My first PT wipe :'(

Don't worry about it. Everyone, and I mean everyone, fks up some times (tho in your example it's not actually clear whether it was your fault or not), right through to endgame content.

Sometimes you even have entire runs where you just seem to do everything wrong. The other night I completely missed a mechanic in A6S, died, accepted rez just as an AOE went off, rezzed again, ran straight into a mine and died lol. Sometimes just everything seems to go wrong, I find if I make a bad mistake I often "tilt" and am still thinking about it, making me make another one straight away!

However, I think everyone has these things happen from time to time, and luckily they are not so often. When they do happen, I'll readily admit "sorry guys, just an awful run for me there". When I'm in a party and someone says something similar, I have no problem and just laugh it off, as I said, I have them too sometimes. I actually see it as more of weakness on the people who come out with a string of excuses, blaming anyone or everyone else, RNG, lag, whatever... if you fked up just admit it and move on. I'm much more suspicious of people that come out with excuses that they are actually just a poor player, and will likely wipe us over and over.

It is all a learning process. Most importantly is knowing what you did wrong - was it literally just something you did wrong, eg moved late, didn't see something, or something that needs changing, eg tank pulling more/less, dps focusing one mob in particular or something. If you don't know what went wrong, and just make up something (dam lag again!) nothing is actually learnt and will probably just happen again

Hang in there!

It seems the default in DF is to go for a speed run with big pulls since many people end up just grinding it for tokens and are trying to get through as quickly as possible.

I don't know if this will help, but if you are sociable and can find a nice tank to run dungeons with, it might make things a lot less stressful while you are leveling up. The tank controls the pace, and if he or she is looking out for you properly as a partner, then things tend to go very smoothly.

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Originally Posted by Gemina

Ughhh! I hate that so much. I can't even get people to gather for protect if it drops during a dungeon run, so I have to run into the middle of the fray to cast it. It's like: "People! I literally need 2 seconds to cast this on us! Now looky! Our tank is below 40%. Thanks all! ^^"

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I know the feeling. Now I will usually recast Protect if the timer drops below about 10 minutes. This could be at the start or immediately at the end of a boss fight when people are lotting on a chest... or even mid-fight when I can get everyone in range. Trying to do it when people are moving between pulls is just frustrating.

Hi Gemina.

The fact that this wipe makes you feel sorry enough to create a thread like that, makes me believe that you re a good, committed and nice player.

Things happen. You should just analyze what went wrong and then try to fix it for the next times but im sure it wont be a big deal.

Bad players let their party wipe, make laugh of it, then insult everybody (rarely in english...), then ragequit.

You re definitely not one of them.

Wishing you good luck and a lot of nice experiences;

(Note if you re on ps4 you could save the automatic video-record after a wipe and have a look at it after. It helps to understand sometimes).

Yea, everyone makes mistakes, just learn from it just whatever you do dont rage quite. Accept tips from people in the dungeon if it sounds correct.

Thank you everyone! It's so nice to know that there is such a supportive community here. :) Nothing you guys say fall on blind eyes.

@Ultear_Milkovich I really appreciate you believing in me :) I am generally a very caring person, and I see XIV as a community who return the kindness given to them. The spoiled apples are out there for sure, and they make me sad but I guess you have to roll with the punches sometimes. Fortunately, I haven't had anyone rage quit on me yet, but I am still a very new player.

Btw thanks for the tip! I am on PS4, and I will definitely keep that in mind the next time.

Swiftcast

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Swiftcast

Best CC ability a healer can get. Dead non cd using tank? Swiftcast+Raise. Group runs off w/o protect? Swiftcast+ Protect. Buff before boss? Swiftcast+ stoneskin.

Hey, at least you haven't gotten assumptive or stubborn like me. When leveling AST in Dusk Vigil I had a (synced) 60 Warrior who wanted to pull as many mobs as possible without even touching Defiance, to maximize his dps and speed up the run for his friends. And here I'm under the assumption that I'll at least get to cast one Gravity before healing. He was dead before Cleric Stance could drop, and yet I couldn't break the habit of hitting the damn button (healing after enmity acquisition during the gather) as the mobs were about to reach full gather. By the second death (just before the last boss) the tank took every opportunity to question my cognitive capacity, and I pretty well felt just as bad as I was accused of.

I try to lighten up the mood whenever a wipe happens.

Example 1 : Well we took 2 down before we died at least. I noticed it's easier to heal you guys if I pretend I'm trying to murder all of you with my feeling infused cures.

Example 2 after dying by skeletons : They beat my face in with their wee little hands :0 Party member : They got a bone to pick with you lol. We proceeded to make puns the rest of the dungeon.

It's better to try and stay positive over getting upset with yourself or depressed about it :)

And remember a wipe isn't always the healers fault dumb dps pulling in more mobs that will immediately come after you or silly nub tanks biting off way more than they can chew are common examples.

Oh also making a good /p chat macro for raise can also lighten the mood up be it a threat, encouragement or just something witty and fun.

Oops! and move on.

In DF it really just means no precious commendations won't get thrown my way. :D