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

So, load into Bismarck EX, everyone says their hellos and chit chat, Healers get protects and stoneskins up, the DRG accidentally walks off the platform. Everyone facepalms, makes a couple jokes about EXTREME FLOOR TANKING! Then we all vote to jump off the edge and join our DRG pal in his floor tanking adventures. We all respawn, laugh, re-up everything and then proceed to steamroll Bismarck! :) Good times!

After mastering all "old" jobs, my next will be AST. Beware people! A new source for horror stories coming to the DF! Here's Joooohnnyyy....

So, I had an interesting Frontlines the other day. Start up as healer and first thing I notice is my framerate is pretty low. It only gets worse once I get into combat, dropping down to ~20 FPS according to Steam, with frequent stuttering and skips. I tell my party I'm lagging, and frantically try to look up why I'm lagging. Load up task monitor, nothing's hogging resources, panic for a bit while trying to at least keep regens up on people fighting, when I finally realize this is similar to trying on my laptop... which notoriously overheats. I download a temperature monitor for my PC, install it, and load it up (again, still trying to keep my party healed all through this), and check things out. Turns out my CPU is displaying 100 Celsius. I ping a computer savvy friend of mine to get his advice. Apparently that's pretty bad. So, my CPU is hot enough to boil an egg, the smart thing to do would be to turn it off immediately and take care of this shit. I'm not smart. I stick around to finish the run while the world melts around me.

Surprisingly, only died once and got in a close 2nd place.

EDIT: Just had another Frontlines run today. Managed to nab 2 kills on WHM. First was a DRK who used Living Dead, so my party ignored him after he hit 1 HP... so after it wore I just tossed an Aero on him for the kill. Second was a warrior who ran past us on a mount, so I tossed an aero on him for heavy as usual. He runs over to a cliff where a big ice is down below, and meanwhile I'm thinking "...he can't be serious can he?" He seemed to reconsider hopping down when I got there, so one Fluid Aura later he was laying at the bottom dead.

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Originally Posted by Driavna

Oh... that trusty doctore's fork!

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man... and here was me getting mad at i90 weapons in there...

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Originally Posted by Mysterysword

And I thought I was annoyed when the AST in my Pharos Sirius HM run gave continuous Extended Balances to the other BLM and refused to give me a single card for the entire run. I think I might have lost it if I'd run into this AST. Just reading this already makes my blood boil.

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I'm not saying this was the case, but AST plays very differently if you have a parser. When you know who is top DPS, it makes the most sense to feed them all the damage cards.

Just ran Qarn hard mode. On that boss where you have to kill one of its parts that lights up, the dps killed every single limb but the one we needed. First time I figured, hey they must have missed which one it was, so second time around I marked it.

They killed my mark last.

The boss took forever.

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Originally Posted by SpiritMuse

They killed my mark last.

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Ah yes, I love when dps seem to go out of their way to purposefully ignore marks.:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Rymm

Ah yes, I love when dps seem to go out of their way to purposefully ignore marks.:rolleyes:

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Yes... they also completely refused to aoe. I mean the nin seemed inexperienced and was nice about it but the mch seemed to know what they were doing in single target at least and had no excuse. I didn't do mass pulls, needless to say.

Expert roulette.
Playing as always, stuff dies a lot slower than with a premade party.
Yep, I was carrying someone again.

Got three Germans on voice chat (got curious since none of them replied to my greeting) and their BLM's DPS was abysmal.
Was thinking to myself: "Should I comment on it? I don't wanna queue again :( "
I gave it a try and the tank replies:
"Ye, I'm noticing this every time."

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Why don't you do something about it, then? Give him advice, link him guides, w/e?
From that point on I didn't bother anymore. I just wanted to finish the dungeon.


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The guy had +260 gear and a 270 weapon. No excuses. :/

Yesterday a couple of static mates and I went into leveling roulette and got Halatali Normal.

Examining the other dps made me cough up blood.

He was wearing the Gae Bolg Atma...okay, okay...

Then the raptorskin gathering top, the gathering work gloves, crafting pants and shoes, and his jewelry was weathered tank, healer, and caster pieces.

The kicker was he had the "House Fortemps Knight" title.

We tried to talk to him about his gear, but all he said was he had his relic equipped for the dungeon, and he knew his gear was bad and was "planning on getting hunting seals gear later." He was on controller and typing in "say."

I can't even.