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(12-30-2014, 01:23 PM)Kage Wrote: Also, fuck the adds and stay on Maddison when he's shooting people. I can't fucking cast faster than I already am. I don't like dying to 8 stacks of hurt.

^ ^ ^ ^ SO MUCH OF THIS ^ ^ ^ ^

I ran Qarn HM last night and the tank asked me why I kept switching mobs.  I'm a Ninja.  It's my only job and I like to think I'm pretty good at it.  When I'm paired with black mages (particularly those who happily spam their AoE abilities) I like to distribute my damage evenly on the mobs.  This means AoE's sometimes myself, and other times it means if one mob has more HP I'm usually targeting that one to bring it down rather than killing off the low-HP mobs.  I assume the black mage appreciates this since his AoE is hitting more marks and things are collectively dying faster - the caveat may be that they're living longer and collectively damaging the tank more requiring more healing, but I tend to think this is offset by the fights being shorter overall.  Maybe I am in the wrong though.  I never really gave it a lot of thought.  I just wanted things to die as efficiently as possible.  When I'm paired up with a DRG or MNK I tend to focus more on taking down the monsters one at a time.  I try to adapt to whatever makes the other DPS shine more.

For some reason this really upset a tank in my EX roulette last night, and he was asking why I kept switching mobs.  He said I was taking hate (what???) and I don't like trying to explain things WHILE I'm in the middle of DPSing, so I just quickly said that it was so that the BLM AoE could be more effective.  He said this didn't make sense.  I got two commendations after the run, so I guess it made sense to the black mage and healer.  

On the scorpion in Sastasha HM if nobody communicates to me otherwise, I'm going to try and stun Tail Screw.  Don't get mad at me for it.  Half the time the tank is stunned anyway from that tethery move and I look to it as my responsibility.  I think it's goofy when a tank tries to push the tether onto me too, but I've only seen that once or twice.  I think it's goofy when someone gets pissed at me for building its resistance to stun too.

I don't like it when people don't say "hello" at the start or "thanks" at the end of runs too.  Teamwork!  Politeness!  Manners!  We're gonna get through this together!!!