post-Dawntrail even story dungeons are harder and more punishing to heal than ever

[Granis]

You do zero DPS if you're dead. Mechanics always come first. No exceptions.

Especially if you're still learning a new fight and struggling with it, the best thing to do is let your uptime take a backseat while you get it figured out. Once you know the fight well, the uptime will come naturally.

You work harder on finding excuses not to take good advice than you do on improving your play.

if "uptime takes a backseat" why are there people in the comments of that youtube video making fun of my bad uptime or whatever when they dug up old endwalker raids i did and mocking my low performance numbers when i was raiding towards the end of endwalker in some kind of cruel "gotcha"? Is it that wrong i don't want history to repeat itself?

And I am trying, i'm not just sitting here arguing. i've been attempting the entire time i couldn't post in here because i had hit my daily post cap? I got vote abadoned again when i tried without trusts again. and then i spent another 5-6 deaths with trusts and still didn't get it...

[Jinglypockets]

i keep trying and failing the "Ecuses" is me coming back after trying and nothing actually helping me.... just because someone fails to apply advice and explain why doesn't make it an "excuse"

No. Your excuse for not standing in melee range is you think a boss without a cleave might cleave you. If you had tried it, you wouldn't be worried about this problem anymore.

You're way better at trolling than you are at FFXIV, by the way, even if you're secretly a great player. I'm genuinely impressed by how good your bait is.

[Granis]

Show me a video of you using the positioning and other advice people have been telling you to do and I'll believe you.

why should i when all that happened the last time i posted a video here people just flocked in to mercilessly bully me for whatever reason.... it just feels like another invatation to harassment?

[Granis]

No. Your excuse for not standing in melee range is you think a boss without a cleave might cleave you. If you had tried it, you wouldn't be worried about this problem anymore.

You're way better at trolling than you are at FFXIV, by the way, even if you're secretly a great player. I'm genuinely impressed by how good your bait is.

i'm not trolling, i'm not lying or anything like that, do y'all just have an inability to see when someone is genuinely struggling?

[CidHeiral]

why should i when all that happened the last time i posted a video here people just flocked in to mercilessly bully me for whatever reason.... it just feels like another invatation to harassment?

Well considering you've told every person trying to help you that what they're suggesting is impossible, if you don't provide evidence I have to assume you're making things up. Just disable the comment section for the video if you don't want to deal with troll comments.

[Akonyl]

because unless there's a clear reason to mvoe where the melees and tank are, isn't it taking a huge risk, especially if you don't know a fight's mechanics fully yet?

Plus it's only common sense to use as much of your range as you can get away with.... or so i would think....

IMO, it's taking more risks to move out of range when you don't know a fight's mechanics yet. Being in melee range is only a danger if a fight has player spreads, but most healers have skills that will want them to be in aoe range of other players (where being melee range is useful then, because other players running away on the other side will be more likely to be in your range). Plus, many bosses have cone-based mechanics, which are harder to move out of if you're further away.

As a rule of thumb, all bosses are made to be dodgeable at melee range, because melee players are expected to be in that range. Not all bosses can be dodged at range though, because even ranged players can be expected to dps from melee range.

[Jinglypockets]

i'm not trolling, i'm not lying or anything like that, do y'all just have an inability to see when someone is genuinely struggling?

It's genuinely not believable to me that anyone would be this committed to avoiding doing anything that could help them succeed at the thing they're upset about struggling with.

[Jinglypockets]

It's also not believable to me that you were in a Savage raid where you actually listened to callouts instead of gainsaying your raid leader every time they made a call.

"Everyone move to the right side."
"I can't move to the right side because then my Phlegma might overcap and the boss without a cleave might cleave me. I'm going to stand out here and die over and over instead."

[Granis]

Well considering you've told every person trying to help you that what they're suggesting is impossible, if you don't provide evidence I have to assume you're making things up. Just disable the comment section for the video if you don't want to deal with troll comments.

plus, given how much i've jsut been stressed out and upset by this whole com,versation, i don't think i'm gonna be able to concentrate, turning the recording on is just going to make me play even worse and embarass myself more, if that makes sense... i didn't realize until people left all the nasty comments that posting the video the first time was a mistake... especially sicne this whole mess has me so upset and anxious. I get jsut an anxious when an actual group yelled at me in one of the vote abandons, or when pf groups yelled at me when i was trying to clear stuff at the tail-end of endwalker.

[Granis]

It's also not believable to me that you were in a Savage raid where you actually listened to callouts instead of gainsaying your raid leader every time they made a call.

"Everyone move to the right side."
"I can't move to the right side because then my Phlegma might overcap and the boss without a cleave might cleave me. I'm going to stand out here and die over and over instead."

i'm fully capable of muting my microphone, i'm not going to talk over a party leader in the middle of pulls, conversation can wait until after the raid winds down.