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

[BroodingFicus]

I've been leveling a Paladin for fun on my WHM once I'm tome capped for the week. I played a WAR as my main pre HW so I understand basic principles etc etc and I know the dungeons but I was painfully reminded why I stopped today. Long story short I had a level 30 BLM in Haukke manor who was:

A. Stutter stepping as if she would cast until the moment I would to to run in. At which point she would cast her move so it hit just before or just after Shield lob, causing me to fight her for aggro almost every pull and every boss.
B. Wearing a fully melded set of level 27 gear. (Is this a thing we do now?)

It was painful the whole way between that and the fact that our healer was obviously also newer and doing a lot of over healing. We actually didn't finish. The last boss was a disaster and after five wipes the two dps kicked the healer for being 'offline' which...was a lie and so I took the opportunity to leave. I don't even think it was his fault and I'll certainly take the blame for the one wipe where I hit sprint by accident to dodge an attack but to be fair I was at 11hp and would have died if I didn't. XD. But every other time it came down to the fact that the BLM refused to help with the first set of lamps because she thought it was a waste even though the healer asked us to because the AoE seemed to be causing him issues and because she /still/ would cast without giving me a second to build aggro /while/ blowing all her dps cooldowns in her drastically over zealously melded gear. It made it near impossible to even take the time to go flash the adds because the moment I wasn't hitting the boss it was on her and her fully melded gear didn't do much to keep her from dropping dead. The cherry on top is that obviously she was still not high enough to get quelling strike. Is this the reason my tank friends all groan when they see a BLM pre level 32?

[Rhyku]

Pre-pull when we were setting out position markers and deciding MT/OT.... our bard decided to play Foe's Requeim.

Seeing Ravana suddenly stomp over and whomp us was a heart attack moment. Thankfully the tanks got him under control and we all had a laugh at the bard's derp moment.

No mount drop tho :/

[Noxifer]

The cherry on top is that obviously she was still not high enough to get quelling strike. Is this the reason my tank friends all groan when they see a BLM pre level 32?

Quelling Strikes is an Archer skill, so... the BLM level doesn't really count. But yeah, one would have thought that BLM would have added Quelling to the three crossclass skill slots they'd have available at level 30. If she'd bothered levelling ARC that high, of course. (Is it just me, btw, who gets confused momentarily when seeing ARC and thinking it means ARCanist? Stupid ARC/ACN shortenings....)

[MXMoondoggie]

A handful of people in Alliance chat expressed regret that they couldn't comm the caster who used that lb3. (Funnily enough I didn't get comms from my actual party.) Despite rolling garbage on the orchestrion roll, I walked out of there feeling like a champ.

I always did that one when it was available which was almost never in a random DF group because some turd always uses it when the boss is invincible or something and wastes it. It saves a lot of time on that phase to use a caster LB3 I don't know why people get salty about it I guess you denied them their cool Naruto finisher at 0.2% when a LB3 is completely pointless.

[Fluestergras]

A friend (AST) and I (DRK) signed in for trial roulette. While we waited for the DF to pop up I told him that I was a bit scared of getting Ravana or Bismarck in roulette because I never tanked them before and these trials are pretty infamous for people who suck, insult others for being new or instantly leave, and all that shit. Then we got the invite and while I was stuck at the load screen my friends writes: "LOL!" I just thought: "No no no NO!" But yes, I was standing in front of this FUCKING FLYING WHALE ;_;

Worst thing was, I got hit by the very first AOE used by an enemy of the very first adds pack and got knocked off the island like a real derp ;_; All I wanted to do at that moment was to lock myself into the bathroom and cry ;_;

[Artemiz]

B. Wearing a fully melded set of level 27 gear. (Is this a thing we do now?)

Um, I've always done this personally, I figure the better my gear the easier the leveling process will be, regardless of job. I don't troll tanks though to be fair. HM can be a tricky one for PLD though, it's the first dungeon where the insanity of making ShO level 40 is a thing. In fact it's the only dungeon where I've ever had to get all princess PLD on someone after I demanded a SMN put Titan away before I'd pull again.

[cgbspender]

Where has all the pink GONE on MXMoondoggie ?! I want it back

[bounddreamer]

Um, I've always done this personally, I figure the better my gear the easier the leveling process will be, regardless of job. I don't troll tanks though to be fair. HM can be a tricky one for PLD though, it's the first dungeon where the insanity of making ShO level 40 is a thing. In fact it's the only dungeon where I've ever had to get all princess PLD on someone after I demanded a SMN put Titan away before I'd pull again.

I mean, I self crafted all HQ gear myself, but I never bothered melding leveling gear unless I just had appropriate materia laying around taking up inventory space. It just seems excessive. Not to mention the materia impact you'd be attaching to level 27 gear...would it even give +1 or would it be +0?

[CyrilLucifer]

I ran Trial roulette at about 4am last night on AST.

I make the mistake of choosing in-progress. I really should stop doing that for trial roulettes, you'd think I'd learn. I clenched my bottom and went in. Seph normal.

Great! I think, I've been healing his big brother all week. I can carry this.

Famous last thoughts.

The main tank had no concept of a tank buster. I told him "you need to use your CDs when he's winding his fist up." He didn't do it after two more times, so I tell the SCH "Just use Adlo, that should mitigate the damage enough that he can survive." It's not like SephEx; it doesn't do 30k+. The SCH didn't.

Fortunately, I was on AST, so I switched over to Noct because if the SCH isn't going to shield the tankbusters, I will - I can solo heal this all day, I think to myself. And I can. During this run we also switched main tanks because the first tank showed no sign of improvement.

All seems to be working great so far. Except the now-off tank stands in every cleave (both the frontal cleave after the tankbuster and the big half-room cleaves). He ended up with 3 stacks of Vulnerability debuff somehow by the time adds popped up. He got smashed by the Cochma in one hit.

Well, add phase was chaos, but we were able to get through it. A few people got hit off the ledge on the first breath, but that's fair.

The three people in the party who actually knew their jobs were able to carry the rest. Until wind. They were shouting in party chat FOCUS WIND FOCUS WIND and even put a number 1 over it.

Someone LB'd the boss instead.

We all vote abandoned because I don't think I've seen more incompetent players all around in my life.

Bonus epilogue: I ended up in my next trial roulette with another person from that party - we got sent into Titan HM. Fortunately, he was one of the three people who knew what he was doing. The Titan HM went pretty terribly, too, with everyone but him and I dying at some point to either weights, bomb explosions, or being hit off the edge, but we still cleared.

What a terrible night for DF.

[Erys]

Lost City of Amdapor Hard.

Healer and bard point the clones at me and tank, I call them out (mind pointing your clones at the wall?), healer goes salty (I'll point at you (me) then, drgs always trying to be edgy), brd and healer on the same boat going st00ped.

Seriously, that attitude, if you fail at mechanics own it, don't be a bitch.