Luci down!

[Kevin]

I'm starting to really really HATE damage meters. I don't mind it if people are playing their role, but when it turns into a Aggro Monkey score card it becomes a danger to the raid as a whole. Instead of waiting that extra 0.5 seconds to let the tank get a better lock, they shoot early hoping not to crit. Bad bad behavior with 40 people where the odds of a early crit are high. Thankfully most of the Keepers and Lurkers will hold their fire until we get a good lock (the reason I believe we won in the end).

As far as decursing goes, I've seen this fight before in green/blues and this time I was ready for it. I swapped my epics for lots of mana and mp5. I looked more like a priest then a mage. I gave up almost 150 +dmg for 50 mp5 with 40% larger mana pool with +spirt gear to refill. The video I took of the fight shows me clearing almost 6:1 curses over ALL the other mages combined. I believe we as a group can do better. I'm very happy that we killed Luci with 30 people in a very very controlled fashion after such a rocky start not locking down the guards.

If we wait for a good sunder count at the start, get our positioning better and get the mages to cross party decurse effectively (or stop worrying about their position in damage meters!!!), this fight will be a cake walk.

On to Magi without the dwarf's fear ward.

And this is why I'm mad at myself. I was trying to push my damage. It's pretty much all I can do as a hunter in MC if I'm not doing pulling, and I was relying on FD to let me do so. I knew the guard wasn't locked down, but he was also at 80% health from other DPS. I knew I was playing a game I shouldn't have of stay behind the other DPSers and hope a taunt and a few sunders landed (since taunt will give you the aggro that was already built you can get a mob locked down pretty quick even with some DPS going on that mob, as long as it isn't taunt immune). I was pretty much going with just auto shoot, and I got a few crits, hit FD and it was resisted. At that stage I should have just stopped attacking. The guard was already down to 60% or so though so I kept plinking. I saw the mob on Conc at that point and saw a few more sunders so I opened up. Got an aimed crit just before FD came back FD was resisted and the guard came and smacked me. Disengage didn't drop enough aggro at that point and I died like I deserved to, because I knew I shouldn't have been shooting at all.

And I freely admit the reason I was doing damage was because I had checked my meter during the set up time to see how I was doing. Curious as to how a beastmaster hunter with not quite as good of gear as the marks hunters we had, was doing for damage. I was 5th (2nd if you added in pets just a little behind Conc) and only behind one of the other hunters on just hunter damge (Drec) and that by just a little. So I freely admit that I died and hurt the raid because I wanted to stay up on damage meters. I should have just left it minimized and looked at it at the end of the raid like I normally do but I didn't so I got caught up in it.

The only other times I check it in raids or if I've changed my gear set-up and want to see how that affected things for me. Normally I've got it set to just display my personal details so I can see my miss and crit rates, but I actually went to check the total damage of everyone on the run and did bad things because of it. This is why I'm mad at myself. Set a bad example for the other hunters, endangered the raid, made life difficult for a tank, all because of a little ego boost.

And I've not been playing well on Marn in 5 mans lately and I'm not sure why. It really bugs me. I know I'm a better player than I have been lately, most of you know I am too.

Ah well. It was still very very cool to see Luci go down on Terenas. I've derailed the thread enough. Hopefully you guys there are there next week will be able to put up a Mags, Gehennas, and Garr down thread(s). :)