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

[NaesakiAshwell]

<3

There are no words for the Deathflare rotation, it is just <3 <3 <3 \^o^/ <3 <3 <3 you will love it.

But yeah its like I would bring Blizz 2 lower down when doing lower stuff but I end up forgetting so its just become a force of habit to get by without it xD.

In other news just did a Sohm Al expert run, was another summoner as the 2nd dps. Not had that combo in the long time, the dots, so many dots. I loved it <3

Though this other summoner was at least to me using Dreadwyrm trance at really odd times and losing quite a few seconds out of it, like before the 2nd boss encounter started :c Think of the lost Ruin III's! D: But other than that, things just melted into goop.

[Vidu]

I got a second bard for my daily level 60 roulette - they werent terrible, mind you, even if they were dealing less damage than I did. So I checked their gear - about the same ilvl than mine, specifically the weapon: ilvl260 relic. I always like to creep on how others decided to spend their stat-points and was met with some horror here: They had spend points on EVERYTHING, including parry. The only stat close to the cap was speed; accuracy, det and crit all had like 40 points with 7 spend on parry for some reason.

I considered telling them about how you can change points later, but figured that a person with a relic like that might also be a person who doesnt want to hear "That relic is crap"

[Averax]

I don't particularly enjoy playing WHM, because it's a rather boring job to me. At its core, it's all about massive amounts of healing and DPSing. No mitigation, nothing. So I much prefer playing SCH and AST.

That said, I still know how to play WHM. It's boring, but it's also the easiest of all 3 healer jobs to get the hang of. Slap some regens on the tank, turn on Cleric Stance, DPS, turn off Cleric Stance, heal the tank, reapply regens, rinse, repeat.

I simply cannot understand, for the life of me, how someone can get to Heavensward content playing as a WHM and still not understand these basics of the job. Trying to DPS without Cleric Stance, because turning it on and off is clearly too much work. Never once using Divine Seal or Shroud of Saints, because those are clearly for chumps. Conservation of MP? What does that even mean? Take another pointless, unnecessary, unprocced Cure III and shut up! Or just standing around spamming Medica when the PLD is the only one taking damage, and struggling to keep aggro in the first place because it's a low level dungeon and they don't even have Sword Oath.

God this

I was basically solo healing a8 yesterday because the WHM was not reacting correctly or actually using their full skillset.

It took them 10 seconds of standing still before they decided to hardcast a raise on me after someone flubbed a mechanic and killed me. And then they only cast cure/cure 2

When someone confronted them about their incompetence, they simply responded with "this isn't my main". How do you make it from 1-60 without realizing you have more than two or three buttons to press. They never cast assize, medica, medica 2, asylum, stoneskin 2, shroud, tetra, benediction, or anything else other than cure, cure 2, and raise. They did have swiftcast, this much i noticed, but they rarely used it.

[Pells]

Ouch. That's just harsh >

Which is why you report it as abusive behavior. It's an abuse of the vote-kick system.

[Texa]

I fell off the platform twice in Titan NM earlier. I haven't had a problem with that trial in months, I'm not sure if I was having latency problems or just genuinely sucking that hard.

[Claviusnex]

Though this other summoner was at least to me using Dreadwyrm trance at really odd times and losing quite a few seconds out of it, like before the 2nd boss encounter started

I think it has a lot to do with your party's pace. I will use Dreadwyrm on that last mob pretty often and still have time for everything to be off of cool down before entering the 2nd boss. I think that is where the real skill comes in. Being able to determine when to use certain actions so they are off of cool down for when you really need them.

[Miste]

Had an encounter with an odd BRD.

Queued for Level 50 roulette and got Wanderer's Palace HM.

I was on SCH and my boyfriend was on tank, load in protect etc everyone starts moving.

First pull went okay, bit slow maybe, but don't matter.

Second pull and I notice the BRD only ran up halfway then stopped, so they went AFK or typing or who knows. We had about 6 mobs on us since my BF trusts me with double pulls. We just continue to kill them best we can with 1 dps and some SCH bane. I eventually call out to the BRD asking if they are coming, since we are taking awhile without their help and they finally start moving and caught up when the mobs are almost dead.

I really don't like it when people AFK without saying anything but, whatever, it was only once so far and I completely understand that it happens sometimes so we keep going.

We get to the first boss, do a ready check and everyone clicked yes so my BF pulls the boss.

I was standing pretty close to the BRD so I saw them attacking as normal at pull, but a little bit into the fight I notice they have stopped using abilities and is now only auto attacking for around 20 seconds, then they used maybe two abilities and then they are only auto attacking again and this time they never moved or used any abilities after that all the way until we wiped.

The boss was spawning those exploding fire spears on the ground that you have to kill and honestly as a SCH my ability to kill those quickly sucks and while the other DPS was on point trying to help we are having them explode because the BRD is just sitting AFK auto attacking the boss.

This is the second time so I call out in chat to the BRD again, a bit irritated by this point, and say something like "BRD? We need your help, you can't keep AFKing without telling us and if you need to AFK for some reason you have to tell your group"

I typed it fast but then I had to go back to healing and trying to help kill the exploding fire spears; eventually the boss spawns two of them and with the ones before that exploding we had too many stacks and each exploded once or twice and the boss went berserk started charging around and we all wiped.

We all hit return to beginning the bard still dead for 5-10 more seconds before they hit return. Whole time in there never got a response from the bard even once. I asked if they are going to stop AFKing or at least tell us if they need to AFK but no answer and they just kept running to boss.

We got to the boss line again and still no response or any apology for essentially wiping us or for just sitting there auto attacking while the rest of the group was actually trying to do their jobs. Normally I don't care if people don't chat in this game, but considering we just wiped on the first boss and they are AFKing or whatever during a boss fight and not doing their part I decided to not bother giving them a third chance and we gave up and kicked the BRD out.

I just don't get why people will not only waste other people's time but also actively waste their own. So confusing.

[NaesakiAshwell]

I think it has a lot to do with your party's pace. I will use Dreadwyrm on that last mob pretty often and still have time for everything to be off of cool down before entering the 2nd boss. I think that is where the real skill comes in. Being able to determine when to use certain actions so they are off of cool down for when you really need them.

I think it might have been tbh, I have to assume his 3 stacks were about to run out so it was either use or or lose it. He did get a few hits out before Deathflare

Or also I think he thought the tank was gonna jump on the boss sooner because on the mobs before the boss, he hit 3 stacks on the last mob to die, but as soon as we walked to the boss line he engaged the trance but the tank didn't start the fight right away. Which cost him a few ruin III's, not a big deal really.

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People are weird, the only things that spring to mind are.

It was a bot.
The guy was an ass.
Guy was playing on console and for whatever reason didn't have a keyboard/something to type at all so couldn't say anything so even if something was happening with em irl you wouldn't be able to know.
The guy really didn't care and was hoping to be carried.
Guy didn't speak english and didn't understand what was being said, but even then there are ways around that.

[Mikaeus_The_Lunarch]

meanwhile i'm hear fighting for muh rolls T_T

[bardaboo]

Lvl 60 smn in qarn reg.. spamming miasma on one mob... no bane. Nothing. Just spam a random dot 5 times. Then switch to a different dot. I pointed this out i got booted. Honestly. . This community is frikking retarded. Coddle and carry the retards!! Onward my noble numb nuts!!