On another note, I'd like to vent about people voting to abandon parties after one or two wipes. The newest raid is so bad about that - everyone rage quits on that one guy and it's like... well, you're not going to get past him giving up either.
On another note, I'd like to vent about people voting to abandon parties after one or two wipes. The newest raid is so bad about that - everyone rage quits on that one guy and it's like... well, you're not going to get past him giving up either.
I've only done Rabanastre once, but I didn't think it was that bad. Not even Hashmal. I'm sure I'll run into a bad group soon enough, tho.
As for a story, I was in a weeping city yesterday that had a MT who'd never tanked it before, so we ended up nearly wiping to Forgall (no HG for hell wind and me not paying attention meant that he ate a few people before I picked him up), and then the fun one: people tunnel ozma toward the end, and I ended up soloing the last 1-2%, literally killing him about 1 second before walking dead (LD) falls off and kills me. That netted me 6 comms. Run was actually pretty smooth other than that. :)
--Erim Nelhah
The more i am doing some savages, the more i find funny these players that, after one wipe, two at best, say "NO ONE knows the mechanics !!!" and then quit the group right away. "NO ONE" said like they are the only one in the group to be a pgm while all other are noobs that are charging blindly without a clue of what to do. Talk about an inflated ego.
Especially when the wipes are coming from one or two players max, and all the others are doing well.
And even more especially when entering a training group with a "first time trying this" comment in the party finder. What did you expect, to have free loot right away ? XD
To be fair, when I am joining farm groups (specifically farm groups, not learning or clear parties), I have a three-strikes rule: three wipes, and I leave because some of the groups are just that hopeless. I'd rather leave and find a more competent group when I'm looking to farm content with PUG groups. This is for Savages and Extremes. My tolerance is lower if the group is advertising "fast, easy clears; high DPS only".
Learning parties and clear parties are a different story, but my tolerance with farm groups has gone down a lot the past month because of how bad a lot of them can be (I'm talking wiping to Alte Roite or barely able to make it past the first Long Drop in V2S).
Oh, consider yourself blessed. I run Rabanastre anymore just for the meme-runs. They can be...very disastrous. The one I did this morning wiped to Mateus because everyone completely ignored the Aqua Spheres and there was no safe spot to stand for Blizzard IV.
There weren't any other wipes, but the three bards in my party died close to 30 times between them. The BLM died 6 or 7 times. Can't remember, but it was a lot.