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

[bardaboo]

Ok i no longer hate you

[Frowny]

BLMs dislike Arrow IMMENSELY during their AoE rotation

Even if you dislike the Arrow buff, leave it anyway. Play as thought you still have a 2.5s GCD and keep Arrow on so it buffs your TP-free auto attacks.

I don't count AOE rotation as that's not a common boss rotation (all AOE rotations fall into a weird category).

And as a DRG main, Arrow is strictly a detriment. Yea it buffs my auto attacks but that's just 25% or so of my DPS... still a net loss in the end. I'll still clip DoTs too much (which then wastes MORE TP or loses DPS) or, on the extreme, sit for 30s auto-attacking. For such a little gain and so much screwing us up.... MNKs/DRGs will continue to click Arrow off for our benefit. I cannot "play as if I have a 2.5 GCD" when my GCD shoots way down in actuality. Messing up 75% of my damage for the other 25%? No.

Fracture on DRG is a no-no, period due to TP and the potency. A9-12 can already drain us depending how the fights go, we don't need to speed it up.

[Mysterysword]

So for whatever reason, I've been suffering horrific lag issues all day today, and unfortunately I left my roulettes undone last night.

Leveling roulette as DRK, Great Gubal Library. Expert roulette as BLM... Great Gubal Library. Throughout these runs, my screen kept freezing for 10-20 seconds at a time, completely screwing up my rotations. At least I managed to do the mechanics and kept aggro as DRK, but my DPS as BLM was shot to absolute hell.

I decided to do Trials roulette next, as BLM.

"I sure hope I don't get Titan HM," I think to myself, "because with this lag, I'd be so screwed. Anything, anything but Titan HM. I can work with anything but that. There are a bunch of other trials I can land in too, so surely I won't get Titan HM."

Guess what trial I landed in?

Titan HM?

Congrats! You win!

But apparently, when I'm actively trying my best to dodge Landslides, I will get kicked off, while when I'm lagging so badly that Landslide shows up as part of a chain of moves Titan is vomiting out in rapid succession after a lag spike, I can dodge them just fine without even trying to.

[Imoen]

it's like that moment....

when you can't find your keys and stop looking for them! :P

[Gemina]

Always blame the healer :|

If you don't want to read through all the text, the short version is a nightmare Titan HM run where the main healer gets knocked off early, and no one can dodge anything. Then get blamed for all the deaths despite being out of Cleric and healing/rezzing the entire time.

After the clear:



And here I am "not healing while my fairy does everything". They rezz too, eh?









edited to omit the names of the other players.

[SilkaN]

Always blame the healer :|

You might want to blur the names or you will be risking a forum ban. Just saying.

[Chocolys]

It was 2 days ago. I had never play Sohm Al before and I just queued for it, and I was hoping to find a decent group for my first time in this dungeon.

The instance pops, one PLD, one MNK, one SCH and myself as SMN.
Everyone says hello excepted the PLD. But well who really cares as long as he can tank properly

Well on that last point:

- The tank was not using Shield Oath even after politely being requested to do so when we noticed he was not holding aggro.
- I think he may have never heard of Flash skill.
- And everytime he just pick up a single target and swings at it until it's dead, regardless of what is happening around with the other adds and us.

After the first pull, I switched from Garuda-Egi to Titan-Egi who was a lot better at holding aggro than this PLD.

We managed to pass the first boss that way, while still not a single word from the tank had been heard.

Just after that, the Monk got apparently annoyed enough and requested a vote kick on the tank. Needless to say the PLD got booted out.

Finally all just three of us had fun finishing the dungeon without a tank afterward.

Thanks again to whoever the Monk and the Scholar were (sorry I forgot your names), and kisses to Titan-Egi xD

[Paladinleeds]

- The tank was not using Shield Oath even after politely being requested to do so when we noticed he was not holding aggro.
- I think he may have never heard of Flash skill.
- And everytime he just pick up a single target and swings at it until it's dead, regardless of what is happening around with the other adds and us.

Have done the first one before. If I don't notice it first time, a <se.#> (where # is a number between 1 and 16) is enough to drag my attention to the chat and realise I forgot to put up Shield Oath! Sometimes I become so tunnelvisioned I need an unexpected sound effect to draw my attention to chat.

Believe me. You're not the only one.

T'is a shame you're on Couerl and not Odin, we could have partied up and pondered it together.

[Gemina]

You might want to blur the names or you will be risking a forum ban. Just saying.

I forgot about that. Thank you!

[Violyre]

Last night, my FC leader and I were doing PotD. On one run, we notice one person (an AST) not doing a thing other than casting Aspected Benefic and using the /sit command. I ended up calling her out, and both her and the other DPS started to attack our skill as players.

Specific notes include:

-Insulting my character name
-Commenting on gear that showed up in Lodestone (we're supposed to log out in our main classes apparently)
-Calling us "scrubs" because neither of us had the gobwalker or A12S mount (they didn't either...)

On the boss floor, they both did nothing until my FC leader and I died, after we took out the majority of its HP alone.

No one could kick anyone either, since both them and my group queued duo.