I’m curious. When it was called out, did the caller say “Shock Blast!” or “Run out!”? I notice with our raiders that sometimes when they’re new to a fight and their brains are near overwhelm, a command works much better than a notification. When I’m notified of a Shock Blast I still have to “translate” that to appropriate action. When I’m told to run out, it eliminates that step.

DBM’s “Run Away Little Girl” auditory warning is good for this on some fights. I really can’t remember if it is turned on by default, or if it works for Shock Blast. It’s also possible the player has game sounds off and doesn’t hear it, even if it is on.

We all have different ways and speeds of learning, of course. I think you just inspired tonight’s blog topic, and I’ll take the rest there! Thanks!

My guild is on Mimiron right now (nearly had him tonight!) and I noticed something interesting with one of my raiders.

On phase one he has an ability “Shock Blast”, which melee has to run out of or they’ll die. One of my folks was dying just about every single time to this ability, and it was starting to bother me – he has DBM, he can see the blue crap under the boss, why isn’t he moving out on time?

Instead of talking to him about it directly (as indirectly wasn’t working “Everyone remember to move out of the Shock Blast…”), I decided to ask one of my more responsible melee to call out the Shock Blasts when they happen.

The fellow in question didn’t die _once_ after I had this being called out.

I’m trying to explain this in terms like “a human voice is more catching than the DBM *bling!*” “it pulls you out of the game” “its something that isn’t part of the game, so you don’t tune it out”, but then thought as someone who is talking about communication, etc, that you might have some insight into what happened here.

Thanks!