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

[ArikDimas]

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I know early on in A8 people would tank swap Perpetual Ray because of the magic vuln debuff it would apply, but even back then some people choose not to sometimes.

[SaitoHikari]

Did Trial Roulette, got a newbie White Mage. :3

I proceeded to explain the fight the simplest way I can. And then I misjudged where I should be standing and proceeded to get hit by Prelude to Slaughter during the second half of the fight, simultaneously somehow being at the perfect distance to get knocked off the platform into the abyss of shame.

I want to go cry in a corner now.

[Yudzster]

"Wanted a quick trial before bed, just gotta get dem esos yo"

Queued as a tank and cuz of the priviledge it gives, it pops instantly

"Children of the light, do you hear-"

As soon as i loaded in i was the only one left as people leaving instantly.



In some way i got my wish for a quick trial tho.. and went to bed

[revonine]

On weeping City and AOE's.
It's just amazing that people just don't bother dodging AOE's and then when it comes to Forgall the only AoE your required to not dodge they actually dodge it and die to every single Megadeath. It boggles my mind xD

[Aosha]

This probably covers quite few experiences others and I have had.
*People queuing while enabling a language they do not speak at all, and not knowing strategies.*
Yes, I understand that you'd want the quicker queue you get that way, but if you do, please make sure you need NO instruction in any instance you might end up that way (or be prepared for terrible playing you can do nothing about, if you are the more skilled player doing this, and deal with the consequences of your queue choice).
Autotranslate only gets us so far.

[Mysterysword]

3 times this week alone, I have run into ROGs and NINs who fail to put on a poison at the start of a dungeon. 2 of them put on a poison after being reminded to, halfway through.

Of those 3, 2 were NINs, who also never used Huton.

That lovely feeling when you see 2 NINs, 1 using poison and Huton and generally doing everything a NIN should be doing, while the other uses neither, spams Raiton whenever it comes up (in level 50 content, great), and eventually dies.

The worst part was the bloody AST using cards on the NIN who was basically being dead weight. Like, what? There is a nice BLM and NIN over here who are actually doing their jobs and could use that Arrow and Balance you just wasted, hello?

[TaranTatsuuchi]

3 times this week alone, I have run into ROGs and NINs who fail to put on a poison at the start of a dungeon. 2 of them put on a poison after being reminded to, halfway through.

Of those 3, 2 were NINs, who also never used Huton.

That lovely feeling when you see 2 NINs, 1 using poison and Huton and generally doing everything a NIN should be doing, while the other uses neither, spams Raiton whenever it comes up (in level 50 content, great), and eventually dies.

The worst part was the bloody AST using cards on the NIN who was basically being dead weight. Like, what? There is a nice BLM and NIN over here who are actually doing their jobs and could use that Arrow and Balance you just wasted, hello?

There was one time in DD I got in a group with two ninjas, they both used poison thankfully.

One was synched down, the other was only 44.
I tended to give arrows to the 44... Kind of a preview of what huton would be like.

[Erim-Nelhah]

I know early on in A8 people would tank swap Perpetual Ray because of the magic vuln debuff it would apply, but even back then some people choose not to sometimes.

I know people who still did it even in 3.3 because of he way that buster works. Basically, it's not the greatest idea to rely on at least one DF healer paying attention to when this mechanic is going off.

--Erim Nelhah

[RLofOBFL]

Queued for Trial, got Shiva, WAR entered Defiance, so I did Sword Oath, stand around for 30 seconds, WAR pulls, I steal aggro almost instantly, I stand there expecting them to take it back...never happens so I stay in SwO go into MT position & keep aggro the entire fight in Sword Oath. I even stopped attacking Shiva to get all four adds...They started spamming overpower near the end...



They were a mentor with title "mentor" ._.

[Crysten]

I got my first terribad Palace of the Dead run today!

Floors 41-50. Two tanks, two DPS. WAR puts himself on follow on me. Long floor is long. We end up clearing the floor with 2 upgrade chests but then question the obvious afk.

We zone up. He then starts piping up. "wipe plz" spams the chat log like a bad smell. Turns out he doesn't want to party with the other tank for being level 56 on entry. That makes him a speed puller. He then proceeds to grab the whole floor and we inevitably wipe.

You know what I'd do if I didn't want to party with someone and skip a run? Wipe us deliberately at floor 41 instead of whining 10-15 minutes in. Would've saved us all some trouble!

At least he didn't bail at Edda I guess.