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

I queued 50 roulette today for umbrites and I got Halatali HM. I'm SCH with a DRK NIN and SMN.

I put up all the buffs, summon, set to obey, aetherflow, etc. The gates drop and the DRK is off and pulls everything to the bridge. NBD. The NIN jumps off the bridge and aggroes everything below and pulls it up. Now, I've bane my DoTs, thrown up a SF and Maisma II and now I am STRESSED OUT. The NIN dies as soon as they get in range of heals, the DRK picks up everything they dropped. The tank is now literally tanking everything from the gate to the first boss room. I pop everything I got at level fifty, burning all my lustrates, adlo, fey illuminated roused whispering dawn. While I'm doing this, I raise the ninja.

Somehow we make it through that pull. Then the first boss happens and nobody bothers to work mechanics. The big swing is allowed to go off. I lustrate myself and the tank so we live, and I have to let the DPS die and I raise them when SC isn't on CD. I'm damaging the boss as hard as I can to make up for the dead DPS.

After the boss is cleared, I jokingly type in chat, "You're trying to kill me, right?"
The tank emote laughs at me a few times, ninja says, "yes, yes we are. It's a test."
Apparently I passed, got two of three comms. :)

I'm happy, but I'm also kinda like, who DOES that to healers in DF? I'm not sure most of them could do it haha...

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

On the subject of Selli, our little group in Sargatanas (Ashkendor/Louvain/myself) somehow managed to get her in our little Discord room. Not entirely sure how that happened (think it had something to do with Lou and trying to get cross server mentor roulettes going), but we've enjoyed her presence there.

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Yes, selli and I were grinding mentor roulette at the same time for the mount but now I'm done. And "Cross server mentor roulette" isn't exactly how it works. We just queued often in the same time span.

Queued with my hubby for leveling roulette and got Brayflox Longstop NM. I was DRK and hubby was MNK. The healer was level 32, I believe. A conjurer instead of a WHM. They were new and very rarely healed me even after I had asked multiple times. I also asked if they were familiar with the job quests, no response. Luckily the SMN with us used Physick and rezzed me when I died at one of the bosses. I made sure we both gave our commendations to that guy. Thank you!

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Originally Posted by RubenSnizzle

Dark Knight who didn't want to use darkside because of MP 'problem' and never once used any defensive buff, had the 230 relic weapon on top of that, would lose aggro every now and then VS the MCH...of all the classes. Kept turning the mob in sohr alai (w/e the name) from time to time towards the party, especially those small bird that cleave, not sure if it was intentional or just a complete lack sense.

Sometimes you wonder how some people even manage to get a class to 60, with how bad they play it..

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Is there an epidemic of no-darkside DRKs going around recently? I've had one every three dungeons lately...

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Oops Grit got synced off.

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The level synced Shield Oats syndrome strikes again!

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Spiders

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My sis has a similar problem, possibly worse. She made an alt on my account to try the game. Then she learned she could not look at the screen if mitelings were on there. Guess what class she started on? Archer. And that means a whole lot of mitelings early game...

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

Massive storm of Arrow cards though. I can't complain I guess?

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OhnoallmyTPisgone
#monks-with-way-too-much-SkS-problems

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

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I don't know who that it is, nor if he has anyone relentlessly posting on their behalf.

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Originally Posted by Kallistra

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...one post? Wow. As was suggested, I did scan your post history. My point still stands, particularly with the "she pushed me to post this" one some several pages earlier.

It's pretty obvious this is far more than a matter of "a dude talking about his girlfriend" as someone put it, but there's no point in repeating myself. It's reassuring to see some players are allowed to abide by a different set of rules if they know enough people, but this thread has been derailed enough.

I'm so confused what happened just now lol

Blah.

Would it be any different in principle if he said, "this one thing happened to my girlfriend...." as opposed to making a quote box with Selli's name on it? He's perfectly entitled to post as himself from his perspective after all...

Bottom line is Selli got banned and he didn't. Until he does something to violate the user agreement he can post whatever he wants.

Can we go back to the subject?

I got a very funny experience in DF while trying to do an trial roulette. The MCH was so disappointed that a green leaf player was in there AKA me (ahh the green leaf can be such a deceiver. It was amusing). He pointed at me with so much worries. The funny thing is that the the other player with level 60 DRk didn't have provoke - so I ended up tanking after we wiped 2 times because the DRK couldn't do the swap. I was fine solo tanking, but you know the MCH was so against to that idea, in the beginning, but he kept silence after that.

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Originally Posted by Lunaxia

...one post? Wow. As was suggested, I did scan your post history. My point still stands, particularly with the "she pushed me to post this" one some several pages earlier.

It's pretty obvious this is far more than a matter of "a dude talking about his girlfriend" as someone put it, but there's no point in repeating myself. It's reassuring to see some players are allowed to abide by a different set of rules if they know enough people, but this thread has been derailed enough.

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Why is this such a big issue to you, exactly? What I do doesn't effect you in the slightest. I don't understand where this bitterness to stalk my posts and make passive aggressive comments comes from. Consider putting that energy into yourself, it sounds like you need to relax and take a break.

As for my duty finder adventures today? They were alright, I suppose. Nothing overly concerning or noteworthy. I did run into someone who had a couple of the same moogle quests as me. I wonder if they thought I was stalking them.

Gotta love being called a Elitist Prick on POTD All I asked since we had 2 tanks and 2 Dps was to help me tank other adds since they were only just focusing the one add iw as tanking when i was pulling slowly, and then when more adds got agroed onto the other dps she just went and ignored them and let them die while I was trying to grab like 5 at a time that appeared from a trap trigger -_- I even asked nicely I dont see how POTD playing efficiently without a healer is elitist? lol
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I joined an FC cohort leveling his Lancer in Copperbell as WHM. We land in, say hi, buff, and our tank, DRK in Void Ark gear, ready checks the first mob. Then the second. Then third.

I mention the oddity in FC chat, and my cohort tells the DRK he doesn't need to ready check on trash. DRK then says he has OCD, so we all reassure him we got this. (second DPS was a level 56 DRG btw) DRK is cool about it all and says he's going to do big pulls.

And proceeds to not do any big pulls. XD

Despite that, it goes smoothly, up until the final room where it becomes the dark cave. DRK asks if we can skip the room. How, I wonder, but my spearmen agree.

DRK proceeds to pull EVERYTHING and guns it towards the boss. We chase after him, and he inevitably dies right at the gate (too much to cure spam that sync'd!), and all the mobs just... leave. O.o'

We beat the boss, and DRK remarks this is the best run he'd ever done ever and leaves.


Cohort and I were so confused.

Hullbreaker HM on AST, first boss. When the second coeurl spawned, the bard DCed, while paladin and dragoon completely ignored it. This beast got 10 damage up stacks and was the LAST mob of the fight that died, it eventually hit like a bus and forced me to only heal myself to survive, and thus forcing the paladin to clemency himself to survive.

When I pointed this out after the fight, the dragoon kept silent while the paladin called me a "whiny bitch healer" and told me the coeurl is my problem, not his. Well yeah ._.

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Originally Posted by Kallistra

Why is this such a big issue to you, exactly? What I do doesn't effect you in the slightest. I don't understand where this bitterness to stalk my posts and make passive aggressive comments comes from. Consider putting that energy into yourself, it sounds like you need to relax and take a break.

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I may be leaning in neutral faction because I don't know Selli that well aside from a veteran user that may have an unjustified ban for a single post. But this post was by far made my symhpathy toward Selli, the banned user gone down the drain because you or even Selli? herself made abrupt toxic comments toward another user to just "get lost" because things should just go the way you want it. For the way I intrepret Lunaxia's first post, it was more of a polite way to remind you that it might not be such a good idea for someone to keep posting for someone else because public forums usually aren't allowing such behaviour, even you acknowledge that you don't have many reasons to linger around the forum other than keep updating Selli's words.

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Originally Posted by lvlagmarink

For the way I intrepret Lunaxia's first post, it was more of a polite way to remind you that it might not be such a good idea for someone to keep posting for someone else because public forums usually aren't allowing such behaviour, even you acknowledge that you don't have many reasons to linger around the forum other than keep updating Selli's words.

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The first post reads as "A banned person's getting a voice on the forums? Is this allowed? Why?" and then subsequent posts just further the viewpoint of "This is not acceptable. I should be able to report this." Other peoples' reactions that aren't Kallistra's appear to believe that it came off that way as well.

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Originally Posted by Fluestergras

When I pointed this out after the fight, the dragoon kept silent while the paladin called me a "whiny bitch healer" and told me the coeurl is my problem, not his. Well yeah ._.

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As melee, I haven't encountered this often since I haven't healed Hullbreaker HM in a while but I definitely have had healers kite the coeurl around which is annoying when I am trying to land hits on it. To be honest I wouldn't have wanted to stay as a healer for this Paladin.

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Originally Posted by ExKage

The first post reads as "A banned person's getting a voice on the forums? Is this allowed? Why?" and then subsequent posts just further the viewpoint of "This is not acceptable. I should be able to report this." Other peoples' reactions that aren't Kallistra's appear to believe that it came off that way as well.

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Going off past experience moderating at a different extremely toxic forum, usually when one keeps bringing up/doubling down on the subject, their reasons for bringing up such a subject in the first place usually extend far beyond simple concern for the forum rules. But alas, that's enough of that.

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I ended up in a party with 3 Lalafells a while back. They called me Big Brother.

I think they were disappointed that I wasn't one either.

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Originally Posted by lvlagmarink

But this post was by far made my symhpathy toward Selli, the banned user gone down the drain because you or even Selli? herself made abrupt toxic comments toward another user to just "get lost" because things should just go the way you want it.

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First...what? No idea what you are saying here. I haven't seen anything remotely like what you seem to be implying.

Second, it's not really anyone's place to act like forum moderators or police here, and it's only further derailing the topic to continue like this. It's not an issue that's going to get settled here, or in this manner.

To drag it back on topic... I was doing leveling roulette on an alt yesterday, and got Stone Vigil while in party with a couple of friends. We got a machinist for the other dps. On that first long hall, the one that gets a couple of patrols, my friend went into the side room to deal with three mobs and avoid patrols. The machinist ended up pulling another group and a patrol on top of us. If I'd really been a sprout healer we probably would have wiped, but between divine seal, presence of mind, and a Swiftcast cure II at the right moment, and my DRK friend holding hate on everything and my SMN friend taking advantage to bane everything in sight, we held our own.

Still not sure if the MCH pulled by accident or on purpose. <_<

Trial Roulette, hopped in as Astro hoping to get it done before daily reset.
Final Steps of Faith.
Ok no problem. Still got almost 15 minutes.
New player message.
Ok no problem, this isn't a terribly hard fight and I like teaching people mechanics.

As soon as we get our protects up the WAR pulls. Guess we're not saying anything.
DRK dies to Cauterize, gets rezzed, is up and protected for adds.
Forgets Grit, so the Falak is running around cleaving people. Mostly us healers. Wipe.
The WAR says (and I quote) "Drk take the east add. And don't give me '' first time'' bull shit". Proceeds to pull immediately.
I start noticing other issues in the fight.
The WAR who's MTing (uhhh sure) seems to have trouble mitigating damage despite being well geared, and dies to Whisper+Bellow+Bellow (I was already busy spamming Helios in lightspeed to keep the party alive). DRK does not pick up the boss. Lucky for us, Niddy flies away and we have time to get the WAR back up.
DRK OTs with Grit on, playing aggro ping pong.

People get smacked by Hot Wings. People die to Cauterize.
During the add phase the DRK is now actually tanking the Falak. Pulling it to the other mobs, so everybody is getting cleaved. And occasionally losing it anyways.
And oh god the wandering dragon... People were not even trying to dodge it's cleaves. I could just watch as people had their faces torn off. Even I got hit by it once, but that was a "gotta get this heal off or people die" situation.
And every time we wipe the WAR pulls in under 10 seconds of the wall going down.
I think I may have been the only person in there who never died to anything other than a wipe situation. Me and possibly one DPS, hard to keep track.
In the end, people just left. I sighed and left as well once it was just me and a goon.

For a more positive experience, I did EX roulette. The tank was massively undergeared for everyone else, but he still played well, and the party was composed of nice people.
The monk had a bad day apparently, he pulled aggro on Moglin and dropped to about 40 HP. And I just kept on merrily casting my Bio II... And then had a mini heart attack when I noticed it, and panicLustrated him just in time. He also managed to break half the walls in Poqhiraj with one Quasar, but he owned up to his mistake and we all just had a good laugh about it. No deaths or anything like that even. Such a fun run.

Roulette trial gave me Nidhogg as usual in 60% time. 1 new people and after 1 wipe , all quit. I wait alone there for closed instance with Vote Abandon and then try again.
Next is The Crysalis in progress. 100 bonus poetics and only 4 people there, and all quit except me and 1 new dps. I prefer wait than try again and enter against Nidhogg. After 2 minutes replace all and win.

Well, I hope Square nerf Nidhogg in next patch.

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Originally Posted by Zefiris

Well, I hope Square nerf Nidhogg in next patch.

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God no, Nidhogg is actually pretty easy compared to other content, the so-called "mechanics" are just basic stuff: dodge AOE, turn mobs away from the party, know when to AOE heal. Instead it hits like a truck, but it's still easier than for example the Vault, which has both annoying mechanics and much damage, specially during the final boss. People who fail at FSoF fail at the basics of FFXIV's gameplay in like 90% of the time. Thus I don't see a reason for the fight to get nerfed - but I expect it to be nerfed soon ._.

I queue up for Leveling roulette as SCH. Hold my breath, waiting, waiting for it to load. Is it gonna be Vault again today? Is it? Is it?

Nope! For once, it's Stone Vigil NM!

With... a MCH and NIN pair, the NIN who doesn't put on poison, and a sproutling PLD, wearing white level 38~ gear, not even HQ, and non-HQ level 30~ accessories, with STR wristbands. Also non-HQ. And this PLD is level 41.

I've barely finished summoning Eos when this PLD is running off to do a giant-ass pull of 9-10 mobs. If I were as poorly-geared as this heel, we'd all have wiped. As it was, I almost ran out of MP, Eos almost died to AoEs, and of course I had no time whatsoever to even think about DPSing. Despite the fact that neither NIN nor MCH have any decent, sustainable AoEs at this level, the giant pulls continue.

After we wipe to pulling everything in the hallway towards the first boss, I just snapped. I've had a truly horrible day today, all I wanted was to knock out Leveling roulette so I don't have to do it tomorrow, but nope. Screw it. I'm not carrying some wannabe-50 who thinks that their playstyle should be the exact same regardless of class, level, or party composition.

RNG loves me so much today. Draw Spear, Redraw Spire / Ewer.

Not a single bole, balance or arrow in sight for the entire duration of LoTA run.
oTL

World of Darkness.

At the very first pull, everyone is just focusing on the dragon. Everyone ignores the adds.
Adds come and kill the healers in each group. Then, the DPS begin going down. Even though DPS are being attacked, they just ignore the adds and keep attacking the dragon. And because all the healers are dead (myself included) no one can heal the DPS.

About 15 people died at the very first pull.

Next is the eye boss. We almost wiped.
Half of each team completely ignored Mortal Gaze and got doomed and they didn't dispell it. Instantly half the raid is dead.
Thankfully, the healers all ignored mortal gaze and revived all the dead people.
Who then died to the next Mortal Gaze. Revive again.
And people were dying to the adds and all kinds of mechanics.

Thankfully, the healers on each team were reviving everyone pretty well. But at the end of the fight 3/4 of the raid was dead.

The other fights went all right but still a few deaths here and there.

I've never raised so many people in a single instance before.
Left with 5 comms.

On the other hand, not a single person died during my Weeping City run...

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Originally Posted by FinaSel

I've never raised so many people in a single instance before.
Left with 5 comms.

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I have stopped expecting commendations when I do a good damn job as a healer in a 24man. Things happen. Lots of people die, I time healer LB3 excellently for every boss after Forgall (yes, every single boss but the first needed a healer LB3), and I get one commendation. Like I know I should never expect commendations for any reason but I know if I did so poorly that a healer had to do extra work to make sure we didn't completely wipe, they would 100% get my commendation.

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Originally Posted by Zefiris

all quit. I wait alone there for closed instance with Vote Abandon and then try again.

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Ehm..are you not aware that you can leave the instance without penalty as soon as someone else left? :eek:
Also, as soon as everyone has left the instance, it will vanish by itsself. So no need to wait around until you can leave with vote abandon :)

(If you keep recruitments open, it's actually more annoying to other players because those who check in-progress for their duties get thrown into an instance with only 1 person that has no chance of turning into a clear)

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Ehm..are you not aware that you can leave the instance without penalty as soon as someone else left? :eek:
Also, as soon as everyone has left the instance, it will vanish by itsself. So no need to wait around until you can leave with vote abandon :)

(If you keep recruitments open, it's actually more annoying to other players because those who check in-progress for their duties get thrown into an instance with only 1 person that has no chance of turning into a clear)

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Well, I keep recruitments off and wait for closed with Vote Abandon. If I only leave instance and still open, people can enter, no?

Just something i found hilarious

The Chrysalis (one with the 1 Ascian to fight)
I joined on my alt, witha nice green leafy bud by the name.
And 1 other green bud buddy.

Half the party left before it started LOL

and this is one of the easy fights >.>

(we cleared it fine after replenishing pple)

Get Dusk Vigil on my monk get a Sch, Blm, and a....Gladiator? Wait whaaaat why are you a Gld? People are leaving like there's no tomorrow coming in saying "...." or "omfg you troll or are you a noob? Do your lvl 30 job quest!". We ACTUALLY get a group who's willing to do this and we manage to get to first boss after me having to stay in Fists of Earth 100% of the time because the Gld has no tank stance he dies sooo fast on trash. Get to the Mammoth, he pulls, I wait a good solid 30 seconds before even think of DPSing the BRD (Blm left super fast) gets picked and the tank stands in front and gets DESTROYED by the Tusk Butt. Poor healer is healing as fast as they can but no the tank is just dying super fast since he's in mostly ilvl 100 pieces, 1 90 ring and some ironworks stuff. We managed to beat the first boss but holy did people ever vote abandon so fast after that was a shame too I wish more people would pay attention to their job quests and the game tells you at lvl 30 as well...oh well was a good 40 minute run to first boss T_T.

I see we've descended to personal attacks, nice. Someone suggested I look at the post history, and I did; I did not find anything that suggested I was wrong, nor has anyone given me reason to think so, and that's as far as it goes. If we're now resorting to ad hominem instead of actual replies, then nothing else really needs to be said.

On a slightly more positive (?) note, I had a lovely Qarn run the other day that restored a bit of my faith in DF as a whole - I joined in progress as BLM to find a lone German tank, and we were soon joined by a BRD. We decided to move forward with mobs while waiting for a healer (me throwing in my sad Physiks where necessary), and the reason the others left quickly became apparent when said tank struggled to hold enmity on even one monster, let alone a mob. Noticing he was new, we tried to give him some auto-translated tips on how to play PLD; it turns out he not only spoke English, but was really happy to get some advice on the job, which he started practicing right away. Though the BRD (who was 50 something, I think) still took aggro occasionally, they were a great sport about it and on the whole the tank played much better. We made it to the end after a healer joined and he thanked us for the help and the enjoyable run, which we heartily returned.

Seeing vets actually stick around to offer helpful advice and support, and then watching the tank steadily improve and become more confident through it, really made my day.

Did Weeping City and had a tank that was new. He mentioned this at the very beginning, but had seen several videos. We wiped during Ozma because he didn't place a meteor. The bard (a mentor) proceeds to insult the tank, keeps repeating that he's useless, and should have let us know that he was new (he did). We explain the mechanics and try again. I guess the tank may have had trouble with the adds during the Black Hole phase because they're going after everyone, and both me and my co-healer are dead (this may have been before we explained the mechanics, I can't remember). We wipe. The bard then says that she won't sing for the healers, so I say I won't heal her (I knew that that was impossible as most of the healing I do is aoe, but whatever). She then runs off the edge and stays dead the entire fight. We try again and it actually goes a lot better without her, but we end up dying due to a bad combination of bleeding, extra adds, orbs, and meteors. Sadly, we wipe again. We finally kick the bard and another dps that went offline. We get two new dps and try again, and it goes really well.

Next, Calisofiresomthing. Everything's fine at first, but towards the end, nearly everyone gets hit by the haircut. I don't know if someone turned her or what, but I wasn't able to remove my debuff in time, so I'm dead and my co-healer (who also got hit) dies. Another alliance has also lost both healers. From our alliance, only the tank and another dps are alive and Calsiisomething is at 5% health, but they manage to do it in the end. :D

Not exactly my greatest performance. I think I could have done better. >_< I just hope that the tank wasn't too discouraged. I felt really bad for him... He honestly wasn't a bad tank at all - mistakes do happen. He certainly wasn't the worst tank I've seen there and was actually pretty good for his first time.

Leveling roulette brings me to Duck Vigil, with a tank with an i55 weapon, a healer who just. Will. Not. Stop. Spamming. Physick. All. The. Freaking. Time. Even when no one is hurt, and a BLM who uses only fire 3 and blizzard 3. No one responded when I tried to talk, so I left after the first boss.

Edit: no wait, the BLM did talk once - to complain about how slowly it was going...

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Got out of prae with a monk who had macroed almost his entire skill tree to some lame battle quote. I had to turn off notification sound for party chat for that run.
*draws circles on the ground in a corner* ;_;

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We can disable those sound effects?

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Originally Posted by Cakekizyy

We can disable those sound effects?

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If somebody talks in party, you will get a sound (if you have it turned on), although most people have it on for only tells. Rhyku probably has notification sound on for party chat I suppose. The <se.xx> though can't be disabled with that function and has nothing to do with it I'm pretty sure.

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Originally Posted by Bebekurenai

If somebody talks in party, you will get a sound (if you have it turned on), although most people have it on for only tells. Rhyku probably has notification sound on for party chat I suppose. The <se.xx> though can't be disabled with that function and has nothing to do with it I'm pretty sure.

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I believe <se._> falls under System Sounds in audio options (mute system sounds and that should stop those).

I feel bad for my not-DF raid in getting my free company mates through coil. Having forgotten nearly everything, we hit t10 and t11 after doing t6-t9 with 1 death and 0 wipes. No deaths in t10.

... I wiped us in t11 because I forgot to tank Kaliya in the middle :V Nerve gas all the people! Also, thank god barofield is just annoying. Ran through it once per run. ><;

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Originally Posted by Lunaxia

I see we've descended to personal attacks, nice. Someone suggested I look at the post history, and I did; I did not find anything that suggested I was wrong, nor has anyone given me reason to think so, and that's as far as it goes. If we're now resorting to ad hominem instead of actual replies, then nothing else really needs to be said.

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Don't see anyone attacking you, and secondly it's none of your business ok, if there was anything wrong with what selli's boyfriend is doing Im pretty sure a moderator would have done something about this so shhhhh. Now back on topic did the dragon dungeon 3.0( can't remember the name) had a mch who would always use the mp regen even though my mp( I was a white mage) was fine, keep telling him I was fine but he said" I play the way I want", so tired of people saying that <.<

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Originally Posted by Powe

Don't see anyone attacking you, and secondly it's none of your business ok, if there was anything wrong with what selli's boyfriend is doing Im pretty sure a moderator would have done something about this so shhhhh. Now back on topic did the dragon dungeon 3.0( can't remember the name) had a mch who would always use the mp regen even though my mp( I was a white mage) was fine, keep telling him I was fine but he said" I play the way I want", so tired of people saying that <.<

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And who are you to tell her to shhhhh and that it's none of her business? Is it your business?

Seriously guys, this is getting a bit out of hand already don't you think?
We get it, Selli got banned, her bf is posting on her behalf. We all love her very much and miss her, but we mustn't now all be against anyone who raises a question or doubt.
We are rising the tone every time, and jumping at anyone that writes anything that could stray us away from believing Selli's innocence.
Can we stop already?

i was in expert roulette as a tank, got sohr kai. we killed the two stone heads, i prepared for a big pull (next two groups) and suddenly the monk jumps with a freaking lightspeed ahead on the next monsters and started attacking and in the same second the summoner got some holy f***ing flare off. i had aggro from NOTHING, the healer then pulls some other monster.... the monsters were all over the place, some at the monk, some at the summoner, some at the healer... i was spamming my aoe for a moment but didn't got the aggro, so i just sat on the ground and waited until i was out fight and left the dungeon...

i know, stacks, dreadwyrm stance, whatever... but if you mess up my pull that hard... no, just no xD

Today in Void Ark adventures, I learned it was possible to burn everything so fast that you could skip Bile Below completely at Chuchulain and skip the first Petrifaction at Echidina. However, it appears that the portion of the fight between the first and second add phase at Echidina is so strictly scripted that she will not go into second add phase until she does petrifaction -> leaping attack, both of which also appear to be strictly timed.

In our run, she entered the second add phase at 8% HP remaining (and thus dies immediately upon re-forming with the first attack that lands).

Maybe it's even possible to kill her before the second add phase even starts... Our group came REALLY close to doing that.

Just got out of a great leveling with the wife. We got Toto-Rak with a tank alt and her friend who was leveling arcanist. Mobs melted like butter despite lack of Bane. One of those runs where you wish you could comm more than once. The other two kept it entertaining, chatting with us, and keeping it from being boring. The arcanist got my comm 'cos he made me laugh; the tank afk'd momentarily without notice, and the arcanist got stuck on the far side of the web, so we had to burn through before the mites beat on him too much.

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Originally Posted by Cakekizyy

We can disable those sound effects?

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It's not the <se.xx>. I have a notification for party chat, so I had to turn it off because the sounds were going off like a Dragonforce song >_<