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

High roulette, AK HM.. Zone in and healer says "hold on, setting my bars up." Look over.. It was a conjurer.. With likely the min i90. One int accessory and not wearing a necklace. Just, what?

Was doing leveling roulette this a.m. on SCH in hopes of getting Aery (need a new book). Got Dusk Vigil and a DRK who only used ONE cool down (one Shadow Wall, at the first boss) for the entire run. Asked him to use his cooldowns more. Nothing. Started to wonder if he was a bot. Mentioned Darkside is an amazing and useful skill. He turned it on and used it until he ran out of mp. I explained final boss to bard, who was new, and he tanked the Griffin center. Before party left I told him if he intended to tank, using all his cooldowns when they were up was essential, and he should be able to run Darkside for the whole run. Everyone left. ...I wish I'd left much earlier.

I could barely dps at all the whole run bc Eos and Galvanize were not enough. That DRK and his no cooldown style needed constant healing.

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

PTSD from Ramuh EX farming?? *fellow sufferer*

BUT! You can solo heal it. Be proud.

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I am, I am for sure :)
But, stupid question: what does PTSD mean?

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Originally Posted by Fluestergras

I am, I am for sure :)
But, stupid question: what does PTSD mean?

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Post traumatic stress disorder XD

Markab was the last, most difficult pony for me to get. One memorable night I farmed for three hours and didn't get a drop. I dreamed about the Ramuh fight all night...

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

Post traumatic stress disorder XD

Markab was the last, most difficult pony for me to get. One memorable night I farmed for three hours and didn't get a drop. I dreamed about the Ramuh fight all night...

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Uh, sounds a bit like me when I tried to get a mirror for my Leviathan AST weapon - it took three weeks of farming because my friend considered it funny to roll every single mirror that dropped away from me ._.
But well, thanks for the info :)

Just did a DF run Sohm Al, with a friend of mine. I as a SMN, he as a DRG. We got a WAR and an AST.


The tank rushes through everything and we don't even get stone skin from the healer (which I don't mind much). Anyways we get to the last dragon boss. So I ask the WAR politely to tank the boss towards the exit.
The tank doesn't respond and doesn't tank the boss towards the exit, so I put the same question a few more times on chat (thinking he maybe didn't see it because he's too busy tanking).

The healer replies: "it doesn't matter"
So I say: "it does matter because we have to run twice as fast to dodge Meteor aoe then the Breath (or whatever it is called) aoe from the boss"

Both tank and the healer start getting rude and ask questions like:
"Are you retarded?" and "is this your first time?"

So my friend says: "if the healer wants extra healing job, then let him have it"

So we kill the last boss and leave the dungeon.

The healer pm's me after and keep being rude.
He says: "I beat AS4 and i have gordian weapons, come to Idyllshire and I'll show you. Now you don't have a big mouth shitlord"

I was afk a bit, so I came back and saw this message from him.
So I reported him as harassment and blacklisted him.


All this, just because I asked the tank to please tank the boss towards the exit. I did that dungeon maybe 30 times now, every proper tank tanks this boss towards the exit, I never had issues even if I asked a tank to tank the boss towards the exit. But this df party both tank and the healer had to be rude :/

When you try to dodge everything properly as a dps you are called retard, and when you stay in them because the tank doesn't bother moving the boss, you're called a bad player :/

The logic sometimes amazes me.
Geez.

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

It's a red icon, and when you interact with the quest giver, it tells you what class and level you're missing. So the only way you'd miss it is if you didn't at least check the npc to see what the brand new quest is.

Example: I got my GLD to 22 first and stopped playing that while happily leveling WAR. Then I decided to get my job crystal later, got GLD to 30, went to the receptionist for the quest, and did a face palm when checking with her reminded me I needed CNJ at 15. I hadn't even started one, and had forgotten I needed that.

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Sure - they might have done that. But just knowing that there is a quest, and knowing which prerequisites you are missing, doesn't necessarily mean they will realize it is an important quest.
People who do not read guides and do not read the forums might not even realize there is such a thing as jobs until after they do the quest for their first job.
The game does not exactly go out of its way to tell you about them beforehand.
(Me - I knew about them before I even started playing, but then I am the type of person who do read guides.)

Short one from today..Castrum run, I am fighting the enemies next minute I got randomly vote kicked for no reason at all...lol so confused by that.

Edit requed and got most of the same people in Praetorium...seems someone had a meltdown and kicked everyone...lol

I went through a long string of unsuccessful Burden of the Fathers in DF and had a particularly annoying one with this NIN that was new and insisted on standing right on top of the tank during the last phase. Some people got mad at me being irritated at the nin, telling me "they're new!" Being new to the mechanics I have no problem with... but it's just common sense to not stand somewhere that's consistently hitting you with splash damage. There are so many people in DF with absolutely no sense of self-awareness in this game, and will just stand in the spot they want to stand in and spam their moves in their own stupid tunnel vision regardless of what's going on... and it's so annoying to see people defending that nonsense. I probably wouldn't have been as mad as I was had I not been doing unsusccessful DFs of the fight for at least an hour, thanks to more of the same type of obtuse players.

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Originally Posted by MistakeNot

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From experience I now check red quests to see why they aren't available; maybe they're for another class, maybe it's a crafting quest (like the one for specializations or unlocking scrips) and so on.

But a new player? He will take his level 1 quest, do it. See the red quest marker. Look at it, see it requires level 5. At level 5 he'll get that, do it, see the next one is level 10, and then he will think he's figured out the system. "These are the quests I'm still too low level to do!"

If they haven't read much about this game or FF11, they are completely justified in NOT instinctively understanding that we can be all classes on one character in this game, and that specific class combinations makes you even stronger than 'usual'.

As Mistaken said, the game doesn't really work hard on explaining that system to newbies from, oh, ANY OTHER MMO except FF11.