Syrcus Tower Woes

[Nabian]

Gotten a few clears of Syrcus Tower now...and for the life of me I can't figure out why some groups are having difficulty with this. The mechanics are self explanatory if you at least pretend you have a brain.

Anyone else notice that most of the player base is incapable of raid awareness?

[ruskie]

Welcome to "watch a video on youtube" generation *shudder*.(and this is my first mmorpg but I don't watch videos unless it's something I really can't figure out on my own or with my team).

I decided the first time I'll be going in as a healer... had a blm that ate each and every aoe and had a bard that was ALWAYS on the other side of the field far away from the team to recieve ANY AoE heals - hell had to run after him for single target heals as well.

[OPneedNerfs]

Judging from the amount of people I've seen and heard of that don't understand even Ramuh HM's mechanics, yes, most of the players in this game don't learn fast.

What that means is either they need to have someone point it out to them or get hit by said mechanics more number of times than others before they realize it.

[Brill_]

And then there are those that expect everyone to be an expert at a dungeon that's been out for less than 24 hours.

[Grotesque]

And then there are those that expect everyone to be an expert at a dungeon that's been out for less than 24 hours.

Yes it is cleared and outdated content now. Time to get a new patch

[Hysterior]

cleared it but not 100% on some mechanics still lol

[ruskie]

And then there are those that expect everyone to be an expert at a dungeon that's been out for less than 24 hours.

No I don not expect them to be an expert. I don't even expect them to understand the mechanics. I do expect them to be able to figure out that standing in an AoE or being hit by an avoidable attack is something they should not be doing(atleast not more than once). Also being aware of your team and where they generally are spread around is helpful as it means a healer doesn't suddenly need to drop everything and run to the other side of the field to heal little 'ol you that decided to be there.

Tanks seem to ignore the adds as well - which I can understand in certain cases but not when you need one MT and 2 OTs are there doing dps instead of looking around to see if adds will spawn.

[Eltaire]

I ran it for the first time last night with all Alliance members also being new.

We collectively figured out the mechanics of all the bosses together, and beat it on that run. Sure, we had a few wipes, but we learned from our mistakes, and learnt how to control the battle. I was lucky to have such a good group.

The second Alliance however, continued to fail over and over, on Scylla.

Even after explaining how the orbs worked, and the mechanic that was similar to the formerly named Acheron, people still ran around like crazy people when they were tagged with ice or fire orbs. /facepalm.

[Synestr]

My first and only (sadsauce,,,worksucks) run in ST last night was a blast. Was PLD and we had a good group. We were all learning together. Only one or two of the alliance had completed, and only once. Scylla was fun, once everyone understood what to do, Wiped to ..her?, twice. Glasya was interesting. Took a few wipes for everyone to understand how the knights worked. After we got that down it was cake. Amon was a one shot. I basically tank and spanked em. He has a KB style intermission and was rather easy to down. Plus he has an epic outfit... Xande was a nice cap to the whole run. Took people a few mins to understand how the orbs worked.

All in all it was a great run. Everyone played smart and did pay attention.

I am sure this evening I'll get some that aren't so apt.

Here's hoping for the best!

Syn

[ToukonEvia]

What a pointless and pretentious thread by the OP. Please, oh great one, teach us to be as perceptive as you are.