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

[DamianFatale]

when I tried to explain to her* I can't edit on mobile. e.e

[AlphaFox]

Also, why would you run ARF multiple times when it gives such crappy rewards? Even the eso boost still isn't worth it. Not saying the dungeon is hard--just really long. :/

I dunno, 150 for roughly 20mins (for my groups the past few days) sounds like a good deal to me.

[AskaRay]

Friends and I hop into Sohr Khai for a fun run for some esos. I was healing and they were the deeps.
Tank was great, A+.
Dungeon took like < 20 min. He gave me the comm, I felt happy

[Neophyte]

More head-desk.
Also, why would you run ARF multiple times when it gives such crappy rewards? Even the eso boost still isn't worth it. Not saying the dungeon is hard--just really long. :/

You can do it with 3 buddys and a pug or 4 buddys in 15:45-17 minutes. Mage LB is best used after 2nd boss (getting full at 3/4 of that boss fight) in the elevator.

Though I had a bad experience, too, though it was a pf 'ARF farm'... 27 minutes, lol.

[Fluestergras]

Leveling roulette on BLM for Esos yesterday :3 Get a "1 minute in progress" dungeon, think of some low level stuff another DPS just didn't want to deal with. Whatever, I join and immediately get terrified by a Manor Maidservant that got pulled from their original spot to the entrance of Haukke Manor. After the mob is dead, the WHM writes "LOL" and leaves - I look up the other party members and notice a sprout level 37 marauder as our tank. I say my hello and ask her in party chat if she knows how to unlock warrior, she answers in Novice Network (nice coincidence here we're on the same server) that she doesn't and that she's new. So I explain in NN what the warrior actually is and how to become one, while two other mentors explain the advantages of being a warrior rather than marauder. Meanwhile an AST joins, and after I advice her to unlock the gladiator after the dungeon, we go to smash the dungeon with me using Quelling whenever it's up and switching targets - with the latter just neccessary every now and then as the tank does actually very well for being a marauder tanking against a well-geared level 60 BLM. In the end, she has only minor aggro issues, and after the dungeon, I ask her if she knows where the gladiator's guild is (as a frequently asked question in NN is "where's XYZ's guild?"). She does, I give her my comm, I get one back, everything's cool.

Today I looked her up on Lodestone, her gladiator is level 12 now. Feels so good when people actually listen to advice and take it

[Skinypupy]

I just wanted to say thanks to the fantastic Weeping City DF group I joined last night. It was my first time through, and they took the time to explain everything, and were very supportive when I faceplanted a couple times learning the mechanics. We actually made it through the entire thing with no wipes, which I understand is a pretty rare occurance.

It's good to be reminded that there are still lots of friendly, helpful, and patient players out there, and the world isn't entirely filled with jerks.

[Malicewolf]

Did Void Ark run yesterday. As per usual, everyone was rushing through things. Which that in itself isn't a problem at all. However, when we got to the add chamber between boss 1 and 2, it caused some issues. Apparently alliance C had some new players. For some reason or another, they decided to explain mechanics of the upcoming section, while still in the 1st boss's room... So someone pulled when they saw no more dots on the map on their way. Apparently, amongst those not present, alliance C's tank was one of them... To top it off, alliance B decided they wanted my adds... (I was alliance A) and grabbed and ran away with them ._. Then I see Alliance C's adds wailing away at my healer... so I picked them up... And my alliance proceed's to kill alliance C's adds, alliance B has killed their adds (and apparently decided the adds they ran away with that were supposed to be mine weren't worth killing). So we have a very very messed up looking system going and it was complete and utter chaos. Luckily, no wipe, it was just.... interesting. Oddly enough, after we kill Alliance B and C malboro, we noticed that no one bothered to kill the last worm add... It was full fricking health sitting there hitting one of the healers (who apparently liked the light tappings of a small worm as they did nothing to stop it). So pretty much the whole raid flocked over to kill it. And because none of us were thinking about the fact that alliance B dragged it across the map, we kill it and see the malboro pop up on the other side of the area T_T
So now we're all running around to the otherside and Mr. Malboro is all like, oh hey! You're all here to smell my breathe in one big group! I'm telling you. Frickin mess!!

After that, the ready check function was used quite often...

[FunkYeahDragons]

The only people who wonder why there's a tank shortage are those who've never played tanks. Every single run today, people running off and pulling mobs on their own. Not even bigger pulls, just 2-3 mobs that they hold away from me. I'm not even one of those tanks who has TP/MP problems and needs to stop between pulls.

If you want a full clear or an accessory in a room I skipped, ask. Otherwise shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down. :|

Hope they're enjoying their wait for a replacement, I'm watching Netflix until my penalty is up and then I'm using my LSes and FCs to fill a party for leveling tonight. God save us from DF.

EDIT: OH I ALMOST FORGOT. "Big pulls, wait until I stop" in DD and the DRG blows his load on the first mob he sees, every time.

[Mysterysword]

I should just... stop tanking. Not because I am a bad tank, not because I am incapable of keeping aggro, but because, for some reason, the last 2 times I've gone into Leveling roulette as PLD, I've somehow ended up with some spectacular gems of DF parties.

The latest of which was a Stone Vigil run, involving an AST, a BRD, and a BLM that took 50 minutes to complete. Only the BRD died, we never wiped, and I deliberately skipped all the side rooms. 50 minutes for this. BLM was level 55, yet spamming Fire III in Astral Fire III, using Transpose instead of Blizzard/Fire III, hardcast Thunder while under AF III, and only ever used Raging Strikes at the last boss. BRD refused to sing Foe's until I specifically told them to at the last boss, wasn't even using Straight Shot unless Heavy Shot procced, hardly ever used their cooldowns, hardly ever used Bloodletter that I could see, and when asked to step up the DPS, claimed they were "doing my best".

I'm still thinking the BLM was trolling me. I really don't know why I put in effort for people like these...

[DisFlavored]

I find the more I play, the saltier I get... Got Snowcloak for lvl 50 rltte and I wanted to throttle the tank for not pulling more. He pulled the very minimum, but I kept quiet because we had the newbie msg and I assumed it was him (forgetting shield oath confirmed it for me). Got to the end, the BLM was the new one .-.