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The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales

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Steel Wolf Steel Wolf Find all posts by this user Visit this user's website Smirking and Berserking Posts:1,741 Joined:Jan 2014 Character:Steel Wolf Server:Balmung Reputation: 225 Timezone:UTC-9 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #601 01-21-2015, 09:23 AM (01-21-2015, 09:20 AM)Gegenji Wrote: Let me pay forward, then! Though this is guesswork. During that phase, a finger is rotating and pointing at each quadrant in a roulette. Eventually it stops, and anyone in that quadrant gets straight up murdered. Now, this is guesswork on my part, but I believe if the Hourglass is still up for that quadrant, it freezes everyone in it so they can't escape. I was in one of the quadrants at the end of the roulette at least twice with a dead Hourglass and was able to just waltz on out of it before the murder beam. AAAH! Oh okay. I mean, it looked like bad so I kept away from whatever quadrant got pointed at, but it was still nice to get the whys and the hows. Thanks! :3 Character Wiki l Personal Blog

Gegenji Gegenji Find all posts by this user Visit this user's website Built Like a Brick Smithhouse Posts:3,940 Joined:Nov 2014 Character:Chachanji Gegenji Linkshell:Friends of Ours Server:Balmung Reputation: 636 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #602 01-21-2015, 09:24 AM (This post was last modified: 01-21-2015, 09:25 AM by Gegenji.) (01-21-2015, 09:22 AM)Melodia Wrote: You shared info? *votes dismiss* MY ONLY FLAW IS A CARE TOO MUCH. Chachanji Gegenji | Gogonji Gegenji | Judge Jredthys ~~ Balmung Directory

Warren Castille Warren Castille Find all posts by this user The Arbiter Posts:5,367 Joined:May 2014 Character:Warren Castille Server:Balmung Reputation: 1,118 Timezone:UTC-5 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #603 01-21-2015, 09:24 AM Now that I've done the three new dungeons, I'm already trying to plot which pulls to make one jumbo pull. Keeper of the Lake seems to be the "friendliest" of them due to the gating, though WP looks plenty easy to do if you don't mind risking murdering yourself. I did every single pull yesterday by itself, though. I felt so patient... and so slow. Wiki | The Grindstone 2018 17 | 16 | 15

Melodia Melodia Find all posts by this user Posting Freak Posts:1,530 Joined:Mar 2014 Character:Melodia D'janz Reputation: 160 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #604 01-21-2015, 09:26 AM (01-21-2015, 09:24 AM)Gegenji Wrote: (01-21-2015, 09:22 AM)Melodia Wrote: You shared info? *votes dismiss* MY ONLY FLAW IS A CARE TOO MUCH. *Reports to the GM* LOL *hugs*

Kage Kage Find all posts by this user Psy rockin' lala Posts:6,067 Joined:Jan 2014 Character:Kage Kiryuu Linkshell:Open RP Server:Balmung Reputation: 432 Timezone:UTC-8 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #605 01-21-2015, 09:35 AM (01-21-2015, 09:23 AM)Steel Wolf Wrote: (01-21-2015, 09:20 AM)Gegenji Wrote: Let me pay forward, then! Though this is guesswork. During that phase, a finger is rotating and pointing at each quadrant in a roulette. Eventually it stops, and anyone in that quadrant gets straight up murdered. Now, this is guesswork on my part, but I believe if the Hourglass is still up for that quadrant, it freezes everyone in it so they can't escape. I was in one of the quadrants at the end of the roulette at least twice with a dead Hourglass and was able to just waltz on out of it before the murder beam. AAAH!  Oh okay.  I mean, it looked like bad so I kept away from whatever quadrant got pointed at, but it was still nice to get the whys and the hows.  Thanks!  :3 I believe that the roulette stops when the last hourglass drops. So when you're on the last hourglass... BE CAREFUL

Enteris Enteris Find all posts by this user Visit this user's website "Bloody" Bennett Posts:105 Joined:May 2014 Character:Raandal Bennett Server:Balmung Reputation: 24 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #606 01-21-2015, 09:35 AM (01-21-2015, 09:24 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: Now that I've done the three new dungeons, I'm already trying to plot which pulls to make one jumbo pull. Keeper of the Lake seems to be the "friendliest" of them due to the gating, though WP looks plenty easy to do if you don't mind risking murdering yourself. I did every single pull yesterday by itself, though. I felt so patient... and so slow. I had the same feeling of slowness from my caution with the pulls as well. I haven't done Keeper yet (time constraints), but I honestly thought AK had better chain/lump pulls than WP... especially with those vines adding vulnerability to the mobs.  WP felt like too many closed doors in the way... I dunno. Plus, the pulls with the standards... do the standards have to die to open the door, or can you just tug all the moving mobs to the end of the hall and aoe them down, thereby leaving the standards alive? Side note: Out of the two I have run... WP is snorefest boring to me. Even Sastasha HM is more exciting, imo. Raandal Bennett (Deceased)

Melodia Melodia Find all posts by this user Posting Freak Posts:1,530 Joined:Mar 2014 Character:Melodia D'janz Reputation: 160 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #607 01-21-2015, 09:37 AM (01-21-2015, 09:35 AM)Kage Wrote: I believe that the roulette stops when the last hourglass drops. So when you're on the last hourglass... BE CAREFUL Silly Kage.... *Votes dismiss for sharing info* ((I swear that is the last time. I couldn't resist))

Warren Castille Warren Castille Find all posts by this user The Arbiter Posts:5,367 Joined:May 2014 Character:Warren Castille Server:Balmung Reputation: 1,118 Timezone:UTC-5 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #608 01-21-2015, 09:40 AM (01-21-2015, 09:35 AM)Enteris Wrote: (01-21-2015, 09:24 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: Now that I've done the three new dungeons, I'm already trying to plot which pulls to make one jumbo pull. Keeper of the Lake seems to be the "friendliest" of them due to the gating, though WP looks plenty easy to do if you don't mind risking murdering yourself. I did every single pull yesterday by itself, though. I felt so patient... and so slow. I had the same feeling of slowness from my caution with the pulls as well. I haven't done Keeper yet (time constraints), but I honestly thought AK had better chain/lump pulls than WP... especially with those vines adding vulnerability to the mobs.  WP felt like too many closed doors in the way... I dunno. Plus, the pulls with the standards... do the standards have to die to open the door, or can you just tug all the moving mobs to the end of the hall and aoe them down, thereby leaving the standards alive? Side note: Out of the two I have run... WP is snorefest boring to me. Even Sastasha HM is more exciting, imo. I felt the exact opposite. AK felt like annoying trash (seriously, they lock that stuff into the walls!) whereas WP didn't feel like it stopped you from running and grabbing lots at once. The whipping vines in AK are a nice addition but when your shit it stuck on geometry it doesn't work so great. You can ignore standards in WP, meaning you can sprint through that area and pull like, 10 things at once. It's pretty horrific without cooldowns, though. Like, all of them. Can still probably do two at a time and go fast. Keeper is probably the most straight forward. There's hard walls that go down when trash is dead, and nothing to stop you from clumping trash. Wiki | The Grindstone 2018 17 | 16 | 15

Cato Cato Find all posts by this user Garlean Posts:1,707 Joined:Aug 2013 Character:Cato Eligar Server:Mateus Reputation: 401 Timezone:UTC+1 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #609 01-21-2015, 09:45 AM I like that there's gating to stop massive pulls. Spamming AoE over and over bored me terribly back in WoW so I prefer it when I'm in a group with a cautious tank and/or healer.

Gegenji Gegenji Find all posts by this user Visit this user's website Built Like a Brick Smithhouse Posts:3,940 Joined:Nov 2014 Character:Chachanji Gegenji Linkshell:Friends of Ours Server:Balmung Reputation: 636 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #610 01-21-2015, 09:51 AM (01-21-2015, 09:40 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: (01-21-2015, 09:35 AM)Enteris Wrote: (01-21-2015, 09:24 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: Now that I've done the three new dungeons, I'm already trying to plot which pulls to make one jumbo pull. Keeper of the Lake seems to be the "friendliest" of them due to the gating, though WP looks plenty easy to do if you don't mind risking murdering yourself. I did every single pull yesterday by itself, though. I felt so patient... and so slow. I had the same feeling of slowness from my caution with the pulls as well. I haven't done Keeper yet (time constraints), but I honestly thought AK had better chain/lump pulls than WP... especially with those vines adding vulnerability to the mobs.  WP felt like too many closed doors in the way... I dunno. Plus, the pulls with the standards... do the standards have to die to open the door, or can you just tug all the moving mobs to the end of the hall and aoe them down, thereby leaving the standards alive? Side note: Out of the two I have run... WP is snorefest boring to me. Even Sastasha HM is more exciting, imo. I felt the exact opposite. AK felt like annoying trash (seriously, they lock that stuff into the walls!) whereas WP didn't feel like it stopped you from running and grabbing lots at once. The whipping vines in AK are a nice addition but when your shit it stuck on geometry it doesn't work so great. You can ignore standards in WP, meaning you can sprint through that area and pull like, 10 things at once. It's pretty horrific without cooldowns, though. Like, all of them. Can still probably do two at a time and go fast. Keeper is probably the most straight forward. There's hard walls that go down when trash is dead, and nothing to stop you from clumping trash. I... I liked WP more because I got to save tonberries and the music was nice. SPEAKING of WP. Is it actually bad to kill the banners on the last boss? The tank I had said not to do it and basically just had us running around as he spread them horribly about the room (I would've moved just to the edge of the previous one so there's overlap and thus more free space). He also said to ignore the idols unless we needed space and just deal with the defense bonus. Again, a situation where I was dealing with people who apparently knew the fights and decided to be either quiet on them or vague as freaking possible. I need to know these things for when I run through with Chachan and actually have to TANK the fights. Chachanji Gegenji | Gogonji Gegenji | Judge Jredthys ~~ Balmung Directory

Cato Cato Find all posts by this user Garlean Posts:1,707 Joined:Aug 2013 Character:Cato Eligar Server:Mateus Reputation: 401 Timezone:UTC+1 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #611 01-21-2015, 09:59 AM We ended up ignoring the banners in my group during the last boss. They boost his damage but they don't seem to stack with each other. We did kill the idols that occasionally popped up though and did our best to avoid as much of the incoming damage as possible. The doom mechanic is negated by being healed to full so an attentive healer is a must.

Kage Kage Find all posts by this user Psy rockin' lala Posts:6,067 Joined:Jan 2014 Character:Kage Kiryuu Linkshell:Open RP Server:Balmung Reputation: 432 Timezone:UTC-8 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #612 01-21-2015, 09:59 AM I had a harder time running ST last night than I did LotA. We did have one troll trying to fubar the raid but when you have 5 other Tanks~ Someone decided to attack the allagan bomb or having the vassago too close to him buffs him. Because the first pull and I see him blowing up and I go "Why is he getting so fat so fast?" The balloons and napalms weren't going to the middle, we were blowing him up pretty fast. -I don't remember this mechanic so much!!- Wiped on Phlegethon cause some healer facepulled and the tanks brought it to far off corner. Didn't see the pads up. I think that was my first wipe on the fight @_@ ST though... no wipes but ugh. The amount of HPS I did as SCH was SO MUCH. FUCK YOU ALL I'M A SCH. Yes I know I have a baby whm but the WHM just does Cure IIs and barely ever does the raid wide heals! D: ALSO STOP MAKING US ALL NEARLY DEAD AT THE END. Kill slimes. TANK ADDS OMFG. "Can we please stop having the healers get ganked by trash mobs and adds?" "agreed" - says tank. SAYS TANK WHO STAYS ON BOSS AND IS NOT GRABBING ADDS WHEN THEY AREN'T MT. :<

Gegenji Gegenji Find all posts by this user Visit this user's website Built Like a Brick Smithhouse Posts:3,940 Joined:Nov 2014 Character:Chachanji Gegenji Linkshell:Friends of Ours Server:Balmung Reputation: 636 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #613 01-21-2015, 11:23 AM (01-21-2015, 09:59 AM)Graeham Ridgefield Wrote: The doom mechanic is negated by being healed to full so an attentive healer is a must. I found that particular bit out after the fact because the tank didn't deign to tell me and I was too busy looking at the health bars to notice the boss' little spiel about it. Lost one of the DPS to it, discovered the secret when it popped on someone I was healing and I saw it vanish after a crit Physick. No more Doom deaths after that. Chachanji Gegenji | Gogonji Gegenji | Judge Jredthys ~~ Balmung Directory

Sounsyy Sounsyy Find all posts by this user Lore Momger Posts:1,987 Joined:Jul 2013 Character:Sounsyy Mirke Server:Balmung Reputation: 854 Timezone:UTC-5 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #614 01-21-2015, 11:28 AM (This post was last modified: 01-21-2015, 11:28 AM by Sounsyy.) I... actually don't have a vent today. (SHOCKING RIGHT) So yesterday I ran AK, WP, WoD, and KotL twice each. Tanking each time. I'll be honest, I still don't know most of the mechanics for WoD. I think I figured most of the stuff out, but WoD is still a cluster- honestly. Show Content Mechanics stuff Eye, WP, AK spoilersEyeball alternate red blue red blue. Look away on Mortal Gaze. If you get doom run to lighted panel. When the Hourglasses spawn, kill them asap, as that will stop the rotating pointer finger of doom. When the finger stops, gtfo of that pie slice or die. Lv100 Flare and Lv150 Death, soak or run out, but the number of people hit cannot equal Lv100 (ie 2 people) or Lv150 (3 people) respectively or else death. WP seemed like the most straightforward dungeon out of the lot. I STILL don't understand the mechanics of the 2nd fight with the standards. Like... wut? They give debuffs or they raise your attack, but if you hit the one that boosts your attack, boss casts Toad on you. Oh and I found out tank should just ignore standards cuz you might get lowered fire resistance.... and that was scary painful. Last boss, just ignore standards, rotate the boss around the outside of the room clockwise/counterclockwise, moving after each standard. Kill idols and don't rotate boss out of Idol puddle cuz as long as it's up he's got the buff anyways. Can usually kill well before making it 270 degrees around the circle. AK I really enjoyed, just because of how different the mechanics stood out from other dungeons. I did all my runs blind with my FC and when we went into first boss of AK I may or may not have gotten 6 stacks of vulnerability as a tank..................... dat next cleave doe. And OMG that demon wall gauntlet. First time we did that we finished with like 3 seconds to spare. There was some screaming going on. OH, I do kind of have a gripe! WTF SE! I catch all of the Big Fish to get my Ironworks Rod for my FSH and then you turn around a put in an EVEN BETTER ROD that's actually super easy to get?! Like, I already have all the mats for it, I just need more Gigant Clams - which are actually super easy to catch and have low requirements for catching them. ?????????????? So mad. Mkay, so much for not having a vent today. Sounsyy Mirke | Razia Haiib | R'jahkob Nunh >>|Sounsyy's Lore Post Index|<<

FreelanceWizard FreelanceWizard Find all posts by this user Visit this user's website Random RPer #258 Posts:2,319 Joined:Sep 2010 Character:L'yhta Mahre Linkshell:Mysterium Server:Balmung Reputation: 317 Timezone:UTC-6 RE: The Vent Tent - Poor PuGs and Other Terrible Tales | #615 01-21-2015, 11:42 AM What we determined for WP was... Show Content Spoiler For the second boss, determine which color gives you the Damage Up buff and ensure someone picks that up each round, otherwise the boss gets it (and for me, at i109, 6-7 stacks is basically unhealable with the other damage coming out). Ignore the other colors except for the one that does Toad, since you'll need that to undo the random Toad. For the third boss, yeah, ignore the Standards but kill the Idols. Also, be sure to save the healer when the adds pop. Staying close to the boss helps protect people against eating the giant cone AE; we did that on the second boss of AK, too, since that Confuse is super-annoying. The Freelance Wizard Quality RP at low, low prices! ((about me | about L'yhta Mahre | L'yhta's desk | about Mysterium, the Ivory Tower: a heavy RP society of mages))

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