(05-13-2016, 03:37 PM)McBeef© Wrote: [ -> ]I don't know.Â
My static went into A8s blind last night for the most part. It's kind of fun seeing random symbols and buffs pop up and everyone runs around screaming.
I do think that if you want to go in blind, you should use a party finder and let people know that. It's a jerk move to blindside people with your non-guidewatching. Nothing worse than PFs where people lie about their experience level.
Yeah, exactly. Hilarious panicked flailing when you're all in consensus is one thing, and "Hi people I don't know, I don't want to learn anything and you can't make me, now let's go do the fight," is another.
It is a jerk move.
Uplander Doom continues to be the bane of my existence. Its never actually ended a raid, but it's a thorn in my side because usually one of a couple things happens:
1. The tank refuses to swap and I die.
2. The healer cannot keep up with the damage output, regardless of my using CDs.
It just annoys the shit out of me that people cannot get with it and properly do the mechanic.
(05-13-2016, 03:52 PM)Edgar Wrote: [ -> ]Uplander Doom continues to be the bane of my existence. Its never actually ended a raid, but it's a thorn in my side because usually one of a couple things happens:
1. The tank refuses to swap and I die.
2. The healer cannot keep up with the damage output, regardless of my using CDs.
It just annoys the shit out of me that people cannot get with it and properly do the mechanic.
You can solo tanku it.
I even solo tank most of them in savage. Of course we have really good healers so ymmv.
So I'm on a8s, and we tried like 5 different strategies other people proposed to handle litigation.Â
It's this sort of complicated thing where everyone gets a different number and has to do things based on their numbers.
Then eventually we just made our own strategy, and used that.Â
Feels cool.
So I have decided to ditchÂ
Sephirot Extreme and instead try out the new shiny trials..And after a few nights of trying I got to see last phase of Nidhogg last night. I was in a party with people who raid regularly, and it was a new experience - different than just pugging it with a casual study group, people called me out when i was messing up with my rotation, called each other out and constantly was on top of it, for half of the time, I was staring at the screen so hard that my neck was hurting just from that - it was interesting, intense, a little scary for the first...10min, we were on discord but I could only listen, and I had my microphone turned off - because otherwise I thought i might explode or crack under the "pressure".Â
But at the end I have to admit it was a /lot/ of fun. And it got much less scary once you get used to the pace. Take it as a baby step further. Yay!
(06-22-2016, 01:52 PM)Sukaaretto Ueno Wrote: [ -> ]So I have decided to ditch Sephirot Extreme and instead try out the new shiny trials..And after a few nights of trying I got to see last phase of Nidhogg last night. I was in a party with people who raid regularly, and it was a new experience - different than just pugging it with a casual study group, people called me out when i was messing up with my rotation, called each other out and constantly was on top of it, for half of the time, I was staring at the screen so hard that my neck was hurting just from that - it was interesting, intense, a little scary for the first...10min, we were on discord but I could only listen, and I had my microphone turned off - because otherwise I thought i might explode or crack under the "pressure".Â
But at the end I have to admit it was a /lot/ of fun. And it got much less scary once you get used to the pace. Take it as a baby step further. Yay!
It is definitely a different mindset. Often in Pugs people are loathe to call out the mistakes of others, because no one wants to be the 'Bad Guy' also people are disposable. If they're fucking up it's easier to just kick them from the party.
When you get to more formal groups, and the more close-knit endgame community, people do call you out, because they need you to get better. It's not to make you feel bad, it's to make you improve, and if you don't want to improve, why are you there?
That's the logic I think at least, though it can be a little jarring the first time you're seeing it. Pugs are usually deathly silent on wipes, whereas statics often discuss what caused each one.