How does one "waste" a limit break?

[Canadane]

People get way too upset regarding LB use. It's usually the people who can't think on their feet and will follow the book 100% down to wherever it was written it's important to use it when a boss has 4% HP left.

People who wanna AOE LB large pulls in dungeons, or use it to generally speed something up are always great imo and generally earn my comm.

As for your question, wasting a LB would be hitting nothing. I mean, perhaps if you guys didn't have the ability to kill Bismarck yourselves on his next capture, then yeah. But you made a call and that call was right. We need more people like you, Ninster. People that can process a situation as it happens rather than after it happens.

[Ninster]

Thanks for the responses, everyone. Seems like I don't have anything to worry about. As for my being stressed over this, it was the cherry on top of a bad day for me. Any other moment I would've just taken the comments as nothing.

[fm_fenrir]

LB is like uber in TF2. Use it early, use it often. The only wasted LB is the one you hold on to when you could have used it to clear the fight.

[TSLsmokey]

LB is like uber in TF2. Use it early, use it often. The only wasted LB is the one you hold on to when you could have used it to clear the fight.

Or one that completely misses the boss. Yeah that happened to me multiple times. That bard just figured that he didn't want to move after activating it and the boss moved out of the way a good amount of time before it fired off.

[Maero]

You did the right thing and by the sounds of it the group was barely capable of killing adds, soo they would have needed to be critiqued instead, lol

[LilLemay]

Kirito Uchihara just wanted his anime finisher.

Oh my god... Kirito Uchihara..

On Topic:

In my FC we have a saying that goes ''But did we wipe?" and as long as you can't say yes to that, unless you ROYALLY messed up things, we don't have hard feelings

[Tsilyi]

Or one that completely misses the boss. Yeah that happened to me multiple times. That bard just figured that he didn't want to move after activating it and the boss moved out of the way a good amount of time before it fired off.

It's more likely they just completely missed from the beginning with their aim. I have aimed at bosses with ranged or caster limit break and then had the boss move out right after and it still hits.

[TSLsmokey]

It's more likely they just completely missed from the beginning with their aim. I have aimed at bosses with ranged or caster limit break and then had the boss move out right after and it still hits.

When the AOE appeared for the LB, the boss was still inside it. However the boss moved out about 3 seconds afterwards and the Bard didn't move to interrupt. I do suppose that lag could've been a problem though.

[Werhusky]

Only wasted LB is if you do it in an invulnerable phase of the boss or like in Ravy in shieldphase where you have that difference of doing 1-2% in shield to 8-10% in swordphase...
Well and if the mobs were dead anyway

Soooo many melee refuse to use LB anyway (My stacks, My BOTD, My Huton ^^). And in a HM shouldn't matter at all and even in all curret content everything about LB use is optional... many ways lead to a kill

You did nothing wrong OP you did all right by using the LB at all (plus the adds can make you lose the island)

[ruskie]

Sounds like a fair judgement call. I'm amused I made a melee cry because I as bard used a LB. We were all waiting on the melee to use it - someone called out limit break - we wait 30s - nobody uses it. I pop it. One of the melee goes "no!!!!".

It's like seriously? Just use it next time don't sit on it when it's lb3 at 40%... If lucky you'll get a LB1 for your flashy finish.