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

[Rita1989]

Got Titan NM on my monk in leveling roulette, the tank 34 MRD decides to tank by jumping around in circles around the boss cleaving people eventually he dies and I end up tanking it the boss the rest of the fight as he couldn't get hate back which was probably a good thing....

[Aramina]

Stuff.

We all have our moments. :P Mine was getting Praetorium with another AST. I didn't notice at first so I automatically went diurnal, then I notice the other AST and they are diurnal... and here is where the fun begins... Apparently he/she noticed me at the same time and we both managed to switch to nocturnal right as the tanks pull so we both get locked to nocturnal. Ok, no biggie I will just change back to diurnal... nope... I can't because we skipped mobs and I am now stuck in combat. Carrying on I am spamming my diurnal button hoping that combat breaks at some point... and right before a later boss TADAH IT DOES! I victoriously switch to diurnal... just in time for the tank to pull and notice that the other AST also just switched back to dirunal. LOL at that point I finally said I will stay diurnal if you want to switch back to nocturnal... it was so terrible, but so hilarious at the same time.

[HyoMinPark]

Just had a super, super smooth run of World of Darkness.

New person bonus; circle drops and immediately 3 people in alliance C leave. I was like "Wow really? Already?" Anyways, we just continue on as normal, and fill back up before Mr. Mortal Gaze Ahriman. Long story short, everyone followed mechanics. Newbies stumbled a bit, but nothing too serious. No wipes on any of the bosses. Everything was so smooth. Even Cloud of Darkness. Sucks for those that left before they could even give the newbies a chance.

Thanks to everyone that was in there. o7

[Lyraele]

This may not be the optimal place to ask, but I have no idea what's funny about the "those AST" stories. Why is it funny? Being a newbie is puzzling sometimes...

[Kallistra]

This may not be the optimal place to ask, but I have no idea what's funny about the "those AST" stories. Why is it funny? Being a newbie is puzzling sometimes...

SCH shields and AST shields do not stack, they overwrite each other. Which is frustrating for the SCH since the AST is basically choosing to eff them over. AST shields and AST regens (unless they changed the regens? But I'm pretty sure they didn't) do not stack either if both ASTs are in the same Sect. But AST and WHM Regens stack.

So basically, SCH + Diurnal Sect (regens) = good.
SCH + Nocturnal Sect (shields) = bad.
WHM + Diurnal Sect = meh.
WHM + Nocturnal Sect = better meh.
Di AST + Di AST = bad.
Noct AST + Noct AST = bad.
Noct AST + Di AST = good.

[Texa]

This didn't happen to me, but a friend was running Xelphatol and someone in there was parsing. They posted the numbers in the chat to gloat over their score and make the healer feel bad for not doing more damage. I wish I was there to report the dude. I'm fine with parsing under certain circumstances and without any intent to shame people, but in that dungeon especially it's like whining about other people driving at the speed limit holding you back when you are driving on the highway on a rocket car.

[Lyraele]

SCH shields and AST shields do not stack, they overwrite each other. Which is frustrating for the SCH since the AST is basically choosing to eff them over. AST shields and AST regens (unless they changed the regens? But I'm pretty sure they didn't) do not stack either if both ASTs are in the same Sect. But AST and WHM Regens stack.

So basically, SCH + Diurnal Sect (regens) = good.
SCH + Nocturnal Sect (shields) = bad.
WHM + Diurnal Sect = meh.
WHM + Nocturnal Sect = better meh.
Di AST + Di AST = bad.
Noct AST + Noct AST = bad.
Noct AST + Di AST = good.

Thanks for the sense-making!

[HyoMinPark]

This didn't happen to me, but a friend was running Xelphatol and someone in there was parsing. They posted the numbers in the chat to gloat over their score and make the healer feel bad for not doing more damage. I wish I was there to report the dude. I'm fine with parsing under certain circumstances and without any intent to shame people, but in that dungeon especially it's like whining about other people driving at the speed limit holding you back when you are driving on the highway on a rocket car.

Your friend should be able to still report them to a GM for harassment. The GM can go back and look at the dungeon chat logs, and see that, not only did that individual admit to parsing, but they were using it to harass another player. If this happened recently, your friend may be able to go back in his own chat log and get the person's name.

[Texa]

Your friend should be able to still report them to a GM for harassment. The GM can go back and look at the dungeon chat logs, and see that, not only did that individual admit to parsing, but they were using it to harass another player. If this happened recently, your friend may be able to go back in his own chat log and get the person's name.

They didn't want to and since I wasn't there I couldn't do it myself.

I have reported malicious parsers before and gotten them suspended so I wouldn't hesitate if I saw it happen again. I think it's absolutely fine to use them so long as the numbers aren't being used to single people out, but some individuals just cannot keep things to themselves.

[HyoMinPark]

Just had a super odd experience in a BisEx run for WT.
Every single one of us had a HUGE lag spike, and then started red dotting. Lasted for about a full minute. And then, suddenly, everything fast-forwards, and we're all laying there dead. XD

Was really strange... I really hope we aren't going to have another repeat of a few weeks ago where Level3 derped, and then a couple days later the servers or something else derped. Game pls.

Did that happen to happen to anyone else? O.o