Turn 6 LOS Strategy (Quoted from French Moderator)

[Cyrus-Wallace]

You can dodge casting spells placing you behind the boss, like thunder III on the first boss AK, or abilities as Garuda or the first boss on "Lost City".
I did one time haukke manor hm has tank, and the last boss cast the thunder, turn and hits me. I dk if you can dodge or not.

Negative, commander. You can't dodge these attacks in Haukke HM. All you can do, is stun them/silence them in order to build your LB and ONLY before she eats the first add. Then you can't stun/silence her anymore. But yeah, you can dodge almost every cast/magic attack by going to the enemy's back.

Intopic: I don't see how is that a exploit. Is a different tactic and you can mess it up as well. It requires timing. it's like stacking giants in T7. You stack 4 giants and they don't spawn anymore. Or you can kill one giant and petrify the other one. Tactics are tactics. If they work for you, so be it.

[LeonBlade]

It's not really an exploit, but it's definitely not the same as dodging slipstream... Slipstream is designed to be dodged, LOS method is to avoid handling the mechanics while avoiding the negative side effects. It's also very easy to mess up if you have poor timing. I remember seeing a video explaining how the method work, and ironically the tank was devoured. Anyways, yeah... not an exploit, it's way easier to just sit in the patches than worry about LOS anyways, people have their own way of handling mechanics, and this seems fine to me... I completely disagree with the enrage method in T2 mainly because it's stupid and now NO one seems to know how to handle it, making farming T2 a living hell.

Also, it has nothing to do with elitism... it's just someone asking a simple question, calling that elitism is like calling people who use the LOS method special snowflakes.

[Limecat]

You probably shouldn't be taking anything said in that thread without a few four-inch cubes of salt.

[HumsterMKX]

Wait.... is this started because someone watched a guide on youtube, and think everything needs to be done that way?

[Hik0]

Also, it has nothing to do with elitism... it's just someone asking a simple question, calling that elitism is like calling people who use the LOS method special snowflakes.

you didnt read the french thread, they call it the LOSer strat, call people using it noobs unable to do the right method ....

they report it as a bug also ask to sanction player who used it

so yes IMO that is elitism.

[HumsterMKX]

Everytime a 12 year old misuse the term "elitist", a kitten is being killed somewhere in the world.

For the sake of those kittens who never did anything to you, please stop abusing of that term without knowing what it truely means.



Sincerely.

Great! Now is my chance to get rid of small furry stuff.

*says elitist x 5789765 times*
*sees the sentense "12year old"*

Damnit! Aging took away my chance!

[HumsterMKX]

you didnt read the french thread, they call it the LOSer strat, call people using it noobs unable to do the right method .... so yes IMO that is elitism.

Well... maybe some of us go attack that thread in another language, probably they will /delete the thread and run away...

[Skapoc]

If LOS is an exploit then every enemy that has interrupted my cast by ending up behind me for whatever reason is exploiting too. The rules should apply to both enemies and players(which they currently do); if you aren't facing the target, you can't hit the target.

[NJA]

Now I'm worried. I move out of red circles when they appear. Is that against ToS?

[Radacci]

you didnt read the french thread, they call it the LOSer strat, call people using it noobs unable to do the right method ....

they report it as a bug also ask to sanction player who used it

so yes IMO that is elitism.

in both cases you avoid getting devoured, so both makes you a looser then...lol.
whatever works, is fair game, regardless if SE intended it to be used that way or not. There's NIN tanks in XI (not by design choice from SE side) Is that to be considered exploit then also, just cause SE didn't intend for NIN to be tank?
It's just idiocy to claim that one method, is the ONLY right method.