First video is an interesting combination to keep in mind for future use, especially if you can't find a full party to run with. I'm wondering if they had reforges for the wire pull or if its just the rank/title? I've only done npc with lower rank puppet skills, so I have no idea what the extent of the reach is with rank 1 only.
As far as the second video goes, they're basically doing what I summarized above except they're making use of the crash shot--->lance switch, to get the penetrating effect. It's to my understanding that, that has been patched in NA.
Maybe sometime this week, I'll record a full run of NPC with my guild mates, rather than just compiling clips of some casual runs to demonstrate the tactic. Might try out some stuff with flame burst and mage as well, looks like fun x] we have quite a few flamebursters/rank1 blaze people. Wonder what it would be like with a party of 6.
I would also like to add on, it'd be nice if people could start to share some NA videos. It's hard to really judge how viable tactics shown in foreign servers are, considering japan and Taiwan both have exclusive content, especially with crazy enchants from gacha. Not only that but if you watch closely in the first video, their aggro is considerably slower than that of Alexina server. Also nice to be able to ask questions about the video, as far as reforges and other things go, which is something you can't really get from watching foreign players. They do offer some great constructive ideas, but I really want to see things put into action on our server, not just what foreign players can accomplish.
Jovo-sama always said that North America has the fastest aggro of all the servers. So in terms of response, the best NA players are probably better than foreign players in terms of aggro management.