Aion Stuff

I was in Theo labs with a group of friends, acquaintances and strangers; me, a ranger, a sorc, two temps and a glad.

One of the temps came in later, the original was a Spiritmaster.

We did a lot of the instance ok, but near the last third things started to fall apart, mostly because every mob would latch on to me and not let go, compounded by the tank — admittedly — making bad pulls. It was late, folks were tired. Usually the result was me getting mobbed by three to six, them fighting various ones, and me eventually having to die, rebirth, and make sure no one else went down.

I finally walked after this: the tank mispulls. We get about a half dozen mobs. Everyone’s getting hit, CC keeps getting broken (the sorc griped to me in tells about precisely this, and did not blame me), and I’m having to spam heals to keep everyone — and myself — up. I end up with about three or four mobs on me. The two templars and the glad, all taking damage, only focused on one mob.

Neither of them used bodyguard on me. Neither of them used IJ to pull anything off. None of the plate even tried to offtank. I couldn’t keep up when I was being interrupted and hit, and I died.

I and the sorc and one of the temps left. The Sorc said to me that he didn’t blame me, because he hadn’t seen any of the plate-wears try to do anything to help control the mobs.

I tried root (broken), then blind (and then it was on cooldown). My shield, rooting again, kiting but I’d have to stop to heal others, which is what did me in.

It got brought up on /3, and I was accused of being a fail cleric, of not minding my heal aggro, and of not being able to hold up under easy mobs for me: as a level 50 cleric, they said, this should not be difficult for me as I was OP and had all the tools necessary to hold up under three mobs AND heal the others. Almost everyone on the channel — it’s used as global chat on the server — agreed. It was my fault for failing my team, I should have been able to keep myself and the group up. Further, they said, they should’ve left the group as soon as they saw I was the cleric.

Was it? What could I have done differently if it was?

In a good group, this doesn’t happen. If a mob is on me, it gets CCed and that’s not broken. Or, if it is or is resisted, the Templar will taunt, IJ it back to himself, something, anything. But most often, the mob rarely breaks for me at all, even if I’m forced to use AoE heals.

But that’s the team, isn’t it? Are they just making up for my poor skills?

I’ve kept a group up under horrible mispulls, difficult bosses, and so on. When everyone worked as a team, seemed aware of who was getting hit, and CC and so on, even if we’d get too many mobs it would be handled, and even when things would go wrong, they’d manage well enough to ease up the pressure that I wasn’t interrupted enough and so I could keep firing off fast heals, so people wouldn’t die.

But was I at fault? Was I responsible for the group wipe? Their opinion was that I should have tanked those three mobs, as it was my healing aggro that made them go for me, and that I am so OP as a cleric that it should have been no issue to keep everyone up.

My gear is a gold Anuhart piece, and the rest is Mercy, as I work on replacing it. Various blue and gold accessories. My HP is between 8 and 9k, as Mercy doesn’t take +85 stones. I don’t have all of my stigma quests done, as groups are hard to find– and not just groups that I’m already in having a hard time finding folks, but most groups advertising in /3. Hours and hours for one Sorc, a glad, anything.

I left my server tonight and am weighing my options. Am I that fail a Cleric, then? If I am, I don’t really want to keep playing, as Cleric’s the only class I really clicked with.