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

[Lukha]

I'll never forget the Dusk Vigil run I did where the Summoner started a screaming fight with me because apparently you should NEVER use Medica II for any reason except boss AoE?

I usually give the tank enough time to get everything's attention, then cast Medica II and Regen on him so I can worry about more important things, like DPSing? I've never had agro problems before, and no one, not even my FC mates, whom I trust to TELL me if I'm doing something wrong, have ever said a word about it to me. The tank was a little undergeared, and it was his first time, so he was going slow, and I accidentally used Medica II before he had agro and ended up tanking the first pack. No big deal, no one died or anything, but when I apologize, the SMN starts RIPPING into me about using Medica II and does not shut up (despite the run going smoothly after that) until most of the way to the second boss, when I finally just let him die to some trash and told him he wouldn't get another heal out of me if he kept it up.

[zcrash970]

I got a WAR today in my expert that wouldn't use defiance and stayed in deliverance. I politely reminded him that he was in deliverance before the first mob pull and said that he will need defiance because I am a geared SMN. I got no response.
Obviously, I pulled and died during the first pull. Out of no where, the WAR started to call me a terrible SMN and I know nothing of about the game. Saying any decent SMN would have used quelling strikes, but I did and the healer even went through the battle log to confirm it. WAR still saying I'm a crappy SMN.
Two mob pulls and 2 dead lalafells later we reach the first boss that I end up tanking, the WAR saying my dps was abysmal. The other dps finally says something and said I wouldn't have aggro if my dps was bad. I tried to vote kick him but it didn't work.
So we move along and I once again asked the WAR to use defiance and still he refused. I decided not to use any attacks other than dots and bane figuring that at least I won't die and I could refresh my dots and have my pet's auto attack. The WAR then try to gloat on how he held aggro and defiance was only for bad tanks and how my dps was way below than what it should be. The healer and the other dps just started yelling at the tank...a lot of things that would get someone permaban here so I won't repeat it XD.
Now I have a pretty high tolerance ceiling sometimes and this was one of those times, but when the WAR finally said that I was probably carried through A1S and A2S, I snapped. After I finished my angry rant on how terrible the WAR was, no one said anything... A minute later I was vote kicked. I wasn't even angry anymore...just disappointed in that healer and DPS.

[FoxyAreku]

About a week ago, I loaded up my AST for the first time since unlocking it the day Heavensward launched. I ran a couple of Haukkes and a Brayflox before I realized I had Diurnal Sect. No one said anything.

Diurnal doesn't do anything but give a little attack speed at that level because you don't get aspected benefic until 34.

[Selli]

Got AV for my low level roulette today. My Ninja was really close to 60.

Healer leaves before everyone is loading in. There's one every AV run, I swear. Get a new healer, level 50+ AST. Trash goes fine, we get to the first boss.

We wipe. Healer says they got something in their eye and couldn't heal. Okay. Try it again. Wipe again. Healer blames me for taking their fruit and they were unable to find any others. Fine. Whatever. Third try, wait for them to eat their fruit so they don't complain. Get really close to wiping again anyway.

Tank has to Holmgang basically every pull because this AST can't heal. I didn't see them DoT once and the only time they used and cards were if they had an AoE Balance. The BLM was new, his rotation was on point except... they were only using their single target rotation. So this tank was having a hard time dealing with the BLM randomly switching targets and burning them down and myself on Ninja.

Get to second boss. BLM and AST get hit by every AoE. Both die. Tank and I have to finish off the boss from 50%-0%.

More chaotic pulls. Make it to last boss. Last boss goes pretty decently, tank gets hit by Bad Breath once. Commended the tank and noped out of that dungeon. We were in the dungeon for nearly the whole time limit. >.<

I did hit 60, though. So now I have 8 level 60's. XD

[Bamboofox]

Diurnal doesn't do anything but give a little attack speed at that level because you don't get aspected benefic until 34.

True, the benefits at low levels are tiny but there's no reason not to have it on (unless you didn't know you had it...). It's kind of like a Monk with no Fists or a Ninja with no Venom.

[sirDarts]

Healer standing around doing no DPS healing every 3-4 seconds, often some pretends to do something by running around in circles.

You HAVE TO stance dance Cleric when DPSing as a healer.
So you have to:
1) PERFECTLY know the dungeon to know when you can stop healing for 5+ seconds.
2) Check the tank's gear.
3) Trust the tank (VERY hard in DF).
4) Have Cleric bound on something that's easy and fast to reach.

It's not easy in any way, and when you mess up, people die.

[Pells]

but u can always cast dots without the cleric stance

Healers would do more damage by running in close and autoattacking.

[Awful]

60 minute Gubal Library today..why? Because the Bard refused to use WM when I told him/her it increases their DPS. They said they like to move around and hate "reloading(?)" and then had an Ast who played spread ewer once their only card that they played, and a Drk not using Darkside at all or CDs when he was getting pummeled standing in AoEs. It was a lousy run gave them pointers that weren't flaming or anything ah well you get one of those runs once in awhile.

[FoxyAreku]

True, the benefits at low levels are tiny but there's no reason not to have it on (unless you didn't know you had it...). It's kind of like a Monk with no Fists or a Ninja with no Venom.

Yeah true just saying, that's why no one said anything. It doesn't do much on its own. :3

[Symari]

'I don't want the Balance, I am not a tank.' - The BLM.

I am assuming he thought it was the Bole. I hope.