Why do DPS not use Limit Break anymore?

[Rhindas]

Often DPS don't use the LB on-demand because it's not a safe time in the fight to do so. LB roots you in place for a rather long time and can very often lead to you dying if used at the wrong moment. I've had it happen to me quite often when I've mistimed the safe period in a fight or caved into the demands of tanks/healers that don't know what they're saying.

Yep, I will not use the LB when I know the boss is about to do an attack or jump away. I've done these fights too much I have their telegraphs in my head. I like to call it Titan PTSD.

Example from Rabanastre last night: on Hashbrown (yes I'm still calling him that) we got LB back after the golems, and he was around 5% or so, but no one was using it so the RDM started spamming "LB". He got tired of waiting. And then *squish*. And I'm not sure it even worked since the boss jumped away to use that fire axe half room attack after the double pillars (yay vague descriptors) before the LB animation finished.

[Sylvina]

Tank LB3 always when most of the party is dead, that'll help right? lol.

[Alestorm]

It might be that this expansion tanks and healers are often the ones to use LB in end game fights, and it's been long enough some DPS maybe forget to use it in 4-man content.

[TheMightyMollusk]

In 4-player content, since you can't get the third bar, LB is basically useless on bosses. It's a big flashy hit, at the cost of interrupting your rotation. In 8-player, usually you're too busy doing something else to stand still long enough for the attack to go off. In 24-player, you're too busy watching the other alliances screw up.

Unless you're just doing it purely for shits and giggles, there's usually not much point.

[Riardon]

Because it hardly matters anymore. Most of the time it barely scratches bosses.
It's useful only in some particular fights and moments.
I think that the LB system needs to be revised.
Make it a personal recourse so that everyone can use it without fear or make the damage proportional to the enemy's total HP so it can nuke a visible HP bar part.

[Dzian]

there's also the element of timing that some players will consider and general practicality. and sometime i just like to hold em for specific things.

in some dungeons like sohm all hard for example i tend to time the caster LB to smash the second set of adds that comes from the last bosses hiss. basically kills emsbefore theyve even fully spawned if timed right. or vaarious points in some alliance raids where a brds lb2 can make a trash fight go much faster assuming none wasted the lb3 on a 1% boss.

timing is also important. there's times where i've had players spam LB3 in the chat box dozens of times when i'm on a healer. they can almost throw an absolute rage about it. and are so impatient.. earleir today i had a11n in raid roulette virtually everyone died to is it photon?? anyway all screaming at me to do healer lb3 and I generally ignore them because i'm more concerned with shielding the tank and the imminent optical sight and don't particularly want to be animation locked when it goes off.

Can't even begin to tell you how many times i've seen people use limit breaks at the worst possible moment... healer lb3s literally milleseconds before sophia ex does tilts and all those freshly raised bodies just slide straight off the edge..... or in lakshmi only to watch them get punted right off the arena because they didnt have a vril...

or dps pressing lb3 just as a mechanic starts to go off and ends up killing them becuase there animation locked....

often it's not that players won't use lbs. it's just a differing opinion in whens best to use it. which ties in with earlier replies. its not that melee wont use a lb. often its justthey think it'll be put to better use on a trash pull...

[Fynlar]

Often DPS don't use the LB on-demand because it's not a safe time in the fight to do so. LB roots you in place for a rather long time and can very often lead to you dying if used at the wrong moment. I've had it happen to me quite often when I've mistimed the safe period in a fight or caved into the demands of tanks/healers that don't know what they're saying.

Also a DPS in the middle of a burst is not going to waste the burst using LB as soon as it comes up. If the LB meter ticks over just after I've used Riddle of Fire, for example, imma wait till my fire goes out before using the LB.

Both of these are big contributors to my "yes yes, I know to LB, shut up and stop hassling me about it" moments.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

When I was leveling DRG, I got shamed for using LB3 on Nabriales instead of saving the Tank LB3 for Meteor.

So I'm guessing stuff like that?

[Kahnom]

It doesn’t matter if DPS use LB or not.
It comes down to “Are DPS good ir not ?”
If both dps are good,then using LB won’t affect clear time that much.Adds still died pretty fast.
On the other hand,if you run with bad DPS,even caster use LB on mobs,the adds still take too long to died.

[DRKoftheAzure]

Dear Dev. Team,


Please make Limit Break an individual resource instead of shared resource since most people don't bother with unless they know they are going into encounters where using it is mandatory for clearing, but even then they would still feel bad about using it because they wiped and should have saved it for the healer anyway...


Sincerely,

The playerbase who actually play the game.


P.S. Find more uses for TP gauge and fix DRK balance, the DRK mains are getting annoyed for constantly asking for you to fix DRK. And make melee range Role actions do damage so that tanks remember those particular role actions exist.