A8 Farming

[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.)