(06-10-2016, 05:05 AM)Virella Wrote: For the Twelve-damned Dragoon who figured it was fun to get cleave by Nidhogg, not once, not twice, not thrice, but four fucking times, despite me spamming in party for him to get the fuck out.
I love that comic so much, omg. "Special stoneskin pls" has been my way of, during friend groups, ashamedly owning up to the fact I am dying a lot.
Yes. I am That Dragoon. Though it's almost exclusively because my PC is shit - I was astonished to watch someone's recording of a Void Ark run and learn that for normal people, if they are out of an AoE by the time the ground indicator disappears, THEY TAKE NO DAMAGE - on my screen I usually have to be out a good .5-1 seconds before it vanishes, or it turns out that the server thinks I was still within it when it went off. Likewise, the ground indicator usually appears .5-1 seconds later than it ought to - most of the time, I simply don't have time between the ground indicator appearing, and disappearing, to move out of the fire. Not without Sprinting (and even then sometimes not), and whether I produce 0 DPS because I have 0 HP or 0 TP is not a choice I really enjoy making.
I die a lot. Especially in Heavensward content. My favourite (least favourite) anecdote is the time when I died to every single add wall in the last boss of The Vault, because my FPS had slowed to a crawl and I would go from "no add wall on my screen" to "dead on the floor" in the time it took my screen to refresh.
Hello Brink of Death debuff, my old friend; I've come to talk with you again...
I've stopped using DF altogether for Heavensward duties because I don't think it's fair to inflict this on strangers. Which has halted my levelling to a crawl (can't use levelling roulette, and sidequests are soul-draining...) but what can you do that doesn't cost £1k of real life money?
...a new computer is now next on my list of planned major expenditures.