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

[Atoli]

Well, I keep recruitments off and wait for closed with Vote Abandon. If I only leave instance and still open, people can enter, no?

Don't worry, when everyone has left the instance it gets deleted by itsself, you don't have to wait around

[Nicolepwned]

If Kallistra is breaking the rules, is he breaking them in such a matter that personally affects any of us? I agree that it might not be kosher, but why is everybody up in arms? If it's really causing such drama, just block him or ignore him. He isn't harassing anybody. Regardless, I have seen countless posts fashioned similar to his when he speaks on Selli's behalf (my FC mate had a run; my boyfriend was in a run where; et cera). I know for a fact one person who posts stories on behalf of one of their friends every so often, and that friend is banned. Regardless, while the drama was salty and fun for a bit, it's run its course. I think a lot of people would like to just get back on topic. And that will be all I acknowledge of it.

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Did a WC with my static mate today (the rest of my static runs later on Tuesday but I can't, because work). Shout-out to the AST I was paired with (myself on AST as well!). We naturally synergized our cards and never ONCE overlapped over each others' cards. It was pretty much 100% uptime on raid-wide Balances and Arrows. I can't remember your name, but I applaud you for making my WC a little bit more enjoyable.

While the AST was amazing to heal with, our DPS... were a pain on the final boss. All three of our BLMs eventually finished with Brink of Death, due to not dodging the half-room wide haircut. Our bard never played any songs, even when I was almost dry on mana after raising said BLMs (also, Foes? There were at least six BLMs in the entire 24-man. Siiigh.) Said bard also got Weakness on last boss, and almost died multiple times if I had not prioritized him when saving somebody from haircuts (in hopes of mana song). They might've died at the last moment and finished off with Brink, can't remember. Our NIN kept overwriting my static's mate Storms' Eye, which bugged me personally but wasn't a really big deal - atleast he didn't die at all over the entirety of the run.

Got my materia for the week, now up to six Grade V's for next tier. My static mate got his glamour tank pants, now all that's left is him getting his boots, which he'll grind out next week. (lol).

[KaitlanKela]

Gawd, let it die. Kall's gon do what he's gon do and he can do it all he wants unless the ban him for it, let the mods do their own job.

Just had a run of ARF where the BRD nitpicked my friend's DRG rotation to death. Now, my friend doesn't main dragoon, is a REAL fresh 60 running this for eso gear and she's not the type to get defensive so she just joked it off, but they kept asking for disembowl with sad emojis. Finally I was like, "hey look, it's not savage, alright? It's an ARF farm run for esos." But they just wouldn't let it go. And then I was like, "hey, am I complaining about foes?" because not a single song was sung that day my friends.

w/e Got the clear and the esos, happy as a clam.

[Atoli]

...but they kept asking for [insert skill here] with sad emojis.

That was literally me in ARF today xD
I was in there on my BLM, and we had this BRD who absolutely refused to sing Foe's Requiem D:
When her TP got low, she sang TP song for herself, and for the rest of the run, constantly had MP song on despite everyone being at full MP,
she even used Warden's Paean on herself for the final boss, but it was like she was afraid of having a strong allergic reaction to Foe's..x.x

At first I explained very friendly that MP song was a waste and I'd be thankful for Foe's (and the WHM too who was DPSing nicely),
but after getting constantly ignored for the entire run I gave up and just went with the emote route to at least make it obvious that I was not happy with that x)
(whenever we were standing around waiting for the elevator to go down and stuff like that)

/sulk
/sad
/cry
/disappointed
/em sighs.
/huh

Yes I can be pretty annoying ._.
It might not be Savage but we all farmed that stupid dungeon to death already, even 30 seconds less per run is already worth complaining about, especially when it's something so easy to use :/
*still pouting*

[Rhyku]

snippity snip

This reminded me of the two bards in WoD last night. Our party consisted of monk, 2 goons, 2 bards. DPS overall across all three alliances was pretty bad, so bosses became a really long drawn out fight. I'm guessing most of the alliance were new, since had had 6 sproutlings in ours alone. Three of us ran out of TP, even after using invigorate. We repeatedly asked for army's paeon, and not a single one deigned to play it for us. So there you have it, 3 DPSes standing around with zero TP, throwing out skills as it recovered. Only when the boss went down, did BOTH of them play paeon. *facepalm*

[FinaSel]

Saw someone looking for help to clear Final Steps of Faith in Party Finder and decided to join as WHM. The last time I did the instance, it was very smooth, so I thought this would go just as well.

There were 3 first timers. At least 1 had done no preparation. My co-healer. A scholar with just a little over 12k HP. Other first-timers were a Dragoon and Black Mage.
The scholar died to every mechanic while he was alive.
Other DPS was too low to clear add phase first time.

Second time we tried add phase, I managed to keep tanks alive just using regen, medica II, Tetra, and Benediction, Assize, and then just spammed Stone III with Presence of Mind to help DPS. Just barely cleared the phase.

Still, Scholar dying to every mechanic. I debated which was more efficient, using MP to Raise them OR saving my MP for healing.
I decided to raise the scholar because it was his first time and I would feel bad leaving them dead.
I raised him 7 times during the fight.
Even with Protect and Stoneskin, they still died to the unavoidable AoEs in 1 hit due to weakness debuff. It couldn't be helped.

For at least 75% of the fight, I was solo-healing.
I was surprised that basic Nidhogg can be just as hard or harder than extreme version.

Still, I felt a rush because I had to use every ability I had available and watching my Shroud of Saints Cooldowns, MP potion cooldowns, and Assize to keep enough MP.

It was a very invigorating fight and I'm happy I joined and helped their clear.

Unfortunately, some other people who joined were not happy because they thought it was Extreme version, not normal version.
(Although I don't know how they make this mistake. The name difference is clear.)

[SpiritMuse]

This reminded me of the two bards in WoD last night. Our party consisted of monk, 2 goons, 2 bards. DPS overall across all three alliances was pretty bad, so bosses became a really long drawn out fight. I'm guessing most of the alliance were new, since had had 6 sproutlings in ours alone. Three of us ran out of TP, even after using invigorate. We repeatedly asked for army's paeon, and not a single one deigned to play it for us. So there you have it, 3 DPSes standing around with zero TP, throwing out skills as it recovered. Only when the boss went down, did BOTH of them play paeon. *facepalm*

Sounds like they had read the tooltip that said it reduces their dps, but had no concept of group dps. Or they weren't reading the chat. Or both.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Leveling roulette brings me to Duck Vigil, with a tank with an i55 weapon, a healer who just. Will. Not. Stop. Spamming. Physick. All. The. Freaking. Time. Even when no one is hurt, and a BLM who uses only fire 3 and blizzard 3. No one responded when I tried to talk, so I left after the first boss.

Edit: no wait, the BLM did talk once - to complain about how slowly it was going...

I55?

Hell, that's worse than the i95 rod I'm using on my black mage...
Though I refuse to go into higher than 50 content on it because I can't glamor a scepter onto a staff, and feel like it'd be inconsiderate to take it into higher...

Don't worry, when everyone has left the instance it gets deleted by itsself, you don't have to wait around

I've seen, and heard of, occasionally joining in progress into an empty instance...
Not quite sure how that happens...

[vanitaslaughing]

So, I'm a specialist at making a fool of myself - anywhere, any time, not just in FFXIV.

Long story short, I fell off during Ozma trying to raise another alliance's healer (who had, which I realised upon dying, all released)... The reason? I haven't been on my PS4 in at least a MONTH (I got banned from it), so that Dualshock feels really strange after a month of a 360 controller hooked up to my laptop, and I was making weird laps trying to get a feel for the Dualshock again before static stuff tonight.

Oops.
Granted, we wiped after that because we got double stacks twice...

[defmasta]

A couple of weeks ago i met a mentor. No, THE MENTOR.
I got to do The Vault for MSQ progression. I did watch a guide beforehand, because i play tank and i don't want to get lost to mechanics and sudden adds. As soon as we load in the dungeon, i mention, that i'm new.
And then it started... This MENTOR marked all the priority targets, put ground markers to show me where to position pulls, gave me a couple advices on how to better use my skills, explained all the mechanics for first boss. When we got to the second boss, i ran headfirst and pulled it (because 90% of the groups i played with did want a tank to rush to the boss, turn him around and bend him over)... And then i notice that MENTOR and his friend are locked out.
"You rushed too fast while he was typing to explain mechanics, lol" - said that friend. I apologized for being too hasty, and mentioned that i did watch a guide, but i don't mind advices. And then that run (or, should i say, "lesson"?) proceeded as smoothly as ever possible.
Yes, THE MENTORS are real, i know that now.

On the other side, yesterday i got in the Vault with a mentor.
Cast: me as DRK, mentor as WHM, one BRD and one DRG. No "new player" message.
And so the show begins. After the initial buffs all went well until first pull. I used Salted Earth twice. Yes, the damage output was, well, not spectacular. At least my HP was OK all the time and enmity was high enough to not lose mobs. Yes, it was not so fast, but at least everybody is alive.
So with that humble pace we got to the first boss. That battle took very long time, but, at least we did not wipe, so it's OK. While we are checking the spoils of battle and roll for loot i did check the gear on DRG and BRD. Mostly 54 NQ items... with a couple of Ironworks jewellery. On both of them.
Well, i'm very patient person, so i decide to finish that run regardless of circumstances. Maybe they are just not so lucky with drops, whatewer.
At the second boss we wiped twice. First time because WHM got in AoE, second time because WHM got in AoE while rezzing fallen DRG, who decided to puch boss in the face and got smashed by his Overpower-like move.
And, finally, we arrived to the famous Ser Charibert and his fancy Horse Circus.
Initial rebuff, ready check, and then that mentor showed his knowledge. "Turn the MP song on" - said he to our BRD. And BRD rocked for him alone. Because there were no other characters who benefit from MP song, except Ser Charibert, who was apparently pleased with reduced DPS. We start to pound the boss, i'm trying to mitigate damage with all the skills at my disposal, somehow (very slowly) we get through orb phase. And then something hit the fan. My health is getting dangerously low, i chug on potions and look for healer. Where is our WHM? Oh, he is playing with horsies. And then i got a big flaming spit in the face lose my remaining 200~ HP.
Second try. All is the same, WHM is amused with horsies, but manages to survive and rez me after my arse is burned with another flame spit. Grit, Darkside, chug Ether, Provoke, Unmend, Dark Arts, enmity combo with Bloodbath... And then i'm alone, because, you know, hugging horsies is fun.
XXXth try. Living dead is indeed useful skill. If only a could somehow heal myself to full... Because, you know, we are here to play with horsies.
And, finally, united we stand strong before loot chest. I gave my commendation to bard. He died less than others and his songs did rock.
57 minutes of lvl 57 dungeon. Not bad.