Either make dodging AoEs possible, or make them not instant-kills

[Melopahn]

As for the video the dude is way inside the line when the move is registered and has his back facing the edge. He could a turn and get thrown the other direction or B run when the cast bar starts. The problem with him being the healer is that he doesnt see the cast bar over the monster and it doesn't put the mark down on hard mode until after he casts it... Called skill
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[Faction]

As for the video the dude is way inside the line when the move is registered and has his back facing the edge. He could a turn and get thrown the other direction or B run when the cast bar starts. The problem with him being the healer is that he doesnt see the cast bar over the monster and it doesn't put the mark down on hard mode until after he casts it... Called skill
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Uhh, you clearly have no idea when the cast bar finishes on that move.

MMO's are very low skill-intensive games and typically the people who try to gloat over them are those who can't compete in games that might take some. And they also usually aren't actually very good at the MMO's either, which is quite poetic.

[Sygmaelle]

Uhh, you clearly have no idea when the cast bar finishes on that move.

MMO's are very low skill-intensive games and typically the people who try to gloat over them are those who can't compete in games that might take some. And they also usually aren't actually very good at the MMO's either, which is quite poetic.

Video games dont require any skills, cut the bs please

[Kiteless]

Video games dont require any skills, cut the bs please

Boy, you're going to be really disappointed when you see the crazy stuff that goes on at Evo.

[avaughnimous]

Uhh, you clearly have no idea when the cast bar finishes on that move.

MMO's are very low skill-intensive games and typically the people who try to gloat over them are those who can't compete in games that might take some. And they also usually aren't actually very good at the MMO's either, which is quite poetic.

Fail troll levels all the way to cap? Most impressive.

[Kiteless]

He's telling the truth, however. MMOs don't have very high skill ceilings, and don't really demand much of their players. Learn your rotation, dodge the big red marks. There's not much in the way of technical skill. Even if you factor in PvP (which this game doesn't have yet), there's not much in the way of proper yomi in most MMOs anyway.

[faris]

He's telling the truth [snip]

I thought the same thing until the second boss in darkhold tonight. In short, as a white mage which dodges the red circles and still gets hit, the fight's impossible. I haven't managed to dodge one, in 10+ attempts and believe me, I've been out, healthily out, a long way out of them and they've still connected. I've attempted running backward and forward constantly, only stopping to cast, and it hasn't done a damn thing. Even if the circle doesn't appear under my feet because I'm already out of it, it hits. In short, I've had to tell my static to do darkhold with another healer. I'll probably clear it when I level something which when KO'ed, doesn't lead to the death of everyone else.

[Tercino]

I thought the same thing until the second boss in darkhold tonight. In short, as a white mage which dodges the red circles and still gets hit, the fight's impossible. I haven't managed to dodge one, in 10+ attempts and believe me, I've been out, healthily out, a long way out of them and they've still connected. I've attempted running backward and forward constantly, only stopping to cast, and it hasn't done a damn thing. Even if the circle doesn't appear under my feet because I'm already out of it, it hits. In short, I've had to tell my static to do darkhold with another healer. I'll probably clear it when I level something which when KO'ed, doesn't lead to the death of everyone else.

I did this as a WHM with the same issue, although maybe slightly less severe. I couldn't dodge on reaction time alone. I could dodge by just running around the arena, which is what I did. Regen was my main source of healing, with the occasional cure thrown in when I knew I had time. Not the most efficient strategy, but it kept me and the DRG I was with alive (yep, I duoed it. Just shows how much easier it is when you can actually avoid AoEs, instead of eating every single thing that's thrown your way. The DRG didn't seem to have many, if any, issues).

This issue makes things really awkward. Unlike most people I found Garuda way easier than Titan, simply because all of her moves are either a) forgiving in terms of dodge timers or b) unavoidable anyway. Landslide is hit and miss when I have to dodge it from a standing start, which is not what you want from your OHKOs.

[faris]

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I'll try again right now with your strategy (Thank you!) but I got so annoyed with this, I made a video just to add an example to this thread with.
....It's completely ridiculous.

[Dorion]

Fail troll levels all the way to cap? Most impressive.

What's so impressive about grinding FATEs for a couple days?