My Experience With Alexander Normal Yesterday As A Tank

[sayafrost]

woooolf I would come with you, I went full friend group with my main character, but with Aelya I am trying to get in with DF; ^O^/ (still missing a2, a3, a4 with her)
But gratz on taking it down!

[Nadirah]

this, i dont mind explaining once or twice but the least you can do is watch a video for a raid/trial

When the content is still super new I don't mind them not bothering, because often there aren't good guides for all roles immediately.

A month or so in? Yeah. Either watch one or man up and admit you're the new guy.

Nothing more annoying than wiping because my co tank or the healers are new, don't ask for help, don't watch videos and don't say a damn thing. Then proceed to ragequit.

Had a group do that on story Ravana earlier. Other tank held a few of us hostage after the wipe, "no cary no party" and aggrod the boss to keep us from dropping to require.

Ended up reporting his ass and getting a mostly FC run to get the new I was with(who did watch a video) their kill.

[Arabian_Wolf]

woooolf I would come with you, I went full friend group with my main character, but with Aelya I am trying to get in with DF; ^O^/ (still missing a2, a3, a4 with her)
But gratz on taking it down!

Thank you very much,

Sure thing man just pop a /tell and I can help you & Aelya with that, I still need my weekly loot.

[Sully]

A hello from a what many consider ingame and here a noob tank which I am proud of because there's a gigantic room to improve myself....

Went to A2, told them I was new, no respond (was made mostly of frenchies so no surprise)...

[Reinth]

Think of this as a bigger picture. SE started to include more depth in mechanics to this so called Story Mode of Alexander.
For those who basically only tank and spank, spam random heal, or blatantly dps without learning more to optimize their rotations to their level 60. You are "intended" to improve, by any means, causing a wipe to the group if you don't meet the tanking/healing/dps check.

[T2teddy]

Maybe not...the OP is from European world, so he may just have worded that poorly and meant he expects to encounter mostly French players? idk

[Gamer3427]

This is nothing, the first time I tired A4 was before ESO gear was out. I went in, said I was new and didn't know the fight, we wiped because someone marked one of the adds with "1" so as a DPS I naturally attacked it first, (and so did everyone else now that I think about it, because the other two adds came over as well). Immediately after I was kicked with no warning. I was enraged and made a rant thread on here, which I rarely do, but in the end stuff like that happens. For whatever reason, people in the DF will want to instantly get enraged if everyone doesn't know what they're doing from the start, and it's rare that people don't kick someone or vote to abandon after just an attempt or two, regardless of the circumstances.....

[Noxifer]

Maybe not...the OP is from European world, so he may just have worded that poorly and meant he expects to encounter mostly French players? idk

Or it could have mostly been a "no one reacted to the statement I made in English, because most of them were French non-English speakers" comment.

As for his name... This is an Arabian wolf. (For those who can't be bothered to click the link, it's a sub-species of grey wolf, found in the Arabian peninsula.) In other words, his name most likely has nothing to do with where he's from.

[Melch]

I never saw a PF for Alex normal so only option for me was to DF it.

Best thing is to make your PF and include first timers. It doesn't take more than 3 hours to learn all the turns without watching a video.

[Melch]

To be fair, I'm not too fond of the A2 "bring them together"....since some of them buff others' defence or magic defence (Hardhelm/Hardmind, respectively).

Doesn't matter what you're fond of or not. Only facts matter. If you bring them together and they're are stunned in time and debuffed accordingly they won't buff anything. That requires someone who knows how to use the car. It should also be the melee with the lowest AoE capabilities, which always lead to ninja if there's one in your party or monk if it's the only melee or if the combo is drg+mnk.