...so I finally got off my ass and studied mHMS a bit this morning. Then decided to actually do my usual notes and stuff tonight, and found myself thinking that it seemed pretty straightforward? Granted, as HLowen, so no worrying about baiting (or at least: I was not going to let anyone put that responsibility on me this first time), but the attack patterns didn't seem that bad beyond Gales, and I was hopeful we'd break at good times and all that given Marth/Mars/chains/etc. So I decided to just try a few times before I called it and left it for tomorrow.
And so I almost cleared my first time, in a normal team comp (Euden/Emma/Xania) in a pub room, maybe 1/5 of his HP left. Totally fucked up and missed FSing after the first Strike, of all things, wasting my revive when I couldn't heal myself in time for stack+chasers; that probably cost us the run since I couldn't heal to salvage things after the second Gales went poorly and everyone else revived. But in only about 30 minutes of trying other groups I ended up in one team (Marth/Sarisse/Xania) that cleared on its first try (though I think I recognized some of the names already, hah). It was messy as hell - Sarisse's Strike caught me when I didn't notice she'd stayed near the top, I was slow to shift before break so PSiren's buff wasn't doing nearly as much as it could've, and we all hesitated during second Gales and shifted poorly and wiped the team, so... a few mistakes later, literally only Marth was alive at the end. But. It cleared!
So I may have 0 endeavors on mHMS... but a clear is a clear, I've Surpassed the Elements, and I can make any wind HD2 for Agito if needed. I still have mixed feelings about endgame difficulty currently, so we'll see how this Agito affects that, but I can at least agree that it is sometimes nice to clear an endgame thing within 30 minutes and not within multiple sessions across multiple nights.