So second duty finder group of randoms vs. Odin trial for the night:
Everyone was first timer except for me (2nd time) & one tank
But me and the non-first timer guy took the lead and started directing people.
First time we did good damage but we got wiped on the spear drops.
non-first timer guy taught the healers how to heal.
Second time we did alright but we got wiped on the spear drops because our DPS group was not coordinating on a single spear at a time.
I led some marking ideas. We also had some issue with the first timer tank who couldn't survive and tank Odin and was a little upset :'(
Third time we did better but one DPS still kept attacking a spear by himself ^^;
Fourth time someone used the limit break on the 2nd spear drop ^^^^^^^^^^;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; then we wiped on the final attack ><
FIFTH time we did good, got to the end with 2 levels of lb, everyone still alive, I did the limit break and then we piled on and we were just not doing the damage I'd hoped. It's cutting it way too close
down to the wire, his bar finished and he starts the move and then it cuts to black and give the achievement and cutscene and then it cuts back
and the entire chat is:
FUCK
HOLY FUCK
AAAAAHHHHHHH
OMG THAT WAS CLOSE
SO INTENSE
ADRENALINE SHOT
FFFFFUUUUUUCK
/phew
That is seriously a hard fucking fight. You need your healers to be GOOD (I could tell the first team I played with where we kept dying it was the healers not keeping us alive after the spear drops, I could really tell the difference with my HP with the second party, I didn't have to worry about dying after the spears dropped before I could even attack them. Although I was a little higher ilevel from 97-107) and then on top of your healers being good, you need your DPS to coordinate so you can wipe the spears out fast after they drop. If you can do that then you just gotta not have some random dude use the lb early and then if everyone is alive at the end and you've got your lb and everyone wails on Odin in the final part you can...probably win. I say probably because the first time I did it with we hit Odin with a L3 limit break and everyone wailing and we still didn't clear and it wasn't close, he still had like 5% HP. I read he starts his move at 15% HP OR 6 mins remaining and I bet the first group it was always activating when he had like 20%+ HP after 6 mins because we just weren't doing enough damage. I kept cheering on our 2nd group death after death giving pointers because it felt like our damage output was pretty good so it seemed like the challenge was just surviving, and we did win but even with what felt like good damage output it was way too close.
Like this is one place where I feel like as a NIN (and there's always like 2 NINs in our duty finder parties), having that Blood 4 Blood extra 10% damage would make a difference to the point where I was a little concerned I might need to grind Dragoon to 34 just to get that skill in order to beat Odin. Pretty sure the other NIN in my party didn't have that either, so we were both doing 10% less than if we were maxing.
And in other news, my Fisherman job is up to lvl.38 which is where my Alt job Paladin is, so next time I go fishing it'll pass that and be my 2nd highest job. Been moving quick as I just fish while waiting in queues. Gonna be my 2nd job I get to 50! Meanwhile my crafters are all slowly moving to lvl.15 right now since they go up like a 1/2 level a day with all my daily turn-ins. I could focus on a specific crafting job and level it quick, but I realized I like being able to craft full set of equipment for all the various crafting jobs as I level them so by leveling them all together I can make whatever pieces I need which is super convenient. Plus leveling all the crafters will come in helpful if I ever wanna do other battle classes since I can just outfit them as they level. Now mining/botany....zzzzzz, although one of my retainers is a miner but is level capped right now at lvl.15 because I don't want to grind mining
Maybe after I max out fishing I'll do some mining/botany while waiting for queues.
