This deep into the fight I’m starting to realize – man the DPS really don’t have anything to do for the like middle 50% of the fight do they?
Sure you have to do Forsaken, Black Hole, P4… but that’s really all you’re doing. I’m wondering if it’s because of the near full uptime the fight has that you don’t really have the kind of marathon something like Light Rampant or Run: Dynamis would get you? You don’t have to make as near a snap reaction to your assignment like Judgement Nisi too, though. I don’t know. I wouldn’t exactly call it “boring” but it does make me think once I’ve cleared and farmed a bit I wanna go back and do it on a support job.
Last week I ended with a bit of a prayer that our replacement healer search wouldn’t go horribly. While it could’ve gone worse, this past week was sort of a wash in terms of actual prog. I don’t think there’s any one reason to pin it on – I think we’re quick to jump on the healer for making more mistakes and dealing less DPS than the last one but the group overall was playing pretty poorly for most of the week. I ended up throwing a lot of pulls due to dumb mistakes too. Blessedly we pulled it together in the final hours and made some good cleanup but there’s was a moment there that I felt like I was on the verge of logging in to see the team disbanded. I took my own mistakes back to the lab to suss out why I was causing as many wipes as I did so hopefully that doesn’t happen so much in the future.
We ended the week with letting the new healer go and hitting the streets for another round of trials which we have lined up for this week. I was willing to give them more of a chance to clean up with feedback but the general consensus that I agreed with was that someone who’d had an otherwise clean sweep of prior ultimates shouldn’t be making the kind of errors in mechanics and mitigation that we’d been seeing. A lot of tank deaths happening at times where normal mit had them trucking on and some scary low health after raidwides.
Performance issues are an annoying thing to diagnose especially as someone who mainly just presses their damage buttons and Addles when told to. There’s no blanket way to make someone “do better” so it takes some time investment to both figure out what’s tripping them up and how to help them work through it. It’s not really my job in a group where I’m not the raid lead, but it is in my self-interest to make sure we’re getting clean pulls and working on our prog point more so I’ll put the time in, between the docs I shared last week and just offering to go over pulls with people. I wouldn’t know where to start with mitigation and healing, though, so all I could really offer was “maybe we should give some feedback on this” and see how our scholar and raid lead felt.
These kinds of weeks DO happen though! I think I get too caught in a cyclical trap of doomerism when a chain of bad nights goes on like this, but it’s important to remember that not everything’s gonna go perfectly. It does mean that while I feel like we made some decent cleanup on our black holes towards the end I don’t really have much in terms of pics or videos to share from last week.
I do have this from Sunday night’s Forked Tower: Blood run though.
Also like this week’s title says I’ve been spending most of my free time this weekend playing the new Relink expansion. It’s fun! Check this out.
Isn’t she the best? Let’s carry Maglielle in our hearts as we tackle the upcoming week with a new (and on paper, better than the last) regen healer and hopefully a refreshed group of killers to push into phase 4!
