Quote Originally Posted by Ashkendor View Post
The only problem with this is that many fights have variations on strategies. For example, in A4 some parties have the healers take the orbs in phase 1, some some have the OT do it, and I've seen a few DPS run for them too. Not knowing which strat you're using can cause wipes even if you do know what you're doing. Too many people going for the orbs all at once leads to deaths just as surely as not enough people going for them. I know I frequently queue up for duties in a premade of 5-7 people (all in voice chat), so we expect that the 1-3 pugs will at least have the decency to listen to the strategy the rest of us are using.
Indeed. T9 was a bitch for this - there's so many variations of all the mechanics in there and when I started PFing it I found that some people had very different approaches to stuff compared to my static. But yeah, that's raiding - in dungeons this is less of an issue but annoying all the same.