this is what im doing
i get into the group
i say
i phero 1st
then someone says 2nd
then someone flares
then the 4th person chooses between destr or coro
easy chill runs
use it if you want they speed it along a little bit but really only flare phero phero coro is needed.
The issue is NA is selfish as hell and don’t want to call out people who refuse to use battle items because apparently everyone chipping in for the greater good of the run is trampling on freedom or something.
The expectation is someone Pharo’s so he doesn’t leave and beyond that it really doesn’t matter.
Phase 1 might take an extra minute if everyone decides to save corro / dest for Lost Ark 2
Typically when I join into a MM turtle I just say Pharo 1, which usually convinces someone else to Pharo 2. Beyond that it doesn’t matter.
There is no expectation based on party number. It’s never going to happen. More often than not people don’t even look at party numbers. They just call it out in chat.
Like any guardian, phero for MM. No one really follows any sort of set party order in MM, so worrying about it is pointless. The moment you switch out phero for destruction, no one will phero, and you will waste more time then what you would have saved on armor break.
Most of time people will type it out before they encounter the boss to prevent wasting battle items.
Some people will not throw battle items having either excuse of “I don’t have battle items on my alt” or “saving for Lost Ark 2”.
If I’m doing MM I will use at least one battle item either flare or phero but if no one else wants to use them, they can walk.
Much safer way is to join lobbies with battle item orders but I have seen people not using pheros/corros despite joining these lobbies.
Just do the guardian two times. It’s a choice to use it or not to use it. I don’t use battle items on the turtle because it’s daily content done everyday. I’m too poor to afford battle items and use it so I just drag down the kill timer twice a day. After that I call it a day and repeat again tomorrow.