Minor Complaint/Mini Rant

[Shining_Tiger_Excalibur]

I -hate- this feeling of having to make specific tradeoffs and how potentially judgemental the community can be. It's a no-win situation.

They'll love you in either stance (it's duty finder, ya' know,) since you're practically set up to do As1, 2 and 3 if you grab all the left side equipment you can as you climb the floors. As it stands with my setup (I don't even have one crafted accessory,) I can do a dungeon and still hold my own against dps that outgear me by a healthy margin. Just today, in fact, there was a bard in Fractal with four 210 pieces on (2 left, 2 right I believe,) that I had to go up against. I immediately noticed since their hp was over 13.8k compared to my 15.2k and took that as my signal to only be in Sword Oath for Bosses; while in Sword Oath for bosses he came extremely close to yanking hate from me on the first and second (somewhere in the realm of 95-98% of my aggro bar.) The player was, however, more than likely tip toeing around my equipment predicament because on the last boss he showed me what he was packing by stealing hate from me directly after a Flight or Fight+Shield Lob starter while in Shield Oath. I got aggro back from them on Savage Blade and the rest was a non-issue and went perfectly.

The point I'm trying to make is that the Bard knew and so did I concerning what we were in store for given the situation. And that's also what the majority of the player-base knows as well. They know we're tearing our hair out right now trying to be the best we can be and figuratively tripping over our own feet to do everything perfectly; ESPECIALLY if they're in these very forums and on youtube/twitch. We all hear and see things.

In the off chance that someone gives you sass, there's only two words you need to say---"I'm sorry." The ones that give you sass almost EXPECT you to fight back because more than likely people did the same with them. You haven't failed anyone because Lag happens, Real Life happens, and you can sure as hell bet the game can break sometimes. I was in a Syrcus Tower run, over half the raid wiped before Xande's Death Meteor touched the ground......it touched down and......nothing. Alliance chat went ballistic laughing with disbelief. We did die, but it happens.