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

The game keeps sending me into Wanderer's Palace this week. Two very different experiences:

The bad: another possibly-new tank that started by engaging the 'set piece' tonberries at the start, and followed up by repeatedly engaging groups of enemies in the Endless Rise right on top of an attacking stalker. I can only hope that the tank didn't realise they're unkillable. Terrible for my own personal paranoia of the place anyway.

The good: I decided to practice my own tanking, went in the roulette, and got the Palace again. Said hello, started out well, all fine (but silent) up until the bavarois boss... at which point our server had disconnection issues and we all got kicked out. I was the last one back in, all of us were spread out making our way back through the middle section of the dungeon - and because of that, we talked. And it was so nice to break from that straightforward 'silent gameplay' mode - and also a relief to find each other and regroup as we made our way back past all the stalkers.

(Oddly enough, and the opposite of my usual feelings when tanking, this dungeon seems *less* stressful as a tank...)

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Originally Posted by ko_

I'm grinding out for tomes but ques suck butt toes and I'm going for my weapon as dungeon drops are better than nothing atm.

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My advice is still to skip the dungeon weapon and get the deltascape one. Its better, and you can put up a PF group to be done with it in no time.

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Originally Posted by KaldeaSahaline

You missed my point I think. While I'm almost certain that BLM was probably just a complete tool, I've been in content where I'm doing nearly 1k more DPS than people 30 ilvl higher than me, and I died because the healer was too busy spamming cure on the MT who was at 99.986% HP and not 100%. Just because I was dead and lower ilvl doesn't mean I didn't considerably out-perform other party members.

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Yeah, more then one thing can be true. They could suck and your damage could still have used a little work. Its possible that theyre leveling BLM as an secondary job and havent gotten the hang of it yet(and FYI, the normal AoE rotation for BLM includes a longcast fire 3 after the first time through everything) but they main SAM and know exactly what theyre talking about. Or they could be a tool trying to deflect blame for their poor play(more likely - as Kaldea says).

Road to 60 Gladiator and Road to 60 Conjerer fucked up in Longstep. Took about a hour to explain the mechs to them and the mechs of their job they have failed to learn! And the poor Dragoon being draged into this, we were not gonna kick them since the que alone was about a half hour for leveling so we'd imagine it'll be a longer wait for them since they are tank and healer. Longstep is a challenge if your tank is retarded and has no concept of Agro and drags the entire jungle thinking the healer gots this...the healer seems to be unaware that it's a healer and Stones 2 everything even when the tank is in single digits! The final boss took some time cause we knew dam well Esuna wasn't gonna happen. In short, horrible experience also I checked their level a few times the Conjerer was level 43 and the Gladiator was level 40!!! How do you neglect your classes this much to compeltly evade the job upgrade

Tried a Rabanastre run a couple hours before monday downtime, 7/8 FC party trying to get a clear for one of us.

Mateus: Orbs aren't getting killed, water puddles not getting stood in, and the resulting Blizz3 blocks aren't getting killed either. Result: 1 wipe, then clear (barely).

Hashbrowns: One of the alliances can't get their orb down fast enough at first, and both other alliances are having major problems with mechanics, and their healers just can't keep up. Result: Abandon after the 4th wipe or so. :(

Hopefully we can get our FC mate his clear soon. :/

--Erim Nelhah

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Originally Posted by Jirah

Road to 60 Gladiator and Road to 60 Conjerer
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also I checked their level a few times the Conjerer was level 43 and the Gladiator was level 40!!! How do you neglect your classes this much to compeltly evade the job upgrade

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I think you answered your own question there. I'd assume they're just pushing through the MSQ and not realising the importance of detouring to do their job quests. Not sure exactly what level you'd end up at that point from MSQ experience, but I do have an alt with Road to 60, currently put aside around Lv25, and I can go up two levels by running a single daily leveling roulette.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I think you answered your own question there. I'd assume they're just pushing through the MSQ and not realising the importance of detouring to do their job quests. Not sure exactly what level you'd end up at that point from MSQ experience, but I do have an alt with Road to 60, currently put aside around Lv25, and I can go up two levels by running a single daily leveling roulette.

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Longstop is level 32, so it's usually the point players swap to the "job."

Usually just telling them how much the crystal buffs you and the OP skills locked behind quests can get these naive newbies to take the time to get them. Most are too green to know just how much they are missing otherwise.

Aery.

Ok so the first pull does not have a wall blocking it, I think.. The second pull does, however. DRG asks(politely) for bigger pulls while we're fighting the first pack. I'm silently ok with this. I get the next pull and there is a wall, so gotta get past that first. The BRD decides to call me a "p word" and start doing bigger ones now. I reply with "ok :)" and left the group. All three were from leviathan (not posting names obviously), so they were likely in the same FC. I'm not gonna be ganged up by a premade and I'm not going to be taking any verbal abuse from ANYBODY in this game, and by extension, I'm going not to engage in hissy fits with people in this game either. I know there are folks that want someone to challenge their angst. I'm not going to be one of them.

Time to go work on my MNK for awhile. I usually take LONG breaks from tanking when something like this happens.

Rabanastre again. Mostly smooth, but we did have 2 wipes:

Wipe 1: Hashbrowns (surprise). Someone from another alliance was with us on second orbs, got their alliance's stack marker and stacked with us.

Wipe 2: Rofocale. Alliance B didn't kill their add fast enough. After that I asked "Is alliance B awake now?" From the responses it seems at least one of their DPS didn't get into their area in time, tho one person came back to my comment with "I hope so." :)

I just wish all of my Rabanastre runs were that smooth (or better). :)

--Erim Nelhah

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

People do realize that it's faster to just stand in the water pillars during Unbind instead of letting them turn into Blizzard III and burning them down, right? =_=

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I don't think most of them do. It only takes a few people to handle it, so lots of people honestly have no idea what's going on with it.

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Originally Posted by KaldeaSahaline

God please I wish we had PM's. I need to know how much fun that run was. Please share.

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I should add my Discord to my sig to make that happen. :) In the mean time, Neph had this description:

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Originally Posted by NephthysVasudan

Drat you beat me to it.

So I join the roulette for Level 70 Roulette with a friend of mine - and see this white mage "Cecelia Stormfeather" (thought the name was nice lol) - she stares at me and is all OMG!! NEPH!!!! At this point im confused but thought the name was familiar suddenly - said it was Tridus on the forums! We both go berserk with happiness making the random DPS'er feel awkward lol.

Best Roulete Eva - would do it again. (thumbs up)
And yes..I do Dark Knight it up ^_^;;; (Dark Knights rule! AKA Angry Little Au Ra who goes Psychotic and went Dark)
Look forward to seeing you again Tridus :)

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It was a good time, one of those runs where you spend a lot of it chatting people up. Would love to get cross world linkshells so I could invite her into ours. :D (And yes, the other random DPSer who had no idea what was going on was probably bewildered at this meeting. They were patient with us chatting, so that was appreciated.)

Dungeon itself was Kugane Castle, so nothing stressful.