Hero on the Halfshell

I'm sick and tired of DPS and healers telling me to move the turtle to the herb patch before the fire sprite spawns and then refusing to heal me saying tanks don't know what they're doing. The sprite can spawn in 1 of 2 places and both are nowhere near the herb patch. Melee DPS running all the way to the patch and then back to the add is pointless and wastes time. Tank dps on the turtle after the add spawns in pointless. Unless the DPS can kill the sprite before the turtle can walk to the patch you're not saving any time moving it to the patch early. :mad:

They want you there because there is no need for you to tank the sprite.

It's just a guildhest :/

Umm...huh?

Cant you just take the turtle to the patch and have a DPS go kill the sprite? Doesnt matter who kills it as anyone can light the patch afterwards.

You're gonna have a long hard road ahead of you. The turtle should be in place and by the time the sprite is killed you should be lighting it. The guildheist is about team cohesion and efficiency.

It's already been said a couple times, but you're the one in the wrong. Don't worry about the sprite and get the turtle to the patch.

... turtle power!

Didn't think I'd feel the need to say this to a 60 WAR, but not every enemy needs to be tanked by the tank. Especially at a level as low as that where the gap in defensive potential isn't all that big and healers have generous time to react.

That fire-sprite is just one example of an enemy that dies so quickly that it's pointless for the tank to take notice of it. The heads on the final boss in The Sunken Temple of Qarn is another. Their damage is openly balanced with DPS-tanks in mind. You'll look silly for using proper structure against an enemy that extremely insignificant. The gameplay as whole is rigid, but not THAT rigid.

Read OP's post, not talking about tanking the add, talking about reducing the amount of legwork involved for DPS.

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Originally Posted by Azukii

The sprite can spawn in 1 of 2 places and both are nowhere near the herb patch. Melee DPS running all the way to the patch and then back to the add is pointless and wastes time

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DPS have a longer distance to run to reach the Sprite. That time is a factor.

Also, moving the boss slows down damage dealt by melee, The sprite doesn't spawn til 60/50% Tortoise HP - which means it'll take longer to force pop the Sprite if you move early - and also you're adding more legwork for DPS to reach that sprite in order to kill it.

Also if you move the boss early, more likely that AoEs aren't going to hit the caster adds and tortoise together.

Move the thing once you're close to enough damage to pop the sprite. You'll have the tortoise in position by the time the sprite is dead, and immeadiately pop the Herb bag. Fastest. Moving the tortoise early just slows down the dpsing of the tortoise & adds - increasing the time it takes before Sprite spawns, and increases the amount legwork for DPS to kill that sprite.

It's just a Guildhest, but I'm surprised by the amount of wrongs in here. OP is correct - if you want to clear it as quickly as possible - go ham on the boss from the get-go. Move it once the Sprite is about to spawn, as that's when DPSing boss no longer matters.

I know he wasn't talking about tanking the add, but the dps running "all the way" to the is a non issue as it's a small area and you have ranged dps alot of times and healer dps. Get the turtle to the patch so when it dies, click and guildhest over. It's his job to have the add in place for the action needed. The add dies in a second or two. Now I will say healers refusing to heal him is petty and uncalled for. With all that said...it's just a guildhest.