Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

To toss in my two cents on the AST sect debate, I prefer Diurnal in 4-man content since regens allow me more DPS uptime. 8-man content, though, I strongly prefer Nocturnal sect. So I jump at every opportunity to be in Noct sect. I prefer the mitigation aspect of Noct in 8-man content compared to supplying regens. Plus, if you have a WHM, more than likely they will be Medica II happy, so no need for double regens in most normal 8-man content (all that overheal too...).

Story time: Leveling up SCH, and I'll be honest, I was a little iffy about tanks doing large pulls just because it's been so long since I've touched the job, but I'm doing fairly well, so I feel happy. Excog is probably my favorite new skill. So incredibly useful and I use it basically on-cooldown for most pulls so I can DPS as much as possible.

It is mildly depressing to see my crystal ball telling me I'm pulling more damage on SCH in Shisui than a BLM though. Not sure what was going on there. >.>

Some things I now wish the auto-translate function covered:
(Please use AoE) (Please go do your class/job quest) (additional action) (Please start the fight with)
Why oh why, leveling roulette, why do you give me French marauders who don't have Tomahawk and use overpower as like the 6th move?

Alright time to go to cutter's cry and level my scholar/summoner! We've got a Dragoon a Red Mage and a Maraud-...wait...a Marauder!?

no...
https://i.imgur.com/C5YHE1a.jpg
NO...
https://i.imgur.com/xGqpZDL.jpg
NOT AGAIN!!
https://i.imgur.com/5Y2RhhA.png

Oh yeah I wanted to post on here.

Confession time! I apologize to my party that I was with at my lvl 65 dungeon.

So I'm tanking the dungeon on my quest to 70 WAR. We get to the end of the first boss and the call goes out that Ixion has popped. I needed just one more Ixion to finally get the mount. My server is pretty dead and the news sometimes doesn't go out to the entire server so... I ditched my party and went to kill Ixion. I got the mount and was happy! I feel bad abandoning my party though. I hope they were able to get a replacement tank. :(

Just got a red mage in Bardam's Mettle that never used Scatter. Tank was doing the big pulls too. My poor ALT's bard's TP was crying. We wiped 3 times due to the healer not being able to heal for that long + cooldowns ran out while a bunch of mobs were still up.

So, Deltascape 2 as BLM, tagging along with my PLD friend. One healer dies, then D/Cs. Then the other healer bites the dust. Nope, no resses.

My friend is the only PLD. He's also MTing. He proceeds to keep himself and everyone else alive, while still tanking, for the rest of the fight.

At the end, the healers had the gall to roll on items that they got carried for, and my friend wins nothing. Thanks, RNG.

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Originally Posted by Mysterysword

At the end, the healers had the gall to roll on items that they got carried for, and my friend wins nothing. Thanks, RNG.

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Obviously I wasn't there so I can't attest for what exactly happened. Mistakes happen, disconnects happen. Assuming their was no intentional trolling and there was no one able to raise them then I don't think it's fair to expect them not to roll. If I was one of the healers I would have rolled. Congratulations on clearing without their help, though.

35 minute Temple of the Fist. Everyone is in 320-330 gear (except me - I have 310 pants).

The only cooldown I see from the pld is FoF - but maybe he did use others, I honestly couldn't pay that much attention. Because the drg didn't do his job of floor tanking - that was for the blm. Pretty sure the drg was using his cooldowns (I don't drg, but it seemed right to me). The blm used Ley Lines...3? times the whole run. Not 100% on Enochian, maybe once (I think I did see a Blizzard 4). I saw TripleCast...once.

First boss went fine.

We get to the second boss, and oh my dang Haurchefant. Killer Instinct up? They'd all hit the shields. Every time. It was either 5 or 6 of those sun/moon coins. If he did Fore & Aft, they all stood in front or behind him. If he did Port & Star, they all stood on his left or his right (to be fair, I did get some of the debuffs, mostly 'cause I was clipped while actively moving to safety. But still). The blm was down...2 times. Maybe 3.

We get to Ivan. The blm died 3 or 4 times. The drg died at the end, but he was trying to LB, so I'll give him credit there. I was baiting the spirit wind as far as I could, I was legitimately afraid that the blm would die.

I started in diurnal, for the regens, so I could dps. Yeah, no, it was kinda sad. The pld was as solid as used, wet, single ply tissue paper. After the first boss, I just said, "eff it" and went nocturnal (the shields seriously did help). I really wish I hadn't put my best friend away, he's a numbers wizard, and I'd have been interested in numbers.

I really, really like Temple of the Fist. I also quite like Ala Mhigo. And I very much dislike Kugane Castle (which is why about 80% of Expert roulettes put me there). It's not because of the bosses, although they are least interesting and most annoying of all the three dungeons; it's because of the trash pulls and how 99% of the tanks I met do them.

The ones before first boss are no problem. The ones between first and second boss? Tank puts Leeroy to shame by rushing towards the Summoners, leaving DPS as well as Treasure chests way behind and thus minimizing the chance that the Summoner will be killed before he finishes his cast. Why not grab the mobs, open chest next to them (kudos to the rare healer who does this instead), and make sure DPS are nearby before activating the Summoner? Grats, so you are at the Summoner 10 seconds before everyone else; how much time did it save?

But that is still nothing compared to pulls between second and third boss. Done separately, no problem. Dragging the first group towards the second one, killing them both, and then pulling the third group, sure why not. But if you do wall to wall pull there, and have meele DPS in your party, go burn in hell.
(Not to mention that 9 out of 10 times the pull ends with wipe anyway, and you can see that from miles ahead.)

/rant.

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Originally Posted by Joryan

I really, really like Temple of the Fist. I also quite like Ala Mhigo. And I very much dislike Kugane Castle (which is why about 80% of Expert roulettes put me there). It's not because of the bosses, although they are least interesting and most annoying of all the three dungeons; it's because of the trash pulls and how 99% of the tanks I met do them.


/rant.

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I love that pull tho its best to do on pali tho for the hg , and u can kill the first bomb on the way up. But its a super fun pull tho