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    TaleraRistain's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Saphyra_Morwyn View Post
    Here, it's alliance A that goes into the belly while C takes care of the wolfsbanes. With this wave of new players though, WoD has started being a wipefest that some ppl try to avoid again.
    A = adds, B = belly, C = chains for us
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    Quote Originally Posted by RyuDragnier View Post
    What time are you going through this stuff at? I have not seen any of this in Primal in a long long time.
    Hmmm, it is most varied even for just myself. I try to play when it late because the experience is better then. Friends (I get many stories from them) play at times most random. The agreement is that prime hours 4 - 12pm EST. Weekends are not so good too.

    Quote Originally Posted by Niimura View Post
    I don't know what kind of experience you've been having but 90% of that video it's the same in Aether and Chaos DCs (the 2 where I most played).
    Me and partner and family have had not the best time on NA.

    Quote Originally Posted by Niimura View Post
    it doesnt look like you had enough experience with hunt trains in NA.
    I probably do need more time with them. The first two experiences were so bad that I did not wish to try again. I did have smaller experience with hunts and forgot to remember. The smaller groups to kill single A or S rank were much nicer.

    Quote Originally Posted by Niimura View Post
    Sometimes there ARE some players who actually dont wait players viewing cutscenes, I agree
    Our luck seems bad with this, very very bad. It was not always this way when we first started playing this I will say but it did happen.

    Quote Originally Posted by Niimura View Post
    You will not be greeted every time you do a duty
    I was raised to greet in relaxed social situations so this is shock or was. In JP it is considered more disrespectful not to greet others even with simple bow.

    Quote Originally Posted by Niimura View Post
    it is always full of sprouts and players who do not know how to tank properly (especially now with the new wave of players), spinning the boss is not a behaviour we do for fun.
    Ohhh perhaps aye but myself and family or friends do try to look for other sprouts. The last World of Darkness had only four new players and all three tanks were in ilvl 520 plus. They spun away though and died lots to doom.

    Quote Originally Posted by Niimura View Post
    for us this would just look like you're an impatient player or being salty.
    This is major point of contention between English and JP I feel. JP values efficiency and outcome more so three wipes is not efficient clear time anymore. Instead JP would prefer to try with new party instead of explaining in duty what each member could do better. In NA (I do not have EU experience) it is different how party finder and duty finder is used. JP duty finder is used for farm and clear which three wipes is not, that is practice so you use party finder. If NA adopted this there would be no mentors upset about fifty minute EX primals.

    Quote Originally Posted by Niimura View Post
    I'm not here picking on you, I'm just in shock that your experience in NA is SO different from the one I have and I'm sure I'm not the only one here.
    I do not think you were, this was a friendly post to me! I am surprised too and upset for my friends because I promised them a fun experience. We do try to play together only now so it is not as bad anymore.

    I would like to reply to others but the post is already so darn long! I wish to give some JP perspective to NA, I feel it would help. Many things NA considers JP doing to be rude JP is not done out of malice or xenophobia. We have way of doing things that is proven working so they stick with that.

    To answer one additional thing, I play mostly on the NA server Primal now because this is where I moved. JP would give high ping but I am almost willing to accept this. Covid and finances and family make moving back to JP difficult.

    Edit; I messed up the quotes because I can be special at the times.
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    Last edited by MiaShino; 08-23-2021 at 01:50 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
    A = adds, B = belly, C = chains for us
    And when we were smarter/it was more current it was, ""All" DPS go into the belly." Tanks and Heals deal with Cerb/adds. When that used to be common, the stomachs would die so much more quickly. ABC strat is all people remember though, cause it's easy to remember. Which is kinda bad news if all of the bad DPS are in B. Though, at least as I remember it, there was more of a preference for ABC on Aether and an All DPS preference on Primal.

    I think it ultimately fell out of favor because only 8 people can actually enter... I think? Not sure (Always thought it was at least 12, having entered the belly and seen other people not in my party enter no problem). But even so, nowadays ABC gets employed, it always seems like people on NA don't actually want to go into the belly because of the DPS loss from shrinking. Or they just don't know. As helpful as the mnemonic is for divvying up duties, it doesn't explain the mechanics, heh.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
    And when we were smarter/it was more current it was, ""All" DPS go into the belly." Tanks and Heals deal with Cerb/adds. When that used to be common, the stomachs would die so much more quickly. ABC strat is all people remember though, cause it's easy to remember. Which is kinda bad news if all of the bad DPS are in B. Though, at least as I remember it, there was more of a preference for ABC on Aether and an All DPS preference on Primal.

    I think it ultimately fell out of favor because only 8 people can actually enter... I think? Not sure (Always thought it was at least 12, having entered the belly and seen other people not in my party enter no problem). But even so, nowadays ABC gets employed, it always seems like people on NA don't actually want to go into the belly because of the DPS loss from shrinking. Or they just don't know. As helpful as the mnemonic is for divvying up duties, it doesn't explain the mechanics, heh.
    Holy necro thread, but since someone else necro'd it, I'll say on this that a lot of the time on Aether everyone and their brother wants to go into the belly now and nobody wants to do adds. I've found myself tanking them a lot as either a healer or dps.
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