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

[Hrimfaxi]

Yesterday i was determined to get my Warrior to lvl 60. That time i was level 59.
I opened duty finder and i wonder to try trials. I havent done on war except ifrit and titan. For some reason i had a hunch i will get Thorn march. I went to look up just in case what i had to do. I queue up and behold i got Thorn March!!! Knew it!! XD
Did leveling roulette and 50s dungeon roulette but still didnt level up. I was quite close.

Look up the highest dungeon i can go and i got Gubal Library normal.
Everything was fine, die a few times cus healer was down. The final boss was very messy. Couldnt seal quickly and 2 adds spawn. I grab one but the healer and other dps stood so far away at the edge of the corner. Honestly it was so messy i thought we couldnt win but i still pushed on. The boss HP was still quite a lot but the other dps (SMN and DRG) was doing a good job. Healer was raising one dead dps so i did what i could to keep myself alive. I was really on low HP but i manage to survive on boss and 2 adds. In the end we manage to defeat the boss and i got to lvl 60 by then
Warrior is my first tank on 60 and this was my first time getting in a pinch but i manage to keep it cool and use all the utilities i have to stay alive for my party. Overall it was a good lesson and experience before reaching lvl 60.

Time to celebrate!! Huzzah! XD

[Artamie]

Never thought I'd actually feel like posting this thread but I just about pulled my hair out. 4 wipes in Aurum Vale. I think the tank must have thought I had a bigger toolkit but forgot about the level cap. Proceeds to pull half the first room and spammed unleash. No time to dps... several wipes from big pulls since not even phalanx with roused Eos and physick/adlo spam could save her. Also conveniently turned bad breath while I was spamming heals to keep them alive. Is pulling this many how they usually do it in English servers? The person had all their jobs at 50+ so this whole inattention to dying seems more than mere coincidence.

[Atoli]

Aah it's good to be back <3
I had so many stories I wanted to share but have forgotten them all by now xD

So all I can talk about now is my uneventful "I remembered at 4 am on Monday that I still have to do 3 leveling roulettes" story.
I learned something new today - that I hate healing the lvl 51 dungeon. Got paired with an ilvl 240-260 mentor tank.
Seeing that we had a MNK and NIN (two classes obviously known for their AMAZING AoE capabilities ), said tank was convinced there was no better plan than to always pull from door to door, largest pulls possible.
Now, I have leveled my PLD in there not too long ago and know just how brutal the scaling is in there, I have no idea why but this dungeon just destroyed me as a tank (while Sohm Al never hurt as much in the same gear).
So I was...wary. And, as expected, even with constant healing and all my cooldowns and even bene I barely kept him alive.
Maybe it would have been fine if mobs went down faster, but I really can't blame the dps, they did their best but a NIN is no BLM and a MNK no SMN in terms of AoE dmg :|
So I asked him if smaller pulls wouldn't be a better idea. Was met with angry "I know how to do this right, don't tell me how to do my job!" and "I'm OP anyways, my gear is amazing, if you can't heal this you are the problem here" messages.

Because I really couldn't afford getting kicked over something so stupid (because I needed to finish 3 runs before weekly reset and this was only the first..xD), I didn't say anything else and just tried to keep him alive.
That's when he got really nasty, complaining about my lack of Holy Spam (well excuse me, maybe if you stopped dropping from 100% HP to 1% in 0.1 seconds I could get more than 2 or 3 Holys out..>.>),
how a good healer should always keep the tank over 50% HP (he dropped to dangerously low numbers even when I had all my heal buffs on and kept spamming my strongest heals + 2 regens active on him), and so on.

I had noticed before that he never bothered stepping out of any AoE, so I told him that maybe I could attack more if he didn't eat each AoE thrown at him. Answer:
"I'm a tank, I don't need to step out of AoEs. And I outgear this dungeon by far anyways so it doesn't matter if I get hit"
Urgh. UUUUURGH. We kind of somehow finished, without wipes and without kicks, but all of my energy for the night was already spent on that one fight xD

At least after that was the most sweet and lovely and wonderful Sproutling tank I ever had in the lvl 55 Nidhogg dungeon
Even though his gear broke, was so much easier to heal, knew what he was doing and followed mechanics. Just healing my soul..<3

Got another Mentor tank in Brayflox NM afterwards, and while he wasn't bad or rude or anything, he kept on trying to do my job, which REALLY bothered me ._.
Like, I can go afk if you want me to or something? Entering the instance, before the circle even fell, he already cast Protect, then stormed off and tried to cast Cure on himself whenever his HP fell..
I've seen Sprouts do that who aren't aware yet that just because they can cross-class a skill doesn't mean they need to use it, or who are used to solo play from 1-15 and then try to continue doing the same once they enter Sastasha,
but this guy was a Mentor so by no means unfamiliar with the trinity :/
Meh. I guess it's just a pet peeve of mine..xD

[NekoNova]

Us sproutlings are amazing sometimes
And refreshing :P

[Frowny]

Is pulling this many how they usually do it in English servers?

In AV? God no. Mobs hit too hard given the level and item syncs. Need to take that one nice and easy.

[SpiritMuse]

lol does it? well everyone survived regardless ^^; lucky either way and it was still funny at the time

Could have been that the other meteor in his party was run to the left, then his meteor would end up safely in the "back" position as that is where you respawn with it.

[VanilleFang]

In AV? God no. Mobs hit too hard given the level and item syncs. Need to take that one nice and easy.

Yeeaah. The general rule is to take the first area group by group, because pulling even a few of the wondering mobs can lead to a wipe. I have never seen anyone successfully pull a large group in AV outside of unsynced.

[Mysterysword]

So in Great Gubal Library normal as DRK, I found out that, if I really put my back into it, I can totally solo down the last 20% of the first boss. I would really rather do it as PLD though. Because Clemency gives me a lot more peace of mind than desperately spamming Souleater combos.

But hey, after that 50-minute run, I have only one thing left in me to say:

THE STRUGGLE WAS REAL.

[Pells]

No matter how many times I see someone jumping off with a meteor its hilarious for the first 10 secs. Then I realize it still drops the meteor where their body shows up and screws their team. (Oh well they tried)

Two meteors at the back of the platform screws one team. Two meteors between platforms screws two teams. It's the lesser of two evils.

[hydralus]

Did an expert roulette as a DPS and a DRK as the tank.

Healer: "You should really be using Darkside"
DRK Tank: "Not my style."