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[LaylaTsarra]

I'm curious how you avoid that hand pointer over your head with the last boss. I seem to get it way to much and am not sure what i'm doing wrong.

[Avatre]

I'm curious how you avoid that hand pointer over your head with the last boss. I seem to get it way to much and am not sure what i'm doing wrong.

If you're talking about the spinning pointer, everyone gets it. You need to start moving when it's pointed in the direction you need to go for the safe spot.

[Byonka]

I'm curious how you avoid that hand pointer over your head with the last boss. I seem to get it way to much and am not sure what i'm doing wrong.

As mentioned above, everyone gets it. It's hilariously annoying :P Try rapidly tapping forward until you're pointed in the right direction.

[LaylaTsarra]

As mentioned above, everyone gets it. It's hilariously annoying :P Try rapidly tapping forward until you're pointed in the right direction.

thank you. I didn't realize everyone got it. It seemed some didn't so at least I know it's not me. I've learned to deal with it although I will say it's quite annoying.

[MoroMurasaki]

I recently had a run of this that went so poorly my more-or-less-permanent cohealer is going to tank it from now on because even with both of us healing we wiped to freaking Mateus.


I ran Rabanastre on 4.1 launch with only one person in the raid who had done it before who didn't offer much help apart from "focus on mechanics over damage" and we didn't wipe to Mateus. This time though...

Our tank was the only PLD, both others were DRKs. My cohealer was on WHM so I did AST for shields even though I'm not the biggest fan. Our tank seemed to intend to MT but the train went off the rails quickly. For part of the fight my cohealer was tanking adds while I spammed Aspected Benefic to keep them up. The Azure Guards spawn and immediately something is wrong - two of them are clumped together.

Lots of people are typing in chat to pull them apart, I guess one of the DRKs provoked my tank's guard off of him and onto themself. We wipe because the aether gague fills to 100%.

Next time around close to the same thing happens, they pull them back apart but we still wipe to the ultimate.

At this point my coheal initiates Vote Abandon and I agree, so does our RDM friend. It doesn't pass but we decide we won't sit past one more wipe. The team of the DRK who is provoking either kicked him or he left, we get another DRK.

We clear Mateus this time after our group killing our own add then helping both other groups with theirs. It is a hot mess. The rest of it is similarly messy.

I didn't think of this raid as particularly tank-intensive, there aren't a lot of adds that show up and with shields all the tankbusters can be laughed at even without CDs but after the long and arduous run we had on Tuesday we're going to pug my cohealer and just hope for no double WHM comps because apparently a competent tank is more essential than two decent healers.