Gravel
Mr. Poopybutthole
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I kind of prefer MRD tanks so far. Honestly, as long as there's a tank there, I don't care. As far as aggro goes, as a BRD, if I pull aggro it's my own fault usually. I generally wait a second after the tank aggro's originally before throwing stuff on it. I'll usually start with DoT's since they seem to generate less threat (and also the slow ability from LNC/DRG is nice if it sticks, and it does on more bosses than you'd think). I've also been lucky I think in that most people aren't breaking CC. I'm thinking that in a few weeks when the mouthbreathers level up it's going to suck though.
So for those who haven't gotten to the 45+ dungeons yet, tell your groups to skip all the cutscenes and watch that shit at an inn. Otherwise you'll burn the clock up and fail. Fucking retarded that it doesn't pause the clock until everyone is out of cutscenes.
I'll also say that there's definitely some challenge from Stone Vigil on up. If your group isn't on top of it, you'll wipe. I think at that point is where it's finally a case of you being able to lose even if you're not standing in the red shit. Everything prior to that, as long as you don't stand in red shit, you're fine. Even then you still can win. I ran Qarn after I had finished Praetorium since I need to finish the GC hunting log, and the group was terrible. I'd watch the healer not start running out of it until like halfway through the animation and die over and over. The difference in the two fights (Ultima and bosses in Qarn) was amazing to see back to back.
Also, make sure you log out far away from other stuff if you're using a login macro. My brother-in-law apparently logged out too close to a vendor and said it was trying to spam buy shit.
Holy shit is right, that was awful. I joined a group in progress and we had about 30 minutes for the Ultima fight. I figured we had maybe 2 shots at it. Well, we killed it on the first try...yay! So up comes a cutscene, but I've decided recently to skip all of them. Oh fuck, there's ANOTHER Ultima fight after? We're down to about 15 minutes now. And shit, one of our DPS is in the cutscene still. Fuck it, we're almost out of time, let's attack. We get it to like 50% before the guy is out of the cutscene. Kill that one, and it's like...yay again! End cutscene...MOTHERFUCKER ARE YOU KIDDING?! Another boss! At this point I think we had like 6 minutes left. I was pretty sure this meant fail. Oh, and you'd think that DPS would've learned but no, he's stuck in a cutscene for like 4 of the 6 minutes. Luckily we burn that guy down pretty fast (way easier than Ultima) and win with barely any time to spare.
So for those who haven't gotten to the 45+ dungeons yet, tell your groups to skip all the cutscenes and watch that shit at an inn. Otherwise you'll burn the clock up and fail. Fucking retarded that it doesn't pause the clock until everyone is out of cutscenes.
I'll also say that there's definitely some challenge from Stone Vigil on up. If your group isn't on top of it, you'll wipe. I think at that point is where it's finally a case of you being able to lose even if you're not standing in the red shit. Everything prior to that, as long as you don't stand in red shit, you're fine. Even then you still can win. I ran Qarn after I had finished Praetorium since I need to finish the GC hunting log, and the group was terrible. I'd watch the healer not start running out of it until like halfway through the animation and die over and over. The difference in the two fights (Ultima and bosses in Qarn) was amazing to see back to back.
Also, make sure you log out far away from other stuff if you're using a login macro. My brother-in-law apparently logged out too close to a vendor and said it was trying to spam buy shit.
