"Why do you fail so much at floor 20 Nyzul?" I hear you cry, well, there could be a number of reasons. Let me speculate upon a few.
1. People are idiots.
This is the easy solution, it causes me less distress to attribute my failure to external causes. But it does not help alleviate my problem, for if all people are idiots, then I will never be able to succeed no matter how much I try.
2. I attract gimps.
A more PC term would be 'inexperienced or misguided players' but for convenience sake I'll call them gimps. Because they are.
And they fucking love me.
This guy wasn't too bad by most standards (I don't have pictures of the others, again I was busy hitting my head on things), I had him change to RDM anyway and he played it well enough. That was one of my better runs.
Maybe they like me because I'm not a complete ass to them as soon as I see them, even if I want to be...because they are people and I'm not going to make them feel like shit over how they play a game. Although the stress caused by supressing my own rage is hardly much fun for me. I just make sarcastic and insincere remarks instead to help me cope, which is a wonder of computer mediated communication as people can't really tell!
Anyway, the most competant person on today's run (which was intended to be 16-20, but someone decided we'd do 1-5 instead after we entered) was a DRG using a Dabo. WHAT. I questioned it, but couldn't really be bothered to argue. Not to mention full timing homam body, which is entirely pointless on fodder mobs as accuracy will be capped on them. And while I'm on the topic of Homam...
No, you can't has merits. Apparantly because I don't have any homam gear that puts me in the same bracket as DRGs still clad in AF at 75.
3. Bad luck on floors?
Lol, no. But it's an easy excuse to attrubute to a failed run rather than "WHY ARE YOU ALL SO FUCKING STUPID?"
4. People don't listen/do not think for themselves.
Having to tell everyone what to do on a run kills your time incredibly, especially when those people just follow someone who -looks- like they know what they are doing, and all end up clustered at the wrong end of the map from the objective fighting some random mob (typically Archaic gears) that some champ decided to aggro.
But this is sometimes for the better, because if they do go off alone, they usually return around a corner 2-3 seconds later with a variety of unsleepable mobs and an NM in tow.
But sometimes it's nice when you put your foot down as leader, and people actually obey.
That saved me alot of time arguing Utsusemi vs. Third Eye. I expected them to make a fuss and explain how awesome they are with Seigan/Third Eye evading 100% of hits and how they solo whole floors with it. In short, it's not reliable and you need a slap if you can think it's adequate for nyzul - these people fail to appreciate that it's because their mage has to follow them around 90% of the time and dump cures on them until another person can rip hate.
I've also given up explaining how lamps work before every run because it's really tedious and those who can't do it already aren't going to learn. Plus judging by recent trends, someone will d/c before I've finished explaining and I'll have to spend another 30 minutes shouting for a 6th.
5. I suck and the entire server hates me so nobody will join my shouts.
Possible, little paranoid though. I'd rather blame everyone else.
It's early days yet, I'll stick with it.
Now I'm done ranting, please enjoy this picture of me attempting to convince a GM to apprehend an Elvaan male for wearing a subligar in public:
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