Friday, August 3, 2007
Anger Inducing Salvage Fun
Salvage last night made me very angry with a handful of individuals. The lesser offence of people afking annoys me to no end, but the big problem came with people not paying attention, lotting items over the tanks, jumping on chest items like revitalizers while it would go to better use to someone else, and being slow to erase, paralyna, and haste.
For anyone who does anything with me regularly they know I am impatient with almost everything in the game once I have to start relying on others. I want you to be as efficent as possible with knowledge and ability equal or greater than mine. Unsurprisingly, this does not happen often. I feel no obligation to explain myself to anyone who is receiving points multiple times. I am tired of repeating myself a dozen times when someone different shows up. When I say gears must be pulled and not linked or aggro'd I expect everyone to act appropriately and stay out of range, but no. There is no reason to not know this. It is clearly explained on ffxiclopedia. Did people not do the research that I told them to do? I am tired of the ignorance.
I have a few basics for handing out cells that is always consistent. Magic to tank red mage > bard first, weapons to most efficent damage that require weapons first, and any melee related cells to tanks first. Every regular knows this. I assign these at the start and normally keep to this method for the next two runs. I do not want to go over item drops for everyone every time. I have other things to do and when cells are regularly dropping I take not having to deal with them for granted. I expect everyone to be aware of this. You are expected to know your place in lotting when we get regular item drops especially when I am busy pulling or doing something else.
Taking the only revitalizer we were lucky enough to get for mighty strikes over our only bard makes me angry. While I have never said that revitalizers should go to our bards first I thought it was common sense. When I asked who took it he was afraid to own up to his mistake. But, hey, the warrior who took it would at least put it to use and do lots of damage to the chariot. Of course that didn't happen. While I told him not to engage at the start to keep tp gain down he managed to get himself hit with homing missle and killed by diffusion ray after our first wipe. He didn't have hate, but was just standing in the way when we were kiting. I am also positive I told him to lose the multiple hit weapon for chariots and certain NMs in the past. Guess which hand was holding the ridill? Absolutely pathetic.
I have always found the problem of people being slow to paralyna, erase, and keeping haste up to be a touchy subject. I have not been able to find a way to tell support to do a better job without appearing insulting. I understand that they have other spells to cast, have to deal with timers, mp management problems, and messages get lost in the spam, but when success or failure relies on being casting paralyna as the chariot readies discharge or a fast haste I just don't know what to say. I always hope people will emulate me when they see me on the ball to remove a status effect.
Hopefully Bhaflau Remnants goes better in future attempts. People need to learn to ask questions. I assume people who are silent know what they are doing.
For anyone who does anything with me regularly they know I am impatient with almost everything in the game once I have to start relying on others. I want you to be as efficent as possible with knowledge and ability equal or greater than mine. Unsurprisingly, this does not happen often. I feel no obligation to explain myself to anyone who is receiving points multiple times. I am tired of repeating myself a dozen times when someone different shows up. When I say gears must be pulled and not linked or aggro'd I expect everyone to act appropriately and stay out of range, but no. There is no reason to not know this. It is clearly explained on ffxiclopedia. Did people not do the research that I told them to do? I am tired of the ignorance.
I have a few basics for handing out cells that is always consistent. Magic to tank red mage > bard first, weapons to most efficent damage that require weapons first, and any melee related cells to tanks first. Every regular knows this. I assign these at the start and normally keep to this method for the next two runs. I do not want to go over item drops for everyone every time. I have other things to do and when cells are regularly dropping I take not having to deal with them for granted. I expect everyone to be aware of this. You are expected to know your place in lotting when we get regular item drops especially when I am busy pulling or doing something else.
Taking the only revitalizer we were lucky enough to get for mighty strikes over our only bard makes me angry. While I have never said that revitalizers should go to our bards first I thought it was common sense. When I asked who took it he was afraid to own up to his mistake. But, hey, the warrior who took it would at least put it to use and do lots of damage to the chariot. Of course that didn't happen. While I told him not to engage at the start to keep tp gain down he managed to get himself hit with homing missle and killed by diffusion ray after our first wipe. He didn't have hate, but was just standing in the way when we were kiting. I am also positive I told him to lose the multiple hit weapon for chariots and certain NMs in the past. Guess which hand was holding the ridill? Absolutely pathetic.
I have always found the problem of people being slow to paralyna, erase, and keeping haste up to be a touchy subject. I have not been able to find a way to tell support to do a better job without appearing insulting. I understand that they have other spells to cast, have to deal with timers, mp management problems, and messages get lost in the spam, but when success or failure relies on being casting paralyna as the chariot readies discharge or a fast haste I just don't know what to say. I always hope people will emulate me when they see me on the ball to remove a status effect.
Hopefully Bhaflau Remnants goes better in future attempts. People need to learn to ask questions. I assume people who are silent know what they are doing.
Labels: Salvage
# posted by Mazzic @ 10:42 AM 
