Whats your most hated mechanich in this game?

Not being able to send friend requests to people in a different world that are offline. Have to track them down!

Left\Right.

No, changing it to other words doesn't work. So you can keep your Lar\Starboard. It's still the same.
No, changing it to another language doesn't work either (I may understand what it says in French and German, the problem's still there).
No, putting a rubber band to make me memorize which way is which won't fix the problem.

It's simple inability to tell Right from Left, and it's an actual medical condition commonly associated as a symptom to various forms of Dyslexia.

That for me is the worst one because I need to conjure up with the dumbest things just to get by. The only thing, ironically, that helps me is clockwise\counterclockwise, because I'm forced to imagine a clock.

A lesser version of this is anything in the blue-purple-orange range. Because colourblindness. It's not even full-on colourblindness, it's just the dumb mild version of protanopia, but it's enough for me to not even realize that there were colours in the squares\triangles thing in P2S and it makes my life in P3S a living hell.

And turning down the game's colours in Colourblind Mode only helps from time to time. Hell, I even have to use Deuteranopia most of the time because the Protanopia settings don't fix the problem. None work for P2S's colours. At all. And none work for P3S either, because everything is either orange or red, and changing the colour settings really just turns both colours down on values. That's not what I need, I need a way to understand what's an AoE or not. I need stuff to have OTHER colours that I can make out.

Misdirection I mean I have gotten used to it more or less but it is still very annoying.

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Originally Posted by Cinno

Any mechanic that causes excessive (and unnecessary..) downtime. My current biggest offender is the spinning mechanic in the final boss of the new expert dungeon.. It was pretty cool to see it the first time but now its just kindof annoying, my buffs always fall off or my rotation gets messed up, and you spin and spin and spin for so long...

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This also pretty much wasting of songs/procs, dropping Enochian etc

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Anything like Mathbot 1.0 (Ridorana) and Mathbot 2.0 (Bozja). Math has always been my weakest strength when it comes to anything beyond the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, which are the only 4 I thought I really needed in life.

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Mathbot is just addition, though, and remembering a small number of primes as target numbers (although he seems to die around that point now, making it not too critical). At worst you need to multiply by 2 first.

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Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

Visualization.

I'm a math formula whiz but I seriously suck at the geometry side. Even with a cheat sheet, I still screw up the snakes on Zodiark. I also have trouble with Thal's Balls because it's difficult to picture how wide the spread is for me.

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A really helpful thing I read for the snake lines is to not think about the whole arena but just one quarter of it. It's a lot easier to picture the turns that way.

The ball explosions always reach the centre of the arena, so you usually don't need to go further than that unless you're caught between two that will overlap. I think it's reusing the descending circles from the Hades fight.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Mathbot is just addition, though, and remembering a small number of primes as target numbers (although he seems to die around that point now, making it not too critical). At worst you need to multiply by 2 first.

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Yeah, that's the issue. Anything beyond simple addition, subtraction, multiplication or division causes problems for me. And that might be simple for some, if not most, but not for me. That's just how my brain works. lol

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Mathbot is just addition, though, and remembering a small number of primes as target numbers (although he seems to die around that point now, making it not too critical). At worst you need to multiply by 2 first.

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iirc, mathbot gives you three different scenarios: multiples, primes, and division. Addition is just one of several processes your brain has to do in order to resolve this mechanic. However, primes is always the first equation he uses when he goes into computation mode the second time. So if the fight does get to this point, you can definitely preposition before he even mentions "primes". However, I think multiples and divisible are random, and you have to wait until he mentions which one.

Gonna echo the disdain for left/right (and heavens' forbid the translations of left/right)

My brain cannot parse it comfortably at a glance. As the shot caller for my group, you could ask them, my brain was DISSOLVING on E10s. (O11s wasn't great for me either)
Like, half my group has difficulties with that left/right dyslexia and we all have our own hilariously bizarre ways of dealing with it.

What's wild is that I am spot on for east/west style orientation. I legit don't know what's wrong with my brain. XD

The mechanics I fail the most are the ones I usually like the best. They provide a consistent challenge, and how well I handle them changes on any given day. Some days, I am on my game, and others I can't seem stay on feet. Two of my nemesis mechanics are Starboard/Larboard, and Terminus Est.

These are not hated mechanics though. Mechanics I hate are the ones I strongly dislike dealing with. Two of these are easily geols, and tethers.

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Originally Posted by Gemina

iirc, mathbot gives you three different scenarios: multiples, primes, and division. Addition is just one of several processes your brain has to do in order to resolve this mechanic. However, primes is always the first equation he uses when he goes into computation mode the second time. So if the fight does get to this point, you can definitely preposition before he even mentions "primes". However, I think multiples and divisible are random, and you have to wait until he mentions which one.

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Unless he gets really nasty if the fight drags on unusually long, division is never required.

To my awareness, his maths questions (besides Indivisible) are all phrased as "divide by X" but all it's really asking is "make your HP equal X or a multiple of X".

Basic times tables and then addition: if he's asking for 4, first see if you can add to 4 – and you can't do that because you have 5 HP, you need to go for 8 instead.