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

[Fluestergras]

I've been tempted to do this. Mostly because it's instant cast, and can be used while moving/running. If you're used to it, having to stand still for Stone is a real chore.

Ruin has a cast time too. Arcanist's instant cast is Ruin II, but this one can't be crossclassed.

[Bebekurenai]

Yeah in my case with that whm it was ruin1, not ruin2, thanks Flüster! I mean, I can get to understand crossing ruin1, but then I'd expect stones plus cleric stance to make things even worth, no? Stone comes with a nifty gravity too :x since she was running around the mobs to face-aggro >_> Also on later floors wouldn't stone2 outdamage ruin1? Not sure right now. She didn't do anything with logic, like having her mnk (I will assume the mnk was a relative of hers) standing for 30 sec and waiting out the pacification trap when she could just esuna it (she wasnt hit by that trap)... or open chests while the room was full of aggroed monsters (aggroed by her), dying cause she opens a trap chest when already hurt with a landmine while having the army of toads pummeling her etc etc I could post here forever just with that whm... and yes, we had mimics too, and no purity left cause she was using them randomly.
Anyways, that was my input on weird players lol :3

[Rita1989]

Ruin has less potency it should never be cross classed

[Acantha]

Ruin has a cast time too. Arcanist's instant cast is Ruin II, but this one can't be crossclassed.

It could just be a comfort thing :P Maybe they just really like Ruin...!? I guess it will remain a mystery :s

[Bebekurenai]

Ah ok, thanks. I thought it worked kind of like cure/physiks (or I could just stop being lazy and look up the tooltips). Still don't get why people would use physiks on whm instead of cure or the other way around but meh, at least those spells have the same healing potency, but whatever floats their boat I guess.

[Xtrasweettea]

I decided to take the wife and I through the Sunken Temple of Qarn. We need the last two entries in our Adder hunting log from there.

The party lineup was:
WAR (me)
MNK (wife)
SCH
BRD/Archer (I didn't check)

The dungeon was going pretty smooth. No wipes, the SCH was constantly DPSing between heals, and the DPS were killing things quickly. I did notice that the bow user was a very eager to say the least for us to kill things. I would Tomohawk a mob and before I could gather them up and Overpower them, the bow user spammed AOEs, making my job a little harder to keep hate at first.

After the fight with the Temple Guardian, the bow user seemed to have disconnected. After killing a set of mobs, I told my wife that we can three man this, since our levels and iLevels are synced (at the time our levels and iLevels were 52 WAR 100 iLevel and 51 MNK 90 iLevel unsynced). I dropped Deliverance and we proceeded to three man this all the through.

The final boss fight was entertaining. I helped my wife do the mechanics of the fights since the SCH was on top of his/her A-Game (dodging AOEs, DPSing, and healing). I felt safe enough that I could move the boss around and do the mechanics without the fear of a wipe.

[Dogempire]

Random person in my POTD group. Just...gross.

[Annah]

PoTD Gilgamesh

The Tank taught his DPS friend how to use an emote that will spam all the users in the party with constant dings and rings. Not only did it fill a page of rotating text forever, the annoying sounds lasted about 30 seconds.

Then he kept on doing it

And doing it

And doing it

It literally felt like I was in a party of 4 year olds

[Lmcgyver]

Ah ok, thanks. I thought it worked kind of like cure/physiks (or I could just stop being lazy and look up the tooltips). Still don't get why people would use physiks on whm instead of cure or the other way around but meh, at least those spells have the same healing potency, but whatever floats their boat I guess.

Ruin has a potency of 80, vs. Stone/Malefic's 150. I'm assuming it's due to the fact that Arcanist has a pet doing some of the damage and DoTs to maintain, and so Ruin is just a low MP-cost filler that does a little bit of damage. I *suppose* it could be helpful for managing MP on account of it's very low cost, but I really don't know.
As to cross-classing physick or cure, it's possibly just to animation preference; though cure should always be used on WHM past level 32, because physick doesn't proc freecure.

[Bebekurenai]

Random person in my POTD group. Just...gross.

Yeah that is actually disgusting. There's a thread somewhere here about macros and ppl being offended by them, if it was possible. Well yes, regardless if it's an automated macro or not, this stuff is offensive and disgusting. Had in WC a goon who macroed something similar gross, but this time sexual with his Battle Litany. About 7-8 lines singing a song about body fluids mixing together and making gravy, just to keep it short here. The whole "song" was filthy, not funny or even close, and it popped every bloody time he activated Battle Litany. I have yet to report it, I copied the whole "song" for later, and that was last tuesday I believe.