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This isn’t intended as a rant but more as a ….huh? :S
Finally into Kazham and had a great party yesterday, really fun. It was long so we swapped people a few times but the war/mnk and the nin/war who semi shared the tanking for most of the party were really brilliant, I didn’t pull hate once from curing period. The one player we had that confused me was the blm/smn.
Now I have to say in her defense that she did a hell of a lot of damage and she only got herself and one other person killed the once but I think that’s mostly because the tanks were really great and mostly managed to get hate back before she got hit. She was overnuking like mad by what I currently understand of how to play blm. She got hate on average about twice a fight, she actually started casting ice spikes on herself at the start of each fight because she was getting hit that often which is not something I have ever seen a blm do in an exp party before. When she did get hate she didn’t seem to stop the chain casting either, even if the monster still had most of its hp.
The problem I was having with this is that she kept pulling the mob out of position and we were fighting mandies so she got me and the other back line job hit with sleep quite a few times. When I am playing blm, I do everything I can think of to avoid getting hate and if I pull attention away from the mob I reign in on the casting a bit. The only time I ever chain cast is if the mob is very close to death or the party is in big trouble and I am pretty sure I can kill it before we all die.
She definitely made the party difficult in terms of keeping in the right position and if we had had a thf there might have been more said about it but she was doing a hell of a lot of damage and after the first death there weren’t any deaths in the party in several hours and the exp was good (only good because too much competition for camps and mobs). Am I right about the tanks being great and saving the day or do I have to adjust my ideas on how to play blm and run around more as whm?
Finally into Kazham and had a great party yesterday, really fun. It was long so we swapped people a few times but the war/mnk and the nin/war who semi shared the tanking for most of the party were really brilliant, I didn’t pull hate once from curing period. The one player we had that confused me was the blm/smn.
Now I have to say in her defense that she did a hell of a lot of damage and she only got herself and one other person killed the once but I think that’s mostly because the tanks were really great and mostly managed to get hate back before she got hit. She was overnuking like mad by what I currently understand of how to play blm. She got hate on average about twice a fight, she actually started casting ice spikes on herself at the start of each fight because she was getting hit that often which is not something I have ever seen a blm do in an exp party before. When she did get hate she didn’t seem to stop the chain casting either, even if the monster still had most of its hp.
The problem I was having with this is that she kept pulling the mob out of position and we were fighting mandies so she got me and the other back line job hit with sleep quite a few times. When I am playing blm, I do everything I can think of to avoid getting hate and if I pull attention away from the mob I reign in on the casting a bit. The only time I ever chain cast is if the mob is very close to death or the party is in big trouble and I am pretty sure I can kill it before we all die.
She definitely made the party difficult in terms of keeping in the right position and if we had had a thf there might have been more said about it but she was doing a hell of a lot of damage and after the first death there weren’t any deaths in the party in several hours and the exp was good (only good because too much competition for camps and mobs). Am I right about the tanks being great and saving the day or do I have to adjust my ideas on how to play blm and run around more as whm?
. Having said that though so far not very impressed with /smn I have seen in Qufim and yesterday in Kazham either on whm or blm, I think the mp boost goes to their heads (saw one level 23 whm/smn cast thre curaga's in less than half a minute yesterday).
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