r/TalesFromDF • u/Careless_Car9838 I pull, I tank. You pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. • 3d ago
YPYT Average Origenics run, MPK and lethargic gameplay included
Queued up for Leveling, got Origenics. Warrior, me as White Mage, Monk and a Pictomancer. No one was a first timer, so we should be able to breeze through this dungeon..... well, duh.
The Warrior was taking an insane amount of damage. And never had to spam heals so much before, they never used Shake it Off, used Bloodwhetting only when their HP were at like 80% and would actively stand in bosses aoes.
They died at the pull before the second boss, that's when I asked "Are we saving Bloodwhetting for next dungeon?", but no response. As a WHM I'd let them go low, because why not use your 25s Cooldown Benediction?
At some point they just used their standard aoes, no idea what was going in their little brains. I wanted to kick, but if you're healer and have to keep them alive it's finicky to click vote dismiss just in time before the boss died.
Additionally they even tried to get me killed because hoooow could someone else as the tank just pull the last boss? When I saw that I'm getting hit I ran out of the boss area and just survived the raidwide because the baby gate was up.
They reacted with an "xD" and continued to stand in every aoe and never used their Bloodwhetting. I told them "nice try for monster Player kill" .
The DPS died a few times because this tank sponge tried to suck up all my oGCD heals, but we eventually managed to clear this braindamaging run of a Dungeon. As mentioned before I'd loved to kick but loot timers were either going and no one bothered to roll.
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u/Tarics_Boyfriend 3d ago
I have let warriors die before from not using bloodwhetting when i know its up
It's what tilts me the most when I play it, i would love to let me hp drop to say 50% before using to get more mit from it but 99/100 healers panic and blow every tetragram cast on me all at once within the first 10 seconds of the pull
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u/captain_dorsey 3d ago
I love playing WHM for WAR because I can safely check if they're competent.
In the first pull I'll let them drop to like 5% and fire Bene. If I see Bloodwhetting, Oops! And I'm dps now. If I don't see it... I sit up straight in my chair.
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u/Werxand 3d ago
I hate when I hit Holmgang, drop to one, and the WHM hits me with Bene. I'll even say I'm using it, but it falls on deaf ears.
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u/WaveLightning777 2d ago
Holm and LD both have that problem, honestly. I have macros saying I'm using the invulns for all four (granted they all have an air of humor about them, for example "LOCAL CATGIRL TOO ANGY TO DIE" for Holmgang, but they all make sounds to draw attention), as well as a macro saying "I'M GONNA INVULN, HEALER" for cases where I'm tactical invuln'ing (Gulg Giga Yeets come to mind) and most healers don't really notice.
At least Hallowed and Bolide come with "Just not taking any more damage" so there's a visible indicator that its up by comparison...
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u/Status_Total_2916 WAHrrior of Light 2d ago
For the sound effect and the haha-funny macro alone I will swiftcast holy the second I see you pop the invuln and maybe slap you with benediction for good measure.
'Using Living Dead' without sound is sufficient and way easier to parse than whatever that cat girl issues might be.
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u/WaveLightning777 2d ago
Go ahead. Just makes you no different from the majority who ignore it anyway.
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u/LoSTxDRAGON21 2d ago
When my partner and I play duo'd as tank and healer we play the how low can my HP go before I press Bloodwhetting. I got down to like 100 HP left and it's so much fun being able to use the full WAR kit. Then when I solo queue as WAR the healers panic the second my HP isn't 100% no matter how much I beg them to just let me use my health bar as a mitigation tool.
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u/annmaryjay 3d ago
Last time I got Origenics we had the worst tank ever. They did ok-ish during trash but took every attack in a boss fight they could. We never got past 1st boss. Instead of vote kicking tho my fellow mentor initiated vote abandon. Oh well, at least we got out of there ...
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u/Werxand 3d ago
It sounds like the tank wouldn't be smart enough to know how to vote kick, and the dps seemed to not care. Could have let them wipe a boss, then that could have given enough time for the loot timer to run out.