Why do you fail at Hashmal?

[AphraelAmarantha]

Snip

Ok, so what if you have already tried moving your HUD and rearranging things and that still doesn't work? What do you do then?

For me, I have to actually go through the party list, see who is dying or not dying, make sure certain buffs are still active, raise anyone that is dead after I check to see if swiftcast is available and so on. I can't do all of that in just half a second, sorry. I give props to people who can. Unfortunately I cannot, I've tried lol. Sometimes its not just situation awareness, sometimes its just that you just dont have the reaction speed necessary to react to everything that is going on at once. A lot of times I just leave people dead for quite a bit of time because I'm taking too much time trying to keep myself alive from all the aoes because if I look away to the party list for even half a sec I could be dead depending on what's going on.

[Rokke]

Ok, so what if you have already tried moving your HUD and rearranging things and that still doesn't work? What do you do then?

For me, I have to actually go through the party list, see who is dying or not dying, make sure certain buffs are still active, raise anyone that is dead after I check to see if swiftcast is available and so on. I can't do all of that in just half a second, sorry. I give props to people who can. Unfortunately I cannot, I've tried lol. Sometimes its not just situation awareness, sometimes its just that you just dont have the reaction speed necessary to react to everything that is going on at once. A lot of times I just leave people dead for quite a bit of time because I'm taking too much time trying to keep myself alive from all the aoes because if I look away to the party list for even half a sec I could be dead depending on what's going on.

Learn to use your peripheral vision. When Im staring at the center of my screen I can still make out when someone is has a debuff or was out of reach for a HoT. While you should always have an eye on your party's health, if you're not dead/locked out there you shouldn't really be just staring at it and not the actual battle.

I forgive people for eating the Rofocale's victory cry+trample combo towards the end of the fight cause if you're unlucky enough to be in a bad spot you probably aren't making it to safety even with a sprint or rescue as it happens so fast...but in comparison, none of Hashmal's 1 shot attacks are remotely as quick- the towers have a delay as they're "sliced", the hammers have a delay before they drop, even his tankbuster (that melee regularly die to lol) has a castbar. If you aren't new or dealing with godawful ping and are still getting hit regularly, you aren't paying attention.

[KaivaC]

snip

Yeah, I'm not including Rofocale for that reason...aside from him not exactly being known for wiping parties, that Trample + Victory Cry easily catches so many people off guard and more often than not, he will catch a lot of people out of position at least once in the fight. I usually get clipped by that combo at least once in a fight - particularly the victory cry that follows immediately after...I like to linger near him so I can hide away in his safe spot.

[AphraelAmarantha]

snip

So how do you train peripheral vision? I don't really have the best peripheral vision in the world and I have poor eyesight at that (not legally blind per se but I am required legally to wear glasses when I operate a motor vehicle else I could be cited x_x )

[MisterSpamtastic]

for me personally, the flaming arm and circles get me. for the arm i usually rotate the camera past where he appears before he shows up and by the time the camera pans around again he's already charging through the area. i suffer from this in any fight where this is a thing (like nidhogg ex) i could follow the other people but half of them are usually running the wrong way anyways. as for the red circles i usually find myself in a cluster of them and even trying to sprint out is usually futile because someone ends up running the same way as i do just a little ahead of me causing the 2nd circle to appear under me as i run. generally just bad luck.

[KaivaC]

You don't reliably get bonus messages in Rabanastre for some reason.

No? That's surprising. Hmm... I wonder if that's intentional though, given Hashmals current reputation.

[Slirith]

Terrible arena color and orange AoE markers get me every time

[alimdia]

Vuln stacks work better in savage, name any 24 man mech with vuln stack and ill show you the mechs people will ignore and tank, because they believe healers can deal with it. This is specially bad with Scathach.

I feel like people put a bigger effort to stop DPSing and disengage when there's a real risk of death.

On Hashmal: Every problem people commented on having here can be solved by standing close to the center, and not taking 10 years to move your camera left or right to see where is Hashmal. The entire fight snowballs because people have zero positioning awareness, this is specially noticeable with the alliance marker mechanics.

[Vanitas]

Hashmal is a swell guy. He reminds people of how awful they are and that's a plus in my book.

[Alisi]

...but no, the casual player base in general really isn't that good. Mayhaps a representative of this player base can explain things to me?

You realize you're the common denominator in these fail groups. Maybe it's a you thing, rather than a them thing.

Failing at Hashmul is understandable. You have no right to complain until you run into groups who fail at Lakshmi NM.