Got ARF for my Level 60 today and had a treat I just HAD to share.
Me as WAR, BRD, SMN, and SCH. Awesome, we can pull pretty quickly and get this done. I notice the healer is having some difficulty keeping me up so I slow it down a bit, and things are going okay. Then it starts getting interesting.
BRD makes an emote face about me "pulling too fast" and says that people are needing to regen MP and TP. Which is confusing to me, since we have two of the most MP-efficient classes and a BARD. I later find out why, after I start watching the SMN when he says he's getting low on MP during the first boss.
He's spamming Ruin III out of Dreadwyrm Trance. I point it out to him that he shouldn't be doing that, since the cost is way too high and to only do it while Trancing. The others agree while he keeps stating his costs 1k MP and he's going to do it because it's maximizing his DPS. And that the reason he's running out of MP is because we're "blazing through" (we weren't). He later tells me that since he's not telling me how to tank (after demanding I group things up so he can spread his diseases and the aforementioned "blazing through") I shouldn't tell him how to SMN - since SMN is all he's played and he's "never had problems before."
It gets better. I had an inkling before, but I didn't realize it until during the last boss. He wasn't even USING DREADWYRM TRANCE. At all. He'd get to three stacks and then LET IT FALL OFF. I try to make the point that he wasn't even trancing, which is CERTAINLY not "maximizing DPS"... but he ran for the portal out as quick as possible.
I don't even.
Me as WAR, BRD, SMN, and SCH. Awesome, we can pull pretty quickly and get this done. I notice the healer is having some difficulty keeping me up so I slow it down a bit, and things are going okay. Then it starts getting interesting.
BRD makes an emote face about me "pulling too fast" and says that people are needing to regen MP and TP. Which is confusing to me, since we have two of the most MP-efficient classes and a BARD. I later find out why, after I start watching the SMN when he says he's getting low on MP during the first boss.
He's spamming Ruin III out of Dreadwyrm Trance. I point it out to him that he shouldn't be doing that, since the cost is way too high and to only do it while Trancing. The others agree while he keeps stating his costs 1k MP and he's going to do it because it's maximizing his DPS. And that the reason he's running out of MP is because we're "blazing through" (we weren't). He later tells me that since he's not telling me how to tank (after demanding I group things up so he can spread his diseases and the aforementioned "blazing through") I shouldn't tell him how to SMN - since SMN is all he's played and he's "never had problems before."
It gets better. I had an inkling before, but I didn't realize it until during the last boss. He wasn't even USING DREADWYRM TRANCE. At all. He'd get to three stacks and then LET IT FALL OFF. I try to make the point that he wasn't even trancing, which is CERTAINLY not "maximizing DPS"... but he ran for the portal out as quick as possible.
I don't even.
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