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    Player Beckett's Avatar
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    The first thing to do is look up guides on dungeons before you enter them. It takes far less time for you to read a guide ahead of time than it does for someone to type out the rules for every encounter.

    As far as speedrunning is concerned, most of the folks running these dungeons have already been through them dozens of times and want to get through them as quickly as possible, however trying to speedrun with a low geared/leveled tank, healer or even DPS can actually make the dungeon take longer if you're constantly wiping to big pulls. If that is happening, then let your party know that, because you are new and don't have the survivability/healing ability/damage output of an ilevel capped player, it would be faster to do small pulls and survive, than do large pulls and wipe.

    If you aren't wiping, and your only complaint is that things are too hectic, then seriously, get over it. Any encounter you live through is a success.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beckett View Post
    The first thing to do is look up guides on dungeons before you enter them. It takes far less time for you to read a guide ahead of time than it does for someone to type out the rules for every encounter.
    I disagree as I can type out the rules in seconds. Brevity is the thing to learn.

    Here are some examples:

    Research Last Boss:
    Dodge, Kill Ice Orb first, Get in Black Hole during Universal Manipulation, 3rd phase eat orbs to the face.

    Fractal Last Boss:
    Kill adds, Avoid Mines, stay off glowing squares

    Raid Guides over complicate a lot and reality only make things more intimidating when in actuality it is not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beckett View Post
    The first thing to do is look up guides on dungeons before you enter them....
    If you aren't wiping, and your only complaint is that things are too hectic, then seriously, get over it. Any encounter you live through is a success.
    As others have said, the guides are often more complicated than the fight. Also, not everyone can just figure out a fight from reading a narrative, or watching a video. In addition, I pay my money same as anyone else; I want to play the game. I don't want to do research before I go into a dungeon and I don't want it to be stressful. For me this is a game, and any encounter that I ENJOY is a success.

    Regardless, I would like your opinion on how I should proceed, as you seem to be one of the people who would not take kindly to my request to slow down.
    In a random that I am healing, if I am unable to keep a tank/party alive and they are upset, how would you recommend that I approach the subject of pulling less?
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    ROFL this is funny. You expect a new person to the game to look up Sastasha or Tam Tara? It takes what ... two minutes to say "Hey, don't kill so and so, but make sure you DPS the so and so"? Wow .... so entitled sounding that everyone else be up to your standards.

    I've been in Tam Tara no less than 20 times in Roulette and own choice, and I love doing it over and over. Not everyone has your OMG HURRY UP NAOW mentality.

    Quote Originally Posted by Beckett View Post
    The first thing to do is look up guides on dungeons before you enter them ...

    As far as speedrunning is concerned ...

    If you aren't wiping, and your only complaint is that things are too hectic, then seriously, get over it. Any encounter you live through is a success.
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