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    Arcanist Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by Rufalus View Post
    You have to be very careful with your words when telling people what to do and telling them what they did wrong, it's easy to upset someone. If you say "why didn't you do xxx?" it can come across like you are telling them off and it might be the case that they were really trying hard to do as instructed but simply made a mistake. A good way to help would be to remind people of the plan without calling out anyone in particular: "ok good try, don't forget to xxx".
    I was nice to people, before each fight I would explain the mechanics and everyone's role. "OK, tanks for this fight, please position the boss front away from the party. DPS, your job is to kill the ads, and during boss jumping phase stick on the marked person. At 50% you need to interrupt"

    Its just after I spent the time explaining to everyone, nicely, I see a DPS ignoring ads, just sits there during jump phase without moving, not doing interrupts. At this point this person is either
    1) trolling, or
    2) doesn't understand something I said or a mechanic ... so I ask "does everyone understand their roles?" and I need a verbal confirmation before we continue if there are questions from everyone, because you are wasting other peoples time at that point.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ed_N_Ants View Post
    Actually from your words it sounds like you were being an asshole and belittling people then stopping the progression of the team... Honestly the tank probably started the vote because he was ready to go and you were stopping the situation... You should't be targeting someone specifically and then treating them like a little kid... You yelled at them so they most likely felt like shit and then you stood over them like a parent expecting them to acknowledge what you said... You deserved the boot and it was well justified... Seriously this is not a troll post it's reality
    Honestly our smooth run up to that point was largely because of me. I explained everything everyone should be doing in every phase, these people were all new to the dungeon, so we never wiped even with strange mechanics like 1st and 2nd boss (3rd boss is pretty easy and you can just roll your head across the keyboard). They may get lucky in the DF and get a healer who has done this before, or maybe they could read the mechanics I wrote and be able to follow them even after I was kicked, though they didn't when I was there, but otherwise they will fail the dungeon and their entire run will be a waste for no myths.
    Quote Originally Posted by Delorean View Post
    Brutal Swing has never had a cooldown of 40 seconds. It has been 20 seconds since 2.1. Because I don't trust other players to interrupt, I usually ask the tank (or choose to because i am the tank) to ignore the adds and focus on interrupting lunatic voice.

    I do not think you should be questioning your ability to communicate with your party. That is fine.

    But when I played World of Warcraft, there was always a divide between players. Some of these people would rather fail without being criticized. They don't care how bad they are doing, they do not want to be criticized.

    I feel like some people think that I am making something out of nothing when I tell them the best policy for not being kicked from a party is to remain silent unless being kicked is worth it.
    a Tank (WAR/PDL) can interrupt, PLD actually can do it off GCD, which is best. WAR is on gcd, and 20sec recast time, so it isn't ideal. Also, I explained the WAR about this and he wasnt' able to do it. 2 BRD's have interrupt OFF GCD, that is why they should both be paying attention, at least with 3 people it should get interrupted near 100%.
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    Last edited by Squa; 01-19-2014 at 10:39 AM.