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

[Bobkitty]

I'm starting to think using Duty Finder is like turning on the TV to a soap opera.

Brought you by The Vault, starring Red and Magenta as Summoner and Monk, Blue as Tank.

[Noxifer]

Brought you by The Vault, starring Red and Magenta as Summoner and Monk, Blue as Tank.

O.o wow. talk about passive-aggressive SMN. Needling the tank, then falling back on insulting them while trying to make it look like the tank is doing it himself.

Honestly, if the tank is out of TP, just... wait a while, and your cooldowns necessary to kick Dreadwyrm are likely to be ready again for when the tank has full TP, or at least not too far into the boss fight itself.
(Note: While I have SMN at 60, I don't play it, so all I'm going on is what comments our resident FC SMN have made, and I'm assuming it's vaguely similar to BLM Enochian -- have Aetherflow stacks, use a certain cooldown, get Dreadwyrm, use things available during that to keep it from falling off for as long as possible. If it's more complicated than that, then I apologize to whichever SMN I might have offended with my assumption.)

[Eidolon]

I'm starting to think using Duty Finder is like turning on the TV to a soap opera.

Brought you by The Vault, starring Red and Magenta as Summoner and Monk, Blue as Tank.

If I remain out of combat for 15 seconds, my DPS is halved...

...What? Why? How? is it because he's parsing and he has it set to 30 seconds, and doesn't understand that it's grouping the two encounters together? Nothing about Summoner says that it matters how long you're out of combat. Even Aethertrails / Bahamut trance is a small boost in DPS. It's worthwhile to maintain/use in combat but it's not worthwhile to pull over the tank.

Is this summoner an idiot?

[Naliee]

Alexander normal is no longer fun.

A4 3 times in a row I get a group that can't either get balls, kill adds, tanks can't pop defensive cds, dodge stuff, get tethers AND LIST GOES ON.

[Fyce]

If I remain out of combat for 15 seconds, my DPS is halved...

...What? Why? How? is it because he's parsing and he has it set to 30 seconds, and doesn't understand that it's grouping the two encounters together? Nothing about Summoner says that it matters how long you're out of combat. Even Aethertrails / Bahamut trance is a small boost in DPS. It's worthwhile to maintain/use in combat but it's not worthwhile to pull over the tank.

Is this summoner an idiot?

If Ruin III represent half his DPS, I'll guessing he just spams Ruin II when he's outside DWT.

... Unless he's too busy spamming his annoying macro <se.10>.

[micropanther7]

I'm starting to think using Duty Finder is like turning on the TV to a soap opera.

Brought you by The Vault, starring Red and Magenta as Summoner and Monk, Blue as Tank.

I know what I would have said.... it took me 15 seconds to read your macro, you might wanna shorten it a bit :P

[Evangela]

I'm starting to think using Duty Finder is like turning on the TV to a soap opera.

Brought you by The Vault, starring Red and Magenta as Summoner and Monk, Blue as Tank.

AHAHAHA that tank just turned into a diva.

so hilarious. I want to do a summoner high five with that red guy.

[raela]

AHAHAHA that tank just turned into a diva.

so hilarious. I want to do a summoner high five with that red guy.

What? That summoner is clearly being a butt. I want to shove him into a trash pile and give the tank a hug.

[Fevelle]

Alexander normal is no longer fun.

A4 3 times in a row I get a group that can't either get balls, kill adds, tanks can't pop defensive cds, dodge stuff, get tethers AND LIST GOES ON.

Alexander 4 was never fun on DF.

[baopee]

Yeah, I know that, I expressed myself wrong, I just wanted to point out that a lot of the times gear =/= skill. I saw that a lot when T13 was the big raid...

And I agree that by level 51, a player must know the basics of the class they are playing.

About the above, I once had the pleasure to meet a BLM that used only fire1, blizz1 and transponse in Shom Al (level 53 dungeon). When asked to aoe? Used freeze.
So..

A lot of players now did not go through the whole gears progressions. Back then in order to make up for the lack of top tier gear, players tried the hardest to dodge everything or squeeze out just a bit more dps or heal on every fight, unlike now, good gears =/= good player