I have long pondered since voidwatch came out the best possible way to organize an alliance to ensure maximum lights every fight, while maximizing kill speed and kill consistency. What I'm trying to say is, i guess, and as to the purpose of this post, is what have you all done to work in this easily overbearing event?
I think, if we are killing something very easy like voidwrought, any Jeuno T1 or T2, or even some zilart NMs, the best alliance is this for maximizing lights:
Pld
Pld
Whm
Sch
Brd
War
Blm
Smn
Blu
cor/brd
blm
rdm
cor
nin OR WHM
sam
drg OR WHM
pup/mnk
drk
That alliance is pretty much self explanitory. With kaggen's regain atma, the save tp +20 atma, and cor giving tp, procing blue lights with melee is all but too easy. They can even stay out of the aoe range! (Lol thats the point!) The Nin, blu, and blm, cover all the red procs (even if the blue has to reset spells every minute for the HQ lights), and the smn's for the bloodpact specific abilities. The pup/mnk allows for chi blast, and all hand to hand but ascetics fury and asuran fists (and if you bring a mnk you loose strining pummel!) so it's net loss of 1 h2h WS, but the net gain of all the pup procs.
However, i have found that on some NMs, maximizing lights just isn't good enough nor safe enough. Kaggen is deemed relatively easy, but it can go wrong in some poorly timed situations and bad luck. When it chooses to jump up and down, for example, 20 fucking times in a row. Thats an exaggeration, of course, but i can't explain how much a jumping mantis pisses me off. So in light of this, and especially with the case of pil, i tend to use an alliance set up like this...
pld
pld OR WAR
whm OR NIN
whm
rdm OR WAR OR NIN
brd
cor
blm
blm
blm
brd
smn
cor
smn
smn
blm
blm
smn
This is probably the most "well we're gonna kill it at least, god damn it" as you can get. The tank party usually only needs 1 PLD, (ochain for kaggen, aegis for pil), and usually it dosent matter what you have on kirin wanna be, since ochain and aegis perform similarly on him. (and i believe melee jobs work just as well on him.)
I am humbly asking for your thoughts and opinions, as to what the "perfect" voidwatch set up is for the extremely difficult fights. and yes, before someone comes in here and trolls and says pil is super easy, good for you.
ib4:
pil is easy
who cares about voidwatch
ps2 limitations
smn sucks
only red light matters
lol
battlefield 3 came out today
Thank you very much :)