Pugs suck on Cannith, and most of your complaints are valid. With that having been said -
Skoodge wrote on Jul 19
th, 2018 at 10:15am:
Does intimidate not work in epics? Or have people forgotten how to grab aggro?
When did kiting become such a fucking faux pas? In my day casters kited like mother-fuckers and if you wanted the aggro so you didn’t have to chase down the red name – you grabbed the fucking aggro.
In fact, if you were playing a melee and didn’t do everything you could to pull aggro, you got bitched at.
And I know intimidate still works in heroics – I fucking used it all the time to pull aggro off of casters when I did 6 back to back melee lives last year.
So why the fuck do you get bitched at now for getting aggro you should have if the melees didn’t suck?
“Stop kiting so the melees can hit.”
“Fuck you, click fucking intimidate and pull the aggro off me.”
I’m not even playing a hardhitting DPS lock, are the melees in the group fucking using heroic GS items in epic where I can grab aggro so easily?
First of all, you'll be glad to know there's no such thing as a dps warlock. Warlock dps does some of the worst dps in ddo.
Anyways, several points:
1) I'm not sure what game you used to play, but people pretty much always bitched at people kiting, especially if the person kiting was doing shitty dps
2) Some mobs actually can't be intim. The red named scarecrows in Baba, for example. It doesn't matter how bad your dps is, if you grab initial aggro they'll chase you until someone takes it. It's hard for someone to take it when they have to chase you around
3) Even when mobs can be intimidated, it's more difficult to intim a pack of mobs that someone else is kiting. If nobody has intim (whether or not they should/could), you're wasting time kiting if the melees could beat them down faster (you're a warlock, they can)
Are you the guy who I told to stop kiting in Baba yesterday? Because I totally told some warlock to stop kiting yesterday.
Quote:LEARN TO FUCKING SELF-HEAL!
In reaper I’ll throw heals as quickly as I can but, man…fucking help me help you. There’s zero excuse not to have cocoon. I’m not saying you have to be able to fill your bar up with one shot, but you need to be doing something to at least try to self-heal.
Self healing with cocoon on reaper? Lol. I can only assume you're talking about r1 or something? If you have to heal someone a lot in r1 just let them die.
Quote:And for fuck’s sake, don’t fucking stand there DPSing until you’re a soul stone! I played a barb for years and died less than most melees. You get too low, jump back for a second and chug a pot or hit cocoon and, if nothing else, get clear enough that someone else can have a chance to hit you with a heal scroll.
That also depends on the situation. Everyone knows one of the rules for raids as a melee used to be trust the healer to heal you, don't jump back or there's a good chance you'll miss the mass. Most people don't have divines in their groups now, and most divines suck so times have changed. Sure, jump back if you need to.
Quote:If you’re trying to self-heal, I’m going to support you all the way. But when I can tell you’re literally doing nothing to keep yourself alive, you die easily and aren’t offering much to the party in anyway – sorry, I’ll drag your stone to the 1st shrine, but scrolls are expensive and I’m not going to blow through a stack of 100 keeping you alive when you’re obviously doing so little to keep yourself alive.
All depends on the skulls, obviously. But no, don't waste all your time healing somebody who sucks.
Quote:Why the fuck am I healing divines?!
You're healing divines because they can't self heal very well on high skulls either. If you're playing low/mid skulls? You shouldn't need to heal them much. And yes, every player should be doing their best to keep competent group members alive.
Quote:Your fucking 1st life toon does NOT belong in epic R5 quests!
Self-explanatory. Go back to korthos.
It's much more than that. If you suck, don't join an amount of skulls in which you can't contribute no matter how many past lives you have. Forcing other people to carry your gimpy ass isn't cool.
Quote:If someone else is doing all the damage, keep them alive. If someone else is keeping the boss or trash busy for you to do all the damage – you should also keep them alive.
Yes.
Quote:Melee rouges really have become bottom-feeders.
I’m sure not all are, but man I’ve run with some fucking worthless, douche-bag rogues lately. And it seems the more there are in the party, the shittier the party is and the higher chance of wiping.
Good rogues deal good dps. Shitty rogues are shitty, just like every other class.
Quote:It’s not pac-man! Stop gobbling up all the lost souls!
Seriously, if someone else’s CC is all that’s keeping the party safe – make sure they’re keeping their bar full. If someone is actually healing everyone, make sure their blue line never goes empty. And if someone else is carrying the party through higher level reaper, give them the fucking lost souls!
I can tell when I’m doing all the work and I’ll gobble them up, but if someone else is hitting at a difficulty I’m not hitting – then I won’t touch a single one.
Yes.
Quote:So sick of these idiots who aren’t doing shit to help the party (I’m looking at you FvS boy)
I guess I was wrong, you didn't group with me.
Quote: if everyone’s pulling their weight, even in epic there should be few to no deaths in R1.
Man, people die on R1? I guess the pug situation on Cannith is even worse than I thought. My condolences.