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

[Evergrey]

I'd say a majority of players are patient and friendly with new people, especially new tanks. If you let them know you're new and learning more often than not you'll encounter some awesome people. Occasionally you'll get paired with a douchebag, just don't let that discourage you.

And that if you piss off the tank they might end up waiting a long time for a replacement tank, so they might just keep the insults for themselves. -hehe- ^^

But yeah, I agree that the majority seems to be quite friendly and understanding people.

[Dragon_Sanders]

Tried Sophia for the first time right now. Ended with wipe. Still got confused when she summoned the first demiurge for the second time. What knocked me off when I was fighting him? I didn't see anything...

[TSLsmokey]

Tried Sophia for the first time right now. Ended with wipe. Still got confused when she summoned the first demiurge for the second time. What knocked me off when I was fighting him? I didn't see anything...

First Demiurge can use a countering move called Vertical Kenoma or Horizontal Kenoma. Horizontal does a counter knockback if he's hit from the flanks and Vertical does the same if you hit him from the front or back while it's up. That's probably what did you in. What stinks is it works on AoEs as well so you need to be very careful.

[Dragon_Sanders]

First Demiurge can use a countering move called Vertical Kenoma or Horizontal Kenoma. Horizontal does a counter knockback if he's hit from the flanks and Vertical does the same if you hit him from the front or back while it's up. That's probably what did you in. What stinks is it works on AoEs as well so you need to be very careful.

That's interesting. Right now I tried once more and finally got rid of it. It seems Sophia would summon random Demiurges, and I did not meet with the first Demiurge this time. Although willing to challenge him again, I find it pains a lot to bear some damage with my current gears and 16 thousand HP so I'd better LV the gears first.

[Kibby]

I've done Sophia ex a few times, but I joined a learning party to help a few friends. We wiped several times, but we progressed farther each time. During the last run, about half the party died, so I used the level three limit break (as AST). Unfortunately, the daughter spawned shortly after, but my lb was so bright that no one could find her, so we all died.

It was hilarious and they took it well at least.

[KeiranOlive]

I've been farming Ravana EX in the df recently. When Ravana does his clone rush mechanic and the party runs around the outside of the arena to avoid them, I usually expect at least one person to lag behind the group and get hit by every one of them. Well yesterday I actually got to see the opposite, a too eager off-tank that was so far ahead of the group that they ran face-first into every single charge. When I'm farming for hours, stuff like that just brightens my day.

[Awful]

Did Sohm Al today que'd as a Whm with my monk friend saw the tanks Hp was 10k which is fine, look at the Mch..5.4k hp? Oh boy here we go, Mch has an ilvl 42 belt and some 100 pieces doable but it's gonna be awhile. The run starts off with the tank spinning the mobs around and around like a Moogle-go-round I tell the tank "Please don't move the mobs around the monk needs positionals" He didn't get the hint till after first boss. We wiped once because the tank lost threat and Covered me but didn't get threat back so when it ended all 4 mobs beat me to death. Okay take 2.

We rez up, keep going and the tank isn't moving out of telegraphed AoEs it was so much healing that I had to do instead of helping out to DPS which as hard enough as it is as he'd pull 2 mobs then 15 seconds later grab 3 more with no CDs being popped + the poison that I had to dispel. We get to first boss and the plant eats the tank 3 times getting 6 stacks of damage up the poor mch got 1 hit by it and was like "omg! o.o" with 5.4k hp and 6 stacks it did 6k evenly so he died fast.

The rest of the run consisted of me having heart attacks because the tank wouldn't move out of AoEs until....wait for it final boss. He moved and dodged Chaos Blast from Tiamet everytime wtf!? Why couldn't you have done that the whole run! Was so annoying... All in all we only had 1 wipe and I got a Gaelikitten out of it so I guess it wasn't bad.

[Ersilon]

Ran some roulettes with the wife (SMN) and a friend (NIN) last night. I'm going on AST, so we're getting random tanks. Haukke for leveling for the third day in a row, and we get a pally whom I suspect is a returning player because she had several classes to the 50's. I checked because I was expecting the usual mediocre run, but was surprised to find we cleared the basement inside of 15 minutes. That tank really knew her stuff, and I made sure to tell her so before we left.

Amdapor Keep for 50's roulette, and we get another pally. I go Nocturnal Sect because I want to play with it, never seriously gave it a shot before the patch dropped. Thanks to this tank, I can safely say that I'm happily comfortable with Noct Sect's new place in my toolbox as a viable alternative to Diurnal Sect, and also got to see Covered for the first time. I would be surprised if the run took longer than 15 minutes because I was genuinely surprised when it was over, and I believe we were only three groups in when I just had to comment in /p "Love it when the tank knows what the crap he's doing," to which my friend responded, "^this^"

Later in the evening, went with some FC mates for a returning person's first run through Antitower, which also happened to be my first run for it. I'm not sure how much I contributed, considering we went with a second healer (my SMN gear sucks and I'd been having lag), but I kept giving everyone cards and shields when I could, even if most of the unbuffed Balance draws were passed to Selli--hey, gotta feed the DPS, right?

[Crushing_Wake]

I'm no BLM player, but this doesn't seem quite right. For reference, this was in aetherochemical research facility.

[Nestama]

Blizzard 3, Blizzard 3, Fire 1, Fire 3, Blizzard 3, Blizzard 3, Fire 3, Fire 3, Blizzard. Completely chaotic! Not even a thunder dot. I really didn't bother to stop him and explain the rotation because, based on the way he was playing A) He was not going to listen B) He was not going to correct his rotation in 1 run C) I really don't bother anymore in DF... I just do my thing, everything's good with everybody and leave the duty upon completion.

Should have tried to explain. If they decided "my money, my way" and continued to be a numpty, then you could kick them. You tried, they wouldn't listen, you let them know that their behaviour/attitude is not appreciated.

Edit: Realised I clicked on first page and not last. I just woke up, leave me alone.

I'm no BLM player, but this doesn't seem quite right. For reference, this was in aetherochemical research facility.

Even if they chose to stick with their level 50 rotation, Enochian is still a 5% damage boost, which is always good (and Ley Lines is a BLM's best friend. No sane BLM would reject it unless they were saving it for the right moment). That BLM upsets me