Heart Pounding Moments

[AvonRekaes]

I don't have a video of it, but I will always remember my first Stone Vigil run.

After a fairly efficient run, we ran up against a wall with the last boss. I forget what the timer is in Stone Vigil, but we must've ate like 80% of it wiping on the final boss over and over and over. We're learning bit by bit, but some people keep getting caught in the AoEs and then it all collapses, and we die.

Finally, we all make it back to the arena with only 8 minutes left. We throw ourselves into battle, and we're whittling the boss down, and I'm keeping one eye on the clock. 7 minutes. 6. 4... then things go wrong again. Our healer can't make it out of an AoE and bites it. The Paladin keeps going, knowing we can't run back to the boss and try again with only 4 minutes left, and the Boss has less than a quarter HP left. He's trying his best, healing himself, but he's going down fast. The bard pops his Limit Break to cure the tank. We're working the boss down to it's last sliver of life, when at 3 minutes... the tank finally bites it.

The boss goes after the bard next. I guess I wasn't doing DPS very well if it went aggro on him first, and for that I can only apologize to the group I was with. So the bard dies next, and now I'm the only one standing.

At first, I give up. I almost just put my controller down to start typing "Well at least we tried. Thanks for the party guys", but... I look at the Boss's health... barely a 10th of the bar left. I look at the limit gauge, and see is more than 9/10ths full again.....

So I go for it. Everyone in chat is capslocking "GO DRAGOON GO" "LBLBLBLBLBLBLBLB" while I dps the boss solo to try and fill the gauge, watching chunks of my HP disappear rapidly, and the time ticking down, and watching my hotbar'd limit break button....

At 2 minutes and 200 health left, it lights up. I jam the button as hard as I can and many more times than necessary. I sit there, heart pounding in my ears as my dragoon slowly charges up the casting gauge and I take another hit from the boss's autoattack. 50 hp left.

Braver.

(The boss dropped a Wyvern Spear. I will never ever get rid of it.)