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

[HyoMinPark]

"I don't know why you bother to wear that crown, Selli. You didn't explain anything or even say hi. People like you are the reason why everyone hates Mentors and I hope someone knocks you off your little high horse and shows you some humility one day." As much as I wanted to tell this guy to go f*ck himself with a cactus, I was much too drained to put up with it. So I simply typed up a "sorry" and left.

And this is exactly why I refuse to be a mentor. That, and because most of the ones I have met are utter garbage. I've met maybe 2 or 3 nice ones. I would have just told them to go f*ck a cactus and wouldn't have even cared because I have little to no patience with jerks in this game. I'm sorry you meet so many jerks in this game.

I do hope your kitty is doing better. :<

[Wadoka]

These crossclass skills...

Okay, I died laughing. Raise please!

[Selli]

Whoops. I have been distracted and haven't read this thread since yesterday morning. Sorry y'all!

Aw, poor kitty. Good to hear she seems to be feeling better. Animals have a knack for weird accidents.. one of mine once managed to get her dewclaw stuck in her eyelid while taking a nap.. (no harm done, scared the hell out of me)

Oh god, that sounds horrifying. o.o" I trim the cat's claws now that she's older since she doesn't scratch her post as often (I think it hurts her back a bit). She did once cut her ear with her back claw while scratching, but it was super minor. I don't think it bled for more than a couple seconds.

The most horrific accident we've ever had to deal with was 15 years ago when Tanya (that's the name of the old kitty) tried to jump from my mother's bed to the window sill, and my mom had just bought a new bed frame and was in the process of putting the new one together, so the mattress was just sitting on the floor making the bed suddenly about 5 inches shorter. Tanya didn't realize this, and took a running jump off the bed, and smacked face first into the wall. From the sound she made we thought she'd turned herself into a Persian and flattened her nose, LOL.

Anyone else think we need to find Selli and buy her a round or two or ten of her favorite alcoholic beverage?

As much as I would love a nice big glass of wine some days, I actually have a pretty severe liver and kidney condition. So no drinking anything but water for me. ^.^"

I appreciate it though, thank you. <3

And this is exactly why I refuse to be a mentor. That, and because most of the ones I have met are utter garbage. I've met maybe 2 or 3 nice ones. I would have just told them to go f*ck a cactus and wouldn't have even cared because I have little to no patience with jerks in this game. I'm sorry you meet so many jerks in this game.

I do hope your kitty is doing better. :<

I don't mind being a mentor usually. I helping and teaching, so I find it really enjoyable. ^.^ And I probably would have told him that, had I been in a more confrontational mood (or been PvPing, lol), but I just... didn't want to deal with it, so I left... and I apologized out of habit, LOL. I'm such a Canadian stereotype. I think part of my bad luck might be because I use the forums a lot, so I think I might run into people who read the forums (not necessarily actually post) and decide they don't like me. But I guess it could be worse, as long as they don't start showing up on my doorstep or something.

And the kitty is doing very good today. She's acting like her usual self (except a little bit more clingy than usual, but that's okay with me!). I think she might also have a bit of a sore throat since I noticed she wasn't touching the meat chunks in her food (she eats a wet food-only diet), but mashing everything into a purée seems to have fixed that.

[HyoMinPark]

snips snips

Maybe it's the forum thing, but, I mean, venting helps relieve frustrations and if people can't handle that they are actually doing more derping in DF than actually helping... :P I usually don't get confrontational in DF, but lately I haven't been able to stop calling people out.

And with the mentor thing, I'd like to, but I want to learn more about the jobs first. :P I don't think I'd mind it either if people would listen to advice/mechanics. I've had to help many people through some of the level 50 dungeons (poetics farming for relic yay) and they just blatantly refuses to listen to the advice/mechanics so I get fed up. :P

But I'm glad your kitty is better! When my kitties are sick it gets me really down too. They're essentially my babies. :3

[Mysterysword]

Bismarck normal trial as BLM. I want an emoticon that illustrates how much I want to cry at it.

First off, I was dumb throughout the fight. Too used to executing a full lvl. 60 rotation, I went through my opening rotation, and tried to spam Fire IV, forgetting that I was synced to 58 and so didn't have Fire IV. But I managed to fix the problem and switched to using Fire/Fire III procs after a few seconds of standing there like an idiot. I was scrambling the whole fight, trying to avoid stupid AoEs everywhere, especially the ones that throw me around like a ragdoll.

But none of this was as annoying as the new BRD. I asked them specifically to sing Foe's Requiem. Considering that there were 2 BLMs in the party, it shouldn't even have to be asked. Instead, not only does their MP sit at full until the first wipe, they're not even using Wanderer's.

So yeah. We wipe because we couldn't kill the adds fast enough. I think I asked again for them to sing Foe's during the fight.

Instead? They sing Mage's Ballad. It isn't until one of the healers or tanks point out that nobody needs Mage's, and tells them to sing Foe's that they finally start singing it. So there's 2 BLMs in a party, one of the BLMs asks for Foe's twice and gets ignored, because obviously a DPS's opinion is worth absolutely nothing.

And in the end, I had to use LB on the adds in Phase 2 because we couldn't kill them fast enough. None of that infuriates me as much as this attitude that DPS don't matter. I don't care if the BRD doesn't use Wanderer's Minuet. It's a recent skill; maybe they're not used to the new playstyle. But Foe's Requiem is a friggin' level 35 skill, and I don't understand how someone can not know how to use it at level 57.

[SaitoHikari]

And in the end, I had to use LB on the adds in Phase 2 because we couldn't kill them fast enough. None of that infuriates me as much as this attitude that DPS don't matter. I don't care if the BRD doesn't use Wanderer's Minuet. It's a recent skill; maybe they're not used to the new playstyle. But Foe's Requiem is a friggin' level 35 skill, and I don't understand how someone can not know how to use it at level 57.

Correction: level 45.

But yeah, the devs should really redesign the Lv. 45 Bard quest to drill into the heads of every new Bard to go sing Foe for your freaking mages. I mean, one could argue that the Bard instructor failed in his mission years ago because he went off by himself and DIDN'T SUPPORT HIS PARTY.

[Fluestergras]

Correction: level 45.

But yeah, the devs should really redesign the Lv. 45 Bard quest to drill into the heads of every new Bard to go sing Foe for your freaking mages. I mean, one could argue that the Bard instructor failed in his mission years ago because he went off by himself and DIDN'T SUPPORT HIS PARTY.

Correcting the correction: it is level 35. The level 45 skill is Rain Death.

[AlwaysGuilty]

So, I queue for trials roulette and get The Steps of Faith, usual hellos etc. And then I realise I'm the only one healing. The other WHM was in cleric mode the whole time and only healed a tiny bit. I didn't say anything, but I could tell the tanks were annoyed. Bard and DRG die, I raise them with swiftcast, and then a few mins later, half the party dies, including myself. No raise? It was urgent and the dude didn't even bother to raise the tank. I just finished and left, got 3 comms.

Why do I have such bad luck? I'd rather have friends to do dungeons/trials with :c

[ChandraNoctis]

You shouldn't be raising anyone in The Steps of Faith (except maybe the tank if both die) - better to have them run back and not end up with weakness.

[Vele]

No raise?

Because it's Steps of Faith and you can release and run back. You should be doing that instead, as you won't have Weakness from being raised.

I've been restraining myself from posting here 'cause getting bad people in DF is standard for me (in my expert today I doubled the dps of the bard through the entire run... as a scholar). But my leveling roulette today on my alt's blm... oh boy.

I could tell this tank was "special":


At the second boss:

They were pretty terrible actually, they either lost hate to me or the whm, or didn't even tag mobs at all so they'd go to me or the whm. Might've been a blessing though, as extra Unmends also meant extra Darkness Pew-pew!!s.

Here's a sample of what I had to endure the entire dungeon: