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

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Only Tiny knows for sure what they meant. If they meant Poetics for shire gear or if they meant current tomes for 70 stuff. With that said, 2 of the 3 you recommended would qualify for both. Alliance gives a good payout on all tomes, and 50/60 is a good payout on creation. Frontline also would have been a good mention. The other roulettes that pay out creation/mendacity all potentially include current content(which i guess alliance does too if you qualify for/have unlocked raba+, though the 50/60 raids seem to get run much more often from it).

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I was thinking my level 70. Want to keep up with story. Now at ilvl 333 I think (got 100 eureka crystals for a 335 weapon and a few Rab tokens for some 340 pieces plus Mendacity for a 360 piece. Actually had some decent runs plus some ugh. I think it isn't just me or tank it also can be no-AOE dps.

I had a Kugane Castle run with me as WHM, a PLD, a BLM, and NIN. Tank was pulling big and using defensive cooldowns. I was healing the tank and doing Holies. The NIN did his single target rotations.

However, I noticed things were dying way to slowly despite everyone being overgeared for the run. The BLM was doing Fire IV and no aoe spells all the way up to the first boss. The PLD's tp has been totally depleted from Total Eclipse spam and I nearly ran out of mana, despite using "Thin Air" and "Lucid Dreaming". Seems like the rotations of the DPS were below average.

The dungeon run lasted over 10 minutes so far despite these big pulls (most runs take4-7 minutes at that point). I asked the BLM to use her AOE attacks, she said she's fine. The other's didn't talk. The pld also stood still at the boss room for a while. Needless to say, I left the dungeon and ate the penalty doing hunts, leveling up my chocobo, and other Overworld stuff.

Something pleasant happened to me and my buds in both raid roulettes.

In normal we got Alexander "Forward and back and then forward and back and then..." First of all it's a really fun fight in itself but the icing on the cake were all the newbies who in chat were pretty excited and impressed by the boss in itself.
Seeing them having so much fun put on a smile on my face.

Then in Alliance we got Dun Scaith which is also an amazing raid (best one imo) and once again we got newbies and something amazing happened. Certain members in each alliance stopped at every boss fight to explain the most difficult mechanics to understand and before each boss, we would go over who goes MT, who catches adds, who goes through the door in Diabolos etc...


Honestly seeing this kind of stuff made me feel like it was release day for these raids which was amazing and made me nostalgic

We had a blm in sirensong last night, who had lv50 weapon. Also he didn't use a single fire 4. We kicked him after first boss, which took 10 min to go to.

I am tired of players who go into dungeons extremely undergeared and lack of knowledge of their rotations...

Had an interesting leveling in a certain sirensong sea....our tank immediately died in the first pull after the ship hits the island...

https://i.imgur.com/TsYO6zy.png


Please don't do this....

When did Thornmarch HM get diluted so badly that every time I get it in roulette each group has a different method to ensure a win? Kill all moogles, kill only the tank moogles, don't kill the archer moogle, kill the tanks at the same time, etc. Honestly just weird that this fight in particular suffered so much from the telephone game.

Also love the Normal Raid roulette, so many fights I forgot how to do lol

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Problem is that was the kind of 99 that say "screw ALL the chest, let the peasants loot for us while we cut our way non stop until we reach the teleport", and even if i want exp, i dont want to get 0 upgrade because someone wants to save a few minutes from the run skipping everything

While on theory it might work it doesnt account for triggering mines while fighting mobs, luring traps or mimics munching the people because half of the team is 2 rooms away already, plus i dont see those kind of players complaining when we have 3 free floors due that we bothered to loot chests and got 3 summons, or when during a multipull some luring trap is triggered and chicken pomander saves the day just to mention a few situations

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Best advice I can offer when you get people like that is simply peak into rooms and only go for silver coffers. You don't need pomenders on the early floors and this maximizes your chances of getting aetherpool increases without being screwed because some people make a beeline towards the exit.

I've been having good runs lately, more or less, but this one 50/60 roulette I just got out of (Hullbreaker NM) left me more confused/incredulous than upset.

I was on MCH, everyone in the group was synced down and there was no first time bonus. We had gotten almost to the first boss when the tank (DRK) demanded that the healer keep regen up on him "at all times." Which, already, seemed like an odd request to me since pre-HoTing can lead to messy pulls as the healer will tend to peel mobs from the tank before he can grab them with an AoE. I didn't say anything about that, though I did feel the need to point out to him that the healer is an AST and doesn't have regen. To which the tank countered by insisting that all healers have regen. I scratched my head and asked him if he meant a heal over time, because regen is WHM-specific. He insisted again that he meant regen but at that point the AST swapped from Noct to Diurnal to humor him and everyone just let the matter drop. We finished the run without anyone else speaking.

Out of curiosity I inspected him and he had several lvl 70 jobs, including all three healers. Which kind of blew me away, seeing as he was apparently oblivious to what spells they actually have. Noct sect is perfectly fine in the type of content we were doing. And even if he meant HoTs, not regen specifically, SCH still doesn't have any (unless you count Whispering Dawn which is a faerie spell and has a cooldown that prevents it from being up 100% of the time.)

One healer job? Okay, maybe he boosted and doesn't know any better. But all three? How does that even happen??

Around a week ago, I was healing on my WHM alt in Qarn and it took an hour. We wiped to the first boss three times and trash a bunch more times, including to the same pack twice because someone put in the wrong stone when trying to get to one of the chest rooms. I tried to do a vote abandon after the third wipe to the first boss because I knew it would be especially dreadful after that, but it didn't end up going through.

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One healer job? Okay, maybe he boosted and doesn't know any better. But all three? How does that even happen??

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Maybe did the odd thing and leveled it via SMN? Best guess I have.

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Around a week ago, I was healing on my WHM alt in Qarn and it took an hour. We wiped to the first boss three times and trash a bunch more times, including to the same pack twice because someone put in the wrong stone when trying to get to one of the chest rooms. I tried to do a vote abandon after the third wipe to the first boss because I knew it would be especially dreadful after that, but it didn't end up going through.

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I just leave if I’m in a group with no sprouts and we wipe to the first boss in Qarn. Literally not worth it to me.

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I just leave if I’m in a group with no sprouts and we wipe to the first boss in Qarn. Literally not worth it to me.

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In my experience, you have at least a 50/50 chance of Qarn being a crapshoot, especially the first boss. For some reason that Doom mechanic always throws people off.

Had a Shinryu group with three dragoons. One of them seemed to be trying their hardest to live up to the stereotype. Died three times before the add phase and once during it.

Then during one of his divebombs, he took out all three dragoons at once. We all agreed, nice shot.

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Had a Shinryu group with three dragoons. One of them seemed to be trying their hardest to live up to the stereotype. Died three times before the add phase and once during it.

Then during one of his divebombs, he took out all three dragoons at once. We all agreed, nice shot.

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See, now I want a Shinryu-based bowling mini-game where the pins are all Dragoons and Black Mages. Please get on it, SE.

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See, now I want a Shinryu-based bowling mini-game where the pins are all Dragoons and Black Mages. Please get on it, SE.

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The bonus round throws in Red Mages. You have to try to hit them before they backflip off on their own.

Today I did Trial Roulette to try and work on capping Creation before 4.4. Since I have Duty in Progress, I wound up getting a Trial that had been ongoing for 23 minutes.

As soon as I come in, people are fighting in chat about "Maybe you need to get good.", so I figured it was Tsukuyomi. (It was.)

So, I steel myself to get ready for a potential rough run and come in to see both Healers and a DPS have left. Shortly after, the party vote abandoned and I wound up getting A Relic Reborn: Chimera in my next go around.

I guess I'll have to wait a little longer for Creation.

I also had an Alliance Raid in World of Darkness that was fairly unremarkable until someone failed to chain Cerberus and he went around murdering everyone with his 16 attack buffs.

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Had a Shinryu group with three dragoons. One of them seemed to be trying their hardest to live up to the stereotype. Died three times before the add phase and once during it.

Then during one of his divebombs, he took out all three dragoons at once. We all agreed, nice shot.

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I have to admit, I get a kick out of Dragoons dying on boss fights that involve dragons.

STORY #9

Me = White lines. Healer = Purple lines.

https://i.imgur.com/amQuIkM.jpg

Later on in the dungeon, the healer said he was new, after two of us died. And I will say the same thing I told him. It's ok if you're new. But you can't be lazy in this game. I wished him well and encouraged him to keep practicing.

But overall, he was using Cure when then Tank took one hit of like 20damage. OVER and OVER. Zero DPS was done by the Healer. Hence why I said something.

I really wonder how pure Healers manage to clear their solo duties sometimes.

Shoutout to the BLM that Mana Shifted me constantly during a Ravana NM run (I was on WHM, for the record). I think there were a few newbies, or so I'd hope because the MT kept cleaving the party and dragging Ravana around the map with him. There was a point where the MT died but the OT couldn't pick up aggro, so I stood there tanking for a minute or two and keeping myself up. ;u;

But Mister BLM kept my mana alive and thriving. Thank you, Mister BLM, whoever you were. <3

I got a Black Mage in ARF once. I was healing, one person I came with was DPSing and Tank was pug. All was fine, but things were dying so slowly it was like the Black Mage was doing nothing. His gear was fine except for one tiny detail... he had an ilvl 100 relic. Me and person I queued with asked why he had it on and he told us it was because he was light farming. We asked him if he’d switch weapons, he refused because he needed the dungeon for light. “It isn’t hat big a deal, it’s ARF.”

I get that it’s a dungeon, but please don’t ever do this.

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I really wonder how pure Healers manage to clear their solo duties sometimes.

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Sometimes I wonder the same thing. Just had a pure healer WHM in Gubal Normal that decided it was a good idea to keep Regen & Medica II on all four party members the entire run. The only DPS he put out was from Assize. No Stone, Aero, nothing.

I was tanking on WAR. He pulled trash like it was nobody's business, before I could even hit them with Overpower/Steel Cyclone. Mobs darted right for his face the instant I got in range to aggro them. Not even opening with three Berserk'd Fell Cleaves after a Storm's Eye combo could keep the final boss off him. Had to use several Butcher's Block combos in Defiance instead just to get a big enough lead.

Just got outta 50/60 roulette - Hullbreaker Isle (Hard) qued as DRK. We have the new person bonus, so at the first boss while I stopped to attempt to explain/type out the banana mechanic, without a word our SAM runs in (literally 5 seconds of being inside the line) and pulls. Annoyed, figuring this was a classic "dps-wants-to-tank" person, I proceeded to drop Grit and allowed the SAM to tank the boss the rest of the fight, and our new sprout healer amazingly keeps them alive throughout the entire first encounter. We clear, no deaths. The SAM then reveals AFTERWARDS that the intentional pull was an accident; they thought they were on their tank (suddenly), but the rest of us had no idea during the fight, I was simply ready to take aggro if/when they died. As I'm tanking the trash up to the 2nd boss, the tank-dps went on to humbly brag about their ability to hold threat [versus my inability to take it].

Long story shorter, we had a dispute - the SAM accused me of being an ass for not taking aggro back and after they apologized. I pointed out the revelation came after we cleared, in the moment it seemed like an intentional, and that I'll tank as long as they let me pull the monsters.

I may be an ass, but I'd like to think I'm a fair one.

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Sometimes I wonder the same thing. Just had a pure healer WHM in Gubal Normal that decided it was a good idea to keep Regen & Medica II on all four party members the entire run. The only DPS he put out was from Assize. No Stone, Aero, nothing.

I was tanking on WAR. He pulled trash like it was nobody's business, before I could even hit them with Overpower/Steel Cyclone. Mobs darted right for his face the instant I got in range to aggro them. Not even opening with three Berserk'd Fell Cleaves after a Storm's Eye combo could keep the final boss off him. Had to use several Butcher's Block combos in Defiance instead just to get a big enough lead.

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I mean it seems like he wants to tank, it would be rude to deny him his request... >.>

Ran O2 normal for the first time yesterday. Greetings happen while the intro cutscene for the raid is running and then the phone rings so I have to pick up. I leave a note saying "Hold. brbr" (Yes, I mispelled it in my rush) and then run off to pick up the phone since it's in another room. Phone call runs about thirty seconds and I come back and find myself dead on the ground and the raid just raging on. Needless to say, I got rezzed and died a lot both due to running it blind and due to general confusion (and I was playing my main job, WHM). We did clear it on the first try but it felt unearned.

It was a riot.

Some excerpts conversation between my co-healer (a friend of mine) and I after the raid ended.
[12:00](Co-healer) O2 is a fun one, eh?
[12:00](Itsuwa Amakusa) WHAT JUST HAPPENED
[12:00](Co-healer) Hahahaha!
[12:00](Itsuwa Amakusa) I go for 30 seconds because I'm called away thanks to the phone ringing
[12:00](Itsuwa Amakusa) And I come back and find that I'm dead on the ground
[12:00](Co-healer) You fought a tentacle monster and got horribly raped.
[12:01](Co-healer) Because you didn't float away from it
[12:01](Itsuwa Amakusa) How many times did I die there?!
[12:01](Itsuwa Amakusa) I counted at least 7
[12:01](Co-healer) Pfft. Ask Catastrophe.
[12:02](Co-healer) Next is even more fun.
[12:02](Itsuwa Amakusa) I feel like part of that all was the lingering confusion
[12:02](Co-healer) But in review, any mechanics you still don't get?
[12:02](Co-healer) Lingering confusion?
[12:02](Itsuwa Amakusa) From coming back after being afk for 30 seconds and finding myself DEAD
[12:03](Co-healer) Pfft.

[12:03](Itsuwa Amakusa) The double altitude one and the tentacle one
[12:04](Itsuwa Amakusa) We're doing that one again
[12:04](Co-healer) Double altitude, there's supposed to be a safe spot off to the side.
[12:04](Itsuwa Amakusa) The A marker?
[12:04](Co-healer) Tentacles... Don't actually recall.
[12:04](Co-healer) Don't, um, stand on them though.
[12:04](Co-healer) That is bad, that gets you tentacle raped
[12:04](Co-healer) ...come to think
[12:04](Co-healer) you did say you wanted to become your avatar.
[12:04](Co-healer) Hm.
[12:05](Co-healer) *judges*

[12:07](Itsuwa Amakusa) I feel violated. And it had nothing to do with the tentacles
[12:07](Itsuwa Amakusa) Still salty
[12:07](Co-healer) Pfffffffft

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I got a Black Mage in ARF once. I was healing, one person I came with was DPSing and Tank was pug. All was fine, but things were dying so slowly it was like the Black Mage was doing nothing. His gear was fine except for one tiny detail... he had an ilvl 100 relic. Me and person I queued with asked why he had it on and he told us it was because he was light farming. We asked him if he’d switch weapons, he refused because he needed the dungeon for light. “It isn’t hat big a deal, it’s ARF.”

I get that it’s a dungeon, but please don’t ever do this.

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Back when SB launched I was running castrum abania with a PLD using the anima sword and board. I asked if he had an up to date weapon and he said he was farming light. Smh. He equipped something appropriate after I told him he wouldn’t get any light - but now that I think about it, idk if SB dungeons give light or not. /shrug

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“It isn’t hat big a deal, it’s ARF.”.

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You mean the dungeon that's already one of the longest in the game even with an appropriately geared party?

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I got a Black Mage in ARF once. I was healing, one person I came with was DPSing and Tank was pug. All was fine, but things were dying so slowly it was like the Black Mage was doing nothing. His gear was fine except for one tiny detail... he had an ilvl 100 relic. Me and person I queued with asked why he had it on and he told us it was because he was light farming. We asked him if he’d switch weapons, he refused because he needed the dungeon for light. “It isn’t hat big a deal, it’s ARF.”

I get that it’s a dungeon, but please don’t ever do this.

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Back when SB launched I was running castrum abania with a PLD using the anima sword and board. I asked if he had an up to date weapon and he said he was farming light. Smh. He equipped something appropriate after I told him he wouldn’t get any light - but now that I think about it, idk if SB dungeons give light or not. /shrug

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Ive always heard that you only get lights from doing content the same tier as the weapon youre working on(lvl 50 dungeons/raids for relic, lvl 60 for anima, etc). Even if its not true, its a "good" lie to tell because people would at least have a semi-appropriate weapon on. But do we know for sure one way or the other if this is the case?

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Ive always heard that you only get lights from doing content the same tier as the weapon youre working on(lvl 50 dungeons/raids for relic, lvl 60 for anima, etc). Even if its not true, its a "good" lie to tell because people would at least have a semi-appropriate weapon on. But do we know for sure one way or the other if this is the case?

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Zodiac weapons you get light from level 50 content (maybe below as well, not sure), and Anima they changed it with SB that level 50 dungeons give you light (Brayflox HM is excellent for solo-grinding out the light step because runs take 5-7 mins tops; only if you can’t get a group for A9S though, which is the fastest way), as well as level 51-60 content. SB content does not give light for either.

What a godawful run of ARF. Queued as DRK for 50/60 because I'm almost to my Panther, and I see a BLM and an RDM with a level 70 healer. Ok, time to pull the place.
First pull I notice things aren't dying too quickly, so I start paying attention. Fairly certain RDM isn't using Scatter, but it's harder to tell with them because of Dualcast and I didn't want to open up the battle log because, hey, I'm tanking and that's a lot of ground aoes.
And then I start paying attention to the BLM. I have maybe 8 enemies on me and they're using Fire. Not even Fire IV mind, that would've been a bit better. No, Fire. Fire and Blizz and Blizz IV for some unimaginable reason. I ask them to AoE, at least use Five IV. They respond in a way that deserved that kick, but the RDM is with them, so it doesn't go through.
Well then, you kids have fun. I bailed. That's 30 minutes I can spawn S ranks and fish in instead of carrying these two pieces of dead weight.

I'm getting tired of Diversion and Lucid not being enough.

It's gotten bad enough that I'm back to doing my expert roulettes on WHM because I'm sick and tired of random tanks assuming I have an enmity cooldown for every set of mobs on RDM. I feel like I'm stuck between inconveniencing the healer by yanking off the tank or purposely gimping my own damage to not pull. It's so much worse with single pull tanks too.

In an effort to all play RDM outside of raiding I did normal raid roulette on it since it gives crap exp anyways. Got Guardian. Proceeded to tank every add that I didn't have diversion up for for at least most of its life. The Biblio one hits less hard than Savage but still almost pancaked me.

Does anyone else feel like their tanks have just gotten lazy with the enmity generation? I'm not saying they should be standing their spamming their enmity combos but at a certain point if I've exhausted everything available on my end all that's left is for them to get more threat.

Here's a story of pre-pull regens on tanks.
Was doing the double pull in compass that leads up to the last one (you know, the one with the monkeys that aggro almost immediately after you jump off your cloud, followed by the bi fang and two "dragon weasels" after a bridge).

Grab the first group, run up the bridge, bi fang and co. see me and get angry. Regen ticks before I get in range, all 3 set their sights on the WHM. I Overpower all 3, so the WHM had main enmity for less than a second.
Doesn't matter, the mobs beeline it to the WHM who was a bit of a distance behind. I try to solidify my enmity on the things that are on me, waiting for the runaways to come back. By the time they get back to me, the SAM who was running together with the WHM has almost grabbed one of them for himself (think I heard a Setsugekka go off).
Thankfully the party was made of intelligent people, and the SAM stopped attacking the thing and instead followed us to the top. But there were a few ways that could have gone wrong, which would have made the pull kind of a hassle.

(On another note, both EX roulettes I did today were amazing. This one with the WHM/MCH/SAM was already nice, but the other one with a SCH/BLM/SMN was probably the fastest I've tanked thus far. Daidara didn't even get to widen his lake all the way before he died. Good day to come back after being sick. [I still kinda am, but now I'm at least good enough to remember what enmity is.])

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I'm getting tired of Diversion and Lucid not being enough.

It's gotten bad enough that I'm back to doing my expert roulettes on WHM because I'm sick and tired of random tanks assuming I have an enmity cooldown for every set of mobs on RDM. I feel like I'm stuck between inconveniencing the healer by yanking off the tank or purposely gimping my own damage to not pull. It's so much worse with single pull tanks too.

In an effort to all play RDM outside of raiding I did normal raid roulette on it since it gives crap exp anyways. Got Guardian. Proceeded to tank every add that I didn't have diversion up for for at least most of its life. The Biblio one hits less hard than Savage but still almost pancaked me.

Does anyone else feel like their tanks have just gotten lazy with the enmity generation? I'm not saying they should be standing their spamming their enmity combos but at a certain point if I've exhausted everything available on my end all that's left is for them to get more threat.

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People in general gotten lazy. Tanks who don't keep hate properly, dps players who don't even bother using AOE and/or diversion or healers who just stand around and throw a heal every now and then or blast regen/medica II on the tank pre pulls.

So roll your eyes if you want, but I just did my first expert roulette and it went smooth with two comms.

That is all.

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People in general gotten lazy. Tanks who don't keep hate properly, dps players who don't even bother using AOE and/or diversion or healers who just stand around and throw a heal every now and then or blast regen/medica II on the tank pre pulls.

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Gods, the pre-pull Regens... I've been seeing more of those lately while I was tanking roulettes. Every so often it would lead to the enemies I'm pulling making a mad dash for the healers faster than Flash can go off to catch them. THEN I have to run back to grab those enemies, and run back forward, by which point someone has put down an aoe on the ground as though the pull is anywhere near done (it's not). Like, knock it off, healers. If a tank dies to pulling more than they can handle, or a lack of cooldowns, before a pull is finished, then let it fall on them. It's safe to heal once the tank has aggro, because good gods do the trash mobs like to run faster than our Sprint sometimes when they have to cross a whole room to get to the healer! lol

I feel slandered :(
After a run of Rabanastre, about a party's worth of people stayed to wait for the loot rolls to resolve, but it wasn't progressing. When it finally did resolve, my rolls came up last and so I was blamed for trolling everyone even though it wasn't my fault, but i couldn't correct that since the others left asap.

On another note, but also re: Rabanastre, even after several goes at it (it's been around a while now), I still can't quite get the hang of the spinning hand thing on the last boss.

As for tanks losing enmity, I've had that happen a few times in expert roulette. I've come across RDM/BLM/SAM that reach all but the tiniest of slivers of the enmity bar (I assume they are better geared than my all-360-with-no-materia self, based on their HP values), and which occasionally steal aggro. I accept responsibility for that in terms of having been taught to spend as much time on dps stances (on bosses) and/or dps combos, but I also would never assume a dps player has access to an enmity-reducing skill, because when I'm on dragoon I often forget about diversion until I see a not-green icon in the enemy list.

Can someone please explain to me what exactly I am doing wrong, because right now, I have honestly exclusively stayed in Eureka Anemos for about a week because I am frustrated about what I am doing to be called a ‘stupid shitty ninja’ in my last party. I had queued up into the normal raid roulette again, and this time, we got V5N. I shadewalker’ed the main tank to start off, even announced it to him, and the first phase went through just fine.

After the ghost phase and we all return to the fight, the problems immediately start. I shadewalker’ed the main tank, waited for him to start attacking the train, and then proceeded to fight. I find myself suddenly at the top of the aggro list before the boss starts casting Doom Spike. I immediately threw on shade shift, the SCH in the party threw up their AOE shields, and somehow I survived that. I hit diversion – and nope, I don’t go down on enmity, and a few seconds later, I am dead.

Obviously, I got shirked. The WHM rezzes me, and I see one of the healers (I don’t remember which one said it) telling me to stop. I asked for clarification and they said nothing. I apply my huton again, start running towards the train, and I get told to stop doing that. The WHM rescues me into one of the ghost floating across the platform, and I get sucked into the train.
I kill my ghost, but before I leave, I ask what they were talking about. Again, nothing.

Get back out, go towards the train, we get it down to around 10%, and being the only melee in the group, I start the cast for the LB3. The main tank waits until the cast is about to go off before telling me not to use it. But it’s already too late. I decide to ignore it and continue DPS’ing the boss (he was at 3% at this point). Once again, I suddenly find myself at the top of the aggro list. I got shirked again, and died yet again.

The rest of the party cleared, and the main tank starts telling me about what a shitty stupid ninja that I am. I ask them what was it that I was doing wrong, and they told me that I was supposed to use trick attack before the train started using head-on.

For clarification, specifically for Phantom Train, I delay my opener (5th GCD TCJ is my go-to) due to the train pulling away. I start my normal opener after Head-On. It might be incorrect, but I was still in a catch-up phase. I asked the group if that’s why they shirked me, and they said yes, it was a learning lesson because I sucked. So I just ended up leaving – didn’t even roll on any loot.

Probably was rude of me, but damn, it made me feel bad. Was delaying my opener due to Head-On that bad? I don’t even know why the WHM was telling me to stop mid-fight and then rescued me into that damn ghost – unless it was because I applied Huton, which I always do before the start of a fight, or in the unfortunate event that I need to be rezzed. I don’t get it.

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they said yes, it was a learning lesson because I sucked.

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Nah fam, that was harassment, fair and simple. Report the lot of them. Shirk and Rescue can be hella useful but they're also two of the most abuse-prone skills in the game and this was that. They intentionally interfered with your gameplay and got you killed, and trash talked you besides. You can educate someone without being a horrible person. No amount of bad play (which I'm not saying you did!) justifies that.

Leveling SAM, finally got in range of Doma Castle. I like this dungeon, the music is excellent, always happy to run it. Had several runs, all went smooth.

Then the tank dies in the first pull on a new run. First pull as in, the three (3) mobs that run down the ramp. No pulling further to pick up more, just those three guys. Tank uses CDs and does all they can to survive.
Even Holmgangs. While healer spams healing spells on them.

The healing using an ilevel 110 weapon. One or two pieces at i265 and the rest at i200 and below.
We all asked the healer if they had better gear. They didn't. Just visit a fricking vendor damnit.

Why is this possible? :(

I really wish the timer on vote kicking someone was shorter. Or that this community was more cut throat like in other mmos.

Was running Doma, doing normal pulls at the tank. The healer started griping saying I was pulling too much cause he's running out of mana and then another dps jumped in. I told them I was doing normal pulls and using every cool down+ healing myself, I have no clue how the healer is running out of mana. Turns out the genius was only using cure 2 & 3, I then explained to him how healing works in this game, the guy had nothing to say after that but continued using cure 2&3 and going oom.

Our rdm also wouldn't rez the healer when he died which was like...70% of the dungeon.

Why are people so awful at this game? Why do these awful people refuse to take advice? If I'm fucking up and someone offers help, I'm going to take their help so I won't be an embarrassment.

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Can someone please explain to me what exactly I am doing wrong, because right now, I have honestly exclusively stayed in Eureka Anemos for about a week because I am frustrated about what I am doing to be called a ‘stupid shitty ninja’ in my last party. I had queued up into the normal raid roulette again, and this time, we got V5N. I shadewalker’ed the main tank to start off, even announced it to him, and the first phase went through just fine.

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They had an ego complex. They decided because you did something you weren't used to, you were going to be their target for bullying and abuse. They even admitted it saying it was a "learning lesson" (aka we don't want to make ourselves look like bullies but this will end up ousting us anyways). Don't be harsh on yourself. If you feel you need advice and support, there's always the Balance Discord. Don't let some steroid-fuelled egotististical maniacs get you down.