Quetzalcoatl.Xilkk said:
»Heavy DD WITH a brain .. ?
Such a thing does not exist.
The better the DD, the stupider they become.
The overwhelming desire to WIN the parse
The need to do as MUCH damage as possible and expect everyone else to keep you alive and full byffed no matter what stupid thing you do.
This behavior causes a surge in the synapse and kills the last few smart cells in the brain.
There's a natural progression for Heavy DD players.
1. Play it safe / try not to die. (Riding DT sets, waiting a long time to engage, auto-target off)
2. Comfort (Leaving DT sets out, still waiting to engage, auto-target off)
3. Competitive (Toggling DT sets after WS in case you pull / engaging claimed mobs quickly, autotarget off)
4. Max Dipshit (Engaged ASAP, Auto-target on, use AoE weaponskills because the tank
probably has it and who cares if stuff gets woken up, Ninjas? I can probably 1-shot it, so let's go)
I fully live in #4 and it works most of the time, when it doesn't I just shrug it off. I would say anything less than 3 is not really that useful in the grand scheme of things.
Two of these paradigms produce runs where you have 30min~1hr left on the clock at the end of Dynamis, the other two make it hard to clear.