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

[Acantha]

Isn't the autoattack symbol above the name bar, and the buffs under it? o_O What covers what?

I don't know if it's different on PC & PS4 but I have this problem too (still tinkering with my HUD to get it right) - debuffs go below the enemy health bar and buffs like protect and regen go above by default, when you've targeted and auto-attacking, the icon for it can cover up your buffs. It only really affects me at the moment when i'm on WHM and can't see if my medica 2 is running out until it disappears >.<

@Confidence_Tick - if you have a wireless mouse i'd recommend that to start adjusting your HUD, much easier. Find an enemy a little bit lower lvl than you that you can just auto attack while you move things around without dying
It gets addictive though... macros and everything :P

[randysquirrel]

Just had a run of ARF where the BRD nitpicked my friend's DRG rotation to death... they kept asking for disembowel... I was like, "hey look, it's not savage, alright?

Are you not just defending this sub-par rotation because they are your friend? Disembowel is pretty basic in the rotation. Surely if you're friend is just learning the class, then standard advice like this is just what they need. By you "defending" them, they are not learning the class at all. From what you said, it doesn't sound like the BRD was being rude (there is no need for that, if they just calmly ask for disembowel I don't see how this is a bad thing)

Similarly, you should absolutely have asked the BRD to be playing foe. Outside of very specific scenarios, there's no reason for BRDs not to be playing foe. Even if it's just for healer dps, if no other song is going to be needed, then there's no point for the BRD to just sit on their MP. Perhaps they are learning also, and could've learnt had you asked them to play it

[Azurr]

POTD tales

I trigger a frog mine (they are unmarked on that floor) and hop around as usual waiting for it to time out.

Meanwhile someone else trips a frog mine too and hop over to me and we both hop together and its the best moment I had in that dungeon xD


Another time there was a luring trap that brought out 4 minotaurs which almost wiped us, which is not that odd, but then 10 minotaurs spawned one after another and 7 additional ones were waiting in the transport room. There were also 2 that appeared as we traced our way back there o-o

Silver chest.
Frog trap on the way there.
Nope its a mimic ;-;

[Bebekurenai]

I don't know if it's different on PC & PS4 but I have this problem too (still tinkering with my HUD to get it right) - debuffs go below the enemy health bar and buffs like protect and regen go above by default, when you've targeted and auto-attacking, the icon for it can cover up your buffs. It only really affects me at the moment when i'm on WHM and can't see if my medica 2 is running out until it disappears >.<

Hm... I think I know now what you mean, this is how I have my UI set up:



I've moved the status bar underneath my hp/mp/tp.



Edit: I changed my own name bar to red, so I can see myself better when in raids and camera at max distance.

[Confidence_Trick]

You can move stuff around to customize your HUD. I definitely recommend it.

Yeah, I thought it might that. I was searching in vain in the character/system configuration menus for little box I could turn off.

[Vidu]

I just finished my mentor roulette - got Tam-Tara NM with a thm, a pug and a cjn, so nothing to hard or anything. I'm on my level 60 paladin, well geared, so I barely need any healing to begin with and thats not going unnoticed by the healer who quickly begins jumping around me and running in circles between the two cures they have to cast on me during one pull. I ask them friendly to deal some damage instead of jumping around (frankly, that was freaking me out - having that little lala-brat jumping around me, doing nothing while everyone else was pulling their weight) and gte "but thats BOOOORING" as reply - great, I guess, if jumping around is so much fun for you, do it outside of the dungeon?! And actully contribute to the group effort inside one? (If a healer isnt comfy dealing damage, thats fine with me, I can understand that - but this one here... no. If you have time to jump around, you have time to cast aero)
I bite my lip, we progress through the dungeon without me saying another word and reach the last boss, that I quickly explain to the new puglist (kill imps etc.) and ask the healer again to help with killing stuff. Nope, healer wants to be funny, jump around the edge of the arena and answer my request with some "funny" replies:
[14:18](Vidu Moriquendi) if we're lucky our healer will help and pull their weight
[14:18](Healer) but im a lala i don't weigh much
[14:19](Vidu Moriquendi) nope, not lucky - healer wants to be "funny" instead of helpful
[14:20](healer) dude calm down its a level 16 dungeon
[14:20](healer) didnt know i had to tryhard in a leveling rou.. lol
[14:20](Vidu Moriquendi) now you do
[14:21](Vidu Moriquendi) its really not "trying hard" to throw in some Wind and stone instead of jumping around lol

...I know I'm sensitive here, but god having that lala jump around me was freaking annoying - they had several classes at 60 btw...

[Acantha]

I've moved the status bar underneath my hp/mp/tp.

That's a good idea i'm gonna try that when I get home, sometimes it covers CS too on mine... It's hitting that balance between having everything you need and being too cluttered >.<

Edit: I changed my own name bar to red, so I can see myself better when in raids and camera at max distance.

I went with purple as soon as I realised you could do that :P

[Fluestergras]

I had the most awesome run of Tam-Tara NM yesterday. The party was myself on my WHM alt, BLM friend, arcanist friend and a random warrior.

First I was like "Oh no, not that dungeon again" - I really hate Tam-Tara, it's so boring and whenever I get it in roulette, I just hope it's over soon.
But well, after I cast Protect, the warrior pulls the two soldiers at the start... and runs off to pull more, a total of three groups. First I thought "Oh my God what are you doing I can't DPS and all I have to heal you is Cure and Swiftcast-Cure", but then I noticed how smoothly everything was dying. Dots, Fire II's and Overpowers were flying around, sometimes the warrior lost aggro on a single mob for about a second, she used the one defensive CD the warrior has at this level whenever it was available, and overall she took only slightly more damage than in a normal pull, so I even had time to DPS. She never stood around randomly, everyone was on point and so we finished the dungeon in 13 minutes.

It was just perfect :')

[FinaSel]

Frontlines Roulette.

Someone attempted to lead us.
.

Key word is "attempted".

EDIT: Yes, it was the same person. Happened several times during the instance.

[KaitlanKela]

Are you not just defending this sub-par rotation because they are your friend? Disembowel is pretty basic in the rotation. Surely if you're friend is just learning the class, then standard advice like this is just what they need. By you "defending" them, they are not learning the class at all. From what you said, it doesn't sound like the BRD was being rude

Except the DRG is not their main it's WHM. They play WHM perfectly fine and they only played DRG in ARF because I asked to heal. So yeah, I was defending her sub-obtimal rotation because she's not practiced on the class because she hardly plays the class and will continue to hardly play the class. And being manipulative with sad emojis is kinda rude, so yeah the BRD was being rude.

Disembowl was asked for and it was not used.
Foes was also asked for and IT was not used.

BUT the instance got cleared so whatever.