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

[Erim-Nelhah]

Just got off my lazy bum to run the last dungeon I needed to unlock the Level 50 Roulette, Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard).

I go in on my Level 58 PLD (xp is xp) and once I load in I mention that I'm the bonus and while it's not my first time, it's been a long time since I was in there (it had). Party was WHM/BLM/BRD, so I go ahead with double pulls for some speed. Everything went well, bosses died fairly quickly, and then we get to Avere.

Fight's going well, we have him at 5%, and he goes into another add phase. No sweat, mop these up and we can kill him after, right? Nope. At least one of the DPS was tunneling on Avere at that point, and we wound up getting 4 runes. I pop Tank LB at the last second and hope it's not too late (no sense in letting a DPS have it at that point anyway). We get through with the dps at about 60%. Avere dies a few seconds later, someone comments on my smart use of the tank lb, and I walk away with 2 comms.

--Erim Nelhah

[Chiramu]

Fight's going well, we have him at 5%, and he goes into another add phase. No sweat, mop these up and we can kill him after, right? Nope. At least one of the DPS was tunneling on Avere at that point, and we wound up getting 4 runes. I pop Tank LB at the last second and hope it's not too late (no sense in letting a DPS have it at that point anyway). We get through with the dps at about 60%. Avere dies a few seconds later, someone comments on my smart use of the tank lb, and I walk away with 2 comms.

5% and fast DPS, you all should've stayed on the boss. You wasted LB on the tank version instead of telling the DPS to use their LB.

[Erim-Nelhah]

5% and fast DPS, you all should've stayed on the boss. You wasted LB on the tank version instead of telling the DPS to use their LB.

Somewhat true, that, but the DPS (and healer) weren't on the same page on whether to dps the boss or the adds. Had everyone stayed on Avere, he'd have probably died before the AoE, regardless of the DPS LB being used. They didn't, so he didn't, and I popped the LB to make sure we didn't lose anyone.

Also, I don't like trying to type while I'm actively tanking, and I don't have a macro for "LB Please".

--Erim Nelhah

[Chiramu]

Somewhat true, that, but the DPS (and healer) weren't on the same page on whether to dps the boss or the adds. Had everyone stayed on Avere, he'd have probably died before the AoE, regardless of the DPS LB being used. They didn't, so he didn't, and I popped the LB to make sure we didn't lose anyone.

Also, I don't like trying to type while I'm actively tanking, and I don't have a macro for "LB Please".

You can leave your chat window waiting if you have to move. "LB pls" isn't too slow to write.