I've complained about the open nature of humania making it a pain in the butt for bears (similar to croc swamps and some other maps). However, blindly using the beckon/stomp combo regardless of the situation MAKES you a scatter bear. If following along and not doing anything is the best for the group, then that is what we are asking. HOLD YOUR SKILLS when it makes sense to. There are still plenty of mobs near walls that can be grouped up nicely along the way, so its not like we are just running and doing nothing at all.
Even though beckon/stomp is our best way of doing damage, the resulting "scatter" reduces the overall damage done by the 4 other players because their AOE skills will not land. A suggestion. When you are in a big open area (the bane of my existence as a bear) use Beckon and then WAIT for the other players to blast them with their skills. You have a good few second window while all the mobs are still stunned from beckon. After waiting for the beckon stun to wear off, you can even first follow it up with a hellscream to add another second of stunning. By that point, a lot of mobs will be relatively low health and all your team's AOE skills will have already been used. If the mobs are low health, your stomp may just finish them off, and any that are not finished off can be tagged off with single DPS abilities. You don't even have to stomp either. Just beckon, hellscream, and then start slashing away at the mobs that are left.
Its not going to be as fun if you play this way, since you are not going to be doing massive DMG COMBOZZZ and getting all the sweet kills for yourself, but play for the greater good of the team and you will find more players willing to play with you and have faster and better runs overall.
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