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

[S-r-ex]

I'm still wondering why they called it "Cleric Stance" in the first place, it's kind of ambiguous, something like "Combat Stance", "Damage Stance", "Attack Stance" or similar could have been more explicit. Maybe a case of weird translation from Japanese to English?

In Japanese they just transliterate "Crusader Stance" in katakana. Translation might be a vague reference to clerics in the movie Equilibrium, just without the gun kata action.

[Mysterysword]

I really shouldn't have queued for Trials roulette as AST, while nursing the worst headache of my year. Because it dropped me right into Ramuh.

Highlights include:

- Having both healers frozen in terror at the adds phase, and of course being completely ignored.
- The MT deciding to smack away at Ramuh instead of helping to kill adds, causing a wipe when adds weren't killed in time and Ramuh exploded us all.
- The NIN ignoring their tether and happily continuing to attack, even when they had Weakness. I was so tempted to just let them die, and it would've been so easy.
- The newbie DRG getting themselves killed via tankbuster. Multiple times. Even after being told about tankbuster. I just couldn't take it and asked why, for the love of god, they insisted on standing in front of Ramuh. I received no satisfactory answer. Really, why?
- Being both frozen and tethered to said newbie DRG, who obviously had no idea how to get rid of this tether. Thanks, RNGesus. No, really, I hate you too.
- And for some inexplicable reason, the MT, a PLD, managed to run out of TP and demanded Goad. He got it, along with Army's Paeon.

So after healing my ass off to save the party from its own indescribable laziness and stupidity? No comms, of course. But then again, that's fine. I don't want comms from people who think it's a good idea to stand in front of tankbusters when they're not tanks, or who cause wipes because they can't be bothered to switch targets.

[AlphaFox]

Been said before but honestly wish there was something to be done about these people (usually Tanks I see) who just say "Nope" and bail out of a dungeon wasting the times of the others who had to wait. Especially when the wait times are hurting for the dps. I know ARF isn't the most fun but you'll still more than likely clear it before the 30min penalty expires now, plus having to start over and possibly getting the same dungeon again anyway.

Edit: Which being a healer, got ARF again and we cleared in like 15.

[raela]

- And for some inexplicable reason, the MT, a PLD, managed to run out of TP and demanded Goad. He got it, along with Army's Paeon.

I've bottomed out on TP on PLD there many times.. If the DPS is slow, MT essentially has 100% damage uptime and no way to recover TP. That aside, wow, what a painful sounding party..

[Kallistra]

Said Cure IIs were healing for, at the most, around 350 HP each time. I can't even be bothered to try and dig up an explanation for that anymore.

Broken gear.

[AnaviAnael]

I really shouldn't have queued for Trials roulette as AST, while nursing the worst headache of my year. Because it dropped me right into Ramuh.

I truly...TRULY do no understand why people have so many problems with Ramuh (HM or EX). I can't tell you how many times I've gotten him for WT and we wipe because people don't kill adds.

[RyuSaarva]

mentor roulette, I got sohr kai but no tank to be seen and no tank joined either, it was pretty easy without a tank but I wish I could have given ninja enmity buffs for summonned titan, I never managed to use blood for blood.

[dragonseth07]

I truly...TRULY do no understand why people have so many problems with Ramuh (HM or EX). I can't tell you how many times I've gotten him for WT and we wipe because people don't kill adds.

I STILL have not gotten my clear. Let me explain:

People ignore mechanics. When you call them out in chat for it, they ignore you and keep ignoring mechanics. Eventually, someone gets kicked. You don't get a replacement. You vote abandon. See? Simple.

[Ersilon]

Queued for Cutter's Cry last night on my MCH to get some EXP, and took along an FC buddy who was leveling his warrior. We get a BLM alt character and an AST who had a few 60's. Over the first half of the run, I noticed a few random cards going out where they made little sense, like the Ewer on on the BLM in the middle of killing a pull, and Apsected Benefic going onto the war as soon as he'd tagged one (but not all) mobs. I offered the AST some tips, since AST is my main and I love it to death. Received a favorable response and I proceeded to gush and infodump about what cards do what, how they work when used in Royal Road, who likes what cards, et cetera. Also a few little tips and tricks I'd found effective like doubling up on HoTs when using Diurnal to keep the healing easier. I gave her my comm for listening and applying what she'd learned, as the second half of the dungeon was a lot smoother than the second, even though I was dong a lot of typing instead of murdering mobs. I wanted to give the BLM a comm as well for picking up my slack without complaint.

[Averax]

why dont healers sprint

I sprint, because somehow everyone else just seems faster...

I see a lot of tanks sprint....as they're facepulling all of the trash....