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

[bounddreamer]

Dang I had the exact opposite experience in ARF for mentor roulette this morning. Got a sch, mnk, and blm. I pulled everything. The poor sch started out in CS and had to switch pretty quickly to keep me alive. But, that BLM burned everything to the ground and it was quick and easy eso.

[Selli]

Just got out of an ST with a premade of Mentors who were on classes instead of jobs. They spent the whole run voking bosses and avoiding mechanics (not doing fire/ice, trying to knock people back with explosions in Amon, not stacking on the last boss, ect). Happily just reported every single one of them.

[chrishanner]

Just had a fun experience.

Helped my wife with an unsynced tam tara for her 5 dungeons challenge, then later on decided to do midas 2. f course i forgot to untick tam tara and of course it popped immediately. i wasn't paying attention so I joined without looking.

I did the dungeon since i didn't want to be an ass, but the dps at the end really didn't understand what invulnerable meant when they were hitting the last boss!! At least one of them listened when I kept telling them to kill the imps

[Kibby]

So, I was healing Dzemael and the BLM and MNK got into an argument. Basically, the BLM was making fun of the MNK, laughing at her, saying she was going to tell all of her friends about what they were arguing about (what they were arguing about isn't important, and it was pretty personal, so I probably shouldn't say what it was). We get to the final boss and they're still arguing. The tank and I basically tell them to quit their arguing so we can finish this, then as soon as the boss is dead, the BLM says "[MNK's name] I hope you die from cancer."

Naturally, I reported her. I'm just speechless. I felt so bad for that MNK. She didn't do anything to deserve it. She wasn't being rude to the BLM in the first place, so I don't know what the BLM's problem was...

[AnaviAnael]

then as soon as the boss is dead, the BLM says "[MNK's name] I hope you die from cancer."

Naturally, I reported her. I'm just speechless. I felt so bad for that MNK. She didn't do anything to deserve it. She wasn't being rude to the BLM in the first place, so I don't know what the BLM's problem was...

Geez, I half wonder if you were paired with the same guy from TheCarnivalGuy's Halitali run. I really don't understand why people think it's acceptable to tell someone to commit suicide or to die a horrible death.

[Lmcgyver]

Just had a run through A6 as a scholar. Apparently, dark knights think tank swapping there is redundant, because neither of them seemed to think that they needed to provoke the second or fourth boss off the other when stacks got high enough. Managed to keep the MT alive until 7 stacks through sheer luck with well-timed critlos, before finally landing a non-crit, and the tank eating the floor to stack #8; the BRD tanks it for the rest. On the fourth boss, I was unable to crit stack #6, tank dies, OT picks it up, they die to stack #5; and again the BRD tanks the rest of it (good job, bard!).

Sadly, that was run number... approximately 24 today, and still no luck with getting my loot :/

[Cidolfas86]

Just had a run through A6 as a scholar. Apparently, dark knights think tank swapping there is redundant, because neither of them seemed to think that they needed to provoke the second or fourth boss off the other when stacks got high enough. Managed to keep the MT alive until 7 stacks through sheer luck with well-timed critlos, before finally landing a non-crit, and the tank eating the floor to stack #8; the BRD tanks it for the rest. On the fourth boss, I was unable to crit stack #6, tank dies, OT picks it up, they die to stack #5; and again the BRD tanks the rest of it (good job, bard!).

Sadly, that was run number... approximately 24 today, and still no luck with getting my loot :/

This seems to be a thing in general since I've come back after 3.2. I usually swap regardless even if people think they don't need to. Its like the act of tank swapping has become a plague to people who don't wanna deal with mechanics. I've experienced the same thing with A5 when I get concussion and the other tank won't voke, and A8 its the same situation with perpetual ray. Its pretty much the entirety of midas you could be in this situation. Can A5/7/8 be handled without a swap? sure, but most healers worth their weight would rather not deal with big spikes like that, especially if they're trying to dps.

It just seems like such a simple thing to do and there's such an aversion to doing it :/

[alimdia]

This seems to be a thing in general since I've come back after 3.2. I usually swap regardless even if people think they don't need to. Its like the act of tank swapping has become a plague to people who don't wanna deal with mechanics. I've experienced the same thing with A5 when I get concussion and the other tank won't voke, and A8 its the same situation with perpetual ray. Its pretty much the entirety of midas you could be in this situation. Can A5/7/8 be handled without a swap? sure, but most healers worth their weight would rather not deal with big spikes like that, especially if they're trying to dps.

It just seems like such a simple thing to do and there's such an aversion to doing it :/

Not just tank swaps. Its everything.
Tanks: not using CDs, not swapping
Healers: not dpsing but still people are dying (and also never use their special skills like assize indom..)
Dps: lvl 50 tier dps

So I suggest you just do midas norm for the easy pieces (accs, gloves, hat, shoes, belt) and get crafted or lore chest and pants, depending on whats better/budget.
The sooner you stop doing midas norm the more sane you will be.

[autumn]

I was informed the other day after tank swapping in A8 that I was an idiot and its 'normal' not to now and has been for months. Well aside from the fact I've only started doing it two weeks ago so have been learning from other tanks, most of which have tank swapped happily, the real irony was the final swap before phase 2 I opted to leave him to it rather than face another grilling which left him dead on the floor so I had to go into the second phase tanking both robots >.< nice one.

Now I just make sure i MT it so if they want to swap they can initiate it which I'm totally happy for them to do, if not I'll go heavy on the CDs and keep my fingers crossed the healers are ready.

Ultimately if someone has an expectation outside of the designed mechanics I wish they'd just say before hand -.-

[Lmcgyver]

This seems to be a thing in general since I've come back after 3.2. I usually swap regardless even if people think they don't need to. Its like the act of tank swapping has become a plague to people who don't wanna deal with mechanics. I've experienced the same thing with A5 when I get concussion and the other tank won't voke, and A8 its the same situation with perpetual ray. Its pretty much the entirety of midas you could be in this situation. Can A5/7/8 be handled without a swap? sure, but most healers worth their weight would rather not deal with big spikes like that, especially if they're trying to dps.

It just seems like such a simple thing to do and there's such an aversion to doing it :/

Personally, I've never really felt the need for a swap in A7 (with proper cooldown use, a PLD - or, at least, my PLD - barely notices the damage). A8 I've grown accustomed to tanks not swapping (having been doing it that way for well over a month), and as of a week ago, I've finally managed to figure out how to survive the A5 tankbuster if the OT doesn't care to take it (this has started happening to me more and more recently P: ). This is the first time I've ever seen anyone not swap in A6 though, and having been through up to 5 stacks as a PLD after the OT died to Single Buster or Ultra Flash and doing everything in my power to survive it, I don't really think that's possible without a SCH getting really lucky with a critlo before each stack; a tank only has so many cooldowns they can pop, and the rate of the tankbusters in A6 burns them up remarkably quickly.