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

[Atoli]

It takes a lot to make me uncomfortable as well. It's just these two were describing sexual acts in great detail. Not something meant for party chat y'know?
I'll admit I have RP'd with randoms in dungeons. It's fun as hell to. Just never ERP like those two were. It's best to keep that to tells or a LS.

Totally agree

[Acantha]

Had a disappointing run of the Library the other night, which is a shame 'cause I usually enjoy the majority of that dungeon (except Demon Wall/Book thing... ff7 flashbacks and anxiety :P). Anyway, we wiped on the Demon Wall first time, tank goes "what happened?" DRG goes "non-existent heals..." now, I was concentrating on my own stuff so I didn't really notice if the healer was being crap or not, but i'll put it this way, both me and the tank were fine until the DRG died, i'm guessing we wiped as the healer tried to rez when the book was closing... either way, as someone who's trying to level WHM and AST at the mo, that automatic "healer's fault." mentality puts me off the idea of doing any 50+ dungeons as a healer... anyway, we beat it then carried on ok. 2nd boss went absolutely fine, made sure to run into the clouds so the tank could drag the ball through the middle etc. But then as we're running to the last one, someone aggro'd one of those big "Lobos" (iron gianty) things, I saw it heading straight for the healer and thought, better that it hits me than them and started attacking it and ran to the tank. Once they're all down tank tells me to "seriously stop pulling things." I just... like... what? I'd understand if I was pulling hate left right and centre but once? Don't get angry with me for one mistake?! So just typed "sorry, accident" and ran on :/
So, nothing hugely bad, but after a good coupla runs it ruined my good mood *shakes fist*

[Acantha]

I feel your pain. Leveling WHM on my alt, I got a tank that faced the boss directly at me... twice in Stone Vigil. First being when the dragon jumps up. He ran over to sat right next to me, which meant I got slammed on. Now I'd be more forgiving if he had caused four wipes already. Just grudgingly tried to heal through everything but took another cleave when he turned the boss into me. ;-;

That sounds so familiar, I think I might've had the same tank when I was levelling WHM on Stone Vigil! It was really stressful, chucking regens on everyone, more medica than ever before and swiftcasting resurrection like it was going out of style. Luckily on my run we didn't wipe, but no idea how tbh :| i'm definitely not that good lol :P

[Pells]

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Im still new to ARC, scholar is my first but is there a reason to put carbuncle going ACN instead of ifrit being summoner? Or it really doesnt matter at early dungeons?
Anyway the dungeon was fine, nothing much to report, the player did do all mechanics well... i just found the situation "odd" and wondered if there was a reason behind this.

Ifrit is a melee pet. Garuda (and blue carbuncle) are ranged. It makes a difference if there are multiple targets, since Ifrit will waste time running back and forth between them. So you'll generally want ranged on all the trash pulls, then bring out Ifrit for the boss. Unless the boss has a lot of knockback or movement involved, of course.
Otherwise the egis have slightly better skills (and possibly stats) than the carbuncles, but it won't be a huge difference at low levels. Certainly not in that awkward gap where you have Ifrit but not Garuda.

[Seryne]

That was my tank in Aurum Vale. See anything wrong? No? Well let me just point out what's wrong there for ya then :3
He was wearing Mythrite Goggles of Crafting, an Archaeoskin Jackcoat of Crafting, Auri Armguards, a pair of Archaeoskin Breeches of Crafting, and Auri Sandals. He was at least wearing a tank belt and accessories. He was level 60 for the record. Just why do people do things like this?

[NaesakiAshwell]

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He didn't read the memo for glamour and didn't know it was a thing? :v

[Atoli]

He didn't read the memo for glamour and didn't know it was a thing? :v

Actual glamouring is way too limited :0
The really dedicated don't just glamour their fighting gear, they have several additional "style" sets too with just the glamour pieces directly equipped :3
Problem is...you might forget to switch upon entering a duty xD

(No that totally didn't happen to me on SCH in A6 the other day until I wondered during the trash pull why my heals were fitting my lvl 1 gear and lvl 30? weapon >.>)

[JakAlendi]

Had a sprout tank in Titan story mode while I was on my Monk. On the first attempt, he stands on the outside of the arena during a jump and falls off when the ground collapses. I told him not to stand on the red ring, and he was like "easier said than done," leaving me very confused. On the second attempt he spins Titan the entire fight, making it almost impossible for me to hit any positionals. It's only after we ended up killing Titan that I realized that he thought I meant not to stand in the red area of the target circle... so he was basically trying to get behind Titan the whole fight...

[Crescents]

Probably the worst df tank ever and that's saying something -- I roll dps for levelling roulette and of course get Aurum Vale which is always fun with PLD BRD and WHM we start and PLD refuses to go into a stance and only flash once per pull so obviously he loses threat like every two minutes and yells at me saying I'm obviously pushing too hard on single target trash pulls (...if that's even possible?) 3 wipes later he finally turns on *sword* oath and we reach the first boss.
He starts by eating 3 different morbol fruit before attacking the boss which he then doesn't eat any others and we wipe because he has a stack of 5 I guess he thought it builds up a resistance..?

Someone tries to vote abandon and after it's rejected the whm sits at the start point and refuses to move until someone else quits.

[Vidu]

Oh, Titan Storymode! That brings back memories from my lowlevel-roulette yesterday. I should say: My first attempt on it...

So, I'm on my MCN, get a DRK-tank, a sprout-scholar and another sprout-dps (monk, maybe?). The scholar is clearly new (we get message&he watches the cutscene... its a damn long one, thx, SE!). While I would normally explain, I figure its of no use because all three are french, have only french tacked and either greet in french or (nice scholar...) using the auto-translate. I dont speak french, so communication seems to be impossible. Yet I try to get the scholar to summon his fairy, using auto-translate. He doesnt, cant manage his mana either and we wipe. DRK tells him to summon the fairy, he actually does(!) and gets some more advice (I assume) from the DRK (all in french, so I can only guess). We go in again aaaaand the scholar eats the very first landslide and gets knocked off. We wipe. And... someone starts a votekick on the scholar. For obvious reasons (hes NEW for gods sake) I vote "no" and ask the other two what the hell they're thinking?! Not the same as I apparently, because the kick goes through, scholar is out and before I leave I inform them that thats vote kick abuse. C'mon - we ALL got knocked off by our first landslide, right? Right?
Thats the first and only time I've seen french people kicking another french person... and it wasnt even a totally terrible one...