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

[Ashkendor]

OT was busy dps and forgot to help me soaking Double Rocket Punch xD

It doesn't split in normal anyway. I take the same damage whether another tank is up front with me or not.

[bounddreamer]

It doesn't split in normal anyway. I take the same damage whether another tank is up front with me or not.

I've had tanks fail to survive when the damage wasn't split, so I don't think that's correct. I've seen this on healer as well as on tank.

Did a leveling in progress yesterday and joined 24 min in on tank. I was surprised to see only the dps, waiting at the first boss. I asked what happened and they said the other players sucked. Given first boss through final boss was smooth sailing with zero issues, it was definitely not a dps issue! And that's why I like joining in progress, got them their clear, even called in a LS healer so we didn't have to wait any longer.

[Ebonwings]

It doesn't split in normal anyway. I take the same damage whether another tank is up front with me or not.

Well trust me with Ilv 210 you split dmg with ot. In ILV 216 above you can soak it alone using proper cooldowns, eye for an eye, and stoneskin you have like about 20-25% hp left. It will be hard on healers to fill it fast because after Double Rocket Punch you have a small window to refill your hp. Plus admit it most tanks don't feel safe with their hp in that zone, unless you are enjoying the feeling of almost die and healer save you in time XD

[Mysterysword]

Hullbreaker Isle, as AST, with a DRK, NIN, and BRD. For some reason, DRK is losing aggro on pulls really easily, ignoring wandering mobs that come over to chew my face off, and I'm just wondering how on earth a DRK in Titanium gear loses aggro this easily.

And then the ninja points out that he hasn't got Grit turned on. I look and neither is Darkside.

We tell him to turn it on. He ignores us. I initiate a vote-kick just before the first boss, which is rejected because we have the LB bar almost full, so we kill the first boss, in which Bard Is The New Tank, use the LB, and then immediately after it falls, someone else initiates a vote-kick for the DRK. He doesn't get to roll on the drop before he's out.

So, we go through the rest of the dungeon without a tank. I even got both their comms at the end, even though I totally think they deserve all the comms in the world for doing what they did. Thanks for turning a crappy run into a fun one, you two were great.

[Fluestergras]

For some reason, DRK is losing aggro on pulls really easily, ignoring wandering mobs that come over to chew my face off, and I'm just wondering how on earth a DRK in Titanium gear loses aggro this easily.

And then the ninja points out that he hasn't got Grit turned on. I look and neither is Darkside.

Reminds me of the lv60/i210+ DRK I had in Qarn HM recently, lost aggro all the time, then I noticed that Grit and Darkside are missing. I writ "Grit? ^^" - the DRK didn't react, but the AST and MCH did with "who needs Grit, fuck you" o.O
Turned out after the second boss the DRK simply forgot their stances due to level sync and didn't understand my "Grit?" because they were french and I didn't use autotranslate...

[lllogically]

Was running Midas 4 like a week or two ago, I was a Ninja and I used the LB3 when it popped. At the end of the run the Dragoon of the party went and said "*sigh* And the Nin thinks his LB is stronger than a DRG". The whole party then said that all of the melee LBs do the same damage since it's calculated off of the party's average weapon ilvl(or is it just party's average ilvl? I don't remember). He proceeded to call me a scrub and left the duty. Fun run.

[Powe]

One time I did my leveling roulette, and I got copperbell mines. I ended up getting a tank with almost no gear who didn't even have any idea what tanking even was, and a DPS that just sorta did their own thing and walked through the dungeon on their own ignoring all the enemies and the whole party in general. Eventually the healer and I decided we weren't getting anywhere and decided that we would just go on our own with me sleeping all the mobs as a BLM and just duo the rest of the dungeon.

I also ended up saving a video of it on my PS4 for a few months and decided to upload it to youtube. its just the path to the end and the final boss, but you can get the image of just how much of a trainwreck it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01h7cAhE144

Did you try to explain to them how to tank?

[bounddreamer]

Did you try to explain to them how to tank?

In my duty finder experience when you offer tips they either ignore you or get really defensive. There's very few people in duty finder who will actually take constructive criticism.

[UnstablePersonality]

In my duty finder experience when you offer tips they either ignore you or get really defensive. There's very few people in duty finder who will actually take constructive criticism.

Exactly this...I only offer advice if I feel like they are a decent person, for lack of better words...sometimes I am wrong, I met a tank this morning while I was healing that has never tanked before and their gear was a bit..off for the class, so I gave them advice about the gear and things they need for the tank classes, they accepted it nicely and even thanked me for it.

[Kaurie]

Tip: add a =) or to the end of any time you post advice, and people are less likely to rage.