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

[XxDeeDevilxX]

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yeah,I like reading some of the posts on that group and occassionally try to help out people if they have a question, but most of the times I just roll my eyes at it and ignore it. I'd much prefer a server FB group and while my server does have one, it is definitely not very active, which is quite a shame >:

Doing what you think is best, is the best thing you can do at that point and there isn't really a right or wrong in that I think. Don't think anyone can say you did the wrong thing c:

Totally understand and sadly those kind of people are everywhere. As long as someone communicates there's no problem, but it's when they act like that, that it does.

You are very much welcome c: Sucks that people tend to believe those kind of things so easy and then message about something they don't know anything about, leading to ruin someone's day. I just hope for you and the others that it doesn't get more blown up than needed right now D:

[Rhyku]

Mount doesn't drop in HM, extreme doesn't come up in trial roulette, pretty sure the tank was just an idiot.

O_O ..... I should learn to read more carefully next time ... xD...
*buries self*

[FunkYeahDragons]

I'm in my third in-progress Brayflox on SCH this morning... Is this place cursed? Am I going to wake up tonight tied up and being carried off by gobbies? What happened to the other healers?

One of the DPS dropped while waiting for a tank and then got queued right back in.

[Bubbleninjask]

My bf had just gotten his bard's ilvl up for Antitower and a friend and I were gonna help him out. He was still working on his eso gear, but was looking forward to it. We picked up an ast through the df.

First pull and everything looked good. On the second, I noticed the ast wasn't doing anything, maybe threw out a heal or two. Just as the last mob dies, the ast goes "I'm leaving. The bard's weapon is 160 and I'll get through the penalty faster than this". Just before anyone can say anything, they leave. We pick up a really chill whm less than a minute later and we managed to get through the dungeon just fine, albeit a lag spike during Ziggy caused us to wipe.

Needless to say, that ast left a bad taste in our mouths. I've been playing this game for only a little over two months, and I've never come across someone like that before. The only thing I regret is the whm left before I could give them a com. If they're reading this, I hope they know they're awesome.

[Thyranne]

A few days ago I queued for The Aurum Vale as AST. My group was me, a DRG, a NIN and a PLD.

Tank pulls a big frog. For the whole fight he was standing in a poison and didn't dodge a single AoE from the frog. I thought: well it happens.

Then a few pulls later, on another frog, the NIN dodges its AoE to the wrong direction and pulls a group of 3 mobs. These 3 mobs start attacking him and I heal him so they start focusing me. I start spamming Benefic II and I keep getting interrupted so I'm forced to use Lightspeed, spam more Benefic II on me while I run to the tank. I get to him and he does nothing, not even a single flash, just kept attacking the frog and I die, NIN dies, the tank dies and I was able to go back and heal the DRG while he finished those mobs.

After a few more mobs we get to the first boss.

It was really really painful, nobody was eating their fruits at 2 stacks except me. Tank wouldn't dodge a single AoE, DPS and tank kept going to 3-4 stacks. At around 30% I was already at like 200 MP and no CD left. I was forced to let one of my DPS die because I knew that if I tried to keep everyone alive everyone would die. I never prayed so much for a Ewer card like that.

After this nightmare I thought: I'm sure this tank won't dodge 100-Tonze Swing on the 2nd boss. But I was wrong because: he pulls a morbol, stands in the poison, didn't dodge a single AoE, got his by the breath thing which applies 583457934 debuffs (or was it 583457933?). So I pop all cooldowns, spam Benefic II and his HP was dropping much faster than my Benefic II could heal.

We wipe, and I say: "Please, dodge the AoEs and don't stand in poison" (those exact words), his answer: "learn to heal better you moron". Like seriously? You expect me to heal you don't pop cooldowns, get hit by every single and stand in poison? And you even insult me? We kicked him from the group and had to clear the whole dungeon (including the 2nd boss) without a tank. We wiped twice on groups that had too many mobs (since they would just jump on me and interrupt all my spells), in fact I pulled them all to the 2nd boss room, kited them while the NIN and DRG focused on one by one.

We get to the last boss, do 2 attempts without a tank and wipe (our best attempt was 40%) and a tank finally joins the group. We kill the last boss with no problem.

That run almost made me want to stop leveling my AST, it was just that bad. And I didn't expect my text to be this big hehe.

[Geula]

Tanks sure have it miserable, more so than healers i'd say. First time doing Brayflox as tank, we kill first pack, it goes smooth, I'm saying I'll make a bigger pull and actually never pulled more than 2 packs at once so sure, gotta be a first time sometime especially since the party had a BLM. What could possibly go wrong, me being on controller and fresh to tanking, right? I pull the first pack, run to the 2nd and the first pack already lost all aggro from me, I pop cooldowns, notice getting no heals, look at party what's up, healer keeps stoneskinning instead of healing. I think there was like 4 stoneskin casts in a row with one stonek skin 2 after, I almost died to that trash, nonetheless chaos ensues because I run around trying to grab aggro back while party keeps grabbing aggro from me, we clear those two packs without wiping though, the chat went like this so I just didn't say anything and didn't even consider doing bigger pulls because why bother. Once I cap tanks I'm not playing them anymore... is what I'm thinking now but will propably keep going at it since bad apples happen every now and then. But it keeps bothering me because other than that the run went smooth minus some aggro loss that might have been attributed to me being a paladin so no tank stance and being slightly undergeared.

[Vidu]

...big pulls...

There really isnt any need for big pulls in dungeons below 50 You hardly have the proper dps to burn them down so fast that it would matter - and specially as paladin you're better off with only taking one group at a time and rotate through the mobs with the 2 and 3 of your combo to keep hate on all of them (while also using Flash like you've got no other skill at all) - you dont have your tank-stance until 40 and therefor keeping aggro can be a bit of a struggle^^'
Tanking can be a lot of fun! You have to get used to it though and learn how to do it

[Kaurie]

There really isnt any need for big pulls in dungeons below 50 You hardly have the proper dps to burn them down so fast that it would matter - and specially as paladin you're better off with only taking one group at a time and rotate through the mobs with the 2 and 3 of your combo to keep hate on all of them (while also using Flash like you've got no other skill at all) - you dont have your tank-stance until 40 and therefor keeping aggro can be a bit of a struggle^^'
Tanking can be a lot of fun! You have to get used to it though and learn how to do it

Bigger pulls can be good if you have a BLM in the party, as their AoE is fine with Fire II. You just need to ensure you can keep hate on them if you're going to do it.

[Geula]

There really isnt any need for big pulls in dungeons below 50 You hardly have the proper dps to burn them down so fast that it would matter - and specially as paladin you're better off with only taking one group at a time and rotate through the mobs with the 2 and 3 of your combo to keep hate on all of them (while also using Flash like you've got no other skill at all) - you dont have your tank-stance until 40 and therefor keeping aggro can be a bit of a struggle^^'
Tanking can be a lot of fun! You have to get used to it though and learn how to do it

I usually am shield lobbing to the pack, once I'm radius of flash I Flash, position myself for preventing AoE hitting party and then if the pack is at least 3 mobs I keep flashing between 2 hits in combo so like combo initiation, comb hit, flash, combo hit 2, initiation, flash, combo hit, combo hit 2, flash if pack is 2 mobs i just hit initiation and combo hit on first mob, combo hit 2 on 2nd enemy or focus on the mob being burned down. I'm also trying to juggle the combo between mobs that are being chunked down while prioritize the mob that is being burned down. I tried to face flash but I get aggro stolen faster from me that way from what I see. I also understand that provoke works that way that you get party's member highest aggro points +1 so you have to have at least combo initiated for it to not be wasted. I realise all this stuff but when parties like that happen I just fell apart

[Andrea]

Tanks sure have it miserable,

Honestly speaking I don't see any problem with what they said in that image.

They just said not to pull so much if you can't handle it, which is actually pretty sound advice.