Alexander 12N Tuning

[Andres_Lonegrief]

I'd suggest that once you hit max level, there be a series of quests that basically teaches you your rotation and all that and ends with an exam that basically says "do X damage/healing/mitigation/aggro to win"

I think SE should release a few "official guides" about Rotations or strats (at least for the 2.X and 3.0 contents) as I'm not sure that we are playing everything as intended.

Still, the OP was saying that there's just too much pressure on the healers and healing is not something you can learn through guides, it's situational. There's no a rule of thumb to know when to use benediction or essential dignity. It's just a matter of good sense and experience, which can be gained only if the fight remains as difficult as it is now. We need to accept that contents will become more complex and that if we don't have the requirements (iLVL, skill, time etc) we should wait or train harder.

[Aquaslash]

The game shouldn't tell you how to play. You should take the time to learn your role properly with a high level of skill instead of moaning and crying behind huge walls of excuse ridden text, like this one for example.

You must mean the drivel you just posted, because games have been teaching you how to play since the dawn of time. Tutorial modes. Have you heard of them?

This game isn't as rigid as something like Destiny, or Borderlands, or any class based game where there are multiple correct ways to play a subclass and each are equally effective. There is generally only one way to properly play each job, teaching that very basic thing isn't the worst thing to ask for. Every halfway decent game already does it. That's like saying you should HAVE to buy a strategy guide to be the best at a game. You sure you don't work for any publishing companies?

Meanwhile...

I think SE should release a few "official guides" about Rotations or strats (at least for the 2.X and 3.0 contents) as I'm not sure that we are playing everything as intended.

Still, the OP was saying that there's just too much pressure on the healers and healing is not something you can learn through guides, it's situational. There's no a rule of thumb to know when to use benediction or essential dignity. It's just a matter of good sense and experience, which can be gained only if the fight remains as difficult as it is now. We need to accept that contents will become more complex and that if we don't have the requirements (iLVL, skill, time etc) we should wait or train harder.

This guy is right on the ball. Learning a rotation is just the basics. The real test is going to come from applying what you've learned to each battle, and then adjusting appropriately. There's no guide in the world that can tell you that save for the school of hard knocks. Then and only then is when true skill will begin to manifest itself

[LineageRazor]

I think it's pretty great that the content has some teeth to it, at least in the first week or so after release. It's challenging to do with a Duty Finder group, but far from impossible. I ran A12 several times this weekend, each time with one or more players new to the content (and generally several who were not new but still had not cleared), and all but one time we were able to win after a few wipes. I don't doubt that there will be groups that will run out the clock without a win (or fall apart earlier), but this is a good level of challenge to expect for a bunch of random players tossed together.

[Lareine]

A11 was harder than A12 but both aren't very hard but you need at least one competent healer and one that can at least hit their aoe heals once in awhile while not trying to consume the floor with their face. I really hope they dont nerf it because as a whole itll make the community better.
#healangry

[ADVSS]

A11 was harder than A12 but both aren't very hard but you need at least one competent healer and one that can at least hit their aoe heals once in awhile while not trying to consume the floor with their face. I really hope they dont nerf it because as a whole itll make the community better.
#healangry

So many deaths to prey, so so many deaths to prey

[Mature]

I'm Ast and I solo healed that fight. I don't think there's an issue there tbh. The fight is fine

[Izularia]

The fight is fine, just a huge healer check. I cleared it on my second attempt without any trouble as we had great healers who knew what to do.
Yesterday, I tried to help a friend clearing it before the weekly reset, but our healers kept dying to the lasers and there was no chance of reaching the end like that.

[MrsFluffyButt]

@ Previous post

The game shouldn't tell you how to play. You should take the time to learn your role properly with a high level of skill instead of moaning and crying behind huge walls of excuse ridden text, like this one for example.

[Khalithar]

I'm surprised people are complaining about a12 when a11 is WAY more annoying.

[Rawrz]

One shot a12 tonight, 4 times. A11 took 3 wipes. Each time it got down to the tank and I (people have a hard time with Shiva circles + beams.) No one even died to prey. Tank getting confused from propeller and chasing me across the map, stacking his optical sight inn me, right before the LB3 bar fills. He got me 2/3 times. Once was the off tank buster. Finally we just ended up burning so hard that we skipped Shiva circles. Lol