Boycotting Warrior 4.0 (Let's do it!)

[xvshanevx]

Admittedly I started playing near 3.1 so I never experienced raiding in coil. But do you mind if I ask why you'd consider going solo tank from the start, since you never knew if they'd put some mechanics that require two tanks? I'm currently discussing group composition for my static in 4.0 and we won't even consider going solo tank or solo heal for that very reason: we don't know what's in there.

The solo tank strat for T8 and T9 was doable day 1 because there wasn't an actual tank swap mechanic required for the fights. There was a tank swap for the savage versions, though.

Well I guess I'm sorry to hear that. From what I've heard from my friends playing in NA/EU servers most of the time those people complaining about dps/cleric stance uptime don't even pull very high numbers anyway.

I had a similar experience with a static and the leader complained about my DPS during AS11 prog. I was about 200 less DPS than the average WAR (I was being cheap with my pots and popping into Defiance for the EDD add). We were never able to skip the Lapis stage, and so our BRD (RL) went off on me for having low DPS numbers, and that if I didn't bring up my numbers that I would be kicked. So, I told her not to waste her time and left. Seeing that we were only getting him down to 68% before phase push, I didn't think that that 200 additional DPS would be the 7% we needed to clear, so, to me, it seemed that the other DPS were not doing their bare minimum (this was, like, week two of Creator release, and all we really had were Sophi weapons).

The kicker? Saw them a month later still recruiting for a WAR (and also 2 DPS) with progression in AS11 after Lapis. She could've kept her mouth shut, kept me, and we would've been farming AS12 now. Eh, found a better group anyways for Stormblood.

But, ya, the NA mentality for Tank/Healer DPS, especially for players like me, feels more like a scapegoat for bad DPS to blame others for their short comings.