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Yeah for RMNM it's hard for people even when they've read guides apparently. But I feel ya. I read your LKHM post and good lord, that is one dungeon I would never IMS. It's just not fun to tank if your dps don't know what they're doing. I know so many DPS who love that dungeon and so many tanks who hate it because the first two bosses place the bulk of the responsibility on the support. Puddle placement at second boss is just the worst when you get a bunch of melee dps who don't want to stop dpsing for two seconds to do the mechanic. I've had runs where I've tanked so well that the candlespider's not even moved from the center, but thanks to people placing puddles right on top of the boss I've basically spun it in a circle until there's nowhere left to run, and that's frustrating because then I have to try and move it while hoping it doesn't just hop to the other side of the room. Then when I'm trying to move it so the dps can stop attacking in a puddle of [filtered], I see someone pop a brooch and I want to [filtered] scream. I only lfg'd that place once and that was enough.
SI SE PUEDE, VAMOOOOOOOOOOS lmao I died laughing at this, thank you, your artful collage was cherry on top
I used to be in a static party. But now, I try to avoid it as much as possible. I do have 2-3 friends I regularly party with, but I mostly utilize LFG or IMS to run Hard Modes (For RMHM, I don't use IMS, but use LFG. For all other Hard Modes, I use IMS/LFG). There are times when IMS parties or even some LFG parties can't clear the dungeon and YES, at times, it can be frustrating, but if we DO clear the dungeon after some wipes or even if we don't clear, I still get some sense of achievement from it - even from just helping the new/unskilled players.
On several occasions, I had the opportunity to pull 1 person out of his usual static and run the same dungeon with a completely new party. What surprises me is that often that person does NOT do really well in the new party and this is especially true for healers. When you always play in the static party, you are used to the same party composition, same playing styles of your party members and the benefits of voice chat system. Because static parties tend to kill the boss fairly quickly, some members do not really experience the mechanics long enough to actually "master" the dungeon. And if they are put in a PuG party all of a sudden, they can't adjust to the new party composition and possibly longer boss fights. Someone even told me that he didn't know certain boss did such and such mechanics because he's never seen the boss do it in his static party. That person simply blamed others for the failure and went back to his static party.
You may learn the dungeon and get better in it by playing with close friends and guild, but you truly master the dungeon by playing with PuGs. Play with unskilled players who die often and can't burn down the boss quickly enough. Wipe over and over until the party eventually clears or simply quit. In the process, you may find some cool tricks or you may find better ways to avoid certain mechanics. At the same time, you have the chance to teach some unskilled players. After that, you go back to your usual static and you'd be surprised just how much easier the run is. You will be much more skilled than people just playing in their comfort zone.
Again, nothing against statics. If you are busy and only have a couple hours to play, then by all means, find good friends and guild for fast and reliable runs. But if you find your static runs boring, then try some pugs once in a while and more importantly, have some patience.
Uh isn't KC soloable even in entry gear? ._. (Minus the fact you actually have to get 5 people to enter the instance)
When you've had a 30 minute fight with a boss that shouldn't take more than 5 minutes, you'll realise PUGs aren't nearly as much fun for healers as you seem to think. It's absurdly boring as all you can do is press your 2-3 buttons and stare at the boss's hp as it goes down by 2-3% every minute, wishing you could get your dps gear out of the pet without everyone in the party dying because you stopped pressing that 1 button for 5 seconds.
It is indeed horribly boring as a healer.
I swear I hit that crystal even on a healer lol.
Guys don't know how much damage they are missing on XD.
Funny thing is, most don't hit the crystals because it would 'slow down the run' since they'd have to stop somewhere for a couple of seconds, ignoring the damage increase.
Oh, that's right, they do do that a lot. When I was levelling up my Brawler, I spent half the gated fights sitting outside with another (not always the healer) because those idiots started without the whole group, so I had to watch as the players got killed almost every time.
I just finished leveling a lancer...seriously the things you encounter queuing dungeons in lower levels. I had to show a Mystic how to use heals, motes, and their resurrection skill after they spent the whole time spamming their basic attack. Everyone was dead except me.
I remember when i was on Priest and they started without me...they all wiped and spammed in chat for me to use the teleportal, so i pretended I was afk.
Reminds me of the time I was on gunner and doing Golden Labyrinth and the mystic didn't heal or cleanse the tank or the other dps during 1st boss and just dropped mana motes only.
On my first time running through that (Slayer) I hit a random crystal each time assuming they did something but not knowing what (Everyone ignored them, so I figured me taking them wasn't a problem). Good to know I was right to hit them, bad to know (after a quick google search) that I had hit the MP one on all but one set.