It sounds like there's a free log-in weekend for people with lapsed accounts this weekend, starting at midnight on Saturday. The idea is to get people to come play 2.1 content.
Be sure to pug Coil every week. It's super easy to do 1-4 now if you use Party Finder. Do this weekly.
Save your myth for a bit, then buy myth for whatever you don't get for Coil IFF it's best in slot.
Also, do Crystal Tower weekly to fill-in missed things.
As you do the above, keep an eye on hitting the Accuracy cap. Darklight gear tends to have accuracy, and CT gear tends to lack it, so you end up with low accuracy if your gear is very CT-heavy.
Yeah, BRD BiS is very myth-heavy due to how their accuracy gear works from what I understand. I think all you want is the boots and the visor or something, and the rest all Hero's.
Probably making your own T4 pug would be best. Set the item level floor to your own item level.
T4 isn't very difficult, really. If you go with 2 tanks that know the fight well, it should be pretty easy.
Also, T4 is at most 6 minutes long (soft enrage mechanic), so it's very quick to learn the fight (unlike, say, Twintania, because Twintania is 12 minutes long).
I think some extra allagan might become BiS if you use the Elfin Bow. And the allagan bow may change this, if it doesn't have accuracy on it; not sure.
You should be able to do T4 in mostly DL...if you're having problems, it's probably that the DPS need to learn their rotations.
And yeah, I was briefly in a group where I was expected to not pug coil and wait until Thursday, whereupon I may have to sit out. Leaving for a real static was the best decision ever.
I'm sure there are plenty of statics that can use you. Party Finder "fill-ins" often become static invitations if you show up and aren't too awful, for example. I sometimes get random /tells about joining statics.
The MT, hopefully a PLD, should use Hallowed Ground when the second DN appears, then have Sentinel for immediately after, then rotate CDs. By the time he's out of cooldowns, the old dreadnought should be dead. After that, all the panic-times are over.
Your healers and any caster DPS (in case it's on CD for healers) can try to get Virus on the two dreadnoughts starting as Sentinel is about to go off if they want to make it easier; just make sure they communicate so that they know which to target. From the Scholar, Rouse -> Fey Illumination -> Whispering Dawn will make phase 6 a lot easier. Be sure he has Eos on manual. Eye for an Eye/Sacred Soil help, too. The OT can make it easier on the healers by circle-tanking everything else to minimize damage to let the healers stay focused.
In post 578, Iecerint wrote:The MT, hopefully a PLD, should use Hallowed Ground when the second DN appears, then have Sentinel for immediately after, then rotate CDs. By the time he's out of cooldowns, the old dreadnought should be dead. After that, all the panic-times are over.
Your healers and any caster DPS (in case it's on CD for healers) can try to get Virus on the two dreadnoughts starting as Sentinel is about to go off if they want to make it easier; just make sure they communicate so that they know which to target. From the Scholar, Rouse -> Fey Illumination -> Whispering Dawn will make phase 6 a lot easier. Be sure he has Eos on manual. Eye for an Eye/Sacred Soil help, too. The OT can make it easier on the healers by circle-tanking everything else to minimize damage to let the healers stay focused.
One additional note on this --
Be sure the Scholar doesn't put up Rouse/FI/WD until several seconds after MT has hate on the 2nd dreadnought, or Eos will totally pull all of the hate.
You can also save this cooldown set for the enrage portion of the fight if you want to avoid these hate issues.
In post 578, Iecerint wrote:The MT, hopefully a PLD, should use Hallowed Ground when the second DN appears, then have Sentinel for immediately after, then rotate CDs. By the time he's out of cooldowns, the old dreadnought should be dead. After that, all the panic-times are over.
Your healers and any caster DPS (in case it's on CD for healers) can try to get Virus on the two dreadnoughts starting as Sentinel is about to go off if they want to make it easier; just make sure they communicate so that they know which to target. From the Scholar, Rouse -> Fey Illumination -> Whispering Dawn will make phase 6 a lot easier. Be sure he has Eos on manual. Eye for an Eye/Sacred Soil help, too. The OT can make it easier on the healers by circle-tanking everything else to minimize damage to let the healers stay focused.
One additional note on this --
Be sure the Scholar doesn't put up Rouse/FI/WD until several seconds after MT has hate on the 2nd dreadnought, or Eos will totally pull all of the hate.
You can also save this cooldown set for the enrage portion of the fight if you want to avoid these hate issues.
In post 578, Iecerint wrote:The MT, hopefully a PLD, should use Hallowed Ground when the second DN appears, then have Sentinel for immediately after, then rotate CDs. By the time he's out of cooldowns, the old dreadnought should be dead. After that, all the panic-times are over.
Your healers and any caster DPS (in case it's on CD for healers) can try to get Virus on the two dreadnoughts starting as Sentinel is about to go off if they want to make it easier; just make sure they communicate so that they know which to target. From the Scholar, Rouse -> Fey Illumination -> Whispering Dawn will make phase 6 a lot easier. Be sure he has Eos on manual. Eye for an Eye/Sacred Soil help, too. The OT can make it easier on the healers by circle-tanking everything else to minimize damage to let the healers stay focused.
One additional note on this --
Be sure the Scholar doesn't put up Rouse/FI/WD until several seconds after MT has hate on the 2nd dreadnought, or Eos will totally pull all of the hate.
You can also save this cooldown set for the enrage portion of the fight if you want to avoid these hate issues.
why are you running eos in the dps race ;_;
Well, to be honest, the main reason is that Selene's macros are broken on PS3, and being able to macro embrace to everything is more powerful than Selene's buffs.
But I don't think I've ever personally been in a party where the DPS couldn't do their job, and this is speaking as someone whose static has 2 melee and no BLM. I think the tanks are the ones who usually mess up here -- whether OT failing to get all the adds in phase 6 quickly, leading to chaos, or MT either failing to get the 2nd dreadnought or dying after HG wears off, leading to chaos.
In that case, the problem is probably that the OT needs to learn the circle-tank. By walking in a circle around all the mobs, he can greatly reduce the damage he receives. Maybe he can find a good video; I always focus MT in this fight, so I don't know as much about what the OT does beyond what he does conceptually.
Your set-up is pretty ideal for this, though, as far as tanks go.
I've been having some trouble healing Ifrit EX. It seems like every other healer has a different system for where to stand during the fight to avoid blowing everyone up, but every other healer uses the exact same language to describe it.
Garuda HM is pretty much all on the tank to position Garuda's slipstream safely and the DPS to not stand in front of the sisters' slipstreams. If that happens, solo healing it is easy.
In post 623, Saki wrote:o_o there's a dps meter?
(suddenly, ego)
I would totally take up that offer for a dps
but I'm too attached to this server
T^T
and first Garuda EX kill
now onto Titan
the extreme primals are stupid
won't let me have my bow
(or my drops for that matter)
You have the easiest possible time as BRD, though, so that's something. You just need to find enough other people who can dodge stuff enough to get your some practice.
Ifrit EX is seriously braindead time for any ranged DPS, so you've got it made if you can get through Titan. And the bow is great!
In post 622, Flameaxe wrote:I'll just be here waiting as a backup for the team. Someone as geared as neith shouldn't be having that low of a throughput on a poop ape heals fight.
even more dramatically, he shouldnt be almost doubled by a whm who's like 5ilvl below him
Is that graph taking into account overheals?
Maybe he just had his go off slightly after everyone else's?
Like, I switch to DPSing at some stages during Twintania when I know healing will just lead to overhealing (specifically, right before the first collar falls, and on Asclepius if the tank doesn't get more than 1 debuff stack). I'm sure the WHM in our static has better HPS as a result. But I don't think this means I'm a bad healer.
Though it doesn't apply in this case because he didn't even DPS (and you did, it looks like), so I guess he just stood around. : /
Trying to pug Titan EX this week was total hell. I finally got it today; the secret was joining someone friendly and competent who simultaneously is OK with removing people who can't do it. Rare blend of traits.
By elitism, I mean that you should avoid spending 2 hours watching the same person die over and over because you feel awkward reforming the group without them.
Ah, yeah, I know how that goes. Healing Ifrit EX is a nightmare because if DPS kill a bunch of nails at the same time, they always blame the healer when everyone dies. <_<
Garuda EX is tough cuz it's not always obvious who killed the Spiny early, for example. Though you can usually blame a tank when the spiny kill everyone.
Well, it's just an NPC for now, but speculation is that they'll probably be playable in the next expansion. The rumour is that they're emissaries from a neighboring region or something.
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