so I got kicked today for...

[VirusChris]

You're still not helping the overall situation though is what I'm saying. Maybe you wouldn't have been too slow if you had access to summoner abilties and used an actual dps pet. In the end when it boils down to that, you're a dps that's not dpsing. I mean you even know this and admitted that you'd run into problems, you should be expecting this sort of flank for playing an arcanist with topaz; I don't understand why you find the need to need to vent about that after getting kicked for purposely not pulling your weight.

You would've probably saved the group anyway if you were pulling your weight in damage to get those hourglasses down with the occasional raises (because a summoner can raise just as well as an arcanist) . The bottom line is that you're not more than likely not capable of so because you don't have the means to.

What? What, what, what? Hold on a second how exactly wasn't he pulling his own weight?

That's nothing. I was running WoD once and got a really bad group. We very nearly wiped during the Ahriman fight, and the only reason we didn't is because I had to spend most of the fight reviving our healers and tanks, (across the entire alliance), rather than DPSing.

Did you guys not read this part? The Tanks and Healers were dropping like flies and it was all 3 alliances and he was doing his best to revive them and heal them with the Weakness debuff on them and their TP and MP on low reserves... they're going to have a rough time without some backup or support and it seems like he was helping them stay alive during the fight otherwise it was going to be a wipe.

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No one killed hourglasses and they manage to clear the fight it seems. Sure it was a rough start, but he was keeping the team afloat and had to discard DPSing to do it.

You'd do MORE DPS if you ran as a summoner, or more utility/heals if you ran as a scholar.
It doesn't matter if you're "better" than someone else, you're purposely playing with a stacked deck against yourself.
You're doing decent DPS, that's fine (though outdamaging a bard is nothing to write home about) but you're purposefully and knowingly gimping yourself and thus, your raid. You're trying to "non-specialize" in a game with streamlined classes.

Excuse me? Again did you not read the part where all the Tanks and Healers in all 3 alliances dropped? He went out of his way to pick them back up and it wasn't hourglass that killed them, mostly Doom as they weren't watching the Mortal Gaze move.

See, this what I don't understand. You play like a scholar, but you don't want to queue as a scholar. You keep saying that you're the one pulling the group through, when chances are, you're also contributing to why the group is falling so behind in the first place; again using the first WoD boss as an example, the adds will do evil eye which will chunk your party if they don't die fast enough. I could be the last person alive in the party for all I care, it means jack shite if its because the fight is taking too long to finish because overall dps is low.

I can appreciate you trying to play the class differently, but it gets kind of frustrating when you keep defending yourself as this guy who does above-and-beyond to pull their group through. Don't victimize yourself and expect people to ostracize you or even kick you for something like this. I'm sorry but this is one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to people.

Wow, yeah. Um... I rather have a teammate help out their team when the tables turn on them when we lose a Tank or Healer by an unfortunate event and support them until they can get back to doing their job when their reserves are back to optimal levels and depending on the situation focus on helping the team before going back to add unless the add or mechanic is going to do major damage then the focus back on that.