Venting

[Shelly]

Holy damn, I have to vent again. You know what. Screw the story. I can't believe someone was so condescending to me as to tell me to completely remove frost sheath from my skill set. Then screwed it all up. You know like, on my sum, when there's multiple fms one of them usually just goes "oh, I'll do the sheathing" not "every FM remove frost sheath. I'll do the sheathing". 

 

So. I'm a filthy casual. I rolled an alt fm and assassin. Chose the fm cause I like to be a busy body (for my party). 

Got it to 50 hm 1 today! Decided to do some yeti for them ss cause my crit rate sucks. 

 

Anyhoos. As like most people being lvl 50 hm 1 makes me appear like a dumb noob. 

 

So today. I had the pleasure of being in an fm-full party (3 fms total) at the yeti (6man, of course cause I'm not THAT crazy). And the fm (640AP <-- which doesn't feel that pay2win for me) tells me that he'll do the sheathing. which made me kind of pissed off cause there was another high hm lvl fm in the party that he didn't tell to "remove sheath from your skill set completely" (i'm paraphrasing, but this is basically what he told me). 

 

He later told me it was his friend fm so the friend fm already knows... so I was like whatever (didn't remove sheath, but I decided to let him sheath whenever he wanted to). I mean, unfortunately he was the tank (at 640AP fm, of course he was). A couple times he let himself get grabbed. and frost sheathed everyone later at the big slam... frost sheath doesn't save anyone who didn't get heat. I ended up assuming he probably just frost sheathed himself from the big slam damage. Later on the summoner wouldn't let him get grabbed because cat action! go summoner! (and this fm had the audacity to tell the summoner not to root)

 

Edit: oh, skip to ice phase because heat phase went fine after summoner dropped cat. 

We all know where this story goes. He didn't do the X-3 rule and tried to frost sheath at the big slam after we were all in frozen status (not me, cause I ice prison-ed myself away from this stupidity). wiped because not enough dps. Not enough dps from a 640 AP fm, a 500+ AP fm (friend, probably higher because I didn't care much about the friend) and 440 AP fm (me!). Everyone else was already dead. 

 

And the kicker, him and his friend are both fms and one of them had auto deto on. :l 

 

tldr: I don't mind when people suck but if you're going to tell me that you're going to do a role (that I could have done) and then sucked at it, please just don't. 

 

Edit: Also, I wanted to make a thread about the whole noob, low AP > high AP, "noob" concept. It's probably because low levels are actually high levels rolling alts. I mean, I did a bunch of yetis with lvl 50 Hm1-4 soul fighters (probably alts) and myself. and it was all fine. 0 deaths, perfect dps. So you can't technically hate high AP when high AP people are the ones on alts who know everything. 

[Winner]

Beware, my mustachio kills.

[Shelly]

11 minutes ago, Winner said:

Beware, my mustachio kills.

Maybe it'll get you next. ;)

[Majka]

Dear @Shelly, as FM since the release I can tell you that since they added ssp it was a ruin for our class...as a lot of people rerolled fm to get credits and lately I'm meeting so many fms (at least on EU) in cross server spamming frost sheath like leaves in a storming day. So be aware from fms also if with high HM/AP :D.

[Shelly]

5 minutes ago, Majka said:

Dear @Shelly, as FM since the release I can tell you that since they added ssp it was a ruin for our class...as a lot of people rerolled fm to get credits and lately I'm meeting so many fms (at least on EU) in cross server spamming frost sheath like leaves in a storming day. So be aware from fms also if with high HM/AP :D.

Ohhhh. Thanks for the heads up!

 

Man, why can't people play what they like. 

[NN13]

48 minutes ago, Shelly said:

Man, why can't people play what they like. 

Because the game punishes them for playing what they like. Design flaw.

As a BM, I do not get rewarded for blocking enemy attacks in SSP.

As a Destroyer, a person does not get credit for lifting the boss in SSP so that others do extra damage.

As a KFM, a person does not get credit for tanking the bosses in SSP.

BnS only rewards DPS and therefore, people re-roll the highest DPS class, which happens to be FM.

[Grimoir]

I will just add...i do not trust FM's in Yti with their freeze. I rather iframe on my own and if needed save the party with my party seed shroud, since i know what i am doing i trust myself.

[Randomonium]

I hate that the game uses a global CD for sheath, which is why FMs will tell other FMs that might not have the 100 yetis under their belt to plz not use it (and due to lag its ez to hit it by mistake when skill change hangs, sometimes initiating a wipe scenario so i can almost understand someone saying remove the skill if you seem ultra green).  As a pro-mode FM with delusions of grandeur I do usually ask other FMs to  not use sheath and "i got dis" when i see they have low HM levels and likely not much skill yet.  I only do 4M so one fk-up is wipe city.  Sure some FM take it personally and insist on doing their thing anyway which I don't care as long as they dont screw it for the party. 

[jones6]

I am almost HM 10 600 AP FM and I am complete trash at dungeons.  I only ever attempted yeti once and I tanked the fight, got grabbed every time and didn't do anything right causing wipes.  I always accidentally sheath when there is a delay trying to switch to fire from frost trying to cast meteor.  People bias by AP and HM level too much. 

[FakeName]

10 hours ago, Grimoir said:

I will just add...i do not trust FM's in Yti with their freeze. I rather iframe on my own and if needed save the party with my party seed shroud, since i know what i am doing i trust myself.

I don't expect miracles of others in dungeons, and I don't expect others to cover for my mistakes, but it would sure be nice if others would at least offer basic competence. 

[Lunakitty]

@Shelly If 600+ FM is still doing 6-man version you need to assume that the player is too unskilled to do 4-man that he still spams 6-man. Never trust those and simply do sheathing if you see that he fails even ONCE doing it the correct way.