A8 Farming

[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.

[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.

[Adire]

If I played on Balmung, I'd offer to run with you. I'm generally quite an upbeat guy and my stance would end up being to refuse to roll myself until you'd got your item (and if you had to go, I'd carry on alone no qualms). Then again, I'm often considered too nice a guy... I have got an alt on Balmung so if I can be arsed levelling and gearing that up I could help. We'll have to see what happens.

You sound like a great person :3 , if you ever do happen to consider playing on Balmung, let me know! I'd be happy to help you level and stuff.

[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.)

[Averax]

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

[SpookyGhost]

Easier said than done, unfortunately. Finding seven other people to get online at the exact same time can be very tricky - especially with conflicting schedules/time zones/interests.

The trick is to have more than 7 friends.

Or just use PF.

Not hard, just people don't want to bother putting in the effort. Same case with people who complain they can't find a static for Savage - just expect everything to fall into their lap.

[Evangela]

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

[Ashkendor]

Easier said than done, unfortunately. Finding seven other people to get online at the exact same time can be very tricky - especially with conflicting schedules/time zones/interests.

Nobody says it has to be the same seven people every time. I run with a slightly different roster every week.

It's not a matter of scheduling it, it's just a matter of having an FC and linkshells to ask in.

[LunaSnowfield]

Make friends or use a PF.

Isn't that hard really.

I beat everything even SCOB with DF.

[Yukiko]

You can't expect your DPS members to click one button and clear, I've not wiped once on it due to an enrage and I've run them more than quite a few times now. Not dependant on a DPS check =/= being able to be done by people who aren't even trying enough not to try. We don't need SE to encourage bad players even more than they do now.

I dont like how you call "others"!
Just because "others" meet enrage, it doesnt mean they are not trying hard enough, point.
Just because "YOU" did not meet enrage it doesnt mean "others" are as awesome as "YOU" are!

Such comments can be considdered "conceited"...