Rage Quitting this game

[Frizze]

Last session, I loaded up my astrologician level 56, and was doing the Aery. I tried watching a video before hand to see what it was. The tank said it was his first time. However, when we were on the first boss, I tried dodging the orange circles like normal, but then all of a sudden I got one shot.

I then just rage quit the session. I'm not sure if it was my fault or not, but what I don't like about this game, is that there are so many dungeon bosses with different mechanics, other than the orange circles, that I feel that it's impossible to get through the game being new and learning everything.

So generally speaking, if/when i recommend someone watch a guide i usually tell them that Mizzteq(MTQcapture on youtube) usually does a good job on them. She doesnt often miss/forget mechanics, and her explanations are usually fairly brief and understandable. She doesnt always offer the "best" strategy for a fight(making videos when a fight is new means that the "best" strategies havent always been found yet), but her techniques are always workable. I remembered this boss having one extra dangerous attack, so i pulled her guide and sure enough im sure i can explain what happened. So you were dodging the orange circles, like you expected to. This is likely Rangda's Ionospheric Charge attack - random lightning strikes. At the same time that mechanic is happening, he targets one party member at random and starts charging a large lightning bolt. This is done using the "Prey" mechanic, which appears in several other instances(although this might be the first MSQ one that includes it). The person hit with "Prey" basically has a bullseye on their back(and the marker on the party buff/debuff list is indeed a bullseye - this particular one includes a purple tether as the attack is getting ready to go off). There are(generally speaking) two types of "Prey" attacks. Ones where you need to hand the marker off, and ones where you need to direct the upcoming attack away from everyone else. In this case, there are large lightning rods around the outer part of the bosses arena. If you run behind one, the "Prey" marker will switch to that instead, and you take no damage from the hit(in the MTQ video for the dungeon, this mechanic is explained around the 38 second mark).

So thats what happened. You got randomly selected for Prey, didnt notice(it was the first time you ever saw that type of move, easy thing to miss), and died from the big hit that followed. So if you were in my group and this happened(assuming you didnt quit before i could say anything) i would have just told you that attack could be avoided by moving behind the lightning rod pillar things around the arena. No big deal, we all die sometimes. As for the rest of your questions, i am one of the people who thinks its a good thing that not all bosses have the same 2 or 3 moves. The wider variety makes them more special. I also happen to be the type of person who remembers little details like this fairly easily(but sometimes cant remember names or birthdays). Dungeon difficulty does trend upwards as you go up in levels, but its not a straight or smooth line. You tend to get several easy dungeons in a row, then one difficult dungeon which seems even harder by comparison. And as for starting as a healer, if its what you enjoy i would never tell you to play something else. But if its too stressful for your first time in a dungeon to also be healing then a DPS role could very well help you easy into it.

At the end of the day, the game is meant to be fun to play. If you can find a way to have fun, id tell you to keep playing. If its just stress with no enjoyment, maybe its not right for you. Only you know for sure.