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

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Originally Posted by Yenyen

Red= Me
Context is I accidently pulled 2 mobs in snow cloak, I hope you tanks who let people die aren't complete smart asses like this guy, I absolutely hate these type of people. You can tell me I suck or tell me im doing something hell even insult me directly but please don't be this guy.

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I told him to grow up and just left

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As a tank main, if someone accidently grabs agro, I will pull it off of them. I won't say anything. There's multiple reasons for accidents.
If they continuously "accidentally" agro mobs, I will ask them if they can stand a little farther back so I can get initial agro on the mobs.
If the continuously "accidentally" agro mobs after my request, I will let them take the agro and tank.
If they on-purpose pull for whatever reason, then I will let them tank.

Accidents are accidents. I usually have no problem with accidents. I have problem with purposes.

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Originally Posted by Rhus

Why queue as a dps if you want to get 2 dungeons done in the space of an hour (or 30minutes) before maintenance?
Just curious choice of class to play when time is of the essence. That's all I have to say on it, it's a glaring question I just had to ask as I didn't see it anywhere.

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Good point, I also want to add onto your point, if you don't mind.

Usho's character profile has PLD at 70. So if there was a major time issue, then going PLD would have been the best option:
1. Shortest queue time.
2. Able to set initial pull speed in dungeon.

Another option Usho had could have been to bring a Tank buddy. Not only will Usho get to be DPS and lessen the RNG risk from getting a bad DPS, but Usho would get a guaranteed trustworthy Tank, and Usho would be in the Tank's DR queue instead of the DPS queue.

Also, I am assuming by the 2nd boss, Vote Kick could have happened. So if the tank was "trolling intentionally" and was "bad," why wasn't Vote Kick done? Usho just carried a "bad tank" through a dungeon, rewarding that tank for "trolling" and "being bad."

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Originally Posted by Usho

In conclusion, the intent was clear and you don't words to know when someone is trolling. I learned that in FFXI. My pty agreed with me on the tank's trolling and we worked together to get the run done faster without him. Did you catch all that? or do you need me to repeat slowly for you?

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If the intentions were as clear as your grammar, no wonder the tank couldn't understand.

Jokes aside, you're making broad assumptions of a new player. Just because you wanted to rush multiple roulettes in thirty minutes doesn't mean the tank knew. Regardless, you easily could have communicated. Perhaps the tank was salted you decided to keep pulling for him. I will say this right now, be thankful I wasn't your tank lest you enjoy being Shirk'd repeatedly while I purposely do small pulls.

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Originally Posted by Usho

Now can we act like civil adults and get back to the topic please?

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Civil adults would communicate with their party to make sure everyone's on the same page. Children mock newbie tanks with far less experience.

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Originally Posted by Usho

And guess what? We basically got through the majority of the dungeon without him. What a concept right? A RDM, a NIN and a WHM. NIN tanking reminded me of FFXI. RDM (me) as dps and support

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In your original post, you said you were SMN.....

I don't know how to do the double quotes, so anyone that's interested his original post is on page 1620.

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Originally Posted by MeganLynn

In your original post, you said you were SMN.....

I don't know how to do the double quotes, so anyone that's interested his original post is on page 1620.

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Good catch.

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Originally Posted by Usho

Got on my SMN

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Originally Posted by Usho

A RDM, a NIN and a WHM. NIN tanking reminded me of FFXI. RDM (me) as dps and support, and WHM as our healer.

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So, which was it? RDM or SMN?
Was it 30 min to an hour before maint, or was it 25 min before maint?

Lots of things are slowly starting to not add up.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I think they need to make it more clear that despite being around the same item level, Shire tanking gear is not a good substitute for SB leveling gear due to the fact that the defensive stats on it are far lower.

I didn't understand why healing Bardam's Mettle and Doma Castle randomly seemed so hellish at times until only recently.

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Those dungeons helped convince me to take a loooooong break from healing. Whether it was this ^ or me or both, who knows?

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Originally Posted by MeganLynn

In your original post, you said you were SMN.....

I don't know how to do the double quotes, so anyone that's interested his original post is on page 1620.

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Click on the little blue plus icon next to "Reply with Quote" on the bottom right side. Otherwise you can quote someone, copy their post and quote someone else to fit both in the same reply. :)

I've been leveling RDM and this morning I started at 52 and did a Stone Vigil, wound up dinging 53.

So, I queued for Sohm Al next.

Got into the group with this AST. At first they seem decent enough, in fact they were even casting Esuna.... I can't remember the last time I've seen a healer cast Esuna... but something seemed amiss at the second boss (the raptor). Due to some bad luck, I wind up dying halfway through the fight. I'm waiting for my Swiftcast+Raise but it never comes. I wait....and wait.. and then I look at the healer's cast bar and... what's this? He starts casting Ascend... and then stops in the middle of the casting, then starts casting again... then stops his casting and casts other heals (Benefic II, etc).

I'm thinking "what...? no swiftcast? Maybe he burned it on something else..."

He finally gets me up awhile later about 60-90 seconds when he's finally able to hard-cast it between healing and moving and we move on. Then we're facing down Tioman and she again nails me with a cheat combo, I failed to notice an incoming star attack and of course with how freaking fast that thing is there's no way I'm getting out of it and boom. I die again.

This healer spends the next three to four MINUTES half-casting Ascend and aborting the cast. So okay now I KNOW he doesn't have Swiftcast set. I mean really now... what healer would NOT take Swiftcast? He finally gets me up, and a few seconds after I stand up, the stupid thing nails me with that stupid star attack AGAIN.

Thankfully they just barely off the boss (he sacrificed himself to hard-cast Ascend AGAIN right at the end and would up dying just as the boss died).

...... people like to complain about healers over-healing.... I think stuff like this is even worse. I wish he overhealed... because that would certainly be better than no Swiftcast, or underhealing. I watched that boss fight and people were running around with half-hp the whole fight (that and you know, he was constantly trying to hardcast Ascend).

Not really a story, but more of a curiosity.

What is it lately with tanks refusing to use their tank stances in Brayflox (MSQ version)? It seems like every time I get it in leveling roulette lately, tanks just refuse to use their tank stance. Even when asked to put it on so aggro won't be all over the place.

I can understand if it was a new tank, since Brayflox is one of the first dungeons that you use jobs in and a new tank may not realize that tank stance is a thing. But most of these are people with either one or more tanks at 50+ (or even multiple jobs at 50+), so one would hope that they would know to use the stances, even if they get synced down.

That, and Brayflox isn't even the first dungeon where tanks have their stances, at least PLDs and DRKs. IIRC, you get your Tank Stance in Haukke Manor which is 1 dungeon prior to Brayflox. That is actually a good question, lol.

Now, I know when I came back from a Hiatus, the first two dungeons I ran as PLD, I forgot to turn Oath on, and I'm like "wtf is up with the DPS pulling so much threat!?" then I'm like "OH! Derp, I forgot about oath....."

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Originally Posted by Otaru

Not really a story, but more of a curiosity.

What is it lately with tanks refusing to use their tank stances in Brayflox (MSQ version)? It seems like every time I get it in leveling roulette lately, tanks just refuse to use their tank stance. Even when asked to put it on so aggro won't be all over the place.

I can understand if it was a new tank, since Brayflox is one of the first dungeons that you use jobs in and a new tank may not realize that tank stance is a thing. But most of these are people with either one or more tanks at 50+ (or even multiple jobs at 50+), so one would hope that they would know to use the stances, even if they get synced down.

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One potential reason is if the tank is still a class (Marauder / Gladiator), they don't have access to a tank stance like the jobs do (Warrior / Paladin / Dark Knight).

I had apparently unlocked Dun Scaith (sp?) a while back (likely in heavensward), forgot about it...never did it...Didn't even realise I had DS unlocked.

And then got it in roulette out of the blue. :| So... much... death alliance-wide. XD I thank the Eorzean gods that I went in as bard. XD Here is how I died: in the first few seconds, I got swallowed up by the black hole thing and kept getting swallowed up by it, so died. Second time I died I ran off the ship (LOL). Third time I died, the hole got me again. After that, I decide just click on one of the more vocal/knowing players and FOLLOW THEM WHEREVER THEY GO, and suddenly my death rate decreased drastically but I still died another two times at least.

I now understand why Dun has the rep that it has... Mech wise, it definitely seemed easier/less extensive than Ridorana and the Rabanastre, but there are some very unforgiving spots. xD It was actually kinda neat, too. Reminded me of the Hunchback of Notre Dame setting.

I qued up for in-prog leveling roulette on my SAM to get that last bit of EXP I needed to hit 70. I pop into aurum vale, because of course people like to just leave fro whatever reasons because the dungeon is kinda annoying. The healer was new, and decently geared on her left side (armor) and abysmally geared on her right side (accessories). The tank and other dps were veterans. The dps that left probably saw how under geared the healer was and bolted before the going got tough, nonetheless we persisted. The dungeon isn't that hard as long as your eating for poison healing fruit :P

Of course we had some rough patches along the way, thankfully our new little WHM was more than willing to learn and I , a veteran healer, was more than happy to offer advice. I made sure to point out to her that she needs to upgrade her accessories ASAP because they weren't doing her any favors. She had issues managing her mana but that was about it. The rest of the team made sure to try to take as little damage as possible.

Haha I even got us all murdered by accidently tagging the other morbel while we were focusing down one at a time, so that was my own fault. In the end we got the run done, and it didn't take too long. And she seemed happy to have had a team that supported her, I hope she learns more and grows as a healer! ^_^

To quote the best movie of all time.

“Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game” - A Cinderella Story (2004)

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Originally Posted by Otaru

Not really a story, but more of a curiosity.

What is it lately with tanks refusing to use their tank stances in Brayflox (MSQ version)? It seems like every time I get it in leveling roulette lately, tanks just refuse to use their tank stance. Even when asked to put it on so aggro won't be all over the place.

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For warrior at least, the Lv34 sync puts you in an awkward place where it gives you the beast gauge but you can’t actually do anything with it (as you learn Inner Beast at 35) so perhaps people are thinking it’s therefore not worth it at that point? I realise that it does actually help in other ways, and I do use it, but the useless gauge makes me feel like I’ve only got “half a skill” - even though it’s probably no different to Shield Oath which doesn’t have a gauge at all. (Can’t comment on dark knight as I’m not familiar with it.)

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Originally Posted by Otaru

What is it lately with tanks refusing to use their tank stances in Brayflox (MSQ version)? It seems like every time I get it in leveling roulette lately, tanks just refuse to use their tank stance. Even when asked to put it on so aggro won't be all over the place.

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I know personally I will drop stance on WAR in Brayflox especially if the healer isn't really dpsing - no reason both of us have to be contributing no damage. Plus at that level Berserk+Overpower is actually solid AoE DPS so I wouldn't want to cut it by 20%.

DRK has Blood Weapon (which is also a dps gain) but which can't be used in Grit so to use the ability they need to drop tank stance.

I'm not that sure about PLD, it's the job I know the least about when it comes to tanks, but I would imagine similar dps-related reasons. If they're losing hate feel free to point it out to them but I would generally look at it more as them being in psuedo-DPS-stance, since each can do more damage at that point without tank stance on.

Hope it helps :)

Interesting fun fact I learned today: Susano can trap a dead (yes, dead) player in the gaols if they die at the right time. Very weird.

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Originally Posted by Otaru

What is it lately with tanks refusing to use their tank stances in Brayflox (MSQ version)? It seems like every time I get it in leveling roulette lately, tanks just refuse to use their tank stance. Even when asked to put it on so aggro won't be all over the place.

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If you are level synched for a dungeon, then it will turn the stances off. When I queue I have my tank stance on, and after the synch I do forget to turn it on again. Since I'm not always play as a tank I do forget about this...

Okay so I just got a huge dose of why Lucid is awesome for a RDM (copied from my RDM thread, but it also doubles as an awesome Duty Finder tale, definitely a "I wish I was streaming at the time" thing).

Did a Sohm Al with a rather bad healer.

Got to the last boss, she dies at 60-70% left on Tioman. So, I pick up role of main healer while throwing Fleche when possible. The 2nd DPS (a SAM) dies right after the wings phase. It was just simply impossible to keep 3 people up with Vercure, though I tried to keep him up as long as I could because we needed what little DPS we could get.

Constantly casting Vercure over and over and over and over again, fight took absolutely forever, we got her down to 20% and I only had 1k MP left. Popped Lucid and it was enough to carry us through the rest of the fight. I won with like 1200MP to spare though I think if the fight had gone on another 5 seconds, I might have gotten clipped with her star attack, I didn't notice it while casting Vercure and I was like "oh crap oh crap not now" and then the screen went black and WHEW. We won.

Roulette dumped me into the Ultros trial, and if you are unaware it has a little... problem.

If you get knocked off you just flat out die, instantly. First run wipes due to severe snort because if you fall off you die. Cohealer bailed (can't say I blame them) but I stuck around to see if it'd succeed. Ended up 7 manning it but since one dps died and I was solo healing I got imp'd. Unfortunately everyone fell off to severe snort again except me where I ate a tankbuster to the face.

At that point we had a few new people joining but people were leaving faster than it was filling. Sorry bonus person whoever you were! You might need to PF it for now.

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Originally Posted by Mesarthim

Roulette dumped me into the Ultros trial, and if you are unaware it has a little... problem.

If you get knocked off you just flat out die, instantly.

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When did this change? o.ô

Not sure but it may have been when 4.3 dropped or around that time. It certainly wasn't this way before but I never experienced this until today. Think there was a thread in the bug forum somewhere.

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Originally Posted by Otaru

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I (DRK) use tank stance to establish aggro and then drop it to DPS more. Most of the healers I've done Brayflox with struggle with balancing healing and DPS so I just try to do my part to make things die faster.

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

When did this change? o.ô

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It's currently bugged. I submitted a thread about it (and a couple other people have as well) a few days ago and it got moved into the accepted bug section. Hopefully it gets fixed soon. I've definitely noticed it popping up in my Trial Roulettes more often lately and it hasn't ended very well.

Just finished Ridorana Lighthouse.
Smack out of the blue, this ast is like 'ew im healing with a whm'
i think: wow, rude but ill let that pass... maybe the guys a good healer and had dd wannabe whms?

First boss goes ok.
Come numbers boss hes dying alot. ok... it happens
Last boss, some other pty tank lost aggro when i was doing aero, then i noticed it wasnt my pty.
I was away from my party so i ran back. The other parties boss decided to follow me.
we wipe.

AST: shouts in alliance 'whm took aggro castin medica II'
i think: ????!!!?? no bish.
i wasnt even casting it, why you making out the tanks aggro loss like I did some sort of super aggro move?
Even if I did cast a medica II a decent tank can take it back easy pie. Or at least me as a tank and every other tanks i know, can.

This is where I start to think this guys not normal.
You dont say those kind of stuff in the beginning, and you dont say those kind of stuff while in pty with your partner healer.
AST: 'you literally ran to us but ok'
i think: duh cause our tanks tanking and you not tossing him heals. who else gonna heal with a dd wannabe ast.
So I stop doing his hated medica. People start dying. he doesnt aoe heal. I raise raise raise. people die more.
From half hp to the end, he did 1 aoe heal.
And im thinking... All these people that complain about medica being used often... at least in raids there may be other people healing for their lack and keeping people alive.
And they, not being the brightest crayon in the box, never notice it. And this guy was one of them.

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Originally Posted by Deceptistar

And im thinking... All these people that complain about medica being used often... at least in raids there may be other people healing for their lack and keeping people alive.
And they, not being the brightest crayon in the box, never notice it. And this guy was one of them.

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this AST reminds me of the one I partied with in Rabanastre last night.
I know I'm a bit rusty with WHM so I didn't mind that he went Diurnal instead of Noct, and given that we have first-timers, extra regen isn't so bad.
I refrained from casting medica II since he's spamming his aspected helios, thought I can the use spot heals and keep my lilies up instead.

what I didn't understand is why he kept putting bole on me, and sometimes even putting aspected benefic when I'm at full health, when we have 2 DPS who kept dying from almost every single mechanic, and himself always getting the condition wrong at Argath.
I actually asked why the bole he just "lol" -_-

I was farming the Drowned City of Skalla for a glamour piece. During my last run of it our healer said they had to go after we pulled the first two packs because they didn't see the time. "DW healers replace fast" they said... In what world? To be fair it was like 2 in the morning where I was. Anyway it was just me a SAM and a RDM and we decided to trek through just the three of us. With my clemency heals, the RDM's heals and the SAM's damage, we made our way through slowly.

Literally when the final boss was at 10% that "Light Party" effect splashed on my screen. We got a healer. Me internally "Awwwh, so THATS how it is?!" Timer was at around 63:00 by the end but it felt like it went on so much longer. I got my coat in the end of that run, so that's a plus. Shout out to the SAM and RDM!

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As crazy as the Ridoranna runs have been, this Monty Python reference made this run for me

Look ma I can math, 2+2=17!

Very odd run in cutters cry the other day.
Had a level 38? 36? Whatever the sync is anyway, Arcanist who seemed to think they were the tank. They ran off on the room you can escape from with the sandpit. Keeps telling party to hurry up and move on. Healer got out but tank died on route and myself as a result got oneshotted by about 7/8 mobs.
We reset but keep being killed on route. Healer eventually comes back for us and we just take out the mobs. All the while, Arcanist is shouting to forget them and come to boss, refusing our requests to just come back and run with the party.
Much frustration later with Arcanist we get to final boss, Tank asks them to remove Topaz Carby so he can stop trying to fight for aggro, Arcanist refuses and rushes off to begin boss fight. Retreats when nobody else moves to join. Tank again asks them to swap pet....next thing my screen goes black and I get message saying I've been kicked from party and duty....WTF o.O

I joined trial DR as BLM ten minutes before day change over to see if I can get some tomes. Get into Susano normal. About four people going through cut scenes which included both healers (SCH + WHM). The SCH asks for pointers just as the Diamond Axe WAR mentor pulled. Ah well, we'll make it work.

First knock back and stack mechanic happens on one of the healers. Both healers stack together but don't realize that the common tactic for Susano is to stack on butt after knock back so there's uptime. They stack together and go splat. No DPS res available so we eventually wipe.

Said Diamond Axe mentor then pipes in and says "last pull for me i dont' want t spend two hours on this boss".

Gee, that's a great thing to say from a crown - just perpetuating the stereotype of the toxic mentors there.

A few pointers are given to the healers and we resume again.

I'd like to add that after the initial hate establishment, the MT raid-tier WAR decided it was best to ride DPS stance with two new healers that, and bless their souls, didn't exactly have the best response times based on our first pull.

So, here's a raid-tier mentor WAR who, in their infinite wisdom, decides to make things harder for two new healers in a trial they know nothing about. Yes, I understand DPS is king in the end game optimized situation, but this is Trial DR in Susano - just ride the tank stance and help them out and help them clear the raid - because ya know, you have that mentor crown on your head.

Anyway, we eventually wipe since we lose the SCH and the WHM can't get them back online or keep up with subsequent follow ups on damage and raid busters.

The tank leaves, then the other tank and one other DPS leave. The remaining stick around, we give a few more pointers and call in reinforcements. We get four DPS now but no tank so I tell I'm going to try to rejoin as WAR.

I manage to get back in as WAR and see everyone wiping because I guess some randomly pulled for lulz with no tanks xD During the restart of the fight we get a PLD who joins in prog and we're set to go again.

As a healer main, there were a couple of flinch worthy moments with the HP bars but I chalked that up healer newness and marched on. I just rode Defiance for the entire fight because the less often the healers have to worry about my HP bar, the better we'll be at clearing this fight. We also got a SMN from the DPS reinforcements so I imagine that helped for the one healer death we had in phase 3. Rotated cooldowns for tank busters, the PLD helped with intervention on me during tank busters too, and we sailed into clearing the fight without too much more hassle.

At the end I got no tomes for my troubles but it's always a joy to help people advance through the game. I did end up blacklisting that WAR as I don't want that player to join my PFs with an attitude like that.

first off that mentor was rude, secondly if he was having trouble with aggro in dps stance he should have swapped back at least to build more.

Starting to get why having no ilevel requirement for leveling dungeons pisses people off. I'm leveling my AST, and I directly queue for the Aery. Nice peeps. Everyone says hello, and the tank asks me if big pulls are ok. I check everyone's gear, and the lot of them are sitting at ilv115 including the tank. Some members have vacant gear slots. Not even a HQ piece of gear among them. I politely say no, and that better gear is needed as the mobs here hit pretty hard for a leveling group.

Tank listened and stuck to small pulls. We did ok on the trash, but the bosses were dying so very slowly. I knew Niddy was going to be a problem. Sure enough it was. Took us three tries, and I realized after the first two wipes that trying to keep the DRG in my party on his feet was actually hurting us. I was spending way too many gcds and MP on this guy, and the third attempt went over without much difficulty when I decided to leave him facing the dirt. I am such a tolerable healer, and will put up with just about anything and still raise you. If I actually decide to leave you dead, you are a serious detriment to the group and need to git gud real quick.

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Originally Posted by Sylvina

first off that mentor was rude, secondly if he was having trouble with aggro in dps stance he should have swapped back at least to build more.

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Actually, the problem wasn't aggro management, the problem was our ability to survive. The two healers were new so their responses were slow. When I was MTing Susano, there were moments where the entire party was sitting sub 25% HP for ten+ seconds (usually after double Ukahi). I mitigated through every tank buster and had help from the PLD, but even then I could tell the healers were scrambling to try to figure out the best moves to help put the party health back together. There were certainly a couple of butt clenching worthy moments in the fight - probably about three in total.

I imagine if the MT on our second attempt camped tank stance, we would be okay or at least have gotten farther so the healers would've gotten more experience. If anything by camping DPS stance after picking up the initial hate, it's pretty clear to me that the MT didn't know how to adapt to non-optimal situations and choose to be a dick about it, sadly.

Party finder story.

Bunch of people from my fc have been working on the new primal. I haven't done much because of my work schedule and they usually start late at night. Anyway, they started a bit earlier last night and since I didn't have to work today, I joined in. The rest of the people we got were from Gilga, so I'm assuming they were friends. The party leader (not me) put it in as a clear party (which I didn't know about until afterwards) rather than a learning one. Our bad. However, what followed was.. a mess.

On the first pull, neither of the healers from Gilga stacked appropriately for spear and ended up killing almost all of us. Thanks to me going in as RDM, I managed to raise over half the group.

We made it to the add phase. The AST, WHM, BLM from Gilga targetted the ranged adds. Myself on RDM and the two BRDs from my fc were the only ones targeting the tethered adds. I mark them as 1 and 2 and type in chat "please focus tethered adds first", no response and no change. I can see the BLM continually aoeing the ranged ones, the WHM spamming Holy, the AST spamming Gravity. We somehow manage to take the tethered ones down and the next one is up. The same thing again. I mark that one and one of the tanks from my fc says in chat to take down the tethered one first. No response. No change.

Suffering gauge by the end of that was at 80 so by the time the next part happened, we hit 100 and wiped.

Tank says "you always focus tethered adds first" and the AST says "I blame weakness" in response and in reference to the fact that they and the other healer both died to the first improperly handled (by them) stack.

We pull again, this time they stack correctly and we get to the adds. Again, they're not focusing on the tethered ones but by some miracle the BRDs and myself manage to obliterate the first tethered two, and then halfway through killing the second one, the people from Gilga decide to focus on that one rather than the ranged. Meanwhile, BLM says in chat "oh look you didnt need to kill the tether first lol" and of course then we wipe.

WHM takes the time to type "maybe if dps were pulling their weight it wouldn't be a problem" followed by "a drk and ast shouldnt be out dpsing you." BLM puts "ROASTED!" in chat.

Now, up until this point on my parser, the BLM was sitting at the top for numbers and I was behind. I don't main RDM and so my numbers were not as good as I'd have liked but they weren't too far behind the BLM. So I have no idea where they're getting the idea that the DRK and AST were out-dpsing anyone else.

I'm annoyed and frankly would rather just leave and kick them out. I say this on voice chat to my fc mates but one of my tanks just pulls because whatever. One of the BRDs, annoyed, asks "hows my dps now?" and the BLM says "practically the same" AST goes "I mean if you're the one doing nothing" (at this point, it was actually me on RDM who hadn't started yet because I was so annoyed would rather just wipe and leave). BLM then pipes up with "if you're gonna be this casual don't go into extreme"

Again, we made it to add phase and again, no one but myself and the BRDs were working on the tethered ones until they were half dead and then the group from Gilga decided to switch. We wiped anyway on meteors and I promptly left. The Gilga people left, we all blacklisted them.

We started a new party finder, this time w/ my instruction to put it as "learning party past first meteors." We replaced the DRK, who had to go to bed, with a PLD and got 2 new healers (unfortunately one was just doing it for the first time but he was receptive to learning the stacks and the add phase and he was trying his best). We consistently made it past the add phase never seeing more than a final gauge at 82. Then we lost one of our BRDs who switched to a new ps4 and had to redownload the game which would have taken too long. The fresh healer dropped out and I swapped to AST to co-AST with the random that joined in the PF and who was kind enough to join our voice chat to help out. We grabbed a PLD from the FC and a couple of random DPS through Party Finder. For the next entire duty timer, we consistently made it past second meteors and to bright blade/dark blade but kept getting tripped up on the fans+stack. The add phase gauge never saw more than 74 as a total because we burned through the adds so fast.

We didn't clear, but I am way more confident at the fight now playing healer than I was on BLM or on RDM. I found it far easier to manage the mechanics this go around.

I am at a loss as to what to level next so I'm doing DRK but it's in the low 40's so I can't do trial or anything on it. I went to do trial this morning on RDM for creation and got a Shinryu in progress this morning that took 3 wipes to clear. I had over 50k health by the end with all the echo bonus. The healers? Around 30k a piece. Neither had done their level 70 job quest so both were wearing a mix of shire, dungeon and nq gear including matching level 66 weapons - one was hq though.

Honestly, it doesn't take much googling to understand that Shinryu is at least a mechanically complicated fight with a fair bit of incoming damage. One of the healers even said this was the third time he queued in and when I told him about his job quest he said "yeah they told me that last time but I just wanna get this done while I'm here x3"

Like I'm sorry - what? You were already told how you're causing all these wipes and just didn't do anything about it? If we had wiped one more time I was going to consider trying to kick him to drive home the importance of gear or like human decency.

Today I was in Rabanastre with @MoroMurasaki and was too shy to say hi there so o/ hi.

As for a story, in that very same run I rolled a 98 on the on Rofocale card and I was in voice chat so happy I "won" it. My best friend was silent and when the roll list came out she rolled a 99 on the very same card. Friendship ended because she laughed at me.

Ran the newest lv70 dungeon on WHM, trying to get SMN gear since my SMN didn't have the gear level to enter it yet.
In chat, I kindly asked the other people to pass on caster gear unless they really need it for their own class, if they don't mind. (pretty much in these words)
After that, the Blackmage in full i270 gear proceeded to roll Need on every single caster piece that dropped.
Needless to say, I was a sad panda that day.

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Today I was in Rabanastre with @MoroMurasaki and was too shy to say hi there so o/ hi.

As for a story, in that very same run I rolled a 98 on the on Rofocale card and I was in voice chat so happy I "won" it. My best friend was silent and when the roll list came out she rolled a 99 on the very same card. Friendship ended because she laughed at me.

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Omg Hi o/ Sorry if I sucked, my healers... they did not like the AoE heals it seems. Sadness. I died and I hate dying >.<

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Aww :( If we were on the same data center, I'd totally grind it with you. It took about 30 runs before I got my caster top. My FC mates helped me.

Okay forgive me if this is off-topic...

LS and I decided to do a Vault run, when we derped...

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/...78312437363285

We got all the way up to the last boss, got him down to about 15% but in the end he just kept throwing cheap combos at us and we eventually abandoned and went back in with a better group setup and got it first try, no deaths.