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

[Acantha]

To the Aerys stories, hell i like this dungeon as a healer.
It's the only and real dungeon that give you the impression that healing is a really interesting/difficult job. I mean there are a lot of mechanics on the whole run and hell yeah i wiped a lot during my leveling phase, but i prefer to wipe and learn from my mistakes and Aery is a real challenge when u're new to healing.

Like I said in my reply before, I totally agree with you, when you get an ok party :P It's definitely one of the first dungeons that really pushes you to use your full current skillset as a healer and feel like you're actually more than just an extra dps who occasionally chucks a regen on the tank.

[Acantha]

Use Focus Target and assign a key / button to switch to your focus target.

Right, I usually hard target him at the start of the add phase then soft target the party or toss an aoe regeneration so I don't lose him when the adds swarm

Ah! Thank you both I always forget there's focus target to use... But yeah I usually do click him at the start and just scroll through/soft target the rest of the party when they need a heal. It's just so awkward if I don't have my mouse at the time >.<

[Laurima]

Levelling Dragoon yesterday.

Queued Vault at Lvl58.

party was Dork Knight, Bard and a Bonus Astrologian.

thought something was strange from the start with the tank only having 9.9K HP, as DRG mildly geared I had 9.5K
checks gear
iLvl115 almost everything
right hand side
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aggro was fun, Healer done a very good job keeping them up too

we get to the end boss
opener, DRG is tanking, elusive jump, let the tank grab some aggro, get back into it. nudging the tank for aggro again, no jump, no litany, so a very halfassed 'opener'

fireball phase
bard is doing almost nothing
Half the fireballs explode because they're not dead, wipe, restart
Bard is Lvl59, no minuet up, so I asked them about it
we don't have minuet, (french player, so the conversation was kinda meh)

2nd & 3rd run same, abandon :/

[Galaktica]

Get an in-progress, at last boss Aery as DRG. SMN is the other dps. I greet my party, go about our business, and then I notice that dps seems reeeeeally slow. Then it hits me, "oh, there are no diseases up."

Oh no.


I probably should've guessed something was up when I saw there was only 30 mins left in the duty. Now, I'm starting to see why the other dps left. I try to give the SMN a quick rundown before we give it another shot. "Try and keep your 3 DoTs up so you can use fester, make sure you use your pet abilities/buffs, etc etc" SMN says okay and we're about to give it another shot, I notice that the tank seems annoyingly supportive of the SMN. Then I see that they have the same last name. Probably bf and gf? husband and wife? Who knows, but at this point I have now fully realized the hell I have gotten myself into.

We give it another shot. No DoTs ever went up. Just Ruin 2. And more Ruin 2. I get targeted by sable price. SMN keeps attacking Nidhogg. Healer tries to break me out, but I die. I play on pad so by the time I picked up keyboard up to call the SMN, the cast was like halfway done. We ended up wiping.

Tank asks what happened. "Well, uh...no one broke me out and the healer ran out of mana so..."

Tank: "C'mon healer you gotta be faster than that"

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

To which I reply "They were trying, but it probably would've helped if the SMN joined in."

SMN: "I was trying."

Nope, no you weren't.

Tank: "It's okay, we got it this time."

We give it another go. SMN casts tri-disaster once. Never see any other DoTs after that. I also notice SMN doesn't even have a pet out. Healer lets Estinien die.

Tank: "omg we can't do anything with this ****ing healer. I quit."

/end

Ladies and gents, I know you just want to kick back and have a good time with your SO, but...like...you don't have to coddle them.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Ohh man, just had the worst Aery run I've ever seen.

....

Sounds to me like that Black Mage needed to be removed from the duty.

It'll let me do that with the party but not Estinian since he's not technically in your party, the only way i've found to target it by clicking on him. Which was a scary lesson I learnt during the Training Hall thing for healer >.<

You need to set up targetting filters.

They're used with L1 and one of the face buttons.

I have L1+Square as 'allies' which will let me cycle through party members, npcs, and other players with left and right on the dpad.


Character Configuration -> Control -> Filters Tab

[Acantha]

You need to set up targeting filters.

They're used with L1 and one of the face buttons.

I have L1+Square as 'allies' which will let me cycle through party members, npcs, and other players with left and right on the dpad.


Character Configuration -> Control -> Filters Tab

Thank you! I'll start setting that up tonight I think they've done a good job translating the game controls onto the ps4 but there's definitely still a few things that are a bit more awkward than on PC. Sorry to everyone else for all the off topic posts i've started

edit:

I use focustarget always, on every duty, Estinien is the only focus I use that's not a boss. I play on ps4 too and I have the L3 button assigned to execute macro 99, which I customized to be /target <f>. That way I can easily switch to my current focustarget.

Thank you too Bebe will try both these tonight

[Bebekurenai]

Ah! Thank you both I always forget there's focus target to use... But yeah I usually do click him at the start and just scroll through/soft target the rest of the party when they need a heal. It's just so awkward if I don't have my mouse at the time >.<

I use focustarget always, on every duty, Estinien is the only focus I use that's not a boss. I play on ps4 too and I have the L3 button assigned to execute macro 99, which I customized to be /target <f>. That way I can easily switch to my current focustarget.

[lvlagmarink]

the aery

I'm not sure what really happened in your party, since you mentioned some deaths. But when i'm healing the aery, i only need to heal estinien at around adds phase especially when the three drakes strike unless of course the fight gets on too long.. However, i had a run where one of the DPS (SMN)was having ilvl 55 gears and a few lv 33 gears with only around 3000 HP.. And the phase change was still sorta fine.. That way, you don't need to get panic with healing both tank/estinien..

[cammi]

LOOL Man POTD is pure cancer at this point. The fact people still think that rushing is the best way to go. I got kicked from the last group cause they were worried about time, which is a valid worry. But it's on them.. when they get to the last set at level 53 they will have to start over from level 1 wondering why. God, I really hate this place... one more weapon and I'll be completely done with this place .. forever.

[bounddreamer]

Signed up for a lvl 50 in progress this morning and got Pharos Sirius in progress, 11 minutes in. There was a SCH and a MCH in there waiting. I think the other tank must have nope'd right outta there when he zoned in because it was 11 min and only the first set of adds was dead.

We wiped twice at the first boss. I really hate that dungeon... toughed it out, went for the boss a third time despite being skeptical of our clear chances, and we made it that time. After that I kept pulls small, adjusting to the group dynamic, and we didn't have any other problems and cleared with no further issues. So for the tank who abandoned those folks, it was really not bad at all, and you lost out on a couple comms.