yeah i have to disagree a bit on this.  while saying DON’T DO IT EVER is certainly a stretch, grab leaves a lot more room for error in a f8 group.  run your clan/friend groups however you want, but the option to skip that mechanic would not be included if they didn’t want you to use it. players in other regions do the exact same thing. ccing for retaliation is a mechanic.

ah yeah, telling a new player that grab = death is pretty sad. i had someone argue with me that root was a retaliation cc and even after showing him it didn’t work that way he still wouldn’t have it because someone in his clan told him that. yikes.

yep that’s the problem, people teach every new player they can that mechanics are something to be ignored and more DPS is all you need, and that’s why it’s gonna be a tragedy later. There are already people that think you can skip the CC’s on nexus first boss and just mindlessly DPS, and they think that it’s easier, or better, or whatever, and that misinformation spreads to the point where everyone does it. A good example is the wall mechanic on the bull in lab, everyone, and I mean everyone (at least on EU) tries to skip it at every opportunity they get, even though it’s free DPS time and makes things go faster. But oh no, it’s a mechanic, we better not do it, mechanics bad.

i keep hoping that one day people will realize you’re not going to get wrecked by satanic yeti midgets if the boss jumps on the totems. in the meantime i’ll keep sliding around and hoping it jumps at me when i f8 fang. q_q   

yeah i have to disagree a bit on this.  while saying DON’T DO IT EVER is certainly a stretch, grab leaves a lot more room for error in a f8 group.  run your clan/friend groups however you want, but the option to skip that mechanic would not be included if they didn’t want you to use it. players in other regions do the exact same thing. ccing for retaliation is a mechanic.

ah yeah, telling a new player that grab = death is pretty sad. i had someone argue with me that root was a retaliation cc and even after showing him it didn’t work that way he still wouldn’t have it because someone in his clan told him that. yikes.

yep that’s the problem, people teach every new player they can that mechanics are something to be ignored and more DPS is all you need, and that’s why it’s gonna be a tragedy later. There are already people that think you can skip the CC’s on nexus first boss and just mindlessly DPS, and they think that it’s easier, or better, or whatever, and that misinformation spreads to the point where everyone does it. A good example is the wall mechanic on the bull in lab, everyone, and I mean everyone (at least on EU) tries to skip it at every opportunity they get, even though it’s free DPS time and makes things go faster. But oh no, it’s a mechanic, we better not do it, mechanics bad.

YEAH THEY STILL TRY TO SKIP IN NEXUS. also, people using random cc on the first boss when the screen literally tells you which one to use. i’ve been pleasantly surprised with most of my pugs so far, but i’ve also only pugged it twice because i’ve heard so many horror stories. even the warlock in my last run mentioned that his last group quit on him because of one mistake. i understand that people have limited time, really! but i also think that in most cases you would spend less time actually explaining to people what happened than you will joining a bunch of new groups then constantly quitting if someone messes up. people who play games are humans, who knew.

yeah i have to disagree a bit on this.  while saying DON’T DO IT EVER is certainly a stretch, grab leaves a lot more room for error in a f8 group.  run your clan/friend groups however you want, but the option to skip that mechanic would not be included if they didn’t want you to use it. players in other regions do the exact same thing. ccing for retaliation is a mechanic.

ah yeah, telling a new player that grab = death is pretty sad. i had someone argue with me that root was a retaliation cc and even after showing him it didn’t work that way he still wouldn’t have it because someone in his clan told him that. yikes.

yeah i have to disagree a bit on this.  while saying DON’T DO IT EVER is certainly a stretch, grab leaves a lot more room for error in a f8 group.  run your clan/friend groups however you want, but the option to skip that mechanic would not be included if they didn’t want you to use it. players in other regions do the exact same thing. ccing for retaliation is a mechanic.

So I’ve just been informed that groups in Avalanche Den no longer let the yeti pick a person up and give said person the heat buff. If you do AD this way, you’re supposed to let your team know this is how you’re going to do it cause no one does it that way anymore, even though every single time I run with clan (and we always pug a couple spots at least), people seem to understand what we’re doing without us saying how we’re going to do AD. Apparently people do it the different way with all the stunning, etc. (which really…expecting pugs to do?) cause you lose “too much melee dps” by doing it the “old-fashioned” way, even though it legit takes me like 10s tops to grab the buff and get back in as a kungfu master. 

as a fm i 100% prefer the cc way because i can do everything myself so less is left to chance.  glacial beam, frost sheath, boom.  i’m running f8 yeti a lot right now (unfortunately) and i’ve seen just about everything go wrong.  people don’t pay attention to who’s going to be thrown and/or toss out a random cc hoping that someone will finish it. not to mention the people who get thrown and immediately get up to start running away from the group. times like that i don’t have a choice but to throw double cc or a good portion of the group’s going to die. sometimes it’s a struggle for people in 6man pugs to get their goddamn dragonblood.

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