Didn't see this had existed yet.
As a change of pace for recent forum activity, this is a thread to mention a player/players who did something really awesome in the game or impressed you or helped or whatever. This is not a place for white-knighting the game with back handed compliments (Just goes to show how much better the FFXIV community is vs. WoW) or taking digs at stuff you think is flawed in the game (This person helped me get past XYZ, you know, that lazy *** design Yoshi P keeps using over and over). Keep that crap out. I'll go first.
This person:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/4468854/
Is the most badass tank I have ever DF with. We did Haukke Manor Hard in 19 minutes. I had no idea you could do it that fast. Maybe its because we had Blmx2 and I believe a Sch who was super on the ball with heals and dps'd at the right times but this guy/girl was a beast. First off, Axious pulled the first demon to the Manor Claviger room and had us AoE everything down (that actually is something I had never seen any tank do before ever). Additionally, before the first boss, Ax pulled the Warden and 3 imps to the Manor Sentry and we burned all that down. The boss was a total joke. However, the second floor was the most badass thing I had seen.
Ax pulled the entire floor up to the Manor Sentry room. Yes, all the side mobs, both Wardens and the 3 imps at the end. I have NO IDEA how Ax survived but it like, wasn't even hard, I don't think Ax dipped below 1k even and we were all freaking out and yelling awesome. I used a lot of expletives about how awesome it was. On the final floor, I don't even remember what was pulled where, I'm not sure it was the entire floor but you know, I wouldn't be surprised, I just remember that second floor because as soon as the healer materialized, Ax ran off and didn't stop until we were at the door.
Anyways, if this is a regular occurrence for HMH and I finally just got a good DF party, oh well, it was still awesome to see. No one since has done anything close and I've even mentioned pulling the Wailer to the first room and got blank stares like I was crazy. Pretty sure Ax got 3 recommendations that night lol. Shaving 15 mins off a run isn't necessarily earth shattering but well...it's almost HALF of what the run normally is so it was a thing of beauty.
Honorable Mention: There is a Blm out there (no name remembered sadly) who showed me as a Blm that you can still sleep and do lockouts on WP and the proper places to Flare and also LB, when I first started out during WP speed runs (having moved on from AK). That holds my best record ever for a speed run at 17 minutes.
Share your props.