Syrcus Tower Woes

[Nabian]

Gotten a few clears of Syrcus Tower now...and for the life of me I can't figure out why some groups are having difficulty with this. The mechanics are self explanatory if you at least pretend you have a brain.

Anyone else notice that most of the player base is incapable of raid awareness?

[ruskie]

Welcome to "watch a video on youtube" generation *shudder*.(and this is my first mmorpg but I don't watch videos unless it's something I really can't figure out on my own or with my team).

I decided the first time I'll be going in as a healer... had a blm that ate each and every aoe and had a bard that was ALWAYS on the other side of the field far away from the team to recieve ANY AoE heals - hell had to run after him for single target heals as well.

[OPneedNerfs]

Judging from the amount of people I've seen and heard of that don't understand even Ramuh HM's mechanics, yes, most of the players in this game don't learn fast.

What that means is either they need to have someone point it out to them or get hit by said mechanics more number of times than others before they realize it.

[Brill_]

And then there are those that expect everyone to be an expert at a dungeon that's been out for less than 24 hours.

[Grotesque]

And then there are those that expect everyone to be an expert at a dungeon that's been out for less than 24 hours.

Yes it is cleared and outdated content now. Time to get a new patch

[ruskie]

And then there are those that expect everyone to be an expert at a dungeon that's been out for less than 24 hours.

No I don not expect them to be an expert. I don't even expect them to understand the mechanics. I do expect them to be able to figure out that standing in an AoE or being hit by an avoidable attack is something they should not be doing(atleast not more than once). Also being aware of your team and where they generally are spread around is helpful as it means a healer doesn't suddenly need to drop everything and run to the other side of the field to heal little 'ol you that decided to be there.

Tanks seem to ignore the adds as well - which I can understand in certain cases but not when you need one MT and 2 OTs are there doing dps instead of looking around to see if adds will spawn.

[Nabian]

No I don not expect them to be an expert. I don't even expect them to understand the mechanics. I do expect them to be able to figure out that standing in an AoE or being hit by an avoidable attack is something they should not be doing(atleast not more than once). Also being aware of your team and where they generally are spread around is helpful as it means a healer doesn't suddenly need to drop everything and run to the other side of the field to heal little 'ol you that decided to be there.

This is exactly my point. It's more about players being lazy (or stupid). For example on 2nd boss. You see a big flying disc roaming around the room. A normal player's first though is hmm...that might hurt if I touch it better avoid it. I don't expect players to be perfect, hell I don't even expect them to be good players. What I do expect is that they are paying attention and trying to learn the mechanics not just spamming 1 2 3 and hoping they get a clear.

[Synestr]

This is exactly my point. It's more about players being lazy (or stupid). For example on 2nd boss. You see a big flying disc roaming around the room. A normal player's first though is hmm...that might hurt if I touch it better avoid it. I don't expect players to be perfect, hell I don't even expect them to be good players. What I do expect is that they are paying attention and trying to learn the mechanics not just spamming 1 2 3 and hoping they get a clear.

The spinning pizza is funny, a BRD got hit by it and ran the same direction it was going. Needless to say there was a array of floating dmg comming out of his feathery hat and he got a first hand taste of the golden floor. It was funny to watch.

Syn

[CYoung187]

And then there are those that expect everyone to be an expert at a dungeon that's been out for less than 24 hours.

Lol the raging has been wild. It's been out a day and people are already frustrated because it isn't going smoothly. OMFG how do you not know this by now, noob?! Can't believe some of the egos in this game.

I already got my oil this week, I guess by next week everyone will have 15 min speed runs down.

[Gamex]

Oil does drop? thought I read that oil and sand were to be added later? I know UAT is a go. I have been once only so far for initial clear hence I am asking for confirmation.