Kirin Burn... How does it fail.

How, exactly, does a Kirin burn fail?

Let me list the ways, in order of how badly it fucks things up.

1: 2 gimpass BRDs who can't be arsed to properly merit and gear their damn job.
2: A BLM in the kill alliance.
3: A SMN in the kill alliance.

Had 25+ people show up for Kirin tonight, and somehow managed to cock it up at the end because 2 of the 3 BRDs didn't have fuckall for merits in Nightingale OR Troubadour, leading the oh-so-necessary songs to fall off about a minute and a half into the fight. This fight is supposed to last less than 3 minutes, to not allow Kirin any time to summon the mini-gods. Well, since the BRDs didn't feel like doing their goddamn jobs enough to merit them, we ended up wiping with Kirin at ~8% after he summoned Byakko.

If you don't have a properly merited and geared job for a Kirin burn. Don't fucking show up. I'm all for diverse strategies and making sure everyone has an equal shot at gear they want, but if all you have leveled to 75 is BLM, don't fucking show up and expect to do a damn thing. Your spot is better used for another melee DD that can do more than 50 damage every 15 seconds.

Also: To any BRDs out there. Merit Troubadour and Nightingale TOGETHER. They go hand-in-hand. One doubles the duration of all songs sung in the duration at the cost of 1.5 times the cast time and recast time. The other? Halves the casting and recast times with no penalty to duration or song potency. There is a REASON BRDs use Soul Voice, Nightingale and Troubadour TOGETHER when in a BRD rotation for any sort of TP zerg fight.