My first PT wipe :'(

[HPDelron]

I'm not sure if you read the whole thread, but I did dust myself off, and we took care of Halatali and Toto Rak. Being told about the inevitability of endgame wipes does nothing to encourage me. I don't want to be told to expect them, I want to be told how to prevent them. Read between the lines, and it's easy to see that it's not the party wiping, it's that I could have done more to prevent it. Even if the tank made a derp and screwed us.

This princess, is a little more resilient than you're giving her credit for. I know more wipes are to come, and I will do my best to learn from each one.

Imagine you're flying in large complex airship. It's one person's job to steer the thing, another person's job to keep fuel fed to the engine and yet another's to shoot down the terrible vulture monsters that are trying to take you down. Your job is keeping the fuel going.The person manning the cannons falls asleep and the vulture's tear the ships canopy apart sending you plummeting to the ground. What could you have down to prevent this? Nothing.


Content with multiple players is by nature dependent on every player doing their part. Now in small content with fewer players sometimes you'll be able to patch up mistakes with the tools at your disposal (generally healing things, maybe some CC). However, ultimately even if you execute perfectly and do everything you can there's a chance somebody else won't and it simply will not be within your power to change anything. It's not that "you should expect" wipes is advice that means some solution or methodology exists and is being withheld it is sometimes literally beyond you. If half your DPS dies due to getting knocked out of the arena that's a wipe and there is -nothing- you can do to change it, end of story no ifs, and's or buts.

This isn't to say self improvement is impossible or pointless. It's just that it's important to keep things in perspective. If you can't find a hole in your play and the other people with can't, it may simply be that there is nothing for you correct. That is if every stands around and goes "Yeah, not your fault" it just might not simply be your problem to correct.

EDIT: However if you're looking for specific tips it'd be good to know your class? Profile says ARC so SCH? Or, your post doesn't seem to say. Keep in mind if you're low level your may be limited by your toolkit with more "Fixer" power coming later.