How does one "waste" a limit break?

[giantslayer]

If it makes you feel better, recently I saw a REAL waste of a limit break. I was in Brayflox normal. Healer used LB on second boss. We kindly informed him that healer LB1 is a waste and should be saved for the DPS to use. Last boss, he wastes the LB again.

The guy also didn't heal me (as tank) past 50% for the WHOLE dungeon. No comms for him.

[pikster]

Ive done the exact same thing as the OP on Bis Hard, sometimes a judgement call is needed, if you have the DPS to kill the corona normally but not the adds before another set spawns, use the LB. I got yelled at as well, we won, i was right.

You were right...

[Knahli]

Once I was in a roulette(for Amdapor HM) back when it was part of the Expert set and I was a Bard matched with another Bard. Throughout the run he was mouthing off about songs and I thought he was just the loud and obnoxious type that liked to type out his every thought, so I paid little heed. It wasn't until 3/4s of the way through the dungeon when it became apparent he was speaking to me that I realised he was upset that I didn't have Army's Paeon up the entire time to fund his apparently terrible TP management. He literally wanted me to cut my damage by 20% for no reason whatsoever and he and his cronies laughed when I calmly explained that it was an unnecessary waste of dps... because "lolbrddps".

Moral of the story is, you have to learn to live with the fact that such levels of stupidity exist on the internet to the point of apathy. Though I am certain that not a soul exists that has truly mastered such a skill in all of computing history.

[Cyruance]

Eh, this stuff happens. Using the LB is always a judgment call and while it's easy for anyone to type "lb" it is not so easy for a dps to type:
"After careful analysis of the situation, I believe that the LB would best be used for this purpose and at this time. Of course, I would hate to unilaterally decide this for the entire party, so I shall await unanimous agreement on this matter before pulling the trigger."
...That would be absurd.

[Pells]

Eh, this stuff happens. Using the LB is always a judgment call and while it's easy for anyone to type "lb" it is not so easy for a dps to type:
"After careful analysis of the situation, I believe that the LB would best be used for this purpose and at this time. Of course, I would hate to unilaterally decide this for the entire party, so I shall await unanimous agreement on this matter before pulling the trigger."
...That would be absurd.

You could macro it. And tack the limit break onto the end of it. Y'know, since you've asked so nice and all.

[Pells]

Sounds like a fair judgement call. I'm amused I made a melee cry because I as bard used a LB. We were all waiting on the melee to use it - someone called out limit break - we wait 30s - nobody uses it. I pop it. One of the melee goes "no!!!!".

It's like seriously? Just use it next time don't sit on it when it's lb3 at 40%... If lucky you'll get a LB1 for your flashy finish.

What's great is when the bard LB kills the boss and they're still going "No!!".

[Almalexia]

If it were up to me, we would use AoE LB in every piece content where there are 2 or more targets.

What am I saying--it is up to me. Everybody else is the problem.

Bismarck HM needs one pull with LB or two pulls without LB. Melee fucked up so you got to pick up the slack.

[Acantha]

"After careful analysis of the situation, I believe that the LB would best be used for this purpose and at this time. Of course, I would hate to unilaterally decide this for the entire party, so I shall await unanimous agreement on this matter before pulling the trigger."

Omg I really want to macro this for whenever I use LB :P although as BRD main & now playing WHM I don't generally get to :'( oh well, i'd rather we got through things than just get the chance to be flashy :P

[Fynlar]

Eh, this stuff happens. Using the LB is always a judgment call and while it's easy for anyone to type "lb" it is not so easy for a dps to type:
"After careful analysis of the situation, I believe that the LB would best be used for this purpose and at this time. Of course, I would hate to unilaterally decide this for the entire party, so I shall await unanimous agreement on this matter before pulling the trigger."
...That would be absurd.

It would be absurd, but to be honest I'd probably get a good laugh out of someone making that their LB macro.

If you tack it on at the end of the Limit Break then the last part makes no sense since you've openly requested to have the entire party's blessing before going through with the darn thing after going through with the darn thing so then everyone is all like, "Thanks for waiting for our consent" in the most sarcastic text-tones imaginable.

The point is to preemptively shut up the complainers.


EDIT: Well damn, followed what must have been an old link to an old thread without realizing it. I need some damn sleep.

If only it were a few days later, then I could have made the excuse of thinking it was still 2016.

[bounddreamer]

You made the right call. If you wiped before making it to corona, a melee LB wasn't going to do much good.