So in the first day of this event alone, I've leveled my DRK to level 59 from 54, so 5 levels. A lot of that comes from running prae twice, castrum meridianum once, and aurum vale... a lot. Which is sweet and all, but I'd rather not be in aurum vale for longer than I need to. Which leads to my current gripe about this event - aurum vale has been run so much by so many that a lot of people snoozefest it.
I've been paired with 2 or 3 really... stale healers through duty finder today for aurum vale and it's really, really been sucky to die every time. I pop my cooldowns, make full use of my abilities as much as I reasonably can be expected to (with as much knowledge of them as I have which, admittedly, isn't a lot considering I'm still relatively fresh to tanking).
Every time, I'm paired with a whm that casts maybe three or four holies the entire run, does no DPS at ALL outside of that, and even has to be reminded to even pop a cure my way. I'd votekick them but that's not a guarantee that they'll get kicked for one, and for two, it'd take WAY too long to find another healer - more time than it's worth. So I sigh, cast edge of darkness, and keep going.
Maybe I'll tell them, "hey, remember that the best damage mitigation is DPSing, even the most minimal amount will make this go faster!" But that's gotten tiring to say, even outside of this event.
I mean, do I expect you to do full dps rotations constantly casting and keeping holy on hand ALL THE TIME? no, not at all, if I can't do that I don't expect *you* to do it! What I do expect, however, is maybe more than a cure 1 every 30 seconds? Maybe don't let me die?
I don't want to go into Aurum vale with the expectation of "sigh, this is gonna take way too long, ugh" if i see a White Mage.
What's with this? (Also ngl, it's almost exclusively white mages that do this, which is another gripe of mine because WHM is SO powerful even at lower level dngns like this! What gives, bro!)
Continue reading...
I've been paired with 2 or 3 really... stale healers through duty finder today for aurum vale and it's really, really been sucky to die every time. I pop my cooldowns, make full use of my abilities as much as I reasonably can be expected to (with as much knowledge of them as I have which, admittedly, isn't a lot considering I'm still relatively fresh to tanking).
Every time, I'm paired with a whm that casts maybe three or four holies the entire run, does no DPS at ALL outside of that, and even has to be reminded to even pop a cure my way. I'd votekick them but that's not a guarantee that they'll get kicked for one, and for two, it'd take WAY too long to find another healer - more time than it's worth. So I sigh, cast edge of darkness, and keep going.
Maybe I'll tell them, "hey, remember that the best damage mitigation is DPSing, even the most minimal amount will make this go faster!" But that's gotten tiring to say, even outside of this event.
I mean, do I expect you to do full dps rotations constantly casting and keeping holy on hand ALL THE TIME? no, not at all, if I can't do that I don't expect *you* to do it! What I do expect, however, is maybe more than a cure 1 every 30 seconds? Maybe don't let me die?
I don't want to go into Aurum vale with the expectation of "sigh, this is gonna take way too long, ugh" if i see a White Mage.
What's with this? (Also ngl, it's almost exclusively white mages that do this, which is another gripe of mine because WHM is SO powerful even at lower level dngns like this! What gives, bro!)
Continue reading...