<Odin Rant> Ridiculous....

[TraeSnow]

The issue with relying on DoTs is that all mobs can only have 2 bars of debuffs and DoTs are considered a debuff. With my experience as a SMN, I am finding it hard to even maintain one DoT on Odin due to everyone spamming theirs on it along with other debuffs. He can appear for me the entire duration of the fate and I can never apply my DoTs, honestly I think this needs to change for classes that rely on DoTs for damage. A mob has 2 full bars of debuffs so I can't attack him? I get why they put it at 2 bars, I do but it is just frustrating trying to do Behemoth and Odin for SMN (And maybe bards due their Bloodletter reset) because DoTs will virtually never be on there. 2 SMN DoTs require a cast, the other is instant but has a huge delay effect due to animation and we are competing with classes that each have 2 DoTs and are instant. (Disregarding cnj and thm without thundercloud) Spamming Ruin + Garuda doesn't even give remotely enough contribution to even hit bronze.

[Mysteltain]

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There's also an issue where there are so many people actually hitting it that your attacks don't register. As a BLM, I could be nailing him with Fire III, but I will never receive an Astral Fire, even though my attacks are hitting. It's pretty frustrating.

[CalvatE]

There's also an issue where there are so many people actually hitting it that your attacks don't register. As a BLM, I could be nailing him with Fire III, but I will never receive an Astral Fire, even though my attacks are hitting. It's pretty frustrating.

This is just server lag as a whole. As a WHM, when I try to cast Regen on myself or any other buff, it may not register sometimes.

[TraeSnow]

There's also an issue where there are so many people actually hitting it that your attacks don't register. As a BLM, I could be nailing him with Fire III, but I will never receive an Astral Fire, even though my attacks are hitting. It's pretty frustrating.

I had the same issue. I tried to switch to my 50 bard to do Odin and Straight Shot crit buff would never proc on me. I didn't even make bronze yet a friend of mine who d/c during Odin then came back and just used hit Odin a few times got Bronze.

I honestly am beginning to wonder how fate participation is even calculated.