small disclaimer…for those whom have read some of my threads in the past – sorry, once again, there is no real point…if that doesn’t quite work for you – I highly recommend checking out Victor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning – I promise, that’s got all the insight and answers you’ll ever need…
soooooooo, on to the show
- for the last 8 months or so I’ve been pretty much exclusively pvping – very challenging environment, always seeing new, weird and interesting stuff (playing against other people, things are always going “off script”), plus, I was tired of dungeons/caves and wasn’t happy questing with limited rewards/xp on the different zone maps…probably same story for a lot of folks…
well, 1T and all the new armor sets have gotten me out of cyro and wandering all around 1T…I have a nord magplar whom I was using affliction and dreugh king on (normally dreugh king wouldn’t be a good thing for a magic user, but, most of my fighting in cyro/IC involved my lightening staff – for awhile it worked for me)…I saw the rattlecage armor and decided I had to have the 20% spell damage buff on my magplar (I was just using structured entropy before –
quick question: does the rattlecage buff and entropy buff stack?)…
so, knowing I’m getting ready to do some “group” content I’m all excited and nervous…I’ve read a bunch of threads here about getting kicked from groups for not playing your role, or, not being effective in it…so, I do some research on the specific dungeon, go over all my skills with my magplar, make sure I have rite of passage, rune focus and healing ritual all slotted and ready to go – then designate myself as a healer…
my buddy and I queued ourselves up, and, we plopped into the dungeon…couple of strangers come in after us – off we all go in to the Vault of Madness…for about half of the dungeon I’m running around like mad trying to make sure I’m healing everyone and dropping down runes, a couple of times I even fired off my rite of passage…
after about the fourth boss/mini boss we came across I suddenly realized – no one in the group was really taking any significant damage or really needed any help at all…
doing the dungeon was seriously intense – mostly just because how fast everyone moves…even in pvp I can sneak my character away for a minute somewhere so I can go use the bathroom – going through a dungeon – no way buddy, ya gotta hold it…
after my first run I was feeling pretty confident, so, I actually started doing the quest and looking around a little…it was then I suddenly realized – these other players weren’t there to sightsee or “experience” the dungeon, they were there to farm gear and skulls and complete the whole thing as fast as humanly possible…
during my second run, and, after one too many peeks down some empty hallways my buddy tells me there’s a vote to kick me from the group…well, being the avid pvper that I am – I reacted in the only way I could think of – I started trying to “bash” both of the other two players in the group (it may have just been one of the two whom put up that vote – but, I was a little irked at the moment)…
my buddy’s not about to kick me - needless to say, one player left the group and the other just logged out…good news though - i was able to use the bathroom and we got replacements in about 3 to 4 minutes
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it’s funny, during another run – there was someone in the group whom was having a bit of a challenge staying alive (they kept using ambush to jump right on top of the boss), and, whom occasionally would fall behind our group…how did we all react – we waited patiently, checked our gear and just talked…
ended up taking me 5 runs to get all my jewelry (traded for my two rings) and a couple of pieces of “useful” armor – wtf is up with everything dropping in prosperous and training traits – is that some kind of cruel zos joke on us all…and I ended up getting 5 head pieces and no shoulder pieces…what???
part of the moral of this whole story – believe half of what you see and even less of what you hear or read (that holds especially true for stuff on the forum) – I would imagine, unless you’re with friends – or, doing trials – there really aren’t any “roles”…
I also learned that the people out in cyro/IC are a whole lot more dangerous than any of those bosses in the dungeon…even the 1 shot bosses have patterned mechanisms which can be learned…not so much when your facing someone alone in IC…
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