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

[Paladinleeds]

Healer who is wearing full casting accessories deserves smack on the face. HARD.

Or anyone who has the nerve to even ask/demand for commendations.

I refuse point blank to ask/demand commendations. Only thing I'm interested in is being a good tank for the group. Actions speak louder than words. If they wanna commend me, then that's their choice. I do get a bit bummed if I get 0 comms though.

[Noshpan]

Lately I've been noticing a trend in healers pulling on behalf of the tank. It doesn't matter if the run is going swiftly and smoothly, they just facepull and then run around like a headless chicken while getting punched in the face.

Now this didn't happen to me, but it did happen to a fellow in one of the linkshells I am in. They were in Diadem, having used the Duty Finder, and there was one guy who goes in (barely making the ilvl requirement mind you) and instantly switches from DPS to gather class. That, in itself, isn't necessarily bad (bad form, maybe), but they wouldn't help with any objectives and took all of the loot. An item dropped that my linkshell fellow was hoping to get, but the lazy one got it instead saying "Sorry bruh need mah pony".

[Immut]

Lately I've been noticing a trend in healers pulling on behalf of the tank. It doesn't matter if the run is going swiftly and smoothly, they just facepull and then run around like a headless chicken while getting punched in the face.

For some pulls in fractal, like the mobs that come out of the tubes after the first boss, this is actually optimal. Otherwise the tank has to wait around getting smashed.

[Fluestergras]

Or anyone who has the nerve to even ask/demand for commendations.

I've seen that exactly once, it was a warrior in Thordan Story Mode, demanding commendations via autotranslate using a macro, even with sound effect. My friend and I actually wanted to commend him because he played very well, but after we've seen this macro we couldn't stop laughing, we were like "OMG what a clown" and then commended the healers - no commendations for beggars, no matter how well they play

[Kikoten]

I used the Duty Finder to enter a Guildhest. I thought I'd do something fun for a change and make macros of myself having a conversation with my weapon, Dr. Tran style. The /emote was my weapon talking, and /say was me, with /wait 3s in between. I would play these macros at the beginning, middle, and end of a duty. I made the mistake of using one where the axe supposedly called me a god, and I said something along the lines of, "Shh, don't say that, they'll laugh." Wrong wording at the time. I charged, gung-ho, into a morbol during this Guildhest, and it wasn't until I engaged the Morbol that I realized...

I've never tanked this duty before, and I didn't read the instructions. What do I do?

Suddenly, slimes start appearing, and I didn't know whether to break them or pull the morbol away from them. Because of my blunder, we wiped, and I was immediately met with mockery by our Ninja. It seemed he took my emote/say macro a little too seriously.

I'm more offended by the fact that I screwed up a Guildhest by not knowing it, than having to deal with that humorless person. Ever since that horrible Guildhest, I spammed Guildhests as a tank, over, and over, and over again until I was numb to them. I also learned that some people take this game so seriously, and have no sense of humor, so I axed the whole tidbit of having a fun back-and-forth in /say and /emote.

[Selli]

Healer who is wearing full casting accessories deserves smack on the face. HARD.

Or anyone who has the nerve to even ask/demand for commendations.

The funny thing is, I think they were actually getting more INT from their i130 accessories than they were MND from their i90+i110 armor (not including weapon). I'm pretty sure they would have been healing better with Cleric Stance on.

And don't worry, the only commendation that healer got was (maybe) the tank's. He definitely didn't get mine nor my boyfriend's.

I refuse point blank to ask/demand commendations. Only thing I'm interested in is being a good tank for the group. Actions speak louder than words. If they wanna commend me, then that's their choice. I do get a bit bummed if I get 0 comms though.

There was someone on the forums who was bragging about being a DRG with 800 commendations. People were kinda like, "Lots of people who main DPS have more commendations than that. And after seeing this brag post, I won't be giving you one of mine if we happen to meet." Commendation begging is really frowned upon. Unless someone says they're 1-2 away from one of the commendation rewards, then I'll throw them a pity comcom unless they were horrific.

My boyfriend and I like to turn commendations into a competition. XD When we do High Level Roulette and Expert Roulette we both avoid saying anything (unless something really funny happens) and see who the DPS like based on skill. Whoever gets the most commendations wins. As the tank, he usually gets them every single time. Though, with my 4,000 commendations to his 1,900... I think I'm winning in the long run, LOL.

[Paladinleeds]

The funny thing is, I think they were actually getting more INT from their i130 accessories than they were MND from their i90+i110 armor (not including weapon). I'm pretty sure they would have been healing better with Cleric Stance on.

And don't worry, the only commendation that healer got was (maybe) the tank's. He definitely didn't get mine nor my boyfriend's.

There was someone on the forums who was bragging about being a DRG with 800 commendations. People were kinda like, "Lots of people who main DPS have more commendations than that. And after seeing this brag post, I won't be giving you one of mine if we happen to meet." Commendation begging is really frowned upon. Unless someone says they're 1-2 away from one of the commendation rewards, then I'll throw them a pity comcom unless they were horrific.

My boyfriend and I like to turn commendations into a competition. XD When we do High Level Roulette and Expert Roulette we both avoid saying anything (unless something really funny happens) and see who the DPS like based on skill. Whoever gets the most commendations wins. As the tank, he usually gets them every single time. Though, with my 4,000 commendations to his 1,900... I think I'm winning in the long run, LOL.

Yeah, I'm not going to say how many commendations I have other than that it's a low number. But I once got 5 commendations after I shut down a healer in Bismarck HM who was really nasty right from the get go. Told him straight up he was abusive after we wiped (and he blamed everyone but us, calling us noobs etc), then proceeded to vote kick him. new healer joins, he's a lovely fella, we all beat the content no problems (no more wipes), and I end up with 5 commendations. My jaw literally dropped when I saw that.

And I'd not asked for any commendations from that run either. They commended me because I had the balls to shut down an abusive person I guess?

[AaronJaeger]

The funny thing is, I think they were actually getting more INT from their i130 accessories than they were MND from their i90+i110 armor (not including weapon). I'm pretty sure they would have been healing better with Cleric Stance on.

And don't worry, the only commendation that healer got was (maybe) the tank's. He definitely didn't get mine nor my boyfriend's.

One reason could very well be because on certain search engines there's some old reddit posts with very misinformed (and or outdated info) people that were giving out bad information such as you get better nukes which would all be true... if only cleric stance didn't exist. Other reddit posts also claimed int increased fairy healing.
Just one example.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ribute_points/



Even though if lustrate was still % based, Mind would still be preferable over int, I tried Int over Mind, it was stupid. Cleric stance makes your DPS more potent as a scholar than going full int anyways.

[Zandev]

Yesterday ran Brayflox normal with a 32 GLD (not PLD), who didn't have Shield Lob (the level 15 class quest). That went about as well as you might expect.

Was trying to give some advice, but another player was less tolerant so that didn't last long.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Rolled out Titan EX for the first time after watching MTQ and Mr. Happy guides on repeat until I had enough working knowledge of the fight to feel confident I could handle it. Fight starts with the tank complaining how bad his prior groups were and he's been trying this fight for ages. He proceeds to ask if anyone's new, and when a couple others beside myself say they are, he doesn't explain anything but just queues a ready check and pulls. Everyone spreads out right from the word go, which made dodging plumes damn near impossible. Wipe one.

I end up explaining the need to stack up and the mechanics as best I can. Tank grumbles a bit, but does try to be a little encouraging at least. Pull commences and the bard gets hit by nearly everything except Landslide ironically. This continues to happen on every subsequent attempt. Seriously. He refused to dodge anything. Tank struggles to keep hate and wipes. I end up having to tank Titan, as a DRAGOON. Went about as well as you can imagine. ;_; Wipe two.

Third go essentially repeats itself, save that same tank typing in all caps to dodge (He would do this a few times). The other tank tries to take over when he struggles, but gets punted off the map, which she apologizes profusely for. It's a slow but inevitable wipe as no one is dodging anything. Wipe three.

Rinse and repeat, where yet again I'm tanking Titan, but actually manage to hold him for a short burst by blowing every cooldown I have. Wipe four.

Attempt five sees that whiny tank die early, though we actually push Titan to his heart phase. People keep dying due to horrible inability to dodge. Wipe five.

Vote abandon goes up at this point. Considering I was bloody nervous going into this fight as a DRG, I can't say I was too disappointed despite how horror the actual PuG was, xD