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

came back to FF14 after a long break. did some dungeons as a Dark Knight. Under geared and little knowledge of the class. I gave the healers a ride for their money. It worked out but every boss fight the healer would nearly be out of mana at the end.

i felt bad being SCH main. But personally i would have enjoyed the challenge.

After about forty minutes in the queue for Kugane Castle an in progress run pops. This is the final level 70 dungeon I need to do for opening the expert roulette. I had tried a couple of times earlier in the day, once getting DC'd while in the queue, and the other having to cancel the queue due to RL getting in the way. Anyway, I zone in to be greeted to this:

P1 'kick me'
P2 'you can leave and eat your penalty'

I was inclined to agree.

As I was running towards where they had gotten to in the instance I chip in with something along the lines of 'You should have left before I joined. There's no penalty for leaving if the group isn't full.' As I rounded the corner where they were, I saw the offending player sitting on the floor, with a crown next to his name. I comment that he is a mentor and should be reported. Then the next thought is to actually report him myself. As I'm filling out the report the other two members are going into detail about the incident they had with him and his 'mouthy friend', who they had just kicked.

Once I had filled out the report, I let them know and it seemed that the mentor had gotten up and started going on about letting the dungeon run its full duration. I then realised I had forgotten to mention he was a mentor, so I went back into the support desk, found my ticket, hit reply and was swiftly met with a windows error message which forcibly closed the game. I hurriedly open up the launcher and log back in, remembering that trial where the DC'd person was able to log back in right away.... only to be met with a 1100+ queue.

So if either of you two good people that were or are still in that run... I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to ditch the group myself. Queues ftl. :(

Dear Duty Gods,

Could you please stop pairing me with a 2nd SCH every time I do Trial Roulette, especially if you are going to continue to give me Shinryu every day. It's doable of course, but it feels awful.

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Originally Posted by Ignnis

Did Bardaams Mettle yesterday for the first time, lovely group overall but the first pull kinda took 10 years off my life span. Standard affair, spawn with aoe classes, tank does large pull, unfortunately DPS in Bardaams from the monsters is INSANE, WAR tank dropping faster than I can heal, both me and the tank are frantically popping every single CD available to us, Im spamming cure II hoping that I can heal faster than the dmg is being dealt. The DPS finish everything off, I collapse out of my chair with 500 ish MP to my name, I then type in chat "maybe small pulls" tank replies with "yeah D:".

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That dungeon seems to do way more damage to tanks than anything before or after it. I was actually kind of worried about the following dungeons after doing it, only for it to go right back to just needing a bit of attention for the tank and mostly DPSing.

Today an fc mate and I ran sohm al nm to level my rdm. They were pld and we got a whm and another rdm. It went all fine till the final boss. The healer somehow dies within seconds of the fight so it's 2rdms and a pld left. We rhwn clear the who fight with us using vercure with some dualcast spells for dps. We came really close to wiping to bad meteor placement, but we did it! Man I love rdm

First time in Temple of the Fist today and I DC on the second boss. Pop back in to see the group has wiped and brace for some upset folks as I explained myself. Was pleasantly surprised to find cheerful folk who understood that sometimes things happen. Shoutout to the Coddlefishes, thanks for the sportsmanship!

People are seriously ungrateful in this game sometimes.

Ixion spawned on my server and a lot of people rushed to it.

My boyfriend and I were in a party already so I started trying to invite people as quick as I could since a lot of people were spamming the log for invites. We managed to get 5 people quickly but then every one I tried to invite said "already joined another party". I kept trying as fast as possible clicking and inviting over and over, but was unsuccessful for a bit...

So I gave my boyfriend leader so he could try and we got to 6 people and ended up with 8 near the end of the FATE, but we only got silver.

We tried our best and the map was partially crashing; people d/cing everywhere and very unstable and everyone in my party was being culled so I couldn't target to heal or raise them unless I managed to find them so it was rough.

Well we got silver so got 1/2 possible horns, better than getting nothing. Some said thanks for invite and left, but one guy? Instead of saying thanks (or heck I don't care if you just say nothing and leave) he is like "you didn't invite enough people" and left.

Sigh. I guess he'd rather get nothing? I let him know not to worry since me or my boyfriend won't be inviting him anymore and that he should just try making his own party and then blacklisted him. Hopefully he can find others to invite his ungrateful butt.

Is it really going to kill you to be even just slightly courteous to others?

All of the dungeons and primals have been so much fun. Except for df toxicity. Some of us are "filthy casuals" who have a life outside if doung nothing but playing the game day in and day out. Forgive me for being a bad healer on the final fight when I have no idea what is going on. Thanks for your help, btw for not explaining wtf was going on. I now know why you went through multiple parties before you cleared.

Don't be asshats. New content is for learning and give some hints and help.

Manners are free, distribute generously.

The visuals were stunning, everything was great despite my less than perfect preformance. I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS. It's like finishing a book. I feel empty. Guess it's time to play the game.

My Shinryu clear took longer than my Sophia EX clear (2+ hours), and I only got it after I brought a full FC party. God help any of you who are doing it through DF.

Had my first Susano run this morning. DRK was supposed to do the button mashing. Never did. He loses patience and leaves. He's quickly replaced by a PLD. We do the mechanics correctly and though we don't beat him on our first try after the PLD joins, we eventually clear. My comm went to the patient PLD.

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Originally Posted by Venjenz

Dzemael is one of those dungeons for me. I can't seem to run it well. Not how I tank, not how anyone in my group plays, nothing. I hate that place.

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I don't expect perfection every run or anything. But by the 40s, I do sorta expect tanks to know better than to focus on a single target without trying to spread enmity all around. Pretty sure this PLD's opener was Provoke, Flash, then proceed to hit one mob until dead.

The tuck is with these healers and this sass I'm seeing in the new expert? You die ONCE and they cope insults. After you tell them it's only your first time. Karma is a wonderful person tho cause that sassy for good healer fucking died 3 times to the next boss. What did I do. Smirked and killed the boss. In case you were wondering I died to a bomb exploding in the first kagena bosss. They died to the second boss 3 times. I only died once. And it was just a mistake on my end.

And yesterday there was another who complain about a first timer getting hit, like PERSON.. it's their Pucking first time. I'm just going to run with friends cause I'm Yucking sick of all the - wannabe- progamers thinking FIRST timers need to be perfect. " NOOO you got hit by something you didn't know even tho I saw you were NOT standing in AOEs and most likely was just a mistake cause you didn't know the boss!! But I'm gonna yell at YOU anyway cause you're making me use my raise - CRY boo Rucking hoo-" I'm never touching DF/PF again. Cause people seriously lack any form of empathy. Not asking to carry people but have some bucking understanding. Are we THAT selfish?

1st run of Qarn today.

2nd DPS D/C'd on entry to the dungeon and didn't show up by the time we reached the 1st boss, so we got another. I D/C'd a little after the boss. After the 2nd boss, the healer D/C'd, and didn't return, so again, we replaced them. I ended up D/C'ing a second time, at the top of the stairs near the optional treasure rooms. Get back in, and immediately D/C again -I was able to watch the fighting, but effectively couldn't do anything beyond run around. The party saw me login, the list showed me as out of range, and then I was off again.

Got through everything else without a hitch, the tank being the only original party member not to D/C -though the game started giving me signs I'd D/C again near the end of the last boss.

The D/C's were a bit aggravating, but funny looking back on it. Internet went down in my area soon after we finished -heat probably fried some systems. 115~120°F stuff.

I felt really bad today. My friend asked me to queue with him before I was logging to bed. So I agreed. (I'm healing on AST) After the 2nd boss, I started dozing off. Luckily the tank didn't die but my friend said I kept running into walls. lol >.<
Last time I enter a dungeon super sleepy I tell you that.

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Originally Posted by FunkYeahDragons

My Shinryu clear took longer than my Sophia EX clear (2+ hours), and I only got it after I brought a full FC party. God help any of you who are doing it through DF.

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Did it just fine two days ago in DF. No one knew fight, we wiped like six times, advanced each time, and didn't give up.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

I don't expect perfection every run or anything. But by the 40s, I do sorta expect tanks to know better than to focus on a single target without trying to spread enmity all around. Pretty sure this PLD's opener was Provoke, Flash, then proceed to hit one mob until dead.

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I had a tank in Lost City HM a while back, never once used flash, could't hold aggro on one mob. I honestly had no idea how they were that bad at that level.

I had a nice run of the 65 dungeon. It was my first time healing a dungeon in SB. Just switch to healer before Susanoo. The tank ran pulled a lot and I passed the test. Made him sweat though. Then all that impressiveness turned into disappointment when I died to the first mechanic of the first boss. The rest of dungeon was smooth though. I loved the second boss. Got confused and hit people with my book.

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Originally Posted by rabbitzero

I had a tank in Lost City HM a while back, never once used flash, could't hold aggro on one mob. I honestly had no idea how they were that bad at that level.

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Palace of the dead says hi.

Wanted to get the guildhest challenge logs done, and noticed sam and rdm have the clear bonus!


Got to 'Annoy the Void'.

Said my hellos, saw a couple replies.
Tank went out to grab the boss, i went for the fires...

Saw a character still at the start, figured the other dps was just slow on the start...


Get all the fires out, bah, other dps isn't helping...



It goes on... tank isn't getting healed...
Tank dies...

I get aggro, I pop my eyes skill, go through feint, second wind, bloodbath, and a potion trying to keep myself up...

I eventually die...



When I respawn, that other player was still standing at the beginning, it was the conjurer, not the other dps...

I examined them.
Apart from the staff, they were completely naked.
And hadn't moved or said anything the whole hest.


We zerged it, dying and going back out to get it finished, I suggested the party report that player after we'd got finished.

I reported them as well, and cross server blacklisted them.

DF 50+60 roulette: Qarn Hard

I'll preface that I'm pretty sure the tank and one of the dps were jump potioners and the third was a SAM, nothing wrong with that and no "new player" message at the start so, no big deal.

First boss: Everyone's just smashing random body parts, no big deal, it'll die either way it'll just take longer. DRG dies to quicksand, Swiftcast > Raise go back to helping dps body parts. I take a look back over at the party menu, he's still dead so I let him know I raised him and went back to business. Meanwhile the SAM is dropping orbs on the tank, after dealing with the outgoing damage he's back alive, hurray... wait whys he outside the boss room... He released and ran back... Aight. Boss dies we go on.

Next boss: Noone kills the Guardia and sticks to boss, wipe. I let them know to kill the guardia then go back to the boss, DRG: "ik to dps" OK!

Back we go they do the mechanics but the tank dies at 1% because every other mob the boss spawns is beating me in the face and my cast gets interrupted. Nae bother, it's dead we open the chest and move on. Tanks still on the ground.

"pass loot plz" a level 50 tank ring dropped. I passed, he looted, he equipped... Aight it's still at least level appropriate for the dungeon.

Last boss: Everyone but me is stacking zombie like Jenga blocks and I end up tanking the boss for a while because the tanks doing his Thriller impression but it dies.

3 comms. I'm guessing they were buddies in a party but it was a weird run.

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Originally Posted by FunkYeahDragons

My Shinryu clear took longer than my Sophia EX clear (2+ hours), and I only got it after I brought a full FC party. God help any of you who are doing it through DF.

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Got it for mentor roulette this morning. We had one wipe, a healer forced dc and we replaced them, then we cleared it on the next try.

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Originally Posted by FunkYeahDragons

My Shinryu clear took longer than my Sophia EX clear (2+ hours), and I only got it after I brought a full FC party. God help any of you who are doing it through DF.

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My Shinryu clear took 2 additional tanks (first tank left after second wipe, second tank left after one wipe) and we started the last attempt with 15 minutes left. Nobody appeared to know the mechanics, so meh. At least everyone learned it as we got farther.

The interesting thing to point out is that once everyone learned not to fall of the platform, is that it's very heal-intensive, and it's difficult to recover from if multiple people need to be raised. We had two RDM's in the party who volunteered to raise anyone who dies, so that was an interesting twist.

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Originally Posted by Sammix87

Dear people in Shinry, when you're chained together please run far apart. Don't stand next to each other x_x.

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With the chains, the mechanic is similar to the Holy Chains in the Vault. If the two players marked group together before the chains appear, they won't have to run as far to break them. The further apart they are when the chain appears between them, the more they have to run to break it. Maybe that's what your party members were trying to do?



My first Shinryu attempt, I queue in with a RDM friend and a random DRK we picked up from our server also trying to get in. First group ended up as a vote abandon for 2 reasons:

1. Mr. Big "I've Cleared This Multiple Times" second tank didn't want to stand near the other tank to get tethered for Ahk Morn, nor did they want to stack. Even after we told them that this Ahk Morn is handled like it is in T13. When they finally complied, lo and behold, the shared damage was far less than the solo damage the DRK we queued in with was taking. Later complained that they still had to CD for it, and I was like "Of course you would need to CD for Ahk Morn; no one said you wouldn't have to. Just like you would need to use one in T13." >.> They were a DRK too, so I said: "Tether, stack, Dark Arts+Dark Mind, and you're golden."

2. The SCH we had was as dumb as a box of rocks. I don't know of any other way to say that. During Hellfire, we told them to stand in the water puddles to mitigate damage and so the Burn DoT wouldn't hurt as much (because they kept dying to it). Their response: "What do the puddles look like?"

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Uhm. Like water puddles?

I know they were probably new, but when you tell someone ten million times to stand in the puddles, and when they can clearly see everyone else standing in the puddles (and living), yet they continue to not stand in the puddles EVEN when people say in chat "Get in the puddles".... sigh. My patience was already thin with Mr. Multiple Clears, and this SCH was just pushing me to my limit.

Little note to these healers that see a BRD and think they don't have to properly manage MP or use Lucid Dreaming: my MP Refresh may be powerful, but it's on a 180 second cooldown. You no longer have any Mage's Ballad to rely on, since it does something completely different now. So please work with me to keep your MP at a healthy level. Thanks.

Run ended in a Vote Abandon because we ran of time. Didn't help that the WHM was basically solo healing because the SCH spent more time tanking the floor that they would have made any DRG proud. Second time queuing in, cleared with no wipes because people actually did mechanics! It's amazing what happens when you follow mechanics, no?

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Originally Posted by Ignnis

Did Bardaams Mettle yesterday for the first time, lovely group overall but the first pull kinda took 10 years off my life span. Standard affair, spawn with aoe classes, tank does large pull, unfortunately DPS in Bardaams from the monsters is INSANE, WAR tank dropping faster than I can heal, both me and the tank are frantically popping every single CD available to us, Im spamming cure II hoping that I can heal faster than the dmg is being dealt. The DPS finish everything off, I collapse out of my chair with 500 ish MP to my name, I then type in chat "maybe small pulls" tank replies with "yeah D:".

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I gotta say, I'm noticing something pretty ingenious with this.

When the developers revealed the fact that Direct Hit as a stat exists, the vast majority of players only thought about how it would affect their own personal damage. Few people, if any at all, took into consideration that it may come back to bite everyone in the ass because technically that should mean enemies can now direct hit against YOU. That's likely precisely why tanks are dying so much faster, despite the healing potency increases and the Cleric Stance removal. Stance dancing has no place in the new environment.

People thought SB was going to make the game easier due to all the class and stat changes. I bet most people are eating crow right now, because what I've seen from this expansion thus far is that while it's easier to play most classes, it's harder to deal with actual mechanics overall. Which is the way it should be.

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On a second note, these Bard bugs are annoying, what with the whole party buffs not even affecting myself and all. But that's not even the worst part.

I literally used Battle Voice in a 4-man dungeon only to watch in horror as I saw it MISS the entire party.

I wanted to cry in a corner. ;_;

Just had my first Shinryuu. Get brought in as a replacement for another healer leaving with 44 minutes on the clock. I tell the party that I'm new, the tank proceeds to pull before the countdown goes off without anyone explaining anything. I die pretty fast, the other healer leaves me on the floor for a good 4 minutes. They could have res'd me, they res'd their ninja friend, they chose to try to solo heal for some reason. Around the second phase my Mom comes in and tells me she's in severe pain and I'm worried it's meningitis but she's being a stubborn about doing anything. Tell the party I'm going to have to leave if they wipe and I get a flippant response. They did make it down to like 30% but it was a wipe anyways because the other scholar ran out of MP and I laughed so damn hard.

Taking care of my Mom now but that was just such an arrogant and jerky way to treat team members I would have left regardless I can see why the other healer split.

Did a 50/60 roulette Me(NiN) a BLM,SCH and a DRK, We were at Great Gubal Hard. Every mob we would goto and the BLM and me would rip hate from the DRK, I'm using shadewalker and smokescreen every pop like no other, after a few pulls and us DPS just getting smacked all over The place the DRK says he's using all his combos right Stormblood just messed up tanks!

So midway through still getting punched in the face SCH is working overtime trying to keep us all alive, the BLM looks at the tanks gear all i260 but he is using a i145 weapon. -_-, he says he is trying to spiritbond it. He apologized and asked to be kicked, BLM told him no (we were pretty much finished anyway) just promise me you will get a real weapon so the next group don't get destroyed throughout the dungeon. Was inter sting for sure...

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

I don't expect perfection every run or anything. But by the 40s, I do sorta expect tanks to know better than to focus on a single target without trying to spread enmity all around. Pretty sure this PLD's opener was Provoke, Flash, then proceed to hit one mob until dead.

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Understood, and I wasn't trying to make an excuse for bad play.

I just hate that place. For some reason, every run in that place feels clunky. On my PLD and DRK, I am planning to level both from 44 to at least 47 on just grinding that zone. I will have a smooth Dzemael run if it kills me. :)

My tank kicked me right at the very end of my leveling roulette in The Sunken Temple of Qarn because he couldn't hold aggro over me.

Considering Square Enix does nothing to combat this kind of behaviour, all I can do is advice Odin players to blacklist [redacted].

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Originally Posted by Dameron

My tank kicked me right at the very end of my leveling roulette in The Sunken Temple of Qarn because he couldn't hold aggro over me.

Considering Square Enix does nothing to combat this kind of behaviour, all I can do is advice Odin players to blacklist [redacted].

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Firstly I bleive naming and shaming is not allowed, please remove the name.


Secondly, report them.
If people report the people that abuse the vote kick system they will eventually get punished.

They may not be punished the first time someone reports them, but futher reports will add up and show a patter of behavior.

Ignoring people does nothing for the problem, reporting them either has their warnings correct their behavior, or they eventually get banned due to repeat offences.

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

With the chains, the mechanic is similar to the Holy Chains in the Vault. If the two players marked group together before the chains appear, they won't have to run as far to break them. The further apart they are when the chain appears between them, the more they have to run to break it. Maybe that's what your party members were trying to do?

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I was one of the healers in the Shinryu / Royal Menagerie run that Sammix87 is referring to, so maybe I can shed some light /share my perspective/experience on what happened....

I joined Sammix87 for her first time/clear on Shinyu because I had already cleared it as a healer and had the basics of the strategy down so I figured that it would be beneficial for me to help out rather than risking two newbie healers and countless wipes.... and it feels good to help people get clears, right? :)

Party was as follows; 2x WHM, 1x DRK, 1x PLD, 1x BRD (Sammix87), 1x NIN, 1x MNK, 1x BLM

We spent 59 of the 60mins available in the duty trying to clear it and we could have cleared it with 1:30 or so left to go because boss only had 2-3% hp left, but alas there was a derp so it was a wipe. It was a little frustrating, only because for the most part, 75% of the party had got the strategy down and it was silly things causing wipes / making it a difficult task to get that clear for everyone. We wiped a lot of times in this run, but it was ok because you have to let people learn the mechanics, and as I said, 75% of the party were on point in doing that, each wipe/attempt was a step closer and we almost got every person in there a clear, so I left disappointed for everyone at the end...

Firstly, the PLD just could not get to grips with any of the mechanics and I wasted so much MP swiftcast raising him (as did the other healer) and popping MP regen abilities and ideally healers need their MP for keeping everyone up, not for raising one person over & over... could have left him ko'd but we really needed him up. I wont spoiler for anyone who is yet to reach the fight, but basically all of the mechanics are things we have seen before in other fights, they're not difficult to do, but you just need to execute them... which ofc takes practice but.... this PLD couldn't grasp any of them despite everyone explaining them over and over.... he blamed lag/latency (as per), he blamed SE, he blamed Yoshi-P, he blamed raiders for wanting difficult story content.... basically he didn't learn a thing across any of the wipes/attempts and just overall made the whole thing harder....he got ko'd to EVERY mechanic he could get ko'd to....frustrating right?... I mean, he may very well have had some latency but if so, he should have dropped and let us get a replacement.... I think we felt for him so no one had the heart to vote-dismiss him (yay nice people in the duty finder!)... and I hope he has learned a bit from the experience.

After 4th wipe BLM gets annoyed and drops out, we get another NIN as a replacement, who was in a full set of the new Ala Mhigan Blue gear... should have better survival and DPS right? NOPE. I wonder if he was in a contest with the PLD to see who could get ko'd the most times in one duty... I swiftcast raised him, and he raised but auto-died again.... and then claimed he raised into the falling animation but he was actually just standing on an AOE and got 1hit ko'd lol. I laughed but I wasn't sure if I was laughing with him or at him... xD

In regard to the post that I quoted, you're right that the chains work in the same way as the ones in the final boss of the Vault. The DPS I was chained to contributed to wiping me by running to me when I moved away from him.... and the other healer tried to raise me instead of doing Medica II/Assize/Plenetary Indulgence/Divine Benison... and everyone went down.... and I raised... only to then get auto ko'd because aggro as I was the only 1/8 alive and we had no LB3.

This is basically what happened; We had 3 mins left in the duty and Shinryu was sitting on only about 4% hp, we had almost a level one limit break and all DPS were up and doing their jobs.... everyone was in the middle of the zone, taking down Shinryu's hp when I (WHM) got chained to one of the DPS literally seconds after you need to move out of the large AOE circle .... PLD moved way too late and got ko'd again... DPS and I were on a small chain since we were close together so I assumed that by moving I'd break it and that would be it... so I popped swiftcast and ran AWAY from the DPS to raise PLD again, only for the DPS to chase me and stand right on me right as those blue AOE lines popped.... because I was targeting PLD for swiftcast raise, I moved maybe one sec too late.. and my hp was low because of the DPS running onto me when we were chained... I could have wasted the swiftcast and healed myself but I had no idea on popping swiftcast that those blue aoe lines were coming, we were home free..... or so I thought... I dodged too late and went down.

I guess the other healer panicked and thought it was the best idea to raise me, but they could have beaten him and got a clear if only she had used an AOE heal instead.... it's pretty funny tbh, but was kind of annoying at the time.... we wiped and respawned with 1min left in the duty.. everyone was a little bummed, but I think they all left happy that they got some practice on the mechanics.... and I hope that they have all gotten their clears now.

But honestly, it was the funniest and most annoying time I've had in the duty finder for a while!

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Originally Posted by floofuf

I'm leveling AST on an alt in POTD, which is boring but I can deal with it. But what I can't deal with are healers who are now refusing to dps. 2 times I've queued up for the same POTD floor and left with a 30 minute penalty. The first time, I left on the first floor because the healer wasn't throwing out any dps. Just curing when people were full. The second time, the healer only tossed out a stone 2 on an enemy then used medica for the rest. I don't understand why they weren't dpsing? POTD is kind of easy. You don't need to heal every booboo if you just help kill the enemy, it's less damage for the people getting hit.

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I had a WHM that would only cast ruin in potd once.

Ruin

I'm so glad you can't do dumb stuff like that anymore.

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

On a second note, these Bard bugs are annoying, what with the whole party buffs not even affecting myself and all. But that's not even the worst part.

I literally used Battle Voice in a 4-man dungeon only to watch in horror as I saw it MISS the entire party.

I wanted to cry in a corner. ;_;

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I've also noticed BV's oddity with range. Used it yesterday during the final boss fight of Ala Mhigo, and it only hit the tank, not the healer or my RDM friend, who weren't even that far from me. Used it again in the Shinryu trial later, and it seemed to cover the entire platform. .___. I've never seen it "Miss" per say, but it seems to have a very strange range to it.

As for the song crit effects/Troubadour not affecting us, I think that was our trade-off for the removal of the damage penalty behind using Mage's and Army's. Where SE giveth, SE must also taketh away. Still think it's kind of garbage the Troubadour effects don't affect us though. :/

Honestly, even at 70, I still miss aspects of the old BRD. My Flaming Arrow, my River of Blood trait (I was an AOE goddess with that), and my lack of oGCD filler (outside of Mage's Ballad). :/ Barrage+Refulgent Arrow is beautiful, especially if one or more of the hits crit, but so RNG I'm not sure if it's practical to base an opener around it versus Barrage+Empyreal Arrow. Still messing around with openers trying to see what works now... (And trying to break the habit of using Straighter Shot procs on Straight Shot.)

Also, I miss my offensive cooldowns. :c



Decided today to level some SAM, and I wanted to get to level 51 in PotD so I could attempt to DF into actual dungeons, but the power went out. I used my phone as a hotspot to finish the set of floors I'd literally just spawned in on. Apologized to the group for my disconnect, but I was met with absolute silence.

Always find it awkward when you get groups that don't talk. Even after the boss and I thanked everyone and apologized again. Absolute. Silence. .___.

Got a comm though, so I guess one person appreciated me not completely bailing out.
Took a nap after that though because power didn't come back on until later anyways.

Dealt with a Red Mage earlier, and mind you this person only had Red Mage and Bard leveled, who told me that Red Mages are better at healing than healers because they can cast 2 healing spells at once and "healers can't do that".

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Originally Posted by Texa

Dealt with a Red Mage earlier, and mind you this person only had Red Mage and Bard leveled, who told me that Red Mages are better at healing than healers because they can cast 2 healing spells at once and "healers can't do that".

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Reading this caused me physical discomfort.

Battle voice missed twice for our bard today on Susano EX until our RDM realized it was bc he was casting it when Susano was still facing the party. Can't cast it from the front apparently.

The other day I was running Shinryu and had a fellow whm was continually standing in the green knock back box taking a crap ton of damage. Called them out for it, and they're reply was they were using sure cast to keep them from being knocked back. I pointed out that I wasn't talking about the knock back but the damage they were taking and again they're response... Oh I use Tetra to cure myself of that... I literally face palmed due to the fact that, that is just wasting time and a cool down for tetra when it could be used for healing someone else...

Not to mention they died more than I did each time we tried to fight him.

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

Battle voice missed twice for our bard today on Susano EX until our RDM realized it was bc he was casting it when Susano was still facing the party. Can't cast it from the front apparently.

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It's actually because we have to wait for the critical hit rate buff when singing to apply to party members first before Battle Voice can affect them. Sometimes it takes 2-4 seconds before it shows up for party members. It also explains why Bards don't get the Battle Voice buff themselves, they currently don't get the crit boost while singing. (They also don't even get affected by their own Troubadour.)

I don't know why that's even a thing, considering that you're not supposed to be able to cast Battle Voice without singing in the first place.

Bard is... Mechanically buggy right now.

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

Battle voice missed twice for our bard today on Susano EX until our RDM realized it was bc he was casting it when Susano was still facing the party. Can't cast it from the front apparently.

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Battle Voice no longer affects mobs, just party members (so, for example, BV + Foe's is no longer a thing). So it will only affect party members under the influence of Mage's Ballad, Army's Paeon, or Wander's Minuet. They do have to be within range for it to take effect though, and as far as I'm aware, the BV buff itself is similar to the Refresh/Tactician, meaning that if they aren't near the BRD when it goes out, they don't get it (would need to definitely test this to be 100% sure, but I'm fairly certain they have to be near us to get the BV buff; same for the Troubadour buff). We can't even activate Battle Voice when Foe's is the only song we're singing, so I'm waiting for the day someone tells me to BV my Foe's and I literally can't. :p

(Btw, I really hate how Foe's duration is less than half of what it used to be...the MP drain on it is ridiculous... and now ASTs give me EVEN MORE EWERS AND NO BALANCES D: )

Anyways, running the level 70 dungeons to finally unlock Expert Roulette (and get some Verity). Last boss of Temple of the Fist, the tank pulled without the healer in the room, so they got locked out. Between well-timed Warden's Minne, Second Winds, and Clemencys, the PLD, SAM, and I managed to get the boss down to 5% before I finally died. The healer (still outside the arena) then decided to use his raise macro on me. And this is what it said.

http://i.imgur.com/reqqusz.png

The whited-out part was an emoji...male...body part...ahem.

Needless to say, I'm slightly disturbed and feeling a little bit violated right now.

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

I gotta say, I\\'m noticing something pretty ingenious with this.

When the developers revealed the fact that Direct Hit as a stat exists, the vast majority of players only thought about how it would affect their own personal damage. Few people, if any at all, took into consideration that it may come back to bite everyone in the ass because technically that should mean enemies can now direct hit against YOU. That\\'s likely precisely why tanks are dying so much faster, despite the healing potency increases and the Cleric Stance removal. Stance dancing has no place in the new environment.



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Yeah, i shyt my pants when i saw our War tank lose well into 60% of his hp in 1 swing from the last boss in the 69 dungeon as a blm.

Dem crit direct hit tank busters are going to be monstrous.

If you're going to afk in PvP, can you at least pretend like you're doing something? Just stand at your company's main control point or something. ffs, I'm so sick of people just finding some secluded corner of the map and running around in circles the whole time or stupid shit like that.

I know it doesn't matter if you win or lose, but it just seems disrespectful. Like you care so little that you're just going to have the other 71 people farm exp for you.