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

[Miste]

I tanked on my alt pld when i first got there i170(and i170 weap) with my crazy dps Ann and blm friend and I held aggro just fine though they were at 90% aggro.

Did said drg elusive jump?

Not saying it's not possible, but most people have issues in my experience. I am sure your friend is good (depends on ilevel you didn't say what ilevel they were), but there may be people who do more DPS than them so that 90% could turn into 100% and then they have hate. Yeah DRG could have used Elusive, I don't know if he did, he didn't say.

Still can't ignore the fact that a 20-30 ilevel difference does make it harder on the tank to keep hate. If the DPS you get is i200+ and knows their job really really well you may not be able to hold hate with i170-i180.

[Frederick22]

Of course I used Elusive jump, I thought it was not necesary to said based it was very obious. Still it didnt worked.

[vanitaslaughing]

After having my initial confidence as Dark Knight completely and utterly shattered by a Duty Finder BRD (long story, very long and unpleasant story)... I started dusting it off recently. Naturally with my FC mates partying with me bc one's levelling her NIN...

Basically, I built up enough confidence to finally tank Duty Finder Sohm Al, and the first party I had was excellent, I didn't lose aggro except for that last pull with the dragons and the ice dragon one because those are both hot messes.
And saw the first gaelikitten ever drop in there, and got it to boot. Duty Finder isn't all that bad sometimes.

Shoutout to the DRG in the Aery earlier, I was testing if I could reposition the second boss so the annoying poison clouds wouldn't be in the way constantly - I was wrong, thanks for putting up with me!

Now to build up enough confidence to go onto roulettes again...

[Lunaxia]

I won't go into detail this time, suffice to say if I get one more DPS in Ravana Ex who can't count to 4 I'm going to reach through my screen and smack them with my cane.

[Anarnee]

I had one while leveling healer, all 4 of us had to do nail, because.... if not we wouldn't make it. (wiped twice)

Means your dps needed to learn their jobs better -shakes head-

[LordLucavi]

Leveling DF on my whm just now. Get Titan story. Cool, easy stuff usually. It's going surprisingly well for a DF, even if it is story. Then I notice the blm is taking a lot of damage. Turns out, the blm liked to stand in the shit and not move. Not even casting, just kind of sitting there eating WotL. I should have let it die.

[bounddreamer]

I won't go into detail this time, suffice to say if I get one more DPS in Ravana Ex who can't count to 4 I'm going to reach through my screen and smack them with my cane.

Swords? I'm guessing it was swords.

[UnstablePersonality]

Swords? I'm guessing it was swords.

Pretty sure it was, idk what else is there you need to count.

[alimdia]

More than once I've found myself stuck between two platforms covered in puddles during room aoe. So it's die where I stand or die on either platform in range.

This. Melee yo

Still can't ignore the fact that a 20-30 ilevel difference does make it harder on the tank to keep hate. If the DPS you get is i200+ and knows their job really really well you may not be able to hold hate with i170-i180.

You can hold hate spamming hate combo on pld and drk (war has unchained ez) 30 ilvls below. Not efficient but u can hold hate. Aforementioned dps were both 210 and do crazy damage.
I did 1 goring 2 roh and held. If I did 3 roh would have even more hate.

[Frederick22]

I dont know if I'm a guy with a really bad luck but hey I have another story to tell xD

Just a few minutes ago I signed up to Expert roulette as a DRG ilvl202

The party seem to be decent, and the orther dps was a BRD ilvl210. We had Pharos Sirius HM.
Just on the first pulls I notice something wasnt going out right, we were taking very long to kill the trash mobs. On the first boss, we tooked too long to defeat him. When it was finaly down I notice we have being already 10 minutes since the duty started, or minute 79 to finish the dungeon.

I asked why the dps was slow and also if the BRD was doing this proper rotations. The BRD freely admited that he was not doing his proper rotations and that was on purpose doing low dps, all beacause of his excuse of "this is a DF dungeon".
I told him he should not do that, that is not good to do low dps on purpose while I have to do all the work. That as DPS, our job is to do the as much dmg as possible on the shortest time.
Then the healer told me chill out and again the BRD told me that this is a DF dungeon and that he can do what he wants.
The tank said that was going to the wc.

While we waited I was kicked. So apperantly I meet another pre-made party that doesnt care on doing low dps.