Tunnelling?

[NationalVelvet]

Hey guys,

Heard a new one yesterday (for me at least). Defeated a dungeon boss but at the end one guy sent a message saying "stop tunneling". I even looked up the phrase on google and found nothing. I played as normal and never had a complaint before.

What does the term mean anyone?

[Mjollnir]

Could it be analogous to speedrunning, ie 'tunnel-vision'? The player might have wanted to fight all the mobs in the dungeon for XP perhaps?

Other than that, no idea!

[Ashelia_Ferron]

Were you ignoring mechanics or something? There's "tunnel visioning" where you focus so hard on your DPS rotation that you ignore what else is going on in the fight or don't do certain things properly

[Mimilu]

Did you focus just on the boss and not the adds? Or maybe just focusing on one enemy at a time versus using AoEs?

[NationalVelvet]

There were no adds just the boss at that stage. But I understand now where the term comes from, probably the guy used it out of context.

[Whiteroom]

Probably talking about tunnel vision on stuff and ignoring mechanic/not dodging just to get more dps.

He also may not have been referring specifially to that boss, the overall run.

[Mimilu]

There were no adds just the boss at that stage. But I understand now where the term comes from, probably the guy used it out of context.

Do you remember what fight it was? >o>

[CGMidlander]

Do you remember what fight it was? >o>

If they were tunneling hard enough, probably not.

[ANG3L2701]

Don't forget that as a BLM, your duty is always use AoE spells to damage/kill as much enemies as possible as soon as possible, of course after tank pulls them.
Also don't forget to leave enough mp on your last rotation to use Flare at least once or whenever you see the mobs are with low hp to kill them all at once.
Like people already quoted here don't forget to follow mechanics on each dungeon or boss since most of them are different depending on which one you are.
One last tip that always have worked for me will be to always check a visual guide online before enter a dungeon or trial to know exactly what to do especially with bosses.
Take care and see you in game.

[NationalVelvet]

Yeah I have a pretty good workflow process where I end each MP exhaustion with Flare and swap buffs to get my MP back within a few seconds and swap again to begin Fire 2.