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

[Chocolys]

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As long as you managed aggro properly and the healer had no difficulty managing your HP, I don't see what he had to complain about xD

Maybe it was a lazy healer who did not want to miss on the 20% healing bonus from the tank stance

[Galaktica]

Hadn't played MNK in nearly a year. Started my anima and bought some fresh new gear.

"How come I stopped playing this job?" Queue up for dungeon. Get to first enemy. Tank keeps spinning it around.

"ooooooooh, now I remember."

[Amirya]

I main AST, but my secondary healer is WHM. They're equally geared, and I play WHM enough to not be a complete tool.

Yet, just now in SV (HM), I couldn't not feel like one. Though my brain kept telling me that when a PLD keeps pulling as many mobs as he can, while switching between ShO and SwO (mid-pull), stopping long enough for the NIN to drop Doton and then running off again, not using HG until they were done pulling (at 8% health), and let dragons eat me (because that's what happens when heretics turn into dragons while the healer is healing)...well, I can't help that. Nor can I help it when it's decided to repeat this experience, and I just can't keep up with the sprints around the corner, the ShO/SwO switcheroos, or lack of cooldowns (I imagine they're for chumps).

I can usually deal with tanks who apparently think that 60 healers have full access to the 60 toolkit in 50 roulettes. But this one...I couldn't. Couldn't even dps on boss fights, he was getting smoked.

I couldn't even use E4E, because I was so busy spamming Cure 2 (and 3, and DS on cooldown), and I kept looking that I wasn't in CS, because...he was getting that smoked.

[Leadleaf]

-Queue for trial as SCH
-Bismarck
-dps decide now is a perfect time to start a conversation
-one dps falls off
-dps continue to talk
-Get to snakes
-Wipe at 1% on second snake
-I leave duty.

It already kinda irks me, probably more than it should, when people decide to use party/alliance chat to hold conversations with their friends. But then to wipe at 1%? I don't understand how anyone could think anything other than "hmmmm, maybe if I wasn't so busy talking, we might have cleared it."

I'm not trying to ruin anyone's fun, but like...c'mon, the rest of us are trying to get stuff done too.

As I levelled pld, I got into a vault where people kept gossiping about how terrible the first tank was for leaving them and criticising their dps.

I used rampart thrice on that trash pull.

[SpiritMuse]

I was running A10n for my last bit of loot and as OT I get the tether mechanic on me. So I run away, trying to point it at as few people as possible, but it catches the nin standing by the boss and he dies. Later I get the tether again, so I run away in exactly the same direction, and again the nin ends up standing in the way and dies. Then he shouts at me in all caps to stop doing that. Shortly after that we down the boss, and he starts trying to explain that I did it wrong. I'm not sure what else I should have done, though. There were a couple of melee surrounding the boss - if I'd run in another direction, someone else would have been in the way of the tether. Unless they moved, of course. When I tried to tell him as much, he made a remark about how mentors were brainless. Others started agreeing with him about how wrong I was. He said he was trying to help me, and I told him I don't mind being corrected, it's namecalling I have a problem with (also, starting off the conversation with an angry all caps generally does not make the other party more receptive to your arguments). Once the loot rolls were completed (I got my loot, at least) and I left, I got a comm. So now I'm totally confused, lol. How are you supposed to handle the tether? It was apparently my fault that the nin died, even though he could have moved out of the way of the clearly visible line?

[Cherub]

This! Eventually your hands just go on auto pilot.

That being said; I'm still a little panicky in new dungeons <_>!

Sometimes, very rarely, like once every third full moon, my hands auto-pilot and I do terrible things. It doesn't even last long, it's just like a 3 second spasm until I get my shit together. And then I sit there, with 4 different menus open while fighting brute justice on savage mode as a BLM with 0 MP in Astral fire with transpose on CD and raging strikes up.

[Lokier]

I main nin and my hands go on auto-pilot way too much.

I kept trying to do Suiton and getting confused when nothing would happen. For a while I thought there was something wrong with Suiton, or bosses were invisibly immune to the ability when first pulled. Eventually I caught myself doing the combo for Huton and realised it wasn't a bug, it was me passively going from left to right on my controller, instead of right to left. I don't really think about what I'm doing when I fight, I've memorised all of my action lay-out, combos, etc. I don't even look at my keyboard when I type any more, lol.

Still, sometimes I just automatically go to refresh Huton when I don't want to, lmao.

[Averax]

Sometimes, very rarely, like once every third full moon, my hands auto-pilot and I do terrible things. It doesn't even last long, it's just like a 3 second spasm until I get my shit together. And then I sit there, with 4 different menus open while fighting brute justice on savage mode as a BLM with 0 MP in Astral fire with transpose on CD and raging strikes up.

It happens to me whenever i have to quickly cast benediction (or any of the "oh sh*t" heals), 50% of the time i accidentally cast it on myself or someone with full health.

[Ninster]

How are you supposed to handle the tether? It was apparently my fault that the nin died, even though he could have moved out of the way of the clearly visible line?

I guess you're supposed to aim it at as many party members as possible for a high score? Run over all three buttons for bonus points too, don't forget that.

[AlphaFox]

How are you supposed to handle the tether? It was apparently my fault that the nin died, even though he could have moved out of the way of the clearly visible line?

If its normal, you wanna aim for an empty line of just you and him. Really depends where he is being tanked. In savage for us he is usually between the 2 button on the edge so we are free to run to the wall where no one should be. For normal, just run in a line with the least people to one of the electric sides if possible, rarely OT that one so not 100% but basically just commit to it so the dps/healers can move out of the way.