Solo is just a improvement on rated. Its pvp with more then 3 comps
Solo was implemented at the suggestion of streamers who were complaining about how bad Arena had become and even that there was almost no one playing Arenas. It is very much a consequence of the issue I mentioned.
I just alternate Death Strike and Howling Blast on all 12 buttons and it keeps me out of trouble.
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This is what people aren’t understanding, you start attacking when the tank has stopped. It can be really easy to tell where the tank wants to stop because for example, if it’s a DK tank they put down their blood pool AOE thing. Then you pop your giant AOE CD as a DPS and you do mega damage, ezpz.
You just stay mounted up or keep running and follow the tank and THEN attack.
Just FYI this is how people pull dungeons in FFXIV as well, it’s called wall to wall pulling and there’s 0 problem with it there.
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Or just watch them come to a nice complete STOP and they start unloading. I fail to see how people are unable to comprehend this.
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FFXIV IS a bit different. Two things; we’re aoeing as we go 100% of the time in dungeons, and we all get sprint. Also, sections are ‘gated’ off starting from Stormblood on - and you won’t see many people w2wing the likes of tam-tara successfully.
this drives me insane on my rogue. being able to open from stealth is a significant thing for outlaw in particular. (“but you have vanish!” yes and our dps is tuned around being able to use it at the right times, not randomly)
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You can do this yeah, and it’s definitely less punishing than in WoW, but I have seen many tanks in FFXIV tell people to chill until we’ve come to a stop.
Right… 3s sucked im just repeating myself. Its a shame they restrict mount rewards to it in a desperate attempt to keep it ligering on.
You ask to much from zug zug brains.
There’s just no opportunity cost for AoEing as you go, since there aren’t any dungeons you can mount in. That I can remember anyway.
So you just keep generating threat. I’m a w2w junkie, and my Sprint uptime is legendary.
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Leveling my Shaman I’ve noticed a surprising number of tanks that do this, and then just keep on moving about 3 seconds later.
and I’m just sitting there looking at my poor Earthquake being left behind.
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Tbf Priory is just hell in general. (For BDK)
Yeah but I don’t think I’ve gotten Priory on my Shaman yet.
No it was 2’s as well.
You don’t increase the population by subtracting one player, and having all the top end rated players making alts. Participation for PvP was at lows through out the game, especially S1-3. It has not increased the player base at all either.
Its hard to argue that pain or negative consequences inspires people to continue, especially when society avoids discomfort, and unironically after wrath why the population base declined by half (in millions—6)
As has been mentioned, I think the problems happen when caster mobs are not hit with enough aggro builder so that when the Tank is humping the column in the next room, those caster mobs are all over the place throwing chanclas at everyone else.
Why isn’t everyone else humping the column with him? Or getting there?
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Don’t worry, I’ll get there. Eventually.
if everyone else is on that column, there’s no problem 
Trying to get there between slows/stuns but Tank just zoned in and mounted up with zero communication?