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Berrod Armstrong · **11-28-2014, 02:37 PM**

(11-28-2014, 02:29 PM)Melodia Wrote:
(11-28-2014, 01:34 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote:
(11-28-2014, 01:18 PM)Melodia Wrote:
(11-28-2014, 01:14 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote:
(11-28-2014, 01:06 PM)Melodia Wrote: someday when i beat T5....*sigh*

*table flips the game*
Oh? What are you having difficulty with? Mechanics? Finding a group? Gear?
Finding a group. My new all time favorite reply is "Ah...well someday you'll get one." I hear that from most people and it makes me feel real swell.
Hmm! Okay. I'll guess at this point that party finder hasn't given you much to join. Have you tried putting up a PF group of your own?
I had a very bad experience once that makes me near terrified of entering those types of things with people who I don't know. It was my first time tanking Garuda HM and as a tank I was nervous with 7 others.

I messed up as the OT. And the MT yelled at me. But I stayed as I wanted to finish it.

I messed up again and others started yelling at me.

And we wiped again. A chorus of seven people calling me names and telling me I was the worst tank they'd seen, etc. etc. Hurt my feelings and for thirty minutes I put up with it until I just left in tears. Yes...a group of seven people I didn't know made a grown adult cry. I almost quit tanking that day and it took me a LONG time to get back in and beat it with a group of friends. And the same for Titan. I'm more comfortable today in my tanking and my gear helps cover small errors.

The point is, I am sensitive, and scared as hell about touching any new content without friends. Because they will be more forgiving when I make a mistake. Strangers I have found....can be quite cold.

That's understandable! What I can recommend is that you start lassoing your friends one by one -- ask them about helping you sometime. Schedule something, lasso more friends, have them lasso their friends...and if push comes to shove, grab that last PUG member or two (and have your friends be a wall between any possible meanness and you! You can always replace a douchebag). It takes a great deal of persistence to get it done, and that's just what makes the reward all the sweeter in the end!

Letter from the Producer, LIX

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