A8 Farming

[MXMoondoggie]

Some days are just bad for it. Yesterday One of the people from my FC wanted to get the weekly down for the weapon token and I wanted it too so we went in and went through like 3-4 groups who wiped and wiped on stupid stuff. The first one the other Tank didn't know how to Tank swap at all or split damage think he was brand new but wouldn't admit it or listen when told what to do. Spent all his time ordering others around. The rest of the runs people were just taking easy to dodge damage and not splitting damage in the circle for some reason. Those circles with arrows pointing in mean the exact same thing everywhere and people still don't seem to understand. We had it in Void Ark last boss for how long now?

In the end we had to get others from the FC to come clear it which we did without many problems. Some days in DF I've had really competent groups that make things simple just some days it's like there is something in the water that makes people completely fail at everything. Everyone makes mistakes but some people just don't learn.

[ExKage]

I've only had two things go badly tanking A8 for 4 hours trying to get a spring. The other tank was adamant about no tank swaps -without ever saying no tank swaps- and would full on flash-halone combo to keep it. I left him alone and then he died to tank buster stacks because I thought he could handle it. When I picked it up cause he died to Onslaughter he just moseyed around and said "this is why we dont do tank swaps" I'd been farming A8 for 3 hours, rolling badly on the spring I needed, doing tank swaps just fine and 2-tank soaking the double rocket punch but man...

The only other bad time was having another group vote abandon because a dps DC'd during and going 'we won't make dps check' without ever going again with an actual full group. Four Hours. 2 vote abandons. Otherwise I'd cleared A8N and just rolled horribly.

Hell, I cleared A7N solo-tanking cause the tank just stopped playing. His girlfriend said someone had crashed in the snow into his parked car.

All of this solo-queueing into Duty Finder.

[Noxifer]

Wipes? it took me 2 tries in DF last week, oneshot it both times this week.

Almost never wipe on A8 DF or otherwise Almost everyone seems to understand all the mechanics

Apparently I've had incredible luck, because I haven't had any issues with DF'ing that fight

Well... It's also a matter of when you go in there. For example, early in the week, during 'prime time' on your server, you get more of the 'good' players, who go there to farm. During off hours, you get fewer players, and the 'good' players have mostly gotten their stuff already and stopped.
And the later you go through the week, the larger percentage of people who're still struggling with it for various reasons.
Like Adire says, if s/he's unable to play when 'most friends' play due to work schedule changes, I would guess there's a fair chance play time is at least partly outside of 'prime time' =/


Went farming with a couple of friends yesterday - started out as 7 people, but then one of us had to go to bed. One run we ended up with two first-timers (healer+dps), though we... actually didn't even register the 'new person bonus' message o.o None of us did. We wiped once, both due to not even thinking about asking if the new people wanted instructions or not, and due to us having gone into Midas for the past few hours and some of us having our brains oozing out from our ears. The first time I personally realized that at least one of the strangers was new was when the question 'is this floor supposed to be this hard?' came up.
Still, we beat it the second time, without needing any explanations (though to be fair, when you see six other people doing things, it's pretty easy to figure out what you're supposed to do). And if I remember right, both the newbies got their loot, too. (Seeing first-timers get loot always gives me a fuzzy feeling, even if I don't get anything. Don't exactly know why.)

[Evangela]

It's not as hard as Extreme trials but still annoying to get it done every week. The worst part, yes, it's the time you have to loot the thing you want against 7 other ppl.

[Averax]

The only thing that bothers me about it is the trend of groups giving up and bailing after one wipe.

[Evangela]

many Balmungians in here. Why don't we do it together?

[LunaSnowfield]

Make friends or use a PF.

Isn't that hard really.

I beat everything even SCOB with DF.

[bounddreamer]

Farmed with a full party last night. Three runs, only one wipe. Everyone got their loots!

We were all in TS though, which really helps. And our raid leader loot locked to make sure everyone got what they needed.

[Khalithar]

Alright, I feel the need to ask this question because it's been bugging me. Why are people even going for the shaft/spring? Assuming you get 1 a week from M3-M4 it will take you four weeks to get the body/legs right? But in four weeks time, you could just cap lore tomestones and get the 230 body and legs without needing the springs/shafts from Midas.

The only reason to run M4 is for the guaranteed item for the weapon tomestone once a week.

[Dualblade]

Alright, I feel the need to ask this question because it's been bugging me. Why are people even going for the shaft/spring? Assuming you get 1 a week from M3-M4 it will take you four weeks to get the body/legs right? But in four weeks time, you could just cap lore tomestones and get the 230 body and legs without needing the springs/shafts from Midas.

The only reason to run M4 is for the guaranteed item for the weapon tomestone once a week.

Just gonna step in and say, while they can get the Lore body/legs in the same/less time, they may also be going for either A.) Glamour, and/or B.) Gearing up another job.

If you think it's bad now, just wait a few weeks until the mid-core players get all their stuff and stop doing runs. It was about 6-7 weeks into Gorditas, I expect it in about 2-3 weeks due to lore and superior crafted gear being released at the same time as Midas.

Put it at 7 weeks for non-savage clearers since they need to do 7 for a High-Capacity Tombstone for weapons. And thats if they are only going for one.