Ok I'm here for one more post. I made one earlier to spark discussion about trusts in savage, but take it from my experience again (mind you I've been playing MMO and raiding them since WotLK in WoW, so these kinds of experiences arent new) but this experience tonight is just another level worse than I've ever experienced ffxiv before. Tonight, after spending a great deal of my day studying phase 2 m12 so much that I actually feel like i only need to see each mechanic a few times to get through it clean (yes, I am that kind of guy lol) i went in for my actual prog point, which was replication 2. I spent 7 hours (most of the time was spent filling, understandably) in m12 and never made it to phase two. My last group, as you may be able to see, was dying repeatedly at the first raidwide after pulling the boss. Kerachole was falling off before the raidwide hit. Sometimes, we would be missing feint or addle, and besides just some people either making mistakes or not being experienced enough in phase one to know not to run into another alpha running their tether out on the outside of the coil while the boss is spinning, tonight was a complete waste of time, regardless of the amount of patience and understanding i put in to each group (albeit somewhat unreciprocated, judging by the description reading "replication 2 prog.")
Now, I may be speaking from a place that shows some inexperience on my own. I've never attempted an ultimate, because I just don't have the time or the desire with my choppy irl and work schedules. I also have other things in mind to where ultimates won't satisfy me, as we all know gaming itself is a choice. (This is also why I'm trying to clear the tier early, so I can free up my irl time and choose when to play and minimize my prog time) so I don't really know if this is normal for ultimate raider's experiences to have days or nights like this, but for my savage experience, this is insane. I put myself up to a certain discipline to never prog lie and make sure that I'm ready to raid when i get in while also expecting to make mistakes once in a while, but tonight was off the charts bad, and I'm hoping it gets better if I just keep throwing myself at the wall and rolling the dice.
I was in a group for three or four hours for rep 2 prog (that we never saw, obviously) where in the end, the leader got sleepy and said they were done, and two others in there admitted that they'd never even cleared phase one at all. This is prog lying and not okay. I have a friend who has cleared already who I raided with last tier, and he is telling me he prog lied to get ahead and is suggesting that I do the same. I refuse and have always refused, even to my own detriment.
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Now, I may be speaking from a place that shows some inexperience on my own. I've never attempted an ultimate, because I just don't have the time or the desire with my choppy irl and work schedules. I also have other things in mind to where ultimates won't satisfy me, as we all know gaming itself is a choice. (This is also why I'm trying to clear the tier early, so I can free up my irl time and choose when to play and minimize my prog time) so I don't really know if this is normal for ultimate raider's experiences to have days or nights like this, but for my savage experience, this is insane. I put myself up to a certain discipline to never prog lie and make sure that I'm ready to raid when i get in while also expecting to make mistakes once in a while, but tonight was off the charts bad, and I'm hoping it gets better if I just keep throwing myself at the wall and rolling the dice.
I was in a group for three or four hours for rep 2 prog (that we never saw, obviously) where in the end, the leader got sleepy and said they were done, and two others in there admitted that they'd never even cleared phase one at all. This is prog lying and not okay. I have a friend who has cleared already who I raided with last tier, and he is telling me he prog lied to get ahead and is suggesting that I do the same. I refuse and have always refused, even to my own detriment.
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