Never say die...

[ZarethTolabain]

So...the other day I queued up for the Duty Roulette and found myself at the starting point for Aurum Vale...which was great for me since I needed to run it anyway for GC quest. So...extra rewards from roulette PLUS quest work...BONUS!

Now, I've never run this, but the WHM was nice enough to give some quick, concise explanations. First room and first boss were cake-walks. Easy, peazy.

Got to the second boss and was informed how THAT worked. Oh...great. Just like the big ogre thing in the Coerthas FATE...minus the warning signals on the ground. ...Lovely.

First try started out OK...but ended in party wipe with him down to roughly a third health left...give or take. OK. No problem.

Regroup. Round 2. FIGHT!

Again...we started out doing pretty well. I kept watch on his health bar like a friggin hawk for big boss's skill cast bars, ready to run for the hills at a moment's notice. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, our tank could never seem to get out of the flippin way and got clobbered almost every time...DESPITE the fact that he had that big bastard running all over the room chasing him (which needless to say was severely hurting my DPS due to chasing after him trying to get a hit in...only to have to bolt the other direction cuz he's winding up for another "Uguu SMASH" attack). Eventually...tank fall down go splat...quickly followed by the Bard (did I mention that my DPS was getting fubar'd because of trying to chase big and ugly?).

Now its just me and the WHM. And guess who he's mad at. Yup! You guessed it. It wasn't me. WHM runs a bit...stops...and tries to get rez out (has cast time cuz no swiftcast cuz already burned cuz tank already faceplanted once in the fight)...only to have to stop and run some more. At this point I'm thinking do whatever it takes to get his attention. So I start throwing knives. After about the 3rd or 4th mosquito bite to his butt...now he's mad. "OK! Got his attention. ...What the hell was step 2? ...Oh yeah...RUN!"

While I'm running around tossing daggers behind my head and the occasional lightning bolt...the WHM now has enough breathing room to raise both the tank and bard...and we manage to remove the last remaining bits of the boss's health (which btw...was down to ~20% or less when it almost went to hell cuz Assassinate was lit up for me the entire time).

We caught our breath as we sighed our collective sigh of relief.







........Then the tank quit using the excuse "I have to reset my modem"



.....................WHAT?


WHM pulled in another tank from FC and we did finish...so YAY!



What was your tight spot?

[Kamifubuki-Yoakesetsuri]

That's right android, NEVAR SAY DIE /dbz reference

[WinterSolstice]

Back last year when i90 was the best you could have and people were having trouble with Titan HM, I mained a BLM.

Long story short - I started casting LB3 right as the only other person alive (tank) died. My LB hit and titan died right as I was getting knocked over the edge by a landslide.
We got the win

Fun times.

[Morningstar1337]

Back last year when i90 was the best you could have and people were having trouble with Titan HM, I mained a BLM.

Long story short - I started casting LB3 right as the only other person alive (tank) died. My LB hit and titan died right as I was getting knocked over the edge by a landslide.
We got the win

Fun times.

I remember leveling CNJ and battling Ifrit story mode. After we killed the nail, the other party members died meaning I had to solo him from that point on. You'd be surpirsed how far Aero and Cure can take you

[Durthane]

There are a few bosses in the game that are completely helpless against kiting. The Chimera in cutters cry has always been my favorite since his abilities allow even a melee to get some DOTs and cooldowns off during his lightning charge up and be out kiting again before he can hit you.

That said there is a time to say die as well, if all thats left is a Drg/Mnk/Nin and the boss has 75% hp remaining it's probably best to just take a dive. Though if the party really is bad sometimes you just have to do it yourself. ^^

[Gimorian401]

So back on first day of 2.4 I gunned for Shiva fight. Got into it as WAR tank. i had best gear (not by much) so I was MT. On try 3 I saw how great my group was.

Shiva is down to 2%. 1 DPS and 1 Healer standing cause I just died. DPS keeps attacking while the WHM Swiftcast Ress the other healer. Both like a boss. Once the SCH is up both DPS and WHM go down from AoE. The SCH then Swiftcast Ress me.

I provoke and run in. SCH does one heal getting me to half life. I hit Shiva once bringing her to 1%. SCH goes down. First thing on chat after that "it's a wipe." After about 15 seconds it turns into 5 people screaming "GO GO GO." Down to 110hp, no cool def cooldowns, no second wind, no increase to my life I dodge one last attack use Mercy Strike and its done.

We all know that i shouldnt have lived. Half the group tell how they literally got out of their chairs screaming. Never say die....ever

[Ilenya]

I remember leveling CNJ and battling Ifrit story mode. After we killed the nail, the other party members died meaning I had to solo him from that point on. You'd be surpirsed how far Aero and Cure can take you

I'm not, because I've had to do similar things with Scathe and Physick on my THM. I could toss out a Blizzard every so often, but I rarely had the chance and only did it when I needed MP and the boss was casting.

[Martin_Arcainess]

AV always been a pain The 2nd Boss is kinda harder for Tanks since they got Swipe and Swing to dodge where as DPS just got to move away from Swing.

[MeiUshu]

AV always been a pain The 2nd Boss is kinda harder for Tanks since they got Swipe and Swing to dodge where as DPS just got to move away from Swing.

you do know right that the second boss'swing can be stuned ? right ?...so really there is nothing complicated in that one.

the only difficulty is to make people aware that ONLY the tank needs to stun it and he has only 3 possibility to stun which is enough. You only need to stun the swing the swipe can be avoided easely....so not sure why is so hard in there?

uhm ok..maybe I missed something in there
Mei

[Martin_Arcainess]

you do know right that the second boss'swing can be stuned ? right ?...so really there is nothing complicated in that one.

the only difficulty is to make people aware that ONLY the tank needs to stun it and he has only 3 possibility to stun which is enough. You only need to stun the swing the swipe can be avoided easely....so not sure why is so hard in there?

uhm ok..maybe I missed something in there
Mei

Well one is that after a while he will get Res to stun and I tend to save it for Eye of the Beholder, the one where he turns around and shots a laser.

The swipe I don't bother to Stun to me just running behind him and jobs a good-en the only time I will stun is well depends on the party, if all Range DPS then I will stun Eye Of the Beholder since Swing or Swipe wont bother them.