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

[TankHunter678]

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.

Not level 52 yet on my MCH, and the mentioned dungeon is level 50 content so I only mentioned skills one would have at level 50 including cross class skills. Blood for Blood (+10% damage) and Raging Strikes (+20% damage) combined is a 30% damage boost.

Now if I had Gauss Barrel it would be a 60% damage boost.

I prefer Grenado shot over Spread Shot if I am working with another hard hitting AoE class and aim to do as much burst damage as possible. Spread Shot is definitely better if going to have to deal with a large pack of durable enemies for better sustain.

[Acantha]

Ended up in my first real 50+ trial last night as a healer... first King Mog then Ravana. My swift rez macro seemed to mess up on King Mog so didn't do too well on that one, but overpowered DPS, good tanks and the other healer got us through it at least!? >.< was a bit embarrassed. Then Ravana I think I did a little better, only one person died that we could rez, the others were dead due to falling off so not going to count that as a failure on my part. Stressful though!

Then had usual quick Praetorium for MSQ roulette, managed to fall through the elevator though...!?

[Reila_Circus]

I did Wiping City earlier this week and had no problems. Other than my Alliance wiping to Ozma's Meteors (most where not that bright) it went smoothly. Also I won the minion with a 99 roll. I felt proud c:

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.

To be fair, if I saw that Ozzy Osbourne was healing me in a dunjin, I'd probably give him a comm too.

[Mysterysword]

I had the most special run of Castrum Meridianum ever yesterday. Featuring, in no particular order:

- A WHM who regularly went AFK and left the other WHM to heal, then let said other WHM die, refused to ress him, and got praised for "good healing".
- A DRG, who didn't know how to get off the cannons, and who never once used Heavy Thrust, to my knowledge.
- A BLM who started out seemingly fine, then mysteriously devolved into using Fire II on bosses and then started Umbral maging.
- A newbie SMN, who never once used a single DoT.

I was the MCH. At the first set of cannons, I was the only person in the party using one. At the second set, the DRG got locked out of the boss fight because they didn't know how to get off the cannons. At the very final boss, I decided to see what would happen if I just spammed Hot Shot over and over, no buffs.

I ended up in the #3 spot for aggro. Every time DF gives me the tiniest bit of hope with a good party, it then tears that hope down with parties like these.

[Alestorm]

Ran the gates of judgement for the MSQ a good while ago and I was doing solid, mistimed 1 sneak attack got caught in an ability and ALMOST died, off tank start complaining about "idiot ninja in front of the boos" using one of my stronger attacks for a split second. Also used the level 3 limit break (which saved the entire run from certain failure) same tank called me and idiot since it was HIS lb.... some people... >.>

The ending was cinematic as hell, he was gearing up his last breath and he goes down at the last second.

[Slirith]

Got asked in Sunken Temple why I wasn't interrupting Final Sting..as a bard that doesn't get their interrupt until level 42. They didn't believe me o.0

[ArikDimas]

stuff about mch aoe

Personally, it may cause me to lose a bit of damage, but when I'm using aoe in a dungeon, I'll promote rook to help keep my tp up so I can aoe longer, and hypercharge it if there is one more trash pull before the boss. Though this also tends to lead to one of my biggest grievances in dungeons, physical dps do not seem to know that they have good aoe they can use. In my 60 roulette today i got ARF and the tank wanted to make things quick so he would pull till he hit a wall each time so we had a minimum of 5 enemies per pull until the part between the 2nd and 3rd boss, the ninja would put down doton, and use none of his other aoe abilities, although at least he would goad me. In 50 roulette today I had another mch who put down bishop, but wouldnt aoe except for one large trash pull.

[Selli]

This actually happened to me yesterday.

I queued up for Mentor Roulette and I got Odin. Both our tanks were new, but I know tanking in Odin isn't too bad so I wasn't worried. I explained to them about the big AoE and the tank buster. None of the DPS said they were new and the WHM was a well-geared level 60 and I was on my SCH. So I was feeling really confident. To make the WHM's life easier, I summon Selene to Esuna the bleed 'cause I know double bleed really sucks.

The fight starts up and the MT isn't popping CDs. I'm burning through Lustrates on him like crazy 'cause even though my shield he's getting down to <50% HP. Selene Esuna's the bleed and all looks like it's gonna be okay. Then the second bleed comes out and I Succor... and Succor... and Succor... and then the tank dies... and I have no MP. The WHM is sitting at 100% HP casting Cure I on themselves.

We wipe. I tell the tank to pop CDs during the bleed phase, the other tank purposes tank swapping. We go again. So the OT is provoking mid-cast after I Adlo the MT and then getting 1shot. I look at his gear. FULL STR ACCESSORIES. He has less HP than most of the DPS. Considering he's mostly i100, I assume he's a suuuuper old player and doesn't have the Poe to get i130 Fending stuff, hence why he's in Odin for the first time. I ask him to wait until the other tank takes the hit before voking because I'm getting my shield on him because he has aggro.

Tank swapping is going alright, maybe we can do this. And then we get to the bleed phase again. Selene Esuna's once more and I succor and everything is dandy until the 2nd bleed comes out. I'm standing in the middle of the room, spamming my only AoE heal, watching this WHM Cure I themselves and occasionally the MT and not throwing out a single Medica or Medica II or Regen. We can't even clear the phase because I can't keep all the DPS or the MT up and we wipe... again.

I ask the WHM to AoE heal in the bleed phase and pop out Eos, hoping it would help. Even though Eos is helping me barely keep people alive through the first bleed, as soon as the 2nd one comes out I cannot handle solo AoE healing and everyone dies again.

We've been in this run for nearly an hour at this point, wiped at least 7 or 8 times. We're not getting past bleeds at all. Someone leaves, so I follow suit. I uncheck in-prog queue and requeue for Mentor Roulette right away... I get the same 2 tanks, same co-healer, and the same 3 DPS (aside from the one who left). I didn't even wait for everyone to finish loading in, I just left.

[EDIT] AND THEN. 30 minutes of GS events later, I re-queue (not in-prog) for Mentor Roulette AND I GET THE SAME PARTY. I eat another 30 minute penalty and decide to go PvP. >.<

[Ersilon]

Reading through this thread has been a major source of entertainment for the last couple of weeks at work. Yes, it seriously took that long. Totally worth it for the knowledge tidbits as well! So, thanks, all, for making it entertaining and enlightening.

A few months back, I was screwing around on an alt character and got to Tam Tara. I'm on LNC, with an ARC, CNJ, and GLD in party. All four are sprout characters, likely the archer and conjurer are alts as well. The gladiator never said a word, never used flash, and never shifted targets until his was dead. The archer tried a couple of times to get him to use flash, but that seemed to fall on deaf ears. Naturally, other mobs would then start beating on the healer because of heals. The archer and I would break off and try to pull mobs off the healer. It was a rough dungeon. Healer got my comm, and I got someone's, so I must have done something right.

Last night, did leveling roulette as my SCH with the wife's SMN and got paired with a MCH and a sprout GLD in Tam Tara. I swear, I thought she was an alt character until she said she was new. Lost aggro twice, total, once to my early heals or Eos getting too much enmity on one of the summoned demon things, and once to my wife's carby beating on one of the imps. Considering the limited toolset of gladiator at that level, she did really well, marking targets and keeping hate. Shoutout to that MCH from Balmung for being awesome and letting the newbie tank control the pace to her comfort, I thought you two were premade until I looked you both up!

[Ronove]

I ask the WHM to AoE heal in the bleed phase and pop out Eos, hoping it would help. Even though Eos is helping me barely keep people alive through the first bleed, as soon as the 2nd one comes out I cannot handle solo AoE healing and everyone dies again.
>.<

I have been in Odin with healers that just stand there doing absolutely nothing. One time I told the healer to help me heal and they did one cure, went back to doing nothing. So I decided not to do anything as well. The tank died from the tank buster and I was like maybe if I had help healing! And then they left. Guess they didn't want to be carried...