Little AnnoyancesFollow

There was a guy named "Viewing Cutscene" in a low level dungeon the other day.... we all stood there after each cutscene like idiots for the looongest time lol. That was kinda annoying, but clever at the same time

Wow, there sure are a lot of players with that name, according to the Lodestone.

UI response and targeting.

Ugh, god, this.

Someone even brought the point up before saying this is something that should be added, and from what I remember they responded with pretty much a resounding "no", not even one of their generic "we'll look into it" responses that they may or may not actually follow up on. I don't know why this would be so hard (or game-breaking) to implement.

If it was something you were able to do before ARR, it is just something they made MORE obtuse on purpose, which I find baffling.

It's worse than that, "don't talk about karma" is also the second rule!

Also, I didn't discover that Compare Prices feature until last week when I clicked on it by accident while trying to figure out how to navigate the retainer interface with a PS4 controller for the first time. Seriously, of all the things that needed a tutorial in that game, that's the one I really could have used.

I'm not asking the tank to hold hate solidly at those levels, I know the tools are limited. All I'm asking is to turn all three mobs red so I don't have to tank those two non-claimed mobs the first time I throw a cure. Once the mobs are red and claimed, then it's my job to work with the hate the tank can hold and balance my playing to suit. But if they're unclaimed, I never get a chance -- doesn't matter how long I wait, the tank can't build hate on what isn't claimed.

People don't get rated down for talking about karma, though. They get rated down for whining and complaining about getting rated down. It just so happens that most of the time people do talk about karma, it's to whine and complain about getting rated down.

I don't remember the last time I saw someone mentioning karma to say, "Yeah, I guess I deserved getting rated down." But then, how often does anyone feel like they deserved to get rated down? Probably never.

Thing is though, most people don't use it the way it was intended. Instead of it being a "this person was helpful" button, people use it as a "I don't like you, or your opinion" button.

Some people who post here are usually defaulted or sub-defaulted the moment they say something. Sometimes they really don't deserve it, yet just because people don't like them, they get rated down into oblivion.

You also don't earn the ability to rate others up until you've been rated up a bit yourself, which prevents people from making socks for the purpose of karma camping.

lol Just read fluid aura stuff.

You realize that a knockback AND bind is pretty handy in a multitude of situations? You know it's instant cast, too, right? Many bosses cannot be knocked back. Guess what that means? Free damage. T9 can be hit by fluid aura for up to 700 if it crits. Guess how much my UI3 fire 3 does?

I've seen WHMs use it quite a bit in very clever ways. One is when they want to sleep a mob and keep it slept without a DPS hitting it or from a warrior overpower. They knock it away from the group then repose immediately. You know sleep is a form of mitigation/damage prevention, right? OK then.

It's also very annoying for WHMs who have tanks who are new and don't necessarily have a mastery of threat mechanics. Gives WHMs a way to keep a mob off of them and also project it back towards the tank without having to heal themselves.

Recently, I've seen WHMs (and have done it myself) use fluid aura to interrupt spell casting on certain mobs. It's especially useful on Leviathan Ex since stun does not share the same DR as fluid aura's knockback. What does this mean? You have 4 ways to interrupt the mage's cast. Five with holmgang. Six with Garuda's knockback.

I personally enjoy using it when a mob is at around 1%. Seeing it fly across the screen as a dead corpse just amuses me.

What annoys me is WHMs who don't realize they have something called cleric stance. This applies to SCH to some extent but...you have to cross class it so you probably already realize it's there as a SCH. There are many situations in this game where any extra DPS (from the tank or the healers) can make or break you.

Don't believe me? We wiped on T8 the other week at 0.0037%. Think a few healer fluid auras probably would have been the turning point in that fight, actually. The SCH had already been throwing DoTs. Did you know bio and bio 2 cannot miss?

What also works as mitigation is killing a mob faster. On many dungeon trash pulls that aren't multiple groups, you do not need to be camping the tank's HP bar. Even on big pulls like Mythflox speed runs, holy's stun is tremendous mitigation when used properly. Yes: you can get it off without having the tank die. The same goes for shadow flare on SCH. Honestly, some really lazy healers out there. As someone who plays WHM and SCH quite frequently, it makes me sad.

Edited, May 6th 2014 6:41am by HitomeOfBismarck

I guess you can blame it on PS4 limitations... I don't have room on my cross-bar for it. I guess I could lose Sprint... but that's it.

Yeah maybe Stone II... that way when I'm mashing the button it gets thrown into the rotation... I'll try it out. Thanks for the suggestion.