Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[Tridus]

Having never played BRD, and only having a brief knowledge of their skills, this REALLY sounds awesome.

I just got high enough on BRD to do it and it's super cool! When the procs start flowing you're hitting RoD every couple seconds along with Quick Nock and stuff is melting. Takes a bit of time to set up and you can't do it if you're pulling fast enough that Mage's Ballad isn't up, but when it comes together? Wow.

[ChaoticCrimson]

Stand to his side at the last boss: his punch is a line aoe and his tail a cone, so you only have dodge his "beam". a good tank would tank him at a side and turn him, that his side is open to the arena. only melees have to avoid his tail, but all casters are save and can do mechanic if needed.

You know, in all the times I've run Skalla I've never once seen a tank do this and I wish they would. They always take him either dead-center facing north or all the way north facing north. As for the AoEs, I try to stay near the boss so at least the tank is safe on the ring version and go to a "corner" opposite everyone else similar to Lakshmi normal for the cross version... When the rest of the party remembers that's a thing, at least. So when both come up, the cross should hit, say, the west and south edges while the boss is on the central east side, the rest of the party either standing on the inside of the ring next to the boss or center/north outside the ring (particularly if they get the splash AoE too).

[Cakekizyy]

Yes. You're 50 when you finish 2.0, and then you've got five patches worth of stuff before 3.0 content starts, which also expected you to be 50. With five patches of XP, you're going to be not 50. If you're also doing side stuff and roulettes, you can hilariously outlevel it. A friend of mine is already 70 and hasn't even gotten to Stormblood content yet.

I was 56 when I started HW.

[Cakekizyy]

Stand to his side at the last boss: his punch is a line aoe and his tail a cone, so you only have dodge his "beam". a good tank would tank him at a side and turn him, that his side is open to the arena. only melees have to avoid his tail, but all casters are save and can do mechanic if needed.



This is how I do it

Edit: as BLM I would stand near him, because if I get the ring, I don't have to move much.

Never seen a tank do that.

[Tridus]

You know, in all the times I've run Skalla I've never once seen a tank do this and I wish they would.

Now that someone pointed it out, I will.

[Paladinleeds]

Now that someone pointed it out, I will.

Yep, I am most likely gonna do it too. I genuinely thought that between the claw and the back, each way was covered and there was no "safespot" when positioned properly, without having to move it for claw/tail. Now that I know otherwise, BRING IT ON!

[Sieben79]

of course you can tank him in the middle, but this prevents people standing everywhere. This is my tactic for full group random people. It's force them to one side, make it better for healers to reach them

I'm not 100% sure that the claw is a big line aoe, could be also a cone, but it doesn't matters.

[ovIm]

This story is a few weeks old, but I just remembered and thought i should share that.

It was in expert roulette, found myself in Skalla. Since the party was decently geared, I kept pulling all groups wall to wall. It worked without any kind of issues, except for the second pull after the first boss. You can pull a huge amount of mobs there, and soon I found myself rotationg my cooldowns and dodging aoes in the most glorious moshpit. I love that pull.

Unfortunately, on that very pull, the healer wasnt able to keep up with healing me, and we wiped. No biggie, I let the party know that that must have been too much and that I will pull a bit less now. However, thats when the healer apologized for messing up, and kindly asked me to do the same pull again so he could get more experience with this scenario, as he apparently had messed up as well.

So, on the second try, the cleared the pull without any issue whatsoever. That experience really warmed my heart, I loved the way the group handled the wipe, was able to shrug it off, and still keep a positive attitude.

[Lilseph]

Never seen a tank do that.

I do it all the time because it seemed to be the most logical thing to do. If they cleave back and front, you turn it sideways to clean the arena. Anantaboga back in AK had kinda the same strat. Keeping it that far, next to the edge, also helps for the distance-based AoE. Having the casters far away already, it will help with the DPS upkeep. You rarely see it (or don't see it at all) because people don't care about strats in dungeons.

I do care, though.

You'll also see tanks not moving the first boss outside of the "Bad" after the push/pull mechanic. It doesn't matter as long as you don't have a melee in your party. If you do, for God's sake, take it out of there... melees have positionals they can't perform if you don't move it. -.- You don't even have to move it back to the center, just to the edge and turn it sideways so the flank and rear are clear.

[RenAshdoll]

Recently encountered SAMs in Ramuh and World of Darkness that like to stand near the MT and get cleaved...... all instances being different players. While most of them only took heavy damage, the first SAM that I encountered got eletrocuted to oblivion....