(05-02-2016, 12:43 AM)lunoc Wrote: It's such a drag doing Absolute Beginning Of The Game duties with inexperienced tanks who haven't even learned how The Video Game works yet.
Just the other day I was getting started on Lancer in Sastasha and knew before the first pull it was gonna be New'tank McGee escorting us. You can spot them a mile away. Male midlander, full bronze armor, helmet still turned on. It's like those guys get stamped out in a factory or something.
Sure enough, he couldn't hold aggro over anything. But I didn't mind, really. I mean, it's Sastasha, right? Just do the thing!
What did bother me was how the healer and bard started being all condescending to him, telling him to go do the training ground and how he should do this and do that and just really making a commotion out of shaming the guy as if he didn't know he was new. I don't mind new players, and I don't mind bad players, but damn I cannot abide soft-fisted bullying.
So I stopped to type out, "Just flash 4-5 times and regen your mana at the end with riot combo, it'll be fine."Â I don't personally do it that way anymore unless there's a good Black Mage or Scholar in the group going ham, but it's a simple tactic that a brand new Paladin can use to do a decent job for any group makeup without feeling like a rube, and he wasn't waiting around for us nerds to stop nerding before he pulled the next group anyway.
Then the healer starts laying into me instead, telling me I'm an idiot, and flash isn't strong enough to hold aggro on its own, and you only need to flash 1-2 times tops, and all he'll do is run out of mana and lose aggro, and it's impossible to flash that much and regen all your mana without losing aggro, blah blah blah.
I'm just sitting there like, mothertrucker I've played Paladin before, probably more than you, and it works different when you're at minimum dungeon level and don't even have Rage of Halone! But all I said was, "If you're holding aggro with 1 flash, your dps is bad," because I was too busy stabbing to expound thoroughly upon the finer intricacies of level 15 Paladin skills, the probability of pug DPS target synchronization, mana management, and the regen potential of the between-the-pulls jog.
And the healer replies, "Maybe you're just so bad you have to flash that much ;)"
condescending winky face oh shit! wolfing out! bitch moon rising!
Typed out half a paragraph of tank-otaku-sperging, then I remembered I'm a grown-ass woman, deleted it, and just said "Whatever man, your penis is huge, I give up," and let it drop so I could focus on spamming Impulse Drive. So the healer spent the rest of the instance being passive-aggressively insulting to me and not healing when I inevitably pulled aggro.
Funnily enough, the Paladin never said a word and seemed to be ignoring chat entirely, thereby winning the encounter.
That event made me want to load up my little level 26 Paladin gear and go do a dungeon the right way.
When what to my wondering eyes did appear, but that very same Bard in her artifact gear!
So I went and did exactly what I'd told that new tank to do, spamming the hell out of flash on every pull way more than I needed to, just to show it could be done without losing aggro and that I could begin every pull on near full mana without any standing around required. In the end, the bard made nice and agreed that the smarmy healer was probably full of it. I'm not such a good person that I didn't feel just a little pumped over getting to put my money where my mouth was and come out on top on such a petty issue.
Sometimes you get lucky.