Why do you fail at Hashmal?

[SenorPatty]

In all of this, I forgot to ask about the only mech in the whole raid that I can't overcome: Argath gnawing dread + trepidation combo. I really suck at moving in the way I want to so I thought I'd ask if anyone knows at what time he does this combo and where's the best place to be when he does it so I have some time to work the gnawing dread out.

[Sieben79]

In all of this, I forgot to ask about the only mech in the whole raid that I can't overcome: Argath gnawing dread + trepidation combo. I really suck at moving in the way I want to so I thought I'd ask if anyone knows at what time he does this combo and where's the best place to be when he does it so I have some time to work the gnawing dread out.

Since I'm playing with german language I'll try it: Trepidation should be the meteors (google) and Gnawing Dread the cursor. Or do you mean the cursor combo, where you have to walk to the safespot? As for the cursor mechanic: walk a bit stop so often until it shows at the right direction (use sprint if you're too far away) even if you don't direct move into the field, try to get close. You have 1-2 seconds after the cursor to get into the safezone. After the surrounding aoe vanish go away from the safespot, because argath will drop down there.

The other cursor before an after: just walk the way you wish until there is no aoe beneath you

edit: At what time: after his ultimate for sure

edit two: after the second sword laydown next to his mask of goddess and devil mechanic.

[KaldeaSahaline]

On this subject, however, since we are talking specifically about Rabanastre, while I agree that experience does play a role in a person's credibility, FFlogs really has no bearing outside of Savage runs....not that I'm aware of players who even have time to check Fflogs in a 24-man. I get what you're trying to say myself, but that being said, the FFLOGs comment doesn't really have much of a bearing when it comes to Rabanstre or really, the thread at hand.

If anybody catches this comment, what are the post limits? Or where can I find them? Might have to start multi-quoting in my replies.

10 posts a day I believe is the cutoff.

The content form is irrelevant in this case, whether it is a dungeon, rabanastre, or savage. I'm saying that people of all shapes and flavors give advice (whether solicited or unsolicited) and not all advice is created equal. Anecdotally, the advice given I've witnessed is often flat out incorrect or misguided most of the time AND that's just based on the knowledge I have. Imagine all the misinformation on things I don't know well enough to make a correction on.

The poster mentioned that they were "very good" and I provided evidence that very heavily likely indicated otherwise, in an effort to demonstrate to other players that you should be careful who you take advice from.

I'll give you a personal example. One O4S pull I made a mistake (sigh east coast ping) and my provoke didn't go off before I cast Rage of Halone after one of the threat resets. Our healer ended up getting targeted for the Aero III, which wasn't the end of the world, I simply used cover and we went on with no issues to wipe later to Omega. I even said in chat, shit my bad, missed the provoke before my RoH.

The other tank gave me some unsolicited advice how to get threat. He went into this long spiel about how I need to make sure we're voke shirking so we have threat and don't lose it, (which is a true statement technically, but is also 100% irrelevant to the issue) due to O4S aggro resetting prior to that mechanic. Let's not forget that this same tank was averaging a mere 1,600 DPS in ~ 336 ilvl (no crafted). For reference, I averaged 1,700 DPS during Susano EX in i297 gear in shield oath full time 2 weeks after SB launch.

In all forms of content, people give advice, sometimes its solid and well founded and other times its misguided at best, downright harmful at worst. It's important to make sure there's a distinction.

Case in point: The post above mine. That is not good advice.

In all of this, I forgot to ask about the only mech in the whole raid that I can't overcome: Argath gnawing dread + trepidation combo. I really suck at moving in the way I want to so I thought I'd ask if anyone knows at what time he does this combo and where's the best place to be when he does it so I have some time to work the gnawing dread out.

The easiest way to resolve this is to quickly tap your forward key repeatedly until you get the direction correct then hold it down. This forces the spinning hand icon to move incredibly slowly allowing you to get it right and then simply move forward by holding forward down.

[KaivaC]

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Touche. I can't dispute it when you put it that way. Often times, unless one knows better, it can be tough to figure out what's actually good advice, and what advice actually works. You know how long it took PUGs to finally use the '1' waymark to mark positions in Omega Savage?

Seriously, a lot of players thought (some still do) that saying their spots in chat was more than good enough...but without discord, sometimes that isn't good enough. I haven't touched O4S personally because I haven't built up enough confidence to try it on any of my roles. How touch is it compared to Week 1 O3S?