Did the game get too complicated, or am I just an idiot?

[Waliel]

Here's to all of these people: Blood of the Dragon and Enochian are meant to fall off. You're meant to screw them up. When you go into a fight blind, not knowing when boss changes untargetable etc, you're meant to fail. And adjust. And succeed after.

There are also fights, where the buff is 100% guaranteed to fall off. And that's also fine. Just suck it up, and try to think of smarter timings of the buff, rather than what I assume is just playing like it's a dummy fight and then being disappointed over and over again when it isn't.

This sounds all fine and good, until you get hit by unavoidable damage that interrupts your cast and you lose all your stuff. The problem isn't avoidable things -- you learn to keep 100% uptime while doing all that, and letting the buffs drop at the right moment. The problem is interruptions based on pure RNG that you can do nothing about.

[Jim_Berry]

Don't feel bad. I was kicked from Dusk Vigil because I kept tanking as a NIN lol...

The AST kept blaming me for not controlling my dps, even after I stayed behind the DRK AND waited for him to pull. After I said, "...breh!", I was kicked.

[Kuroyasha]

Don't feel bad. I was kicked from Dusk Vigil because I kept tanking as a NIN lol...

The AST kept blaming me for not controlling my dps, even after I stayed behind the DRK AND waited for him to pull. After I said, "...breh!", I was kicked.

I hate when stuff like that happens. I had a tank that couldnt hold hate for nothing. Every boss fight of the dungeon Fraactal I would wait about 2 gcds from pull, quelling strikes and do my opener as BLM. We both had i200 weap and he had better gear all around( I switched to blm after gearing up nin so my blm isn't really geared in a lot of 190 etc yet). b4 I could finish the opener every boss is coming on me wacking me in the face and Im just lookng at my timers and dps go down...and sighing in disappointment lol.

DRG and BLM did indeed get the most "added complication." This is because they had extremely simple rotations previously. Now they have to maintain a buff for optimal DPS, which MNK has had to do forever. I can safely say that DRG isn't all that complicated, just have to actually pay attention now, which is a good thing, and introduces a bit of skill mastery to the job.

Eh, maintaining GL3 as a monk was nowhere near as bad as maintaing eno while dealing with mechanics imo.

[Jim_Berry]

I hate when stuff like that happens. I had a tank that couldnt hold hate for nothing. Every boss fight of the dungeon Fraactal I would wait about 2 gcds from pull, quelling strikes and do my opener as BLM. We both had i200 weap and he had better gear all around( I switched to blm after gearing up nin so my blm isn't really geared in a lot of 190 etc yet). b4 I could finish the opener every boss is coming on me wacking me in the face and Im just lookng at my timers and dps go down...and sighing in disappointment lol.

My NIN is only Lv53, though. Still iLv130 in Dreadwyrm/Peotic stuff and Zeta. The tank was Lv58+ with some blue gear and one Lv58 Ring.

[Sethra]

The timing of AF is so tight it seems like no one at SE actually played 60 BLM prior to release beyond hitting a dummy.

[Odett]

The timing of AF is so tight it seems like no one at SE actually played 60 BLM prior to release beyond hitting a dummy.

Tight? AF is probably the most forgiving timer I've experienced. You can let off a Fire One .5 seconds after AF3 wears off and you'll "refresh" AF3; you can do the same with Enochian and Blizz 4 btw.

I can't count the number of times that Blood of the Dragon has like 1 or 2 seconds left and as soon as I select Wheeling Thrust/Fang and Claw, it goes dark as SOON as the ability is selected. Same goes for GL stacks.

[hallena]

Tight? AF is probably the most forgiving timer I've experienced. You can let off a Fire One .5 seconds after AF3 wears off and you'll "refresh" AF3; you can do the same with Enochian and Blizz 4 btw.

I can't count the number of times that Blood of the Dragon has like 1 or 2 seconds left and as soon as I select Wheeling Thrust/Fang and Claw, it goes dark as SOON as the ability is selected. Same goes for GL stacks.

blood of the dragon dont need 4.5-5.5s of uninterupted cast time to refresh itself atleast

[Odett]

blood of the dragon dont need 4.5-5.5s of uninterupted cast time to refresh itself atleast

It's not like we don't have swiftcast, sharpcast, and procs or anything

[Psycofang]

It's not like we don't have swiftcast, sharpcast, and procs or anything

-all im reading is I dont use sharp and swift in my 6 fire 4 opener.

Im questioning the validity of this one.

[hallena]

It's not like we don't have swiftcast, sharpcast, and procs or anything

This doesn't even deserve a reply