Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[SenorPatty]

I hate getting queued into runs where the salt energy is too high.

Got queued into doma castle as sage. The GNB says hes gonna superbolide on the first pull. So i was like...why if you're not about to die?
He says "so healers can do more damage". Ok, so you want me to leave you at 1hp and dps? He also didn't grab all the aggro off one dps so they died.

What is wrong with these minmaxing elitist people who want to create this tension in a dungeon that is already scaled to oblivion?

Playing gnb actively this year after I dismissed it entirely after it's release, I can say that strat is only worth it with WHM. Superbolide is a "oh crap" skill, not a repeat usage like HG and making any healer that doesn't have a bene-like ability available right at the start is just making heals ironically spend time healing rather than dpsing.

I would know, I've specifically done this with all the healers as a gnb in level 81+ content and I got (rightfully) reamed by one of them. I can only say my curiosity was satisfied and I haven't done it since, even to whms.

EDIT: Now that I think about, bene-bolide for whm dps can still be a poor strat because if gnb bolides immediately on first pull, whm's 5sec holy stun (4sec on first holy, 1 sec on second) is wasted due to bolide invuln. To truly maximize, gnb would have to let the holy stuns go through, then bolide and believe me, this sequence I've rarely seen in pug.

Minmaxer elitist or no, just sounds like calculations gone bad.

[Kolsykol]

Playing gnb actively this year after I dismissed it entirely after it's release, I can say that strat is only worth it with WHM. Superbolide is a "oh crap" skill, not a repeat usage like HG and making any healer that doesn't have a bene-like ability available right at the start is just making heals ironically spend time healing rather than dpsing.

I would know, I've specifically done this with all the healers as a gnb in level 81+ content and I got (rightfully) reamed by one of them. I can only say my curiosity was satisfied and I haven't done it since, even to whms.

EDIT: Now that I think about, bene-bolide for whm dps can still be a poor strat because if gnb bolides immediately on first pull, whm's 5sec holy stun (4sec on first holy, 1 sec on second) is wasted due to bolide invuln. To truly maximize, gnb would have to let the holy stuns go through, then bolide and believe me, this sequence I've rarely seen in pug.

Minmaxer elitist or no, just sounds like calculations gone bad.

GNB using superbolide immediately on pull sounds very bizarre to me.
If I tried this I'd probably pop a CD and use my self-heal and try to drag it out as much as possible and pop it right as I was about to die.