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

[SessionZero]

I wish. No, it was one of them.

And on another note, A8 as SCH. I get a WHM co-healer who refuses to heal, and two tanks who refuse to tank swap. So apparently I'm the only one who cares about the Perpetual Ray mechanic. Great. The MT refused to even pop cooldowns for it.

Not using CDs on it is stupid, but pretty much any tank over ilvl 235 can single-tank the Perpetual Ray now as long as at least one healer is on top of it. I don't think I've tank swapped A8 for awhile now.

But if you had to MH the tank and the rest of the party? Yeah no, rip.

[Mysterysword]

Not using CDs on it is stupid, but pretty much any tank over ilvl 235 can single-tank the Perpetual Ray now as long as at least one healer is on top of it. I don't think I've tank swapped A8 for awhile now.

But if you had to MH the tank and the rest of the party? Yeah no, rip.

I can solo-tank Perpetual Ray as an ilvl 230 PLD, but I damn well make sure to use cooldowns on it. This PLD was probably around the same ilvl.

SCH is my 2nd job now and I'm ilvl 236 on it, so we didn't wipe, but it was damned annoying, and the PLD also blew themself up by taking double cannons to the face.

[TheAnser]

So I'm usually a lurker when it comes to forums like this, but this thread has made me start posting xD

Got an old story from A4N (remember that place?). So this was about a year ago and I was on my AST healing with my friend. He was on his scholar and was new to the fight. We zone in, say hellos, 3 of the dps and my friend say they're new, and I start to explain the mechanics to my friend in voice while protect and stoneskins are going out. As soon as I finish casting stoneskin on the tater-tot dark knight, he pops darkside, and only darkside, and proceeds to plunge at the boss. Alright, so this is going to be a baptism by fire for my newbie SCH friend. It's at this point I notice that the DRK's HP is about 13k from equipping all strength accessories, as this was the thing to do back then to increase tank damage to meet the stringent DPS checks of Gordias Savage. But dang, 13k even for Alex normal seemed a little low and the DPS checks in normal were basically non-existent. So, I decide to hold any dps I was planning on doing and just try to keep this little edgelord up. He holds hate surprisingly well for a little while, but the problem comes up when the first tankbuster (I don't remember what it's called) hits. Even keeping this guy topped, the tankbuster hits for about 12k and then he is finished off by an auto not even a second later. No cooldowns used at all. Thankfully, the 16k HP PLD quickly intercepts aggro and begins tanking as one should, in a tank stance. Unfortunately, things start going south after that. The orbs come out and the DPS and newly raised DRK don't seem too eager to help soak them, so me and my friend start eating them. It's not enough, as the last couple speed up and my friend is caught off-guard and dies. Long story short we wipe partially because of that and partially because of new people in that party learning the fight. Okay, people are learning. No big deal right? Wrong

13k Dark Knight (his gear is roughly ilvl 175) starts spewing a tirade at everyone calling us trash for wiping on this fight. He then directs his salt at me and says one of the most quotable things I've ever heard someone say in this game. It went something like this:

Me: People are learning the fight, I'll explain the mechanics and we'll give it another shot.
TaterDRK: Says the healer who can't hit the heal button lol garbage
Me: You have 13k HP and you weren't using a tank stance or CDs, what did you expect?
TaterDRK: lol if you can't heal me without grit up, you have a problem

I wasn't even angry, I was just in awe that someone was so delusional that they thought this was a reasonable thing to think. Anyway, the DRK drops right after that and is replaced quickly. I explain mechanics, we try a few more times, and we eventually clear. Kinda sucks though that a few people's first experience with the fight, my friend included, was with that butthole of a DRK, but I guess that's just what happens in DF sometimes.

[Kaurie]

Uninstalled mine because i was to afraid to put it on during my 60's roulettes since i've seen some incredible 400dps SMN on a large pull <.<

...hoowww....... this hurts my brain.

Even when I mess up, or get distracted typing in Linkshell, or bane the wrong add, or whatever.. I still break 2k :|

[Kaurie]

Queued into The Vault on my WHM, to get the "51-59 Dungeon" sticker for the Tails book.
The party was me, a DRK, a MNK, and a newbie BLM.
We get through the first part of the dungeon without any issues, and beat the first boss. The DRK then says "going to do a massive pull", and proceeds to pull everything from the first boss to the gate to the next floor. His HP drops below 1k a couple times, and the BLM eats a Fire2 from one of the adds immediately following the two Black Nebula casts, but no one dies.
The DRK turn to me and says "That usually never succeeds".

Lelena for Healer MVP!

[Miste]

Diurnal Sect can stack....Nocturnal cannot. So both ASTs in Diurnal can stack regens.


A lot of ASTs don't seem to know this.

You cannot stack Diurnal regens.

So you are misinformed, not the Astrologians you come across.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

You cannot stack Diurnal regens.

So you are misinformed, not the Astrologians you come across.

To be fair, it used to be possible to stack dinural regens.

[Sentaryuu]

Do some people not like people who play AST anymore because of the new buffs? Because I zone in Xelphatol as AST with my sister as PLD even though I didn't need Expert. Just as I load in the BLM did not seem happy that there was an AST in the party calling me a "bandwagon AST" which I'm guessing because more people are playing it because of the buffs. I didn't respond to them, because I don't respond to people like that. However, I started playing AST in 3.2.

They also apparently didn't like the way my sister was pulling, so they decided to AFK during the 2nd pull having us have to wait for 5min to be able to kick them. I really wish people like that would just leave on their own or get a party together that lives to their expectations or ask nicely to do bigger pulls. Instead of queing for Expert expecting everyone to play how they want. At least the DRG stayed.

After the jerk was gone, we get a SMN and go through the dungeon smoothly other than them lagging a little on the last boss, but other than that; nice run.

FYI that was our 2nd run of that dungeon. We haven't got it for expert since clearing it for the first time a week ago.
Anyway thank you DRG for staying; you earned your comm!

[Kaurie]

Do some people not like people who play AST anymore because of the new buffs? Because I zone in Xelphatol as AST with my sister as PLD even though I didn't need Expert. Just as I load in the BLM did not seem happy that there was an AST in the party calling me a "bandwagon AST" which I'm guessing because more people are playing it because of the buffs. I didn't respond to them, because I don't respond to people like that. However, I started playing AST in 3.2.

They also apparently didn't like the way my sister was pulling, so they decided to AFK during the 2nd pull having us have to wait for 5min to be able to kick them. I really wish people like that would just leave on their own or get a party together that lives to their expectations or ask nicely to do bigger pulls. Instead of queing for Expert expecting everyone to play how they want. At least the DRG stayed.

After the jerk was gone, we get a SMN and go through the dungeon smoothly other than them lagging a little on the last boss, but other than that; nice run.

FYI that was our 2nd run of that dungeon. We haven't got it for expert since clearing it for the first time a week ago.
Anyway thank you DRG for staying; you earned your comm!

That BLM is an idiot. The healing requirements in the dungeon are minimal at best, and you being on AST means Balance and Arrow. Bandwagon or not, that BLM should be jumping for joy.

I am not sure how your PLD was pulling, but it is pretty easy to mass pull in the new dungeons. If you two are even close to 240 gear (I heal on my alt which is mid 230's), then you should have very little problem mass pulling. My friend pulls everything and I hit "rouse" on my faerie and DPS. The roused faerie is enough to solo heal a large pull.

[Crysten]

Ever since people cottoned on to the knowledge that the Raid Finder is actually pretty good for Sophia Ex, my personal clear rate for it has plummeted to less than 50% in less than 24 hours.

It used to be all the time, God dammit

EDIT: Make that less than 30%...<_< We're officially in "you missed the boat if you haven't cleared it yet" territory methinks!