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

i queue'd for WC as AST, we had a bomb awesome monk on our team, i kept getting balances, extended balances, and enhanced balances. needless to say, his DPS was through the friggen roof. it was a great run, since i got to spoil someone with great cards for once rather than burning crap ones :D

Early morning roulettes with my static mate.

Get ARF for level 60, like usual. Me on WHM, static mate on SMN, DF WAR, and DF MCH.

We get in there and groan that it's ARF. WAR is watching cutscene, he later types that he's new. Which is fine, whatev. He pulls one mob and tanks it, we shred through it but I notice how much damage he is taking. SMN asks if he's comfortable with doing bigger pulls, he replies that he should be fine doing so... and then proceeds to only pull one mob. I type out, that I can handle it and go grab the mobs that spawn in the wall and pull it back to him.

At this point I'm healing and then slip into cleric to Holy spam a bit... and suddenly I'm tanking like EVERYTHING. A Tetra later and everything is good, I noticed that the WAR didn't have any TP which would be Overpower spam, probably. But he never stance danced so he never got to use Equilibrium for TP gain.

Then I look at his gear... gray level 60 gear you get from Azys La weapon and left side... and then the jewelry.

Oh god the jewelry.

Necklace was level 51, earrings were level 59, bracelet was level 53, both rings were level 50.

I cry myself to sleep and prepare to tank, heal, and DPS.

First boss I explain mechanics, to target turrets... which he doesn't do, whatever. The second set of them, we don't burn one of them quick enough because IDK why, so it explodes and does spicy damage. Which wasn't a problem, I can heal it alright. I decide to DPS some, and then I notice I get hit once.

I was standing in front of the boss, because that's how the tank positioned him for some reason, so I figured I just got cleaved. Continue DPSing.

Suddenly I'm at 300HP. Panic eggs-Benediction and we clear without me being a fatality.

Next pulls go fine. Second boss, I tell tank to just stay on boss. Open up with my usual DPS opener, when I notice he's facing the boss at us. I try to type it out quickly, but suddenly the entire group gets hit with a cleave + poison damage and I have to recover it all quickly (my static mate types out to point him away, and she quips in LS that she figured pointing the boss away was a given).

Mob afterwards on the elevator is a headache, tank almost goes down because he can't dodge for some reason.

Last boss I type out to kill orbs when they spawn, and then to go into a black orb when the long cast is halfway done.

I completely forgot about the fire/ice orbs that spawn first phase that you have to dodge... the tank doesn't. Neither does the MCH, which is actually a bigger headache because he dodges less than the tank. (#ThanksObama)

I'm dealing with suppression stacks while managing my aggro with SoS and almost ripping off like 90% of the time. Kill it, he watches the cut scene in between phases. He asks if it's the mechanics are the same as I've explained, I say yes. Cut to the long cast where you gotta get fettered in the orb... he doesn't go in (MCH is late too, gg) even when I type in chat to get in. Second time, he doesn't even bother trying to go in.

It's not wipe worthy but it's sooooo annoying.

We kill it and I bounce so fast like please. Hellish run, considering the tank had only 4k more HP than me + couldn't hold hate + didn't listen to mechanics + slow pulls.

I've been leveling my healer as of late, really wanted to get one to 60 and decided to go with whm.

Well I'm starting to remember why I main tank jobs, cause having to heal some of these tanks is so bad the past couple of days. For some odd reason the most notorious of the tank jobs that I run into that I've had a bad time with are DRK's hands down.

They refuse to pop gcds, going through entire dungeons without ever popping a single gcd and don't seem to understand the concept of holding hate, completely ignore hate if it goes off to someone else or even myself.

I haven't run into wars much if at all well leveling, mostly PLD's and DRK's but I always dread when I get a DRK as a tank ...

buh ... just wanted to get that out.

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Originally Posted by Mysterysword

People be stupid.

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Because these tanks think pulling super massive makes the runs go faster. Which it doesn't but people are stupid. I feel your pain and understand completely.

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Originally Posted by cammi

Because these tanks think pulling super massive makes the runs go faster. Which it doesn't but people are stupid. I feel your pain and understand completely.

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If it ain't the tank, it's going to be some overgeared Dragoon or Ninja....

1)PoTD AST-Noct (me), WHM, DRK and NIN, floor 41-50.

WHM asks who is going to heal and who is going to DPS, I mean is not like we had similar jobs per se and we were going to rob each other's job, I was in NOCT, so really easy easy run. Well nope WHM got offended that I answered we both could DPS AND heal and called her out when all she was doing was standing there waiting for someone to need some Healing, the whole run she only used cure I, and often DRK was pulling lots of mobs together where a holy/asylum would have been a very good help...no reaction at all. That was just...a kid pouting because didnt get the answer was expecting. So had she participated, the run would have been faster by at least a third.

2)SCH that had no fairy on obey, didnt know what shadowflare was, had no clues what lustarte was or even sacred soil. When she finally found shadowflare she said the damages done by that skill were so insignificant that it was worthless to use.

I am not sure PoTD is the best place to level a class/job, it teaches nothing about your job, how to use it when where and about mechanics as a whole. I still believe entry should be restricted to lvl 50 in each classes/job before entering the place with said class to further level it. At least there is some of the knowledge hopefully acquired on the way rather then stand there like a statue knowing someone else is going to do the job.

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

1)I am not sure PoTD is the best place to level a class/job, it teaches nothing about your job, how to use it when where and about mechanics as a whole. I still believe entry should be restricted to lvl 50 in each classes/job before entering the place with said class to further level it. At least there is some of the knowledge hopefully acquired on the way rather then stand there like a statue knowing someone else is going to do the job.

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I've had discussions with FC mates regarding this. On one hand it IS a good place to level, but, if you're like me and aren't real familiar with how all the other classes work it may not be such a good idea. The reason is that the further into the place you get the more time matters. What I mean is you have to move at a faster pace the deeper into the dungeon you get, which means you don't really have the time to stand there every couple minutes when you get a new skill to figure out what it is and how and when to use it.

This is also the main reason I only run the place with FC mates.

Aery as a healer. Tank couldn't hold aggro. All three other people had CLEARLY never done the dungeon before. French! Never spoke a word of English! Never so much as read a guide! Went AFK when all the dragons attacked Estinien leaving ME to deal with it, desperately popping big heals to try to hold out. The DPS auto attacked, the tank ran around in a circle not knowing what to do. Three times in a row.

I didn't tick F. I don't speak French. Don't tick languages you don't speak for faster queues ESPECIALLY when you've CLEARLY no idea how to play and are far too damn lazy to read a guide before you jump in.

Roulette rewards are really not worth this.

Nidhogg EX bird farm party from PF

1st try goes bad
2nd try not so good
3rd try was quick wipe
4th try .. Ready check 7/8, one dps was not ready. Tank starts count down anyways.
DPs shouts in chat "Wait!! Wait!! Wait!!"
as a fellow DPs I didnt pop anything thinking everyone will wait, but guess what? They pull.

It shocked me I started poping my cds and trying to land my first attack as fast as I can but nidhogg flys.
I've had it with them. I ask them to reset quicky and kill myself with nidhoggs dive.

They get angry at me telling me to stop wasting their time. I tell them 2 dps were not ready for pull yet you still pulled! They blamed me and the other dps to be worthless.. stupid.. bad dps when is its clearly their fault for not waiting on CDs.

They blacklist me for talking back and defending the other dps. Am I the bad guy here for waiting when dps asked to wait for his CDs? I think not.
Was a lame party anyways with tones of mistakes.

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Originally Posted by Darkobra

Aery as a healer. Tank couldn't hold aggro. All three other people had CLEARLY never done the dungeon before. French! Never spoke a word of English! Never so much as read a guide! Went AFK when all the dragons attacked Estinien leaving ME to deal with it, desperately popping big heals to try to hold out. The DPS auto attacked, the tank ran around in a circle not knowing what to do. Three times in a row.

I didn't tick F. I don't speak French. Don't tick languages you don't speak for faster queues ESPECIALLY when you've CLEARLY no idea how to play and are far too damn lazy to read a guide before you jump in.

Roulette rewards are really not worth this.

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As far as I'm aware if you choose roulette it sticks you with people from any language, or that's what I've found anyway; when I do specific 9/10 I get english speakers, when I do roulette I seem to get stuck with non-english speaking people a lot more. I could be wrong ofc.