"I Was Out of That!" (Some Life Lessons)

[Bluevann]

I remember my first Titan EX attempts with sorrow. No matter how hard I tried, how many guides I'd watch or how much I'd learn the rotation, eventually WotL would get me. I thought it was latency, no one believed me. I have been scorned and insulted, told the worst kinds of stuff I thought I'd ever hear over a videogame.

Then someone told me of WTFast, so I gave it a try and, what do you know? I cleared Titan EX on my first attempt. I was so glad, because I had been told so many bad things, I had come to think I was actually a bad player, and that I'd be forever be a bad player, because what I had been doing was my very best. Thankfully it turned out that wasn't such case, and that it was really only my connection speed.

So yes, sometimes IT REALLY IS latency. Take a moment and consider that maybe people are not lying about it, before you call them liars over and over and over until they actually start to believe you and think it's their own fault.

If there's one last thing I have to say about the topic is that I hope SE learns their lesson and never makes such awful ping-check fights, because not everyone lives at the feet of a data center. I mean, seriously, I was able to clear Twintania without WTFast, and not Titan EX. That's some awfully programmed fight there.

[Purrfectstorm]

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I am not one of those players who says nasty things if someone keeps dying. I don't believe that is ever helpful. Nor do I think players who say they are lagging are lying. I just don't care why the issue exists. It exists, it's causing a problem, and it's pulling everyone else down.

That being said, you exemplify many of the things I was talking about in my OP: you thought you were bad (fixed mindset), you had started to believe what others were telling you (internal critic), BUT importantly, you looked for a solution and found one (personal accountability). Props for your doing this. Players can and should find other solutions than queuing into DF and hoping 7 other players will carry them.