Mnk in Salvage

[HealingVision02]

I have just started doing Salvage with my static and we're doing pretty decently, but we're a little heavy on melee. From the posts that I've been reading, it seems like the best way to take bosses is to just have a couple MNK on them to tank and have people heal them. I know that this is probably the best way but I would feel a little bad not letting my other DD engage on boss fights. With a group of about 9-12 people, is there any way to take bosses without them being solo tanked? What about LAC that uses Brainjack a lot? How many BLM do statics usually take to provide supplementary damage, or do they just have a MNK solo DD the whole thing? Maybe having DD/SAM would allow melee to be able to participate more? Thanks in advance.

[cdgreg]

I know that this is probably the best way but I would feel a little bad not letting my other DD engage on boss fights.

If they'd rather die/lose than sit out for 15 out of 100 minutes on a boss run your members have their priorities in the wrong order. If they really *need* to help have them sub whm, eat a rolanberry pie and goto town curing. Great replies though I'm looking forward to Elipse trying out some of these sets on our runs. Lastly I'm short on time Healingvision so I can't really answer your other specific questions, but check out the Events Strategies forum here on BG and look for the topics titled "Salvage - Silver Sea Remnants - thread 2", "Salvage - Bhaflau Remnants - thread2", etc. Some of them are quite lengthy but well worth the reads and will answer most of your questions :D