That first boss of Qarn...
I've literally never had a smooth run of it, even in friend groups. So when I'm rouletting and it pops up, I always strap myself in for a bit of a ride. This particular group, I was in as SCH. We got through the first doom + wasps without incident. Unfortunately, the second instance of both popped at the same time - and through no fault of their own, both DPS were so busy removing their doom debuffs that they didn't notice the wasps until it was too late.
Wasp #1 takes out the tank, and #2 takes the monk. I take a deep breath. I do not have Swiftcast yet at the time of this story, but I know if I don't get the tank back up, we are going to wipe. So I quietly thank Hydaelyn for Selene, shove Adloq on the bard, pop Surecast given I half expect said bard to also bite the dust, and dig my heels in for the 8 seconds it takes to resurrect someone without it.
This is the bit that made me happy - the bard does not bite the dust. The bard waits for Adloq to drop off, then pops every defensive cooldown they have, all while kiting the boss away from me so I can complete my cast without being hit by that frontal AoE. Then, presumably knowing that a res takes like half my mana and I wasn't exactly on full to start with, they even find time to put their mana regen song on. I am in love with this bard.
It was my own failing that I didn't manage to get the monk back up too - I was so busy trying to keep the bard up while the tank regained aggro, keeping the tank alive with their weakness debuff, and doing the boss mechanics that I didn't get the opportunity for another 8-second cast before the boss was dead. I feel like if I had the practice I do now, back then, I might have been able to get the monk back up too.
But everyone was gracious about it, and the fact that everyone knew what to do when things went pearshaped (that the tank and bard both noticed I was going for a long-cast res, that everyone knew when and how to use their cooldowns) and the fact that we all understood what was needed from each other without having to say anything left me feeling the most secure I've felt in a dungeon outside a friend group in a long time.
(Just why is that first boss so fiendishly all-or-nothing compared to all the bosses at similar levels, anyway? Jeez.)
I've literally never had a smooth run of it, even in friend groups. So when I'm rouletting and it pops up, I always strap myself in for a bit of a ride. This particular group, I was in as SCH. We got through the first doom + wasps without incident. Unfortunately, the second instance of both popped at the same time - and through no fault of their own, both DPS were so busy removing their doom debuffs that they didn't notice the wasps until it was too late.
Wasp #1 takes out the tank, and #2 takes the monk. I take a deep breath. I do not have Swiftcast yet at the time of this story, but I know if I don't get the tank back up, we are going to wipe. So I quietly thank Hydaelyn for Selene, shove Adloq on the bard, pop Surecast given I half expect said bard to also bite the dust, and dig my heels in for the 8 seconds it takes to resurrect someone without it.
This is the bit that made me happy - the bard does not bite the dust. The bard waits for Adloq to drop off, then pops every defensive cooldown they have, all while kiting the boss away from me so I can complete my cast without being hit by that frontal AoE. Then, presumably knowing that a res takes like half my mana and I wasn't exactly on full to start with, they even find time to put their mana regen song on. I am in love with this bard.
It was my own failing that I didn't manage to get the monk back up too - I was so busy trying to keep the bard up while the tank regained aggro, keeping the tank alive with their weakness debuff, and doing the boss mechanics that I didn't get the opportunity for another 8-second cast before the boss was dead. I feel like if I had the practice I do now, back then, I might have been able to get the monk back up too.
But everyone was gracious about it, and the fact that everyone knew what to do when things went pearshaped (that the tank and bard both noticed I was going for a long-cast res, that everyone knew when and how to use their cooldowns) and the fact that we all understood what was needed from each other without having to say anything left me feeling the most secure I've felt in a dungeon outside a friend group in a long time.
(Just why is that first boss so fiendishly all-or-nothing compared to all the bosses at similar levels, anyway? Jeez.)
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