Delve fights

[Doombringer]

how is this still an issue, really? i mean... even i got my first delve clears back before ilvl was even a thing. add power creep and delve is almost easy. when i go now i don't think "oh man am i gonna be able to do my part" it's really "oh man i hope nobody fucks up and wastes my time"

cuz that's it now. the only way to fail is for somebody to fuck up...

so as a leader your responsibility is to ensure minimal fuckups by recruiting people who know what they're doing. ideally people who have done it before. you see where this is going right?

i agree that a tojil run could win with eminent H2H on its monks, but i'll probably never use one. there are enough oatixur monks out there that i don't NEED to, and making delve easier won't change that. unless the event becomes so easy as to be a literal free win, people are going to bring the best group they can. it would be downright stupid not to?


my suggestion to anyone having trouble breaking into delve is, the next time someone asks if you have oatixurs (or whatever random benchmark weapon, i'm gonna aim this at mnks) instead of saying "no" and shuffling off muttering "elitist" under your breath, say "no, but..."

-then tell them about how good your TP set is.

-how much dex you have in your shijin spiral set.

-how you have SO much str and crit stats in your victory smite set.

-how you can cap pdt while maintaining haste and acc in your hybrid set (just in case) but that you know not to fulltime that pdt set because if you don't actually NEED the pdt it's still just holding you back.

-mention how you have all the job specific pieces that augment the critical job abilities so on etc.

make a case that you know what you're doing in spite of not having that particular arbitrary benchmark. hell, if you did THAT i might take your monk over mine even though i have oats. and if you CAN'T make that case, then maybe that should tell you something?

hell, i got my first clears by explaining to a guy who "demanded" RDMs have 500 enfeebling skill that: even though i didn't have 500 enfeebling skill, if you consider magic accuracy (particularly in slots where it competes with enfeebling magic skill) i actually had better land rates on my spells than the "go to" 500 skill build.