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

[Hrimfaxi]

So going for Midas arm of son...
Fist wipe cus 4 people were in the 2nd cage. Instant wipe.
Okkkk.... 2nd try then. I am sure we can do it. Andddddd..... nope


Both tanks died to tethered bombs. Healers reviving everyone like crazy and the boss has double buffs from absorbing 2 hearts.
Complete wipe. *Cries in the corner*

[SpiritMuse]

This is only true for people playing with a mouse.

For us controller users we have to press select 3-4 times to bring the cursor to our status bar, press right X amount of times to point the cursor at the regen effect, then press confirm to remove it. Still doable but not nearly "1 click" anymore.

Just pointing this out so that people can be a little more mindful of people with alternate control setups.

Yeah, clicking off unwanted buffs is a pain on the controller. I had a particularly annoying regen-happy WHM once who completely refused to communicate on this and so I ended up pausing in the middle of the dungeon to write a short macro that would make it easier for me to turn off the statuses.

[Xlantaa]

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I am really fucking sick of tha shit of "watch a video" thing. Those never played a videogame in their life or what? Recuring guides instead of learning by his own and impossing to others... What a videogamers...

If they want see videos and guides it is their problem, but should impose that to others.

He doesn't deserve to be a mentor. Really needed a most better system to avoid this guys.

[Atoli]

I am really fucking sick of tha shit of "watch a video" thing. Those never played a videogame in their life or what? Recuring guides instead of learning by his own and impossing to others... What a videogamers...

Personally, I do watch guides before I enter content for the first time (unless it's on patch day, duh xD). I hate bothering others with having to explain EVERYTHING to me, especially in more complicated fights. I just wanna cause the other players the least amount of trouble possible. But I don't expect that from everyone else as well. The whole point of the Mentor role is to help those who are new. Be it through explaining if they haven't seen a guide or through patience when they fail to do something perfectly on the first try (despite reading a guide btw; it's not like one is suddenly doing perfect in his first encounter just because he saw a guide first ).
So it bothers me when Mentors have this "I just want to have the crown to look like a champion, not any of the actual WORK involved"-mentality.

[Lunaxia]

I am really fucking sick of tha shit of "watch a video" thing. Those never played a videogame in their life or what? Recuring guides instead of learning by his own and impossing to others... What a videogamers...

If they want see videos and guides it is their problem, but should impose that to others.

He doesn't deserve to be a mentor. Really needed a most better system to avoid this guys.

I agree with this to an extent, but if you walk into an EX fight without having consulted a guide at all, you're being nothing but a burden to the other players. You can't even argue "but story!" as EX fights are optional versions of the MSQ fights we've already seen.

[Acantha]

This just really annoyed me. Red = Archer (possible BRD, not sure) & blue = Tank. Ran into last boss in Brayflox and intentionally locked the BLM out who was watching a cutscene. After being locked out numerous times myself on the MSQ I hate to let it happen to other people, so i'm afraid I did purposefully lock myself out. But seriously, it was an extra 10 seconds? If that? Just wait! >.<
Also, no idea what they meant by "gear", I was casting stoneskin on everyone then topping up protect, which I like to do before the last boss...

[Esp]

I haven't posted my own story on here in a while, but I do read what those post here from time to time. And to see how things are from how they were from 2.0 when I started, it's really sad to see some of these people's attitudes, especially some of these mentors (I know it's not all of them, just the bad apples).

Granted Castrum and Prae were always the place you would see stuff like this, but for me it was rare to see all this behavior in leveling dungeons. Maybe it was because I was a tank a large majority of my time with FFXIV, but how did it end up like this..

It's quite a shame. Don't give up hope you DFer's. There are good folks out there still xD

[Fluestergras]

In today's expert roulette, I outdpsed an i225+ bard (with relic weapon and all that stuff) on my i209 white mage...

[vp_cmc]

In today's expert roulette, I outdpsed an i225+ bard (with relic weapon and all that stuff) on my i209 white mage...

He was dead?

[Fluestergras]

He was dead?

LOL no. In fact he was singing Foes all the time, even with Battle Voice, our BLM was happy (except for this one time I assized the first phase of the final boss to death while he was casting Blizz4 ) - but... Heavy Shot.
Dots? Can I eat them? Heavy Shot.
Straight Shot? Like I need a crit buff! Heavy Shot.
Sitewinder? Go away with this shit. Heavy Shot.

If anyone was dead during this run, it was my inner bard.