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

The other day I was healing Library HM for my AST relic weapon. Got a SMN, BRD, and WAR tank. The first boss goes fine, no real issues, but I notice during the trash after the second boss that the BRD is playing Army's Paeon. Not Foe Requiem for the two casters DPSing, but Army's Paeon for himself, from the start of the pull, even before he ran low on TP. Maybe if the WAR was low on TP, I could understand, but he wasn't either? And um... the pull wouldn't have lasted long enough FOR anyone to run low on TP if the BRD just played Foe Requiem?

So during the second boss, BRD starts with Mage's Ballad, even though no one is low on MP. Then he switches suddenly to Army's Paeon even though no one is low on TP. The SMN writes something like "You don't need any of the songs you're playing."

So I asked politely: "Could we get {Foe Requiem} instead?"

No change. Army's Paeon was still trickling away his MP. So SMN started spamming their "You don't need those songs you're playing" several times. The BRD wrote back, simply: "I know."

Uh... what???

Paeon finally fell off when the BRD ran out of MP.

The moment the second boss was dead, the vote kick for the BRD popped up. It's been a long time since I saw a vote kick go through that fast. It's one thing to not know your class, but when you're playing songs you KNOW you don't need to... what... purposefully gimp your DPS? Time for you to go.

ok here's 2 From Cactaur Hell, (both are POTD vents)

first was a tank that didn't understand the fact "If you dont Stun the birb's Chirp (that AoE Sleep,.) and i get caught in it , i cant heal you, so of course after the 3rd time i as "for the love of.. can you please stun the sleeps?" he uses the "NA Server lag, not my problem" Excuse i've got EU Friends that have on average 178~220ms Ping w/o issue (and he's in Knottingham playing on Aether DC Worlds.), unless you got a Really Shitty Net or your in Australia, your Argument is invalid Good Sir. when the tank lit his mouth of saying "Lets see you do better with stuns" Hello... Mc Fly. HEALERS DONT GET A SLEEP THAT ISNT JOB ACTION! (i dont think SCH's Get any kind of stun either) (leveling CNJ atm so i dont have my WHM Job crystal) and large enemies dont get knocked back by fluid aura and those annoying birds are Immune to Bind (or atleast High Resist )so an excuse use Fluid Aura doesnt fly. i protest by Sitting and they start Mass pulling to try wiping the party, was having none of that so i left before i got marked in combat.

Second comes from what i just got out of on a Floor 40~50. again still on CNJ, anyway the first 4 floors our Bard (it was me as CNJ we had a Gladiator Tank a MNK and a bard) saw fit to Map every single room try to kill every single thing. when your on Floors 40~50 there's no damn'd need to kill every single thing Map every single room. "You may not be after upgrade chets , but i am, XP on your own time. (you dont run the last 10 floors for xp yo run it to get to the 50floor boss.)had said in a non Asshole manner "If you pull away from tank and were 2 to 3 rooms away from you dont expect me to sprint to your aid especially if we have multiple mobs to deal w/" he retorts with "Fine i can solo" and the Vote Dismiss prompt comes up. seems i wasn't the only one who thought "you want to solo Go Solo then!"


i'm no speed runner. by no means especially when i use the first 3 sections for XP. (even then i dont go outta my way to pull/kill that upsets teh party if they want to run /rush) but DPS should learn their place, if you too far from healer/tank your going to likely wind up dead and have no room to complain if i cant get to you in time or more to deal with, a healers priorities are to themselves and the tank Then DPS with DPS that's far away from you at the low end. (if you die as the healer it can be a potential Wipe tank ties and DPS cant keep it off healer everyone dies. so yea Cure priority Yourself/Tank, DPS around you > the DPS that feel they have main character syndrome and go off on their own)

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Originally Posted by CaelThunderwing

NA Server lag, not my problem

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Looks like you had a comedian in your group.

Seriously though, what an asinine thing to say.

your tellin me :D , ping that becomes an issue even in there! it isnt really until your 400+, 300 to 200 might make a split second difference to trying to get out of the bosses AoEs, but thats it.

And of course, just a few hours after clearing Sohm Al HM in 16 minutes, I queue up as DRK for Leveling Roulette, get Stone Vigil with a BLM that's synced-down from 50... and spamming Fire on pulls of multiple mobs.

I really don't feel like saying anything, until a pull goes wrong because I'm tanking 5+ mobs, that this BLM could've melted down if they'd just been using AoEs, instead of spamming Fire and forcing me to concentrate aggro on the ONE mob they're generating extra aggro on. Then someone pulls another couple of mobs from the back and we wipe. I asked them to please use Fire II and explained that it does more overall damage than Fire.

The response I got? "you play your class i'll play mine fire II sucks".

Somehow, I don't think that someone who uses Transpose instead of Fire III/Blizzard III, and who doesn't use Raging Strikes once in 30 minutes of a dungeon run, and who keeps using caster LBs on bosses instead of mob pulls, has any sort of authority to tell others how BLM works as a job. Especially not to someone who mains BLM and plays it infinitely better.

But, fine. Fine, that's just the typical response you get for trying to help a bad player. What else am I to expect? God forbid people actually listen to good advice being offered for free.

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Originally Posted by CaelThunderwing

bird chirp amd healer sleep.

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In case you weren't aware, there are a couple ways to avoid the chirp other than stunning it. It does have a large aoe, but it is possible to be out of range of it. Usually what I do if I'm with a pug and see a bird is to make sure I'm at max range to begin with and then run away when the cast bar starts. That way I can run in and esuna people again. It also works off of line of sight so if you can find a corner to duck around then that works too. Stunning is best obviously, but I've learned to not trust pugs with the ability to do this consistently.

WHM does have a sleep. I do forget if it's whm specific or if CNJ has it too. Repose happens around level 40 iirc.

Dun Scaith yesterday as BLM.
Nothing fancy,the Caster Boots droped and there are other 2 caster in my alliance.
Both of their HP are less than 20k while my HP are 22k.
I rolled the Boots for 90 but its just for my retainer So I said in chat log before everyone finished their roll.
"Any of you need this boots ?" I said
No respond of course and the roll result was here:
Me rolled 90
Caster1 rolled 97
Caster2 rolled 99

Now i get it why both caster didn't say anything
Because they were pretty confidence in their roll numbers.

"Really!?" Caster1 shouted in chat log
Well I feel sorry for him.

Meeting tons of super cool people in PF for A11S learning groups! Met some nice people from Jenova today. We did some A11S learning, and after taking a break from that, decided to farm A4S for the Gobwalker mount. Really wishing cross-server friends lists and linkshells were a thing already!!

Stuff like this wonders if the job lock on the right was to help with the "less the DPS gap"

The lost city of amadoar, SMN had a i150 book and BRD had wrong right side, extremely high hp.Highest DPS? WHM with the SMN under the tank, even on bosses.

Sohm AI (hard)
WHM had almost the highest dps, but the blm did a small amount better, BRD with wrong right doing tank damage.

The great gubal library (hard)
A brd with a level 52 weapon doing 400 dps aoe damage and 275 DPS on bosses, and yes it is 3 digits, I did not forget a "1"

Today:
a1s wipe due to lack of DPS, 1 bard doing less then one of the tanks, no one breaking 2k DPS, instant break after the one wipe.

Me doing baeslar's wall. I am told "gotta relax. Lol" because 2 dps thinks it is funny to take 2 minutes to kill the first pull. I messed up tossing my own dps this pull because of the sloppy -.- (no i am not trying to shoe horn the meme) pulling on this one. After tossing my own dps the speed was tolerable. Repeatedly hit by extreme caution, even after I told them how not to get hit by it. 32 min run, almost died to the first collar (we saw 2 collars =/ that slow) me carrying the run, no coms.

I ended up getting into a Dun Scaith in progress. I get into a lot of Dun Scaith in progress. Usually it's just people dropping after getting their desired loot (or lack thereof, knowing the rest of the bosses don't have the desired item in their loot table), or groups wiping at the Queen or Diabolos.

This time, I bore witness to an entire alliance wiping to Proto Ultima BEFORE Supernova phase. Did you know that if the Proto Bits are left alone or Ultima's HP remains high enough to not trigger Supernova phase for a while, Ultima goes back into bomb phase again? It was pretty surreal watching everyone that was still alive running around while dodging the AoEs from the Proto Bits at the same time.