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

I don't claim to be a great bard but I like to think I'm competent.

I had read up on mechs but sometimes it takes me a few tries to get the hang of things.

Chieftan Moglin - it seemed every time I knocked a moogle out a circle one of the other three was already targeting it so ended up back in one, we wiped then cleared next time.

Flying Horse that I have forgot the name of - First time my Vun stacks weren't that bad, got one mech wrong we wipe, clear second time but I major derped on more than one mech and had 5 stacks of vun, was trying to read guide to confirm how I could do better, next podium I'm vote kicked.

They were a French premade trio from Shiva, now I know I wasn't great but I said hi 1st time,no response apologised about my errors no response, my FC only has a couple of endgame players at the moment and none were online to help me through, its not as if it was taking a huge amount of time timer was still at 70 mins, my DPS was good I was playing foe's and getting more aggro than the BLM, I even had to rotate targets occasionally to let the PAL get it back, this was just really frustrating to end up with a group that does not allow anyone to learn and make mistakes, If anyone lands them again I hope there perfect, SCH had Selene up constant.

I had a Sunken Temple of Qarn run 2 or 3 nights ago that started poorly and ended... pretty awesome actually.

The group started with a Marauder (yes, you read that right), a DRG, a SMN, and me as WHM. To say the tank was bad would be a understatement. Not trying to keep the mobs on them, standing in avoidable attacks. The DRG ended up tanking the first boss when the marauder went down and released before I could rez them. While we did manage to beat the first boss, the DRG leaves out of frustration, not that I blame them, than the tank "DC's", leaving the summoner and me.

Now for the awesome part: A MNK joins as I ask the SMN about continuing while waiting. They bring out Titan-Egi to tank, and the three of us go on our way to clear the place out with one one death (mine) due to a moment of stupidity. By the time we got a replacement tank, we were already working on the last boss, so they could only watch the three of us bring it down.

On AST, Cutter's Cry.

I get the most dreaded Tank of all.

A GLD who only knows how to Fast Blade, stun, and does not listen to a word you say.

I tried to vote kick him, cause an FC mate came on who could tank for us.

But because the tank was a new player he did not get vote kicked.

I healed my heart out through lag, I got to see a DRG and BRD player who somehow instinctively knew how to tank swap (which they did, at every boss). The BRD would play Mage's Ballad for me during boss fights, though I would still go OOM from all the debuff cleansing and healing spam I had to do.

Of course there were some deaths, due to lag screwing me over several times. But somehow, somehow we got through that dungeon.

Both DPS gave me a commendation and one of them told me I did a very good job as healer all things considered.

Got Nidhogg for Trial on my drg, 2 bards and a ninja. I was the only one alive on adds after 4 attempts. I ate the 30 minute and went for a walk.

So my dualshock, the only pc compatible controller in the house, absolutely refuses to work with FFXIV now. Which is weird, considering the pc recognises the inputs just well. A day of driver reinstalling and trying everything under the sun to no avail, i... ugh, settled for keyboard and mouse.

Thinking I'd better end up in the cold water, I dragged out my long abandoned bard (my former main, at that), with its ilevel 205 and went into 50 roulette with 3 friends. aside from autorunning into several walls and not being able to switch it off for a few secs everything went... okay? Abysmally bad damage, but it was just with friends.

It got scary when we went for MSQ. Praetorium.
Great, just fantastic. I can barely target as is, and even on ps4 with a controller I got left behind on the terminals when I went there the first time, and still struggle.
So I lag behind. Miraculously, I never once die or get stuck at a terminal because I cant target it with that shitty mouse control. It's a summoner and two blms, so using foe doesn't make my horrible playing stand out that much - I'm doing SOMETHING, a'ight?
Hell, I even learned to (somewhat) dodge aoes during Ultima phase 1! Only to eat basically everything under the sun in phase 2.

I walked out with a commend. Was that a pity or a foe commend? I dunno. All I really got was finger cramps and the infernal urge to slam my fist through the screen. And amazon ain't helping because the day I buy a xbox controller is the day I deinstall ff14 or am laid to eternal rest. This and my non constant access to my ps4 are gonna make for... an interesting week.

I apologise to the people who saw me run in weird lines and basically not move during Prae. I am not good at this, I tried and all I got was intense finger cramps orz

Recent experiences in the DF are turning me into a fantasy racist.

I am convinced that under every circumstance, without exception, all male Miqo'te are either:

a) Complete tools
b) Complete dumbasses
c) Both of the above

Does anyone want to prove me wrong on this? D:

oh man you guys aren't going to believe this it's so crazy.

okay I went into a brand new content instance and there were ppl who didn't know exactly what to do at every point of the instance.

I meant come on this has been out for like two weeks already can you believe those scrubs???

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Originally Posted by Jeibird

oh man you guys aren't going to believe this it's so crazy.

okay I went into a brand new content instance and there were ppl who didn't know exactly what to do at every point of the instance.

I meant come on this has been out for like two weeks already can you believe those scrubs???

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I can't decide if you are being genuine about your attitude here or if you are being really sarcastic...

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Originally Posted by NaesakiAshwell

I can't decide if you are being genuine about your attitude here or if you are being really sarcastic...

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Assuming if they are being serious then you're seeing the reason why if those level skip and MSQ skip potions do indeed make it on the NA/EU marketplaces why they will possibly be big sellers.

I was attempting to be exceedingly sarcastic because I constantly see people complaining about wiping the day after a patch and blaming other ppl

you not being able to tell kills my soul a little. who hurt you dear? a savage raider I'm guessing