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RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Kage - 12-23-2014
[youtube]2DxS7eT_ky4[/youtube]
Note the "use your biggest heal spells all the time" [on yourself]
I AM YOUR GOD.
/jk
plswarrensenpaistawpit.
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Hiro - 12-23-2014
Breaking dungeon monotony? You mean circle/tornado/spin tanking? Guilty.
Ran my two friends who both decided they would role twin MNK's for PVE and RP through low level dungeons for a day... let's just say that half way through the day they were lucky to get proper positioning. Sure it made the dungeons longer but I was amused. Very amused.
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Warren Castille - 12-23-2014
(12-23-2014, 02:06 PM)Hiro Wrote: Breaking dungeon monotony? You mean circle/tornado/spin tanking? Guilty.
Ran my two friends who both decided they would role twin MNK's for PVE and RP through low level dungeons for a day... let's just say that half way through the day they were lucky to get proper positioning. Sure it made the dungeons longer but I was amused. Very amused.
"Sorry guys, my D keeps malfunctioning. Good thing I'm locked on!"
Talk to your doctor if your D malfunctions for more than four hours per session.
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - FreelanceWizard - 12-23-2014
I, uh, am guilty of pulling the adds in ST on Glasya and Scylla. I raise shields (Manaward and Manawall) and hit the add with everything I've got so I can ensure it's in a safe spot and dies quick. However, I fully expect to tank it when I do that.
In my defense, this is a behavior honed from questionable tanks who fail to position the mob (nothing like the tank dragging the clockwork knight back to the center, despite everyone yelling "don't do that," and wiping the raid), ignore the add entirely (hi Oceanus, I sure would like it if you murdered the healers), or raid MTs who inexplicably stay on the add as Scylla comes by and decides to turn the rest of the group into goo.
ST. *shakes fist*
The most dangerous enemy in ST is your fellow players.
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Jana - 12-23-2014
(12-23-2014, 08:41 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: That said, it's maddening to run things as DPS anymore. WHY ARE OTHER TANKS SO SLOW WHY ARE YOU STOPPING WHY DID YOU ONLY PULL ONE PACK WHAT YEAR IS THIS
This is Qarn HM, not Tam-Tara! It does remind me of a particular Qarn HM run though... The tank was pulling one at a time, but as soon as I voiced that the NIN and I were geared and could take more, the tank pulled more. He probably didn't trust our pug DPS, the way we didn't trust his pug tanking!
That said, I loved chainpulling while leveling WAR in low-level dungeons. Definitely made it fun for everyone else... Even the healer, despite early protests...
And as a DPS, I'll totally rag on other melee DPS who don't know their proper rotations by the time they're doing Expert roulette dungeons, and on pretty much anyone who doesn't weave their off-gcd skills!
(12-23-2014, 10:08 AM)Gegenji Wrote: Haha, yeah. I've had some help from the Friends of Momodi LS with some of the runs. A good portion of Saturday's runs were with another tank and a tank and a DPS. The blade just decided to make itself scarce. I swear, we saw, like, four axes and at least six mogfists.
I started as PLD and when the blade didn't drop after 4 axes, I went WAR. Guess who got an axe within 3 runs? Still though, F R E E S O L D I E R Y
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Gegenji - 12-23-2014
(12-23-2014, 02:18 PM)Jana Wrote:(12-23-2014, 10:08 AM)Gegenji Wrote: Haha, yeah. I've had some help from the Friends of Momodi LS with some of the runs. A good portion of Saturday's runs were with another tank and a tank and a DPS. The blade just decided to make itself scarce. I swear, we saw, like, four axes and at least six mogfists.
I started as PLD and when the blade didn't drop after 4 axes, I went WAR. Guess who got an axe within 3 runs? Still though, F R E E S O L D I E R Y
I should just try to complete the set at this rate. Will probably get the sword last, too. But then I won't have to worry about any more Moogle-weapons until the expansion hits.
...
...
D-do you think there'll be a mooglegun? I want a mooglegun.
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Kage - 12-23-2014
Oh ST
We have tanks. Some offtanks... please take the adds so the black mage or healers don't die. Sincerely... healer and or black mage.
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Gegenji - 12-23-2014
Oh ST.
I like when I get into aggro fights over the boss or another big mob with another tank. I went in and grabbed it, and suddenly it's lashing back and forth because one of the other tanks decided "no, I want it!" It's the best when it's one of the dragons and the bouncing back and forth causes the dragon to spew its breath weapon at the rest of the alliance.
The previous paragraph was 100% sarcastic.
Usually, if I'm dealing with a Big Man on Campus like that, I just switch to Sword Oath and DPS until there's adds that need tanking. It just gets awkward if they die to stupid and then I have the boss marching over to say hi and I have to get it back to where it should be.
... And then the freshly rezzed Big Man tries to yank it off me again.
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Jana - 12-23-2014
My only complaints on ST are when people make it take longer than it should by messing up the already-simple mechanics and wiping. I usually go as BRD so I can braindead DPS everything since it's so long...
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Kage - 12-23-2014
I stopped doing ST once I started to farm T7 and T8.
Which I want to do more of cause I need sands for my alt gear for MNK and stuff.
But oh man...
"please stand in the purple aoe on Xande so we split the damage when it pops."
"please notice alliance A gets more Ice orbs than fire orbs. particularly our healers."
"please stop hitting glasya when all the adds aren't chained. did you notice that your lightning/dot/FLARE got reflected back to you? ... no?"
"just... please."
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Gegenji - 12-23-2014
(12-23-2014, 02:50 PM)Kage Wrote: "please stop hitting glasya when all the adds aren't chained. did you notice that your lightning/dot/FLARE got reflected back to you? ... no?"
... That's a thing?
I always just moved to the adds to activate the jumper pads so we don't die. I didn't even know he puts up a reflective shield.
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Kage - 12-23-2014
So I actually didn't know about that mechanic until a few months ago but yeah.
Once the adds drop down, Glasya will reflect -everything-. He'll only stop once the teleporters come online.
So yes, you can DPS Glasya until he dies before that phase but it would allow your healers to have one dps the adds (quicker!) while the other heals the tanker.
Then everyone can and should go to town on glasya before teleport phase.
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - FreelanceWizard - 12-23-2014
Yeah, the only reason I do ST is for Sands and Oil, because I don't do Coil. (Even I have my limits to what I'm willing to DF, and yeah, still haven't cleared T5 yet.) I have almost full sets of everything that drops in ST from that.
A lot of people don't know about the Glasya reflect shield. That can result in serious comedy when one alliance drops their clockwork before the other two do...
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Kage - 12-23-2014
After explaining the mechanic and see black mages still targeting them... I may have let them die to ticking dots after their flares.
May have.
seriously. You people. if people let me know they're free on Saturdays, there are people rawring to help and get soldiery for you.
The people I know both will try to explain the mechanics and it won't totally feel like you were dragged through. Will it be a carry? Well, it does sorta depend on how much you die to the mechanics. But they won't make you feel dumb. They don't care about too many wipes. Seriously, we don't. People ran for like 13 hours of both people who just couldn't clear or learned T9 for soldiery. I'm not kidding when I say that 23 people got t9 clears and 1 person got T5.
The next day that same person got all the enhancement items while they cleared T6-T9. It was a two-shot.
I now outdps Twintania. >.>;
and seriously you could farm T7 so much faster and easier for sands and oils.
RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales - Fates Skein - 12-23-2014
Haukke Manor. Â NM. Â Low level roulette. Â I'm running as a WHM, barely high enough level for it. Â With two NIN in AF gear and a tank that judging by health was level 40-45 or so paladin. Â We start off, things go fairly well...until the ninjas suddenly go hidden and -vanish-, taking off down that main hallway. Â I ask tank, "What are they doing?" Â Tank, "Idk". Â We wait a few moments, get a notification that the first boss room is closing in 15 sec.
First boss room closes.
I lol at first, thinking it was an accident.
NOPE
The ninjas proceed to race through all of HM in hidden, pull the ENTIRE DUNGEON to the last room, then tell tank and I to 'hurry the f* up' and kill the last boss. Â They die, dungeon munches tank and my faces. Â I ask 'wtf are you doing?'
And get this response, word for word
Nin A: tears
Nin B: speed run bruh
I tell them we're not geared for a speed run, just go at the pace the tank was setting, got called a variety of names, attempted to vote abandon, they declined, told me to suck it. Â I attempted to vote kick one of the nins, was told to suck it. Â I finally told them to vote kick me, because i wasn't taking a penalty for their dickery.
Nins said no.
I got up and made dinner.
Came back and was no longer in the dungeon. Â Queued back up and had a fantastic, easy run with nice people. Â Happy ending.