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

[Confidence_Trick]

I was terrible in my leveling roulette and A8 weekly attempt yesterday. I was the DF horror story. Sorry to those I was grouped up with.

[Ashkendor]

considering bard AoEs are mediocre, and at level 33ish, even worse.

Bard AoE is actually pretty damn nice now with RoD proccing off DoTs. Just not at level 33.

[LDR]

other day in A5 for drops had a SCh co healer who

well idk what they were doing
nothing apparantly

didnt heal, didnt dps, when i decided to try dps for 2 seconds tank nearly died and they didnt react; and each time didnt do the boost bit and died.
tbqh they were literally useless to me as i just solo'd the entire thing after that near tank death experience :U

[Dergensaur]

other day in A5 for drops had a SCh co healer who

well idk what they were doing
nothing apparantly

didnt heal, didnt dps, when i decided to try dps for 2 seconds tank nearly died and they didnt react; and each time didnt do the boost bit and died.
tbqh they were literally useless to me as i just solo'd the entire thing after that near tank death experience :U

I'm always too scared to go into cleric stance on full parties so I just spam my aoe heals and shields and keep eos roused. I mostly baby the tanks. I'm bad.

[Ashkendor]

I'm always too scared to go into cleric stance on full parties so I just spam my aoe heals and shields and keep eos roused. I mostly baby the tanks. I'm bad.

You aren't bad. You're just paranoid, and with DF healers that's not necessarily misplaced. xD

[Kaurie]

I'm always too scared to go into cleric stance on full parties so I just spam my aoe heals and shields and keep eos roused. I mostly baby the tanks. I'm bad.

Should definitely get over that hurdle. In most of midas (normal) runs you can be in cleric ~80-90% of the time on SCH. Just use your Rouse on CD with your pet and be ready to pop out of cleric if you need.

[AskaRay]

I suppose 60 Bard AoEs aren't bad, but you must understand that coming from BLM being my alt... well. xD
But it's IMO that at level 30ish there is no real need to AoE.

At that low of a level..yeah no need for AOEing unless the tank's pulled like fifty things for some reason.
But I'm just sayin' it's far from "bad".

[AnaviAnael]

I'm always too scared to go into cleric stance on full parties so I just spam my aoe heals and shields and keep eos roused. I mostly baby the tanks. I'm bad.

I've found that stance dancing becomes easier the more you do it. Since you're still on your way to 60, I'd start practicing. You'll notice your runs go a lot faster and you'll have a great sense of accomplishment once you get the rhythm down.

[Pells]

You aren't bad. You're just paranoid, and with DF healers that's not necessarily misplaced. xD

DF tanks do this to me more than the co-healers.

[bounddreamer]

You would be surprised the amount of DF white mages I go in with as SCH only to find myself main healing. And it's SCH who people bitch about endlessly...

A DF tank reminded me on Midas floor one this morning why I prefer to go in on any job but tank unless I'm queuing with a tank I trust. Queued as PLD with a healer friend because my static is having me switch to MT so i figured I'd start running PLD and practicing MT more often. We got to the double fausts and I said I'd take East Faust. The DRK said "I'll take both" and without waiting for a response, pulled. They grabbed Hummelfaust too and by that point I was feeling pretty superfluous. So when we got to the floor of the Clevering and they asked MT/OT, I was honestly pretty checked out, like, really, now you want to ask? So I said it didn't matter and of course they chose to MT. Despite me feeling pretty bitter the run went decently well aside from a misplaced glopgloop until the DRK failed to see a Boost and got 4 stacks of vulnerability. "Take him," they said, so I did, saying in aside to my WHM, "NOW they want me to mt?"

On the bright side, I did the other three floors with some very cooperative DRKs and we shared tanking responsibilities, communicated briefly but clearly, and pretty sure we gave mutual comms - at least, I gave them mine and got at least one in turn for each run.