I was whining a bit about this in the chat room earlier, but I figure I can add it here for posterity.
I have to wonder if some people either fail to learn things during the course of play... or buy accounts and are just being horribly blatant about their inexperience coming into high-level content.
I say this because I had a BRD in Alexander 11... Heart of the Creator, I think it is called? Anyway, this girl was dying. A lot. And to stuff we were explaining to her. Here's a general list of things that caught my attention.
"Get behind the tanks for Propeller Wind." Stands out in the open and gets confused. When she finally gets it, she stands behind them when there ISN'T a Propeller Wind coming and eats Magitek bit lasers.
"Activate the vents to get on the ship." First she doesn't move for them at all. Second attempt she moves and just stands on them so we have to tell her to CLICK THEM. Third attempt she says she clicked them but nothing happened, so we have to specify RIGHT CLICKING.
"Just push any button to eject." Another fun one. I was doing this on ACCIDENT on our first attempts before it was mentioned what was needed to be done. To her. You literally just have to hit any key when the Eject prompt action comes up and you hop off to safety - and you have four seconds to do it. She doesn't, somehow, and ends up getting lasered to death. Again.
"LB before pull." This one actually happened after the first attempt, so it predates some of the other bullet points but makes a nice capper for my little rant. We had two full bars so one of the tanks asked her to LB the boss for some early damage. She stands around waiting until someone else does a regular pull (out of boredom or something, I guess, it was a SMN and almost got himself punched in the teeth in the process) and then complains how it's not doing anything. You know, trying to LB after the bar's drained because we're in combat now.
All this is on top of standing in AoEs and generally wasting healer MP rezzing her since our SMN also couldn't be bothered to use HIS MP to help out. Ended up with a vote abandon after a good half dozen or so attempts. Later got into another group with all mostly new people and we had it down in, like, four. And no one had issues with the airship portion or pre-pull LBs, and barely any with Propeller Winds past the first pull.
I have to wonder if some people either fail to learn things during the course of play... or buy accounts and are just being horribly blatant about their inexperience coming into high-level content.
I say this because I had a BRD in Alexander 11... Heart of the Creator, I think it is called? Anyway, this girl was dying. A lot. And to stuff we were explaining to her. Here's a general list of things that caught my attention.
"Get behind the tanks for Propeller Wind." Stands out in the open and gets confused. When she finally gets it, she stands behind them when there ISN'T a Propeller Wind coming and eats Magitek bit lasers.
"Activate the vents to get on the ship." First she doesn't move for them at all. Second attempt she moves and just stands on them so we have to tell her to CLICK THEM. Third attempt she says she clicked them but nothing happened, so we have to specify RIGHT CLICKING.
"Just push any button to eject." Another fun one. I was doing this on ACCIDENT on our first attempts before it was mentioned what was needed to be done. To her. You literally just have to hit any key when the Eject prompt action comes up and you hop off to safety - and you have four seconds to do it. She doesn't, somehow, and ends up getting lasered to death. Again.
"LB before pull." This one actually happened after the first attempt, so it predates some of the other bullet points but makes a nice capper for my little rant. We had two full bars so one of the tanks asked her to LB the boss for some early damage. She stands around waiting until someone else does a regular pull (out of boredom or something, I guess, it was a SMN and almost got himself punched in the teeth in the process) and then complains how it's not doing anything. You know, trying to LB after the bar's drained because we're in combat now.
All this is on top of standing in AoEs and generally wasting healer MP rezzing her since our SMN also couldn't be bothered to use HIS MP to help out. Ended up with a vote abandon after a good half dozen or so attempts. Later got into another group with all mostly new people and we had it down in, like, four. And no one had issues with the airship portion or pre-pull LBs, and barely any with Propeller Winds past the first pull.
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