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

[SessionZero]

You mean the hard enrage? The first week of content? When people are first learning the fight? When people are closest to minimum ilvl? Yeah, you're going to see enrage at times. It's not that big of a deal. Give people time to learn the fight before you start crying low DPS.

600 DPS is atrocious for a DRG in 230 gear. I do more than 600 DPS in tank stance as a 238 DRK.

[Fluestergras]

You mean the hard enrage? The first week of content? When people are first learning the fight? When people are closest to minimum ilvl? Yeah, you're going to see enrage at times. It's not that big of a deal. Give people time to learn the fight before you start crying low DPS.

It wouldn't have been a big deal if the dragoon had been a firsttimer who doesn't know the mechanics. He wasn't, he was just bad at doing his job.

[Annah]

600 DPS is atrocious for a DRG in 230 gear. I do more than 600 DPS in tank stance as a 238 DRK.

the only thing I can think of with a 600 dps dragoon is, he has no cool downs and he's not using his rotation at all (I'm not even including blood of the dragon here)

[Averax]

My cohealer in A12 could not react to damage going out. It took 3-4 seconds after a megaholy going out for them to do anything, and hesitation like that can and has killed us on several occassions.

[aesteval]

the only thing I can think of with a 600 dps dragoon is, he has no cool downs and he's not using his rotation at all (I'm not even including blood of the dragon here)

Or spending and overwhelming amount of time dead or messing up mechanics and winding up with damage down debuffs.

[Annah]

that too lol. Being dead "kills" your dps.

Ta-da-TSssssh

[Fevelle]

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Quick update: I gave up trying to beat Sophia EX. My brain was so tired yesterday of wiping and wiping and wiping that on my last try I just walked off the platform on my own while looking at the Focus Target. I spent AT LEAST six hours yesterday trying to clear it.

[SilkaN]

So, I've been using raid finder to get some Sophia totems and something really bothers me.
Why do people think that using complicated symbols for the stacking mechanic is a good idea? Just mark tanks and healers with 1-4 and assign a dps to each of them.

BUT THAT WOULD BE TO EASY, RIGHT?
"Let's use 1, 2, targed to bind 1, target to bind 2, square, circle, target to ignore 1 and target to ignore 2.
What? No, this isn't messy at all. Don't question my logic!"

To be fair, most parties simply use 1-4.
It's still annoying to get one of those parties once in a while.
But meh, whatever. This is Raid Finder, what do I expect?

[Leoheart]

So, I've been using raid finder to get some Sophia totems and something really bothers me.
Why do people think that using complicated symbols for the stacking mechanic is a good idea? Just mark tanks and healers with 1-4 and assign a dps to each of them.

BUT THAT WOULD BE TO EASY, RIGHT?
"Let's use 1, 2, targed to bind 1, target to bind 2, square, circle, target to ignore 1 and target to ignore 2.
What? No, this isn't messy at all. Don't question my logic!"

To be fair, most parties simply use 1-4.
It's still annoying to get one of those parties once in a while.
But meh, whatever. This is Raid Finder, what do I expect?

In this case, they're matching with colours instead of numbers, Blue & Blue, Red & Red, Purple & Purple, Yellow & Yellow.
A lot of groups I've been with has prominently used the Colour method rather than the number method.

The pro of this is it's easier to match the marks in my opinion, it also gives a little more confidence to the people you're matching it with.
One of the cons is it is initially confusing to those who aren't familiar with this, and there's also colour blind people I've done it with who prefer to go by numbers.

P.S.
I haven't joined any parties on Ragnarok in the PF, but I've had a lot of success with the Raid finder on Sophia.

[Erdgeist]

Attempted brayflox for the first time as a SCH. Fresh 32.
We get through the dungeon relatively decently aside from the fact that I'm gradually getting all the aggro from the trash mobs and the tank never bothers to take any of them until the trash he's singletargetting dies.
Not a single CD is used. Ever.

There's a decent 42 mnk, and one 60 nin who oddly seems to be lower on the aggro bars for nearly everything.

But it's the final boss that's particularly bad.
This pld gets hit by LITERALLY EVERY VERTICAL LINE AOE and doesn't even bother getting out, even when I ask him to (after what, four times).
It's a struggle keeping him and everyone alive, especially because of all the poison stacks he's getting and the fact that the only 'esuna' available to me is that one 60s cd that Selene has.

But we miraculously manage to survive.

And afterwards, the 60 nin says, "healer needs a bit of work", and then leaves.