2015-02-28, 12:52 AM
Polantaris Wrote:Edit 2: Out of curiosity...how have you guys been doing with your Dah'ren Mohran runs? I just did it with 3 randoms...and it was kind of depressing. They had no idea what they were doing and the worst part was that I couldn't even attempt to tell them what to do due to the chat limitations. First, none of them had any armor skills. Second, they would spam the Hunting Gong and the Dragonator the second they were available. The last part is a tad baffling...considering the thing doesn't even point toward Mohran for 99% of the run... I'm happy I grabbed the Ballista Binder, so I could cancel him at least some of the time during his major attacks. None of them ate for Bombardier, which is kind of understandable because it's a pretty unknown skill, it's basically only good for this fight (unless you Gunlance or Bowgun), but still. I had an Insect Glaive player constantly try to vault on to it and completely miss nearly every single time. The only times he succeeded were times where you could jump on him normally anyway. Then during the showdown, they were attacking him when he was barely in bounds, which could have killed him and pushed him out of bounds, completely eliminating carve rewards. When he staggered, they ran up his arms even though the blowhole was already broken and just kept bouncing off of the back. Not sure why they thought they were doing more damage.All of these things happened to me. I sat and watched as the team killed Mohran outside of the boundary.
Maybe I'm just used to my main group of friends who play, who are all pretty versed in Mohran runs, but this seemed a tad ridiculous to me, even for new players. Some of this stuff seems common sense to me, though, like the fact that the giant spear on the front of the ship only hits things in front of it. I like to imagine that fighting a giant monster on the very edge of the map should be a red light to people too, but then again I've played in Freedom 1 days, when tails could magically fall on cliffs that you can't reach and make them useless carves.
I liked that the franchise is more popular...but now I'm kind of divided between happy and sad about it.
I always nab the ballista binder now too because people keep spamming the gong.
Maybe if this quest was in the caravan early on (don't know if it's there at all), people would realize through failure how to use these utilities better- it's how I learned in 3U. After having my ship destroyed I realized I could just stop its attacks by waiting for it to do something.