I experienced what was likely the worst Antitower group I’ve ever found. So, most of you know I don’t do a lot of content. Lately, I’ve had to work almost 60 hour weeks, to the point where I worked non-stop in December from, well, the end of November to the 24th. And only recently has that gotten to a more reasonable schedule.
As such, I’m very, VERY undergeared. Geared enough to do Expert but not geared enough to randomly ignore hits - I have to rotate my cooldowns and some of them are very useless vs. certain monsters. (You can’t parry Fire but they sure can crit you if you’re not in the right position!)
So when I see, say, a AST do Painflare over and over and over again when I’m standing there at 3k HP silently praying this isn’t a stun-immune mob so I can get a 3 second respite that one of my cooldowns (and my self-heal) can get active, I’m not a fan.
When I see the Concussion debuff go down from 9 seconds to nothing while I have to eat a full Odious Croak (and a bubble because if I had positioned it so that I would be safe from the bubbles, one of the mages would need to move - considering I need things burst down fast I can’t do that, so gotta take the hit), I feel someone isn’t doing their job (and that’s… entirely way too common. Esuna/Leeches/whatever ASTs have, guys. If you’re healers you should know what these are!)
When I see a FROGGED MAGE refuse to move because “but muh leylines†taking Water Bombs to the dome rather than doing the frog dance, I get (reasonably) angry.
When I see the two Black Mages not move to the front to at least get some damage done on Calcabrena during Brace, I’m a bit iffy about their performance. When I see them KEEP CASTING REGARDLESS is when I start crying.
And when I see my health bar not moving because I already used my self-heals, after TWO Knockouts on Calcabrena, that’s when I conclude I hate everyone involved in this scenario. Them for the whole thing, myself for not eating the deserter debuff and noping out.
For real, if you don’t wanna heal, don’t queue as healer. If you don’t wanna move, queue as Tank. If you don’t wanna deal with these type of people…
Don’t queue at all.
In fact as soon as I get the Ifrit Chest Window that’s probably what I’m going to do. Midas sounds fun, but I don’t wanna deal with that shit.
As such, I’m very, VERY undergeared. Geared enough to do Expert but not geared enough to randomly ignore hits - I have to rotate my cooldowns and some of them are very useless vs. certain monsters. (You can’t parry Fire but they sure can crit you if you’re not in the right position!)
So when I see, say, a AST do Painflare over and over and over again when I’m standing there at 3k HP silently praying this isn’t a stun-immune mob so I can get a 3 second respite that one of my cooldowns (and my self-heal) can get active, I’m not a fan.
When I see the Concussion debuff go down from 9 seconds to nothing while I have to eat a full Odious Croak (and a bubble because if I had positioned it so that I would be safe from the bubbles, one of the mages would need to move - considering I need things burst down fast I can’t do that, so gotta take the hit), I feel someone isn’t doing their job (and that’s… entirely way too common. Esuna/Leeches/whatever ASTs have, guys. If you’re healers you should know what these are!)
When I see a FROGGED MAGE refuse to move because “but muh leylines†taking Water Bombs to the dome rather than doing the frog dance, I get (reasonably) angry.
When I see the two Black Mages not move to the front to at least get some damage done on Calcabrena during Brace, I’m a bit iffy about their performance. When I see them KEEP CASTING REGARDLESS is when I start crying.
And when I see my health bar not moving because I already used my self-heals, after TWO Knockouts on Calcabrena, that’s when I conclude I hate everyone involved in this scenario. Them for the whole thing, myself for not eating the deserter debuff and noping out.
For real, if you don’t wanna heal, don’t queue as healer. If you don’t wanna move, queue as Tank. If you don’t wanna deal with these type of people…
Don’t queue at all.
In fact as soon as I get the Ifrit Chest Window that’s probably what I’m going to do. Midas sounds fun, but I don’t wanna deal with that shit.
