Thread: too difficult

Quote: Originally Posted by stripey hah your welcome, but i was being seriouhhh, i mean sarcastic (seriously though, try it sometime, in a seemingly solid group, something not epically important or anything(blind one is my favorite time to go afk in raids) and see if people notice) most people know next to nothing about what a captain does, hence my experience, "banner yay!!" I read the sarcasm, no worries. And yes i've...

Quote: Originally Posted by zapdafish3 tbh, i've stopped doing alot of this stuff except during a boss fight. if group is mowing down stuff to get to the boss, whats the point of making sure they can do it a few seconds faster. it gets very boring and repetitive after awhile.... o wait, but thats lotro. if the group is doing well, a lot of times trash pulls will be done before you can even do everything there is for a captain to do, boss...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bennyboy Try playing as a RK healer in DN, especially the first boss. I've always wanted to roll a RK for healing...it seems like fun.

Quote: Originally Posted by Reillan Maybe I'm doing it wrong, or maybe I'm just really good at keeping track of 37 things at once, but I never noticed this difficulty in the captain. The only time it *is* a difficulty is right at the beginning of the turtle fight, as you do have a lot of things to do at once. But once you've got your banner down, IDOME up, oathbreakers expended, etc, you just cycle through things when...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lurkerinthemist Yay vertical skill arrangements! Your 3's are my 4's and vice versa, and there are some other significant variations, but it's cool to see there's someone else running their setup so similarly.

A RK certainly doesn't have it easy in a raid, however, they know what they have to do going in most of the time. A healing RK is traited that way (obviously) and wont have as much to focus on as a captain, the difficulty in RK's to me is when they are traited for DPS and need to switch to healing in a pinch without warning.

Quote: Originally Posted by seyahat I agree with the previous poster: captains, like LM's, are battlefield managers and a good one will always be busy and always be trying to stay aware of the condition of their party. But part of real life management is that you will never get everything done... Very well said. Before I read your post I was thinking that LMs are in the same boat with captains in terms of their...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kayriss Multiple ROLES. ROLLS are something else entirely. Well, because of our multiple roles, I think we should get multiple rolls at loot! What say ye, captains?

Quote: Originally Posted by Gimli17 Anyone else think being a captain in groups is really difficult? I mean ok, if you sit back and don't do much it's easy, but if you're doing everything you can to help out the group its really hard. You have to: *make sure everyone is buffed - choose which buff is more appropriate - parry, morale or relentless attack, and now with legendary weapons have to switch between them to give max...

Quote: Originally Posted by brasswire12 Agreed. A Captain may have more to look after than the more specialized classes, but I wouldn't exactly call it complex. Compared to playing my LM, I feel like playing my Captain is a vacation. I find this to be pretty true. Alot of what captains can do to support is done pre combat through buffing. Sure you have to refresh IDOME but any experienced captain has that ingrained in their brain...