OGod Ohat, Shell Changes, Guest ZNM
A Short List of Things NOT to Do on Your Ohat Run (in no particular order)
"Could we get by with a RDM main healing...?" If you want the RDM to hate you for the rest of your life, sure! Also if you are interested in eating floor during the fight and likely losing your eye cluster, then this is the way to go.
Wiping to the Temple Guardian on your way through Temple of Uggalepih. This can be dependent on some bad luck of course. Meltdown sometimes just really hurts. We'll let this one slide. ...A little.
"This is in that Temple of Tonberries place? lol How do I get there again?" Really not much I could respond with politely to this. Ongoing comments of this type throughout the "gathering people" phase of the run gradually and inexorably shifted my expectations away from "We should be able to do this" towards "We are so going to die."
"[name] told me to bring my stun knife for this fight. We should save Tp for stun weaponskills, to avoid the agas..." You can't make this stuff up. I tried warning the organizer via /tell that a few -agas getting through could mean the difference between a win and a loss and the final decision to go or not was with him since it was his cluster. We commenced the first pop with a single BLM.
Come to the fight as NIN/THF. If you can think of an explanation, please: Feel free to share.
Ultimately we won both fights, though the first was not without casualties. These runs highlighted two things for me: 1) I need much more practice on PLD/NIN, and 2) it is about 900x harder to actively tank something as PLD/NIN when you get no "enmity buildup phase" at the start of the fight.
Along those same lines, the tank Vae brought along for the Armed Gears fight Sunday was damn good. He had the gear to back it up, but his skill with the job alone was impressive. In retrospect, I wish I had turned off alliance filters so I could have gotten a better look at what he was doing. He seemed especially good at MP conservation. I'm assuming he was "allowing" himself to get smacked a couple times in between shadow cycles so he could then cure himself & build/maintain enmity. Otherwise, I have no idea how he held the Gears so well through the entire battle.
The Linkshell Meeting turned out to be largely a non-event. I wasn't expecting it to come as a surprise to anyone that we were announcing "officially" that we're going back to social shell status for the time being. It was intended mainly to address those people who were asking questions off & on like "So what's going on with Limbus / Sky / Salvage...?" I also wanted to give people the opportunity to bring up anything they had on their minds, but that ...basically didn't work.
"Could we get by with a RDM main healing...?" If you want the RDM to hate you for the rest of your life, sure! Also if you are interested in eating floor during the fight and likely losing your eye cluster, then this is the way to go.
Wiping to the Temple Guardian on your way through Temple of Uggalepih. This can be dependent on some bad luck of course. Meltdown sometimes just really hurts. We'll let this one slide. ...A little.
"This is in that Temple of Tonberries place? lol How do I get there again?" Really not much I could respond with politely to this. Ongoing comments of this type throughout the "gathering people" phase of the run gradually and inexorably shifted my expectations away from "We should be able to do this" towards "We are so going to die."
"[name] told me to bring my stun knife for this fight. We should save Tp for stun weaponskills, to avoid the agas..." You can't make this stuff up. I tried warning the organizer via /tell that a few -agas getting through could mean the difference between a win and a loss and the final decision to go or not was with him since it was his cluster. We commenced the first pop with a single BLM.
Come to the fight as NIN/THF. If you can think of an explanation, please: Feel free to share.
Ultimately we won both fights, though the first was not without casualties. These runs highlighted two things for me: 1) I need much more practice on PLD/NIN, and 2) it is about 900x harder to actively tank something as PLD/NIN when you get no "enmity buildup phase" at the start of the fight.
Along those same lines, the tank Vae brought along for the Armed Gears fight Sunday was damn good. He had the gear to back it up, but his skill with the job alone was impressive. In retrospect, I wish I had turned off alliance filters so I could have gotten a better look at what he was doing. He seemed especially good at MP conservation. I'm assuming he was "allowing" himself to get smacked a couple times in between shadow cycles so he could then cure himself & build/maintain enmity. Otherwise, I have no idea how he held the Gears so well through the entire battle.
The Linkshell Meeting turned out to be largely a non-event. I wasn't expecting it to come as a surprise to anyone that we were announcing "officially" that we're going back to social shell status for the time being. It was intended mainly to address those people who were asking questions off & on like "So what's going on with Limbus / Sky / Salvage...?" I also wanted to give people the opportunity to bring up anything they had on their minds, but that ...basically didn't work.