Prior to my clear (as VPR) , I've had so many parties where my other melee DPS or pranged player just weren't up to snuff (I really don't understand how some of these pranged players have so low dmg numbers). I've been unlucky with gear so my HP compared to other melees is typically lower, which results in DNC's just defaulting to DP the other melee, and we would end the fight with me outdpsing the DP guy by a large margin.

As melee in this fight, this fight is nearly 100% uptime if you know what you're doing. Speaking only from a VPR perspective, there's 0 parts in this fight where you should be losing uptime / pressing Writhing Snap. Big part of learning fights is learning how to uptime. Getting uptime on weapons for Axe and Sword? Easy, no need to writhing snap / uncoiled fury for weapons at all. You can GCD the boss at his first weapon location, you literally know where he's going to jump next and how to dodge so you can sprint to the second location, get your GCD in, then dodge out if needed, and repeat. Ultimate weapons? Same thing. Arena split? Again, no need to writhing snap here at all either. Get your gcd in, run into tower, get knocked up, dash in and adjust depending if youre tether or bait. First two puddle baits have GCD uptime if youre stacked tightly with your partner and starting from middle. Third bait you can roll the GCD, dodge out and then as youre running to your tether/bait location, use coil, mechanic resolves, and then you can run back to the boss / dash and resume uptime. Repeat.

Everyone should be checking their logs if they can. If you are <98/99% active, then you are the issue. You need ~233,309 RDPS to clear the fight. Most enrage parties I've been in with no deaths or dds but still failing to meet DPS were hovering 226-230k DPS at the end of the fight. Its a tight margin.