It pretty much ruined my mood for the rest of the day.


It pretty much ruined my mood for the rest of the day.
And they still complain about lack of heals!
*Sobs*


I'm looking at the fact that you did not only way more healing than the rest, but more damage as well.
To be fair, AV is quite confusing to newer players at first. I tanked for it (and even said first time) and the healer gave me all sorts of crap through the entire thing until the end boss when she said "Is this your 1st time?" (to which I said, for the 2nd time, yes). Prior to that, i kept getting snide remarks of "what kind of a bad tanks uses sword oath" (only used it on giant boss with club as i can get plenty of aggro as nearly all stats are in strength), "Stop running around so much" and "You must really hate healers". Had to tell her to chill out. End boss, I finally learned that eating fruits were the solution as the healer finally told me.
Granted, your scenario seems like it was just a stubborn experienced player. But funny side note. The healer that was giving me crap told me that I could allow 3-5 stacks before I needed to get a fruit. Until I read this, I thought that was what the norm was xD (because I dislike AV from that experience, I never went back).


Heaven's no.. anything more than 2 and the poison damage cranks up(in addition to the unavoidable AOE that adds the stacks to behind with, plus that attack that gives you a stack). At 5 stacks, you're wasting a cure II at that point. Also the BLM(new to AV) didn't give me any trouble, though I feel a little bad her first time experience ended up a terrible one.
Well, aggro isn't always the only reason to use shield oath; it does provide you with a generous defensive buff, and it's difficult to be overgeared when levelling (or synched down to level 49). On the other hand, if said healer says you can have 3-5 stacks on the last boss, I don't think they had that many issues with healing whatever damage you took on the cyclops boss even without said buff.
Yes, fully understand that shield oath has it's advantages aside from keeping better aggro. 20% dmg reduction is nothing to laugh at. But the only time I died was when I screwed up my timing to shield bash the cyclops during one of those 100 ton swings or w/e it's called. Added with the stacks, too much hp was lost. I honestly have no clue how many stacks I had when I died there
Divine Seal > Regen > Swiftcast > Medica II > Shroud of Saints (if you think, or the tank is having problems keeping hate) > POM > Spamming DPS
You're really missing out on some high ticks from DS by not casting that first.


Yeah I've moved ds to the front now. Even on small packs of 4 I'll ds+regen.
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