enough idiotic people stupidly complained that Rudra's Storm needed a nerf.. so because stupid people idioticly complained they proceeded to do as yall asked...
Nahh RS was broken, that fTP was way to high for a single hit WS on a job that can auto-crit it and close darkness. It's now about as powerful as other high tier WS's and slightly better at closing SC's due to SA/TA.
We've been organizing SC's and coordinating via Skype, thankfully most of our nukers are pretty good at hitting the MB for some pretty nice damage. Multi-step SC's have always been possible and nice, back in 04 and 05 we would bring 2 SAM/THF's to events and do the following with 2 PLD's and some BLMs.
SAM1 WS1: Tachi Gekko -> Meditate
SAM2 WS2: Tachi Yukikaze (Induration) -> Meditate
SAM1 WS2: SATA Tachi Gekko (Fragmentation)
SAM2 WS2: SATA Tachi Kasha (Light)
The final SC would do 2x the damage of the final WS and the chain of nukes that would MB shortly after would also produce a sh!t ton of damage. PLD on either side made it so that both of the final SATA's would stick all that hate and resulting SC hate onto them.
We stopped doing all that because with sufficient buffs you can WS spam something dead in a very short period of time. It becomes unmanageable to do SC's with any more then two DD's, you end up holding TP too much or stepping all over each others SC. We are only switching to it now because NMs are now so overpowered with every status ailment known, that you want the absolute minimum number of people in range or giving it TP.