First run-through of Aurum Vale

[seekified]

The only time I like AV is when I tank it myself, but that's because pull control is everything in AV. I think it's a blast as a WAR as there's a lot of mob management. As a DPS though, I find that things go wrong a little too often. It remains one of the few dungeons that is actually somewhat challenging at this point though, which is because of the harsh level sync and need for tight play.

So yeah, I like AV quite a bit but it draws out the control freak in me. :P

[technole]

For my WHM zodiac drop quest I always went as WAR in AV to change it up. Now I will gladly admit going as WAR made it a more tolerable dungeon. I blame past experience I guess. Although going as WHM wasn't too bad with the holy spam when it was needed.

On the WAR side of things though when I randomly queued I will admit I saw a lot of poor DPS rotations. Granted this is late-leveling dungeon where most of everyone's bread-and-butter skills are still a few levels away. Still doesn't excuse the fact that the longer everything lives the more painful it feels. Healers were pretty good for the most part when I didn't take a bigger pull that could wet their pants, lol.

[lvlagmarink]

It's a fun crazy hectic place to heal.. Especially when the tank and dps pull everything.. Everytime i go there as a healer, i always working out my burr debuff to reach the maximum debuff as many as possible (9 are the max).. And people are calling me crazy.. -_(-_-)_-

[Theodin_Morgoth]

I allowed a party of very helpful and patient people wipe 10 times in that freaking dungeon tonight. It was my first time tanking it, I was all ready level 50, iLVL at 53 as I just hit it two nights ago, and decided to work on my relic quest. Course I needed to complete AV to continue it. I never had an embarrassment like that as a tank, ever. I always did very well as a Tank in every other dungeon i been in but this one...this one made me very mad at myself.

I can only be grateful the other 3 players were so helpful and so willing to continue getting me through, but being so late, me being so tired, and getting so frustrated, it was not becoming a good mix. I'll be happy only after I get out of AV.

[Iagainsti]

I allowed a party of very helpful and patient people wipe 10 times in that freaking dungeon tonight. It was my first time tanking it, I was all ready level 50, iLVL at 53 as I just hit it two nights ago, and decided to work on my relic quest. Course I needed to complete AV to continue it. I never had an embarrassment like that as a tank, ever. I always did very well as a Tank in every other dungeon i been in but this one...this one made me very mad at myself.

I can only be grateful the other 3 players were so helpful and so willing to continue getting me through, but being so late, me being so tired, and getting so frustrated, it was not becoming a good mix. I'll be happy only after I get out of AV.

You'll be happy to know then, outside of Coil, there is no run quite like AV.

[Edellis]

I loved Aurum Vale. Great mechanics, fun environment, fun bosses, great EXP. I wish all the dungeons were like it.

After falling asleep through the other braindead, autopilot dungeons, it was such a great wiff of toxic gold.

[Baditude]

I recently did AV for the first time. I'm a FF nUb and my only class so far is a tank. I have to say that as tank I hated that place. You pull one mob and the entire room swarms you while mushrooms climb up your rectum, all while standing in golden pools of screw you.

[VargasVermillion]

I recently did AV for the first time. I'm a FF nUb and my only class so far is a tank. I have to say that as tank I hated that place. You pull one mob and the entire room swarms you while mushrooms climb up your rectum, all while standing in golden pools of screw you.

Everyday first experience, although dungeons like SV should of taught you to pull mobs in small numbers. Compared to most late game dungeons AV is one of the best in the game imo. Wish we had more like it.

[Flett117]

I ran it for the first time last night and we did okay and in pretty quick time, we did wipe once but that was because the healer didn't notice that the troll was swinging his bat. BUT! Our tank was a dick and died like 4 times because he was a dick. We didn't wipe 3 times because the blm and myself (dragoon) were able to survive. The tank liked to pull as much shit as possible because he was geared and just thought we could handle it all, the rest of us were 47 or just hit 50. He was a good tank though, he knew where to pull things but when he got bored with just the three mobs on us, he would GO and pull another three or more. No we wouldn't get aggroed he went out of his way to pull them. Then when he died for his fourth time he yelled at us. We're thinking you're the one who pulled all those mobs dick. He, yelled because we wernt focusing on one mob but that's tough when their all jammed together and he didn't number them.

[ExiaQuanta]

IMO,

I believe the hate for Aurum Vale comes mostly from the first room as that is the room with the most dangerous pulls (I remember back during launch period, more than 15mins spent trying to clear first room). For lv47-49, the dungeon hits pretty hard and well....if you pull stuff accidentally it can go pretty bad. For example, I believe the first pull in the dungeon is 2 wolfs + 1 Toad, you can accidentally pull 2 of the 4 jellyfish patrol behind toad. Also, having herp derp tanks who think they can pull more than 2 (IMO 2 is pushing in this certain dungeon) groups, it also can get pretty ugly.

It just one of those dungeon where it has to be taken pretty slow in the beginning to be a bit enjoyable.