Why do you fail at Hashmal?

[Sieben79]

Alright, fair enough. Allow me to retort. If it were 2 or 3 players, I can promise that this thread would not have been created (by me, at least). I will throw out help if someone needs or asks for it. My issue is not with the few, but when entire alliances get wiped out, repeatedly, I might add; I start to wonder what the problem is. I know hardcore players who are in full ilvl340 who repeatedly fail over and over again to O1S slides. But that's Savage, and that's an issue somebody would have to take up if they wanted to speak on it. I was only talking about content that everybody accesses normally. If this was just about a few players, I'd be venting about it in the Tales from the Duty Finder lol.

Keep in mind, I'm not posting this just because I've only seen it happen once or twice. I see it happening very consistently - I usually get maybe two good runs out of a month, then Hashmal becomes a problem all over again. And for those bad runs, it's not just a couple player - it's usually a majority of a single alliance or, in one very special case, about half of the entire raid messed up and we all died to his Ultimate.

I think people die because of herds mentality. In other 24-Raids or boss fights there are safe spots, where every player goes if specific mechanics happen, but the Hashmal fight punish you if you go where all other goes. Beware of Refugium, Collective Unconscious or Sacred Coil after the Tripel Hammer. People who don't know this fight think it's safe because the Healer decided to place it there, but all what awaits is death

Also there are first timers or people second or third run. We don't know. Maybe you're just unlucky with your teams.
My own experience ratio with hashmal ist 70/30 where 70 are the good runs without a wipe. The ratio of runs without deaths ist 10/90 and after about 100+ of runs (because of gear farming) even I die to a tower because I underestimated it and will die to it (playing mostly Blackmage).

[KaivaC]

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Heh....maybe I am running into bad luck. I dunno. I've been through on all three roles, so I have a general idea of how to tackle the fight from each perspective.

[Sieben79]

Heh....maybe I am running into bad luck. I dunno. I've been through on all three roles, so I have a general idea of how to tackle the fight from each perspective.

I don't deny it that there are also lazy players in teams or leecher who always get a call from work or had a lag for whole 15 minutes and then do nothing. I also played Paladin, Whitemage in Rabanastre, so it's not only a view from a DD side But Blackmage is fun for me to do the mechanics and do damage in this more or less chaotic environment.