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

[Drkdays]

Maybe, but it was ungeared alt that was using Ms rewards, plus she lacks experience as a war. Besides, if you rush a boss thinking the others have your back when they don't you're gonna get rocked.

[HyoMinPark]

Bad VA run last night. Went with some friends so they could get their matter drop, and I'm trying to get the rest of the VA gear for my AST (to no avail, it seems...RNGesus is not my friend right now). Anyways, our alliance was terrible. We were in B, and it pretty much went like this: ranged standing too far away for my friend and I (I'm on AST and he's on SCH) to get our shields/regens on them, terribly low DPS (I've never been part of an alliance with such slow DPS), and a bunch of derpy people. I mean, we wiped on the room with the knots because NO ONE was killing them other than myself and my friend when we weren't busy trying to keep these DerPS (who pulled Alliance A's mobs to our side for whatever reason and was killing them) from dying. It was terrible.

Worst part: no healing gear, and one of the BRDs in our alliance (which we hardcore carried) got the Triple Triad card. -___-

[Supersun]

Just did AK normal as 50 roulette with a few FC mates. I went as Pld, FC mates were Bard and Drg, and we got a DF Scholar. So i wait for Scholar to cast protect...and it never comes. So i ask for protect, and the Scholar says he doesnt have it cross classed...

How can any healer not have protect cross classed? Is this just something new that i'm not familiar with?

In his possible defense, Sch is like the only job in the game that actually laments that an additional cross class slot wasn't given at level 60.

I could see the case for someone queuing into a level 50 dungeon with Cleric's Stance, Aero, Blizzard II, Swiftcast, and Stoneskin.

Pretty much it's cutting Protect for Blizzard II for extra DPS if you know big pulls are going to happen, and frankly if I know I'm partying with a Pld it's actually probably a better set to run with since the Pld can just use Protect themselves (Not like Plds exactly have amazing cross class skills).

Alternately you can have Protect set, and then swap it out for Blizz II, but the majority of tanks don't want to wait for the time to swap your skills.

If he wasn't using Blizzard II then...maybe he was just PvPing with Surecast?

[tinythinker]

Reminds me of many posts in this thread...

[FinaSel]

It seems PvP doesn't appear here often. Maybe because there are lots of uncooperative people in there, but I had a party with someone who really took the cake.
Seal Rock (Seize) 2x First was 24-man. Second was 72-man.

24-man
In the beginning I thought they were going to be a pretty good leader. They were using /shout commands to guide people where to go.
But I realized something was wrong when they began using their macros to tell people NOT to chase people too deeply into their area. Yet, the only one who was running headfirst into the enemy was him / her.
Then, we chased the enemy away from the Tomelith they had occupied. I, and I alone, am taking the tomelith from them. When I am almost done with the first interaction, this person runs over and waits for me to finish. When I go to interact the 2nd time, they must have been clicking faster than I was, because they were somehow able to put up our banner before me.

I know it's stupid to care about "who puts it up", but it's the principle of it. It was really rude. It was clear by either looking at the party or at the tomelith in front of them that I was already halfway done with the first interaction.

72-man
Great, I'm in a group with this doofus again.
Immediately they begin spamming /shout commands with sound effects, 3x per macro.
The highlight of this person's exploits was when they shouted "Everyone gather together!! Gather together!".
Except 70 people were in the north. 2 people were in the far south. This wacko and 1 other person.
They decided to attack some base with just 2 people.
I think they died 6 times.

[Kayiko]

Okay first of. I have literally tanked as every job at some point. This includes healing and black mage. Which well Black mage ended badly for me. Like I died damn quick.
A few of those were because of bots joining or tanks quitting.
Last one was Satasha Normal I was playing whm of course. As it is my main. But the tank dropped not even a third of the way through the dungeon. We kept him there until the first boss. From that point on I basically healed and tanked using media to keep agro. We had to stop a few times for me to regen mp but it worked. At the last boss I had to ask the lancer to tank only so I could kite the adds. It actually worked.
But enough bragging about how I can tank as not a tank.

[Kayiko]

I did my 50 roulette once a few days ago as a warrior. One of my favorites... Keeper of the Lake, I hate that one in truth. Over done it. I pull like I tend to when healer, is well geared. I notice the healer, a scholar, seems to be having a hard time keeping up. So I watch the healer to see why. When I notice that the person isn't doing anything at all. Not dpsing not healing. Just standing there so their fairy heals me alone. If I wasn't in the mood to wait for a new one I would have called them out on it.

And don't say that scholars are harder to heal with. I've had really good scholars recently. Ones that know how to do their jobs really well.

[Kayiko]

And last thing. I dislike white mages that use medica 2 all the time to heal just the tank. It isn't required at all. While I love the skill I think most whm that just hit 50 over use the skill and don't realize their core skills are cure, cure 2, and regen.
But since I main as whm I don't get upset but I do teach healers that lesson by giving them advice on healing. At level 50 a whm should barely have agro on anything really. Gaining most it when dpsing actually, that's if the tank knows what they are doing.

And sorry for the triple post. Character limits. Bleh

[Selli]

It seems PvP doesn't appear here often.

I used to post about PvP, but I usually run with my friends and they listen to me. So I can't complain about that! c:

Feast is miserable, tho. Don't heal Feast. >.<

[Adire]

Just got barked at for using caster LB to take out the dolls in Antitower.

Healer said that it's crucial for a melee to LB that boss because apparently its damage goes crazy at the end of the fight despite me never having a problem tanking or healing it before, and the tank said I'm a fail DPS because of how I used LB despite me pulling aggro from him constantly with just AoEs, and my DPS being quite high.

You never cease to learn new things in DF I suppose O.o. I guess doing inferior damage with LB on an easy boss at the end of the fight when you won't maximize LB's effectiveness is the right way to do things. Gotta love when bads try to convince you why bad is good.