(01-30-2015, 02:12 PM)Melkire Wrote: The up-until-recently common strategy on Aether (triangle method? or is that what it's called on Garuda EX?) designates a side of the arena to each alliance, which very easily and intuitively divides responsibility among tanks and DPS (the Platinals closest to you are yours), shares the responsibility of preventing raidwide Platinal damage between alliances (the rows of platforms between A and B and between B and C), minimizes the travel distance for melee DPS since the Dragon is tanked in the middle....
It's intuitive, which makes it ridiculously simple for PUGs to understand. Compare this other method (JP method?) which is hectic and chaotic and I DON'T LIKE CHANGE, OKAY, WHY DO WE HAVE TO FIX WHAT ISN'T BROKEN WHEN THE NEW SOLUTION ISN'T ANY BETTER?
(01-30-2015, 01:35 PM)Ja Wrote: On a different topic - doing WoD..that first trash pull? Tanks. You tiny little babies in your tin-can suits: STOP TANKING THOSE DAMN GARM/CHIMERA MOBS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ALMOST-ARENA-WIDE FIRE AOE. DAMN.
Seriously getting hella annoyed at this shit. They literally tank the things in that tiny little safe spot at the center of the room so now the melee can't hit the things without dropping dead due to the fire tick + ram's voice.
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OMFG this. I haven't tanked WoD yet on account of wanting the MNK set first, but holy shit, tanks, please do your jobs. Drag those motherf***ers to the outside and face them away from the alliances, please. You'd think that after 100 iLvls worth of gameplay, PUG tanks would know how to do their damned jobs.
Of course, the issue is that people are going to still do what they feel like they want to do. Whether it's grab ALL THE PLATINALS, fight for aggro over the bosses, or not bother with figuring out positioning besides "it's still looking at me."
Makes me real frustrated when there's either a.) multiple problem folks, which you can't chain kick because of "cooldown timers" or b.) problems in the other parties of the Alliance, since there's nothing you can do about them. You could have a whole team of trolls in Alliance B and be stuck with them unless you bail on the raid yourself.
Especially when you get the idiots who just spam the teleporters. I don't think they're just being lazy at that point, they're actively being obnoxious by spamming the chat and pop up messages with "HEY, THIS THING ISN'T TURNED ON YET." It's a more recent thing for me (fortunately, unfortunately?) but I really don't like it.
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