
Whm
Blu
Thf

Then convert your three remaining PLDs to something else. I'd try and get another BRD from somewhere if poss and another BLM. So if you could rejig your jobs a bit you'd do a lot better.

[Shenrien]

alright, now I just have a question about the AH Pulls.

Do you need to pull everything in the AH area? or just the lower AH area and then start to move north, cause if we could avoid the top half of the AH
I know that would save us 10 - 20 minutes.

[Dammerung]

Yes you can skip it. Just need to get the time from AH.

[Shenrien]

Last night for our Bastok run we had a Cor giving the BLM Envoker's Roll
and Wizards Roll. and, our strongest BLM was able to 1 shot the statues
with Burst 2 on Lightsday, and that's not exactly the biggest increase in
power as she usually takes down the stats 70 - 80% with Burst 2

I'll let the others know when we do windurst that we can skip the AH and
we only go for the time, and hopfuly we clear this time ^^ This being our
second attempt at windurst.

Thanks for all the help so far!

[Dammerung]

Stop nuking stones with AM2. Waste of MP.

[Ultimagi]

Usually the time extensions are weaker and easily die to 1 Freeze II. For normal statues though, it is better to kill them with 2 or 3 Blizzard IV to conserve MP. Any time the Black Mages don't have to spend resting, they can be sleeping, stunning, dispelling, nuking out Perfect Dodge and Invincible, and making Monks waste their Hundred Fists. Also, in my experience, using sacrifice pulls is slow and messy, and easily causes a wipe if anyone screws up. For any of the larger pulls in Dynamis - Windurst, you can usually cut the amount of enemies in half by having the Black Mages kill the statues before pulling, separating the enemies that spawn into multiple pulls.