Wrecking_Blow_Spam wrote: »Dungeons are easy normally. Although I really despise being the tank/healer (which i normally am) with very bad DPS.
Group finder experience yesterday on Xbox one:
Join vet city of Ash pledge, the group was stuck at ash titan when I joined.
Me stam dk tank(max cp): although haven't played properly in past couple months: had boss taunted constantly, as well as the multiple air atronarchs (spinny things.) Whilst I had to self heal and keep my resources up and DPS.
My dps 15k-20k but could not always attack due to resource management and having to heal, tank etc.
186 dps- mag nightblade, looked like he was ok but still learning and needed better gear, had a better rotation than other 2 but was super squishy and die quickly, due to no healer and I'm guessing wearing all light armour. 10k dps I guess but was dead mostly.
195 healer - was a stamina nightblade, didn't even have vigour slotted. Light attacked with bow(only weapon I saw him use) until assassin proc and reapeat - 2k dps I guess. Also he didn't Rez if others died.
554 dps - Stam sorc with the Centurian pvp title, I thought yay maybe he has dps... nope. He was probably about 5k dps, although he managed to vigour himself and res the other low dps/fake healer. He just stood in the distance with hurricane whilst spamming poison injection and light attacks nothing else, oh he also spammed power surge at least 3 times in 15 secs.
We did it first try but it took ages.. at least 20 min maybe 30 min.
I didn't die but I had to be constantly self healing, attacking, and taunting multiple enemies.
After we beat him, one wrote in chat "good tanking". I wrote "sorry guys don't have time, dps is to low, good luck"
Yes maybe not nice but I know it was impossible to beat Skoria with them in the current setups they all had, also I had to go out too.
Felt I had to vent this. I've had many worse experiences, many better.
But why are people so bad at this game?
Just go in a dungeon spamming light attack, do they not get bored of spamming 1 button?
TLDR - people need to L2P
This is a real group finder horror story. Definitely the worst I've experienced before and it really annoyed me as well.
I'm a Magicka Sorc DPS with max CP, great gear, and a flawless rotation. The very best you could ever dream of pairing up with through group finder. I choose to do use the group finder sometimes to help others get through "tough" content cause I'm nice
So a couple days ago I queued for Vet Imperial City Prison (pledge). My groupmates were a CP351 DPS, a CP411 Healer, and a CP261 Tank. Everyone showed up to the dungeon as usual. Our tank needed to repair armor though (-_-) so he ported out.
We waited almost 5min then continued without the tank. I lead the way and we burned down all of the adds before the first boss - The Overfiend. By this point it was worth noting that I was pulling at least 75% or more of the DPS, and I knew that if I died at any point during this run, we would likely wipe.
After 10min total our tank shows up. I ask via text chat (all communication was through text chat) if everyone knows the mechanics to The Overfiend - its a resounding yes.
Essentially we fought the boss as usual until The Overfiend killed our tank. It came after me next and I was forced to hold aggro until the tank was picked up. This took a long time. Finally our tank rezzed but then seemingly forgot to taunt the boss since I held aggro for a good 15 seconds longer until I died. We then wiped.
I messaged Group for the tank to remember to taunt when rezzed and that it was cool and how we'd definitely beat the boss this next run. He then writes back "I was" and then aggroes the boss asap. We ended up killing the first boss in a wild attempt where the other DPS was always down and I often had to take hits from The Overfiend (nevermind the tank never taunting any adds). Tbh we only killed it because of me carrying the team. As the boss died oue tank very aggressively says through his mic "I DID tank see. Wtf! Blame the tank. Do your damn job"
We progressed to the second boss - Ibomez the Flesh Sculptor. In short, I explained mechanics to the healer and DPS since they were new to the dungeon. We wiped multiple times, and then we killed the second boss thanks to my explanations. The tank conplained to the healer during this time.
The third boss, Gravelight Sentry, required little explanation and died easily enough.
The fourth boss, The Abomination, had us wipe many times. I explained mechanics in detail and the tank complained constantly to the healer whilst playing horrible himself. He was very toxic at this point but I wanted to help him finish th pledge rather than kick him.
Finally we got to the Lord Warden and wiped countless time even though we got the boss to 10% health. Our tank blamed everyone but himself and was extremely hostile to anything that remotely suggested he was wrong, cussing out the healer.
That's when I flat out told him he was the one at fault, that he needed to stop making excuses for playing like s***, and that he needed to get over himself. He got angry because I was the clear leader of carrier of the group, so he started cussing out and laughing and aggroed the boss to be a jerk, so I finally kicked him.
I offered to solo the Lord Warden but they wanted to bring in a real tank, so I said okay. This tank was CP366. Turns out the Healer and DPS were tored now because they were dying a lot now. I decided enough was enough and soloed Lord Warden Hard Mode from 76% health, and was thanked by my group. Personally I felt as if my time spent helping others was wasted because of individuals like that CP261 tank. Haven't PUGed through group finder since.
That's my story. It was an extremely toxic run. I tried my best to teach the weaker players but it only took one a**hole to ruin it all....
Probably one of my worst experiences in ESO.
Wrecking_Blow_Spam wrote: »Dungeons are easy normally. Although I really despise being the tank/healer (which i normally am) with very bad DPS.
Group finder experience yesterday on Xbox one:
Join vet city of Ash pledge, the group was stuck at ash titan when I joined.
Me stam dk tank(max cp): although haven't played properly in past couple months: had boss taunted constantly, as well as the multiple air atronarchs (spinny things.) Whilst I had to self heal and keep my resources up and DPS.
My dps 15k-20k but could not always attack due to resource management and having to heal, tank etc.
186 dps- mag nightblade, looked like he was ok but still learning and needed better gear, had a better rotation than other 2 but was super squishy and die quickly, due to no healer and I'm guessing wearing all light armour. 10k dps I guess but was dead mostly.
195 healer - was a stamina nightblade, didn't even have vigour slotted. Light attacked with bow(only weapon I saw him use) until assassin proc and reapeat - 2k dps I guess. Also he didn't Rez if others died.
554 dps - Stam sorc with the Centurian pvp title, I thought yay maybe he has dps... nope. He was probably about 5k dps, although he managed to vigour himself and res the other low dps/fake healer. He just stood in the distance with hurricane whilst spamming poison injection and light attacks nothing else, oh he also spammed power surge at least 3 times in 15 secs.
We did it first try but it took ages.. at least 20 min maybe 30 min.
I didn't die but I had to be constantly self healing, attacking, and taunting multiple enemies.
After we beat him, one wrote in chat "good tanking". I wrote "sorry guys don't have time, dps is to low, good luck"
Yes maybe not nice but I know it was impossible to beat Skoria with them in the current setups they all had, also I had to go out too.
Felt I had to vent this. I've had many worse experiences, many better.
But why are people so bad at this game?
Just go in a dungeon spamming light attack, do they not get bored of spamming 1 button?
TLDR - people need to L2P
To be honest, if you beat Ash Titan and especially the other bosses before that, you could have probably defeated Skoria. He's easier than the other two as it relates to lacking dps. And after all that effort on your part - was a shame not to get the win.
From the sound of it, you got into one of those groups with a dps queuing up as either a healer or a tank to shorten their wait times. Those are the worse - and the one thing about pugs that really irks me.
One time I had a tank who didn't taunt, used a lightning staff and spammed heavy attacks. It was pretty awful. Sounds like your healer was one of those.
But for every bad pug experience I have a half dozen good ones. There are a lot of really awesome players out there who use the dungeon finder. So I would not let a few bad experiences discourage you too much.
I joined at that part yesterday as a tank.....
You may be unaware but communication using groupfinder on ps4 is non existent.RiddleDiddle wrote: »I joined at that part yesterday as a tank.....
And you didn't bother asking for the fight mechanics? Or asked anything at all?
Didn't tell them it's your first time tanking this?
My advice: "Asking things will help you out a lot and telling everyone what's up".
Helps with the gaming experience.
Greetings from,
RiddleDiddle the advice Horker