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

[Venoshock]

Okay... honestly I don't know where these DRKs are coming from but lately every time I run EX roulette and get a DRK as a tank they dont use Darkside at ALL and to top it all off use no CDs.

Oh my goodness, I have noticed this alot too. Especially when i was grinding out my last tank mount, coming across numerous DRKs with no darkside.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I'm a paladin and my husband plays a white mage. Guess who gets all the comms.



Not the cute catboy, no. The elezen with the grumpy old man face gets the comms, cause he makes the heals.

It's Ozzy!

[Jib]

I'm a paladin and my husband plays a white mage. Guess who gets all the comms.



Not the cute catboy, no. The elezen with the grumpy old man face gets the comms, cause he makes the heals.

Yep totally agree. At the moment if you want to get comms ... just do Nidhogg as WHM ..

[Selli]

Ah that's cute xD

BF and I do most DF stuff together too and often I'll get a comm or a lot of them lol and sometimes he gets none. Every time that happens he's like "that's it! I'm gonna fantasia to a female character."

He thinks I get them cause I am female lol I keep telling him its just because healers seem to get a lot of comms. He just doesn't believe me! lol

My boyfriend plays a female character and I think his character is much better than looking than mine (I suppose mine is more "cute", but his is definitely more unique).

The funny thing is, whenever we do dungeon content, he generally gets most of the commendations. It's usually 8-man party content where I seem to get more love than him.

[Yawnie]

Oh my goodness, I have noticed this alot too. Especially when i was grinding out my last tank mount, coming across numerous DRKs with no darkside.

I'm gonna chalk it up to some of the returning players that come after a new patch is released :x

[Malicewolf]

The funny thing is, whenever we do dungeon content, he generally gets most of the commendations. It's usually 8-man party content where I seem to get more love than him.

It's very hard to tell what everyone's contributions really were to the group. Especially as they get bigger xD I find myself very often on a chat with friends going "so uh, who do you think did well?" Unless someone does something obviously outstanding (and sometimes that doesn't even get attention), people pretty much go, "oh hey, that person's name looks nice" or "oh hey, that's a pretty character" ._.

So now story time. Did WCoM yesterday... twice. Healed for both. First time went great, no wipes and my party specifically contained 3 new to the dungeon (which included our tank and other healer). Even better, we were just doing awesome (even though I was doing a horrid job explaining mechanics in the voice chat... I'd be like... "oh yea, watch out for ___" while it was happening...).

However, after finishing up, two of us didn't get any drops, so we queued up again... without repairing our gear... whoops. Went into the raid with less than 50% on all my gear... and of course, I die on the first trash mob due to an AoE in the cluster of holy's that were being set off. Unfortunately, we wiped a few times as well... which means my gear is just doing dandy at this point xD. We get to ozma and 2/3 of the way through, all my healing accessories break... and since we're still fighting, I can't switch them T_T I was spamming out the heals like crazy (which even without any accessories, was still getting medica II for 2000... it coulda been worse. Now the really bad part... I had no replacement accessories for healer... Nothin. I apologized to my party and was preparing to leave, but they asked me to stay and just switch to any other accessory; that it'd be fine. So, the only other accessories I had were... my tank ones... Next thing you know, I got a 20k hp WHM. Good news... I survived every mechanic I failed to avoid because of my massive hp pool and I still healed like a boss (just maybe a bit more medica spammy than I usually am). At the end while we were waiting for the loot rolls to finish, one of my party members said, "you bring a whole new meaning to heal tanking".

[Zefiris]

Generally I pay attention to choose who will give commendation when finishing dungeon.

Yesterday was easy choice.Roulette leveling gave me The Vault. Tank doing big pull and bard without using Wanderer's Minuet. Then I gave commendation for melee dps.

[Eloah]

So i'll share this wonderful experience that just happened to me.

So I've been doing a lot of my roulettes as a tank to try and get some bonus gil. And I queue for my Trial, it pops in progress, and no surprise it's Niddy. But as luck would have it I was the only missing party member. We had a warrior and i figured they would want to OT, with me MTing; I'm a DRK. But they wanted to, no biggie. So the fight starts and i point out he has no stance on, and 2 DPS die, not a big deal right? Well he says that it was his bad and we should wipe. and evey one is saying, "no, there is no reason to wipe". Well we wipe cause at that point he's not tanking. We try again and because of bad placement we wipe again, fun? Some people leave and some get in. I step up and say I will MT now and that everyone needs to focus, we trust the healers (that will come back to bite me in the ass). So I am MTing all is going great until the Add phase where neither healer is healing, kinda. well we wipe again, and one healer blames the other for not healing while they were DPSing. I point out that Niddy is a Heal intensive fight and you must trust your co-healer but don't rely on them, ie if you see them low on MP switch to help heal. Well that didn't happen. the last run we did was going okay, but that same healer just wanted to DPS, and told the other healer they better use Assize or Shroud to recover MP. and on top of that in the middle of the fight the OT tank switched stances and wanted to MT. And when I asked why they switched, they said I died, I didn't die. My PS4 even has the video recorded. Needless to say they abandoned. But OMG why does no one listen. I know the, Hard Mode, fight from both a Healer and Tank roles, but neither wanted to listen. Shout out to the one healer who was doing their job though. You Rocked!

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I'm a paladin and my husband plays a white mage. Guess who gets all the comms.



Not the cute catboy, no. The elezen with the grumpy old man face gets the comms, cause he makes the heals.

See... if I saw your shirtless sexy catboy in my party you'd automatically get the com just cause you're shirtless and sexy and a catboy :P

[Mysterysword]

One thing I have learned is that if MCH wants to they can turn themselves into a pack melting rapid fire howitzer by using Reload, Rapid Fire, Hawk's Eye, Raging Strikes, Blood for Blood, Bishop Autoturret, Grenado Shot, and Quick Reload.

That is 6 shots of 140 potency AoEs with +30% damage, +16% attack power, supported by the extra 60 potency attacks every 2-3 seconds. If you got 2 MCH doing that most mob packs will be utterly melted into slag.

Yeah, remove Gauss Barrel, replace Grenado Shot with the... other AoE skill I can't recall ATM, and that's what I do for big pulls as a MCH. I try to keep up sustainable AoE damage, hence using the other skill because it uses less TP, even if it has less potency, and I pair all this with Invigorate.