People need to finally learn Emanation

[FirstnameLastname]

I am sick and tired of getting Lakshmi NM every second day for Trials roulette with 7 people that have absolutely no idea what to do in any given situation despite having multiple level 80s.

Just learn the damn fight already, folks.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk, I will be signing my latest book in the foyer for the next 45 minutes so do not miss out.

[Enla]

I just save myself a headache and pre-type Vril in the chat so I can easily repost it whenever a mechanic comes out that needs it if I notice people having trouble. Emanation has reached final LoTA boss levels of not trusting people to know what they're doing, so I'd rather just save myself the wipe and tell them instead. A simple 'Pop Vril <se.8>' is surprisingly effective. And when there's newbies it's not too much hassle to type out the mechanic during the phase transition if I notice they're lost, since it takes Lakshimi eight years to give her hugs of death.

[Malmstrom]

You are half the reason I don't do trial roulettes.

[Rasikko]

@Enla - Don't forget that "stand at the boss when she goes to the middle, and hit vril" otherwise they probably gonna get blown off.

This isn't the trial that normally gives people trouble when I do trial roulette. It's castrum fluminis. The Moon mechanic, wheee.

It's trial roulette though, who knows when either is gonna come up, for some of them, it might be just their 3-4th time doing it.

[Bacent]

People need to do a lot of things. Oh well. It happens.

[SamRF]

Imo a fight is well designed if it usually leads to 1 or 2 wipes before victory, with PUGs. I don't want to play with NPCs but instead have to interact with players, overcome difficulties and see a bigger difference and variance in how the fight goes based on the party experience/skill.

[Enla]

@Enla - Don't forget that "stand at the boss when she goes to the middle, and hit vril" otherwise they probably gonna get blown off.

This isn't the trial that normally gives people trouble when I do trial roulette. It's castrum fluminis. The Moon mechanic, wheee.

It's trial roulette though, who knows when either is gonna come up, for some of them, it might be just their 3-4th time doing it.

Generally it isn't needed in my experience, but I do throw that out if I notice people struggling with that mechanic. ^^

[Canadane]

This is the very first instance in the game that give people the "Duty Action" bar.
Newcomers will either not notice it, forget about it when it comes time to use it, or mistime the use of it because they have no explanation ingame other than it's an extra action to perform.
Not only is it an extra action like many future fights have, but you have to manually charge it up, which isn't the case in many other fights.

So give people a break, it's a new curve ball SE has given us, and in the long run it's made fights a lot more interesting. So while people should have a basic idea of how their job works by that level they may be excused for having no idea how the Duty Action performs.
If you see it's someones first time all you gotta do is give them then unwanted tip of "Pretty your duty action when she goes to the middle so you don't fall off. Grab a light orb to charge it back up." or something like that and you're done. Those who grasp it will get it, those who are slower will learn the hard way.

[Fynlar]

I know when I first got to this part in the story, I stumbled a lot because I didn't know *how* to trigger the duty action. So there's that, too

But yeah, if they have multiple 80s, the most likely thing going on is that it's just been so long since they've done the fight that they brain fart and forget the mechanics entirely.

[Theodric]

A mandatory tutorial guildhest that explains duty actions would be useful, I reckon.