Quote Originally Posted by VirusChris View Post
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From the get go, if you're playing an arcanist with topaz out, you're not pulling your weight. End of story. He was raising his party, but the matter of fact is, he can also do that as a scholar and especially a summoner without suffering a loss in dps (and especially when a scholar technically can still dps more effectively than an arcanist because of cleric stance and higher mp pools). Whose to say the party got that bad in the first place because the manyu adds didn't die fast enough and chunked everyone with x2 evil eye?

Or are you going to tell me that an arcanist (who lacks 30 intellgence and fester) using a topaz will pull anywhere near the damage capability as a summoner? That extra dps could've been clutch in getting those last few hourglasses down or killing the adds before evil eyes.


As far as macros with res/virus is concerned, it's pretty important to make those calls so you don't overlap something. You can't see your party's targets without having to directly target them, and virus is extremely important in some circumstances that it needs to be called out to ensure no confusion/wasted cooldowns.

In the end though, OP did find a compromise to avoid things like this in the future, so props to him. In the end, you need to make sure there's an understanding between both parties. Don't push the envelope when people ask you the first time around, and certainly don't victimize/act surprised when they finally do retaliate.