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

[Rhyku]

Met a BLM who was permanently divorced from his Ley Lines in DREx. Turns out he thought he didn't need to stand in it and would get the effects as long as it was activated. Pretty sure the tooltip said you have to be standing IN it too...

On a WTF sidenote, got booted from a dungeon run because someone didn't like that my IGN was named after an NPC and gave me some serious flak for it. Although in his defence, I had a disconnect while he was in mid-taunt about how I should name myself after NPCs in SB. So meh, probably a combi of both, but that was pretty crummy.

[Kahnom]

Dang, that was smooth. I better watch out or Kahnom might steal my woman on me.

No worries,she's out of my league.

[Dreggit]

I spent 75 minutes in gubal normal. As a pally I did more dps than everyone and the group could only handle singlet pulls.

I've not had a run in which I was internally screaming the whole time in a long time. I'd had eaten a penalty if I hadn't seen there was 1 new person (dps)

[NaesakiAshwell]

I spent 75 minutes in gubal normal. As a pally I did more dps than everyone and the group could only handle singlet pulls.

I've not had a run in which I was internally screaming the whole time in a long time. I'd had eaten a penalty if I hadn't seen there was 1 new person (dps)

Were the dps just auto-attacking or something or just doing their flashy moves without the combo build up? Thats just....wow :c

[Dreggit]

Were the dps just auto-attacking or something or just doing their flashy moves without the combo build up? Thats just....wow :c

That's what makes it awful. They were using skills and being flashy but the results were so ubderwhelming.

The party comp was PLD BRD WHM and NIN

On the first pull (a 2 group pull I usually do to test the dps and healing ability of the party) I ended up having to pop all my tank cool downs and healing myself. The WHM -somehow- ran out of mana and the NIN seemed to mostly do flipping? I haven't played the class so don't know the significance of the animation.

It took 37 minutes to clear just the first miniboss. To give an idea of the pacing. And yhey dps was so slow it was probably possible that we could have used an lb twice on the first boss.... not that I'll ever know because noone seemed to listen to me to use it.

(By the by, my official stance on lbs are that it is use it or lose it. Unless there's a specific mechanics that requires the lb... don't hesitate to use it on huge pulls to clear trash for example )

I could use that virtual hug

[Aramina]

Nothing to add today other than that is the best sig I have seen in a while, Naesaki.

[RubenSnizzle]

On a WTF sidenote, got booted from a dungeon run because someone didn't like that my IGN was named after an NPC and gave me some serious flak for it.

i mean....estinein is a male elezen dragoon...and you're a female miqote. I kinda get the guy, if you're gonna roleplay as a npc, try to do it right.

[Urthdigger]

Just had a run of the Vault with a healer who kept spamming cure 3 on single targets and otherwise pissed away their mana We managed to wipe on the first boss because the healer was out of MP, and this was with me on BRD even singing battle voiced ballads. We tried to inform them that cure 3 is inefficient and should only be used for healing the whole group after a party stack mechanic and that they should use cure for most stuff and cure 2 when big heals are needed. They weren't having any of that, just kept spamming away, and we wiped again. All through this, they never said a single word, and after the second wipe they left the party.

Best part? They had multiple level 60 jobs.

Thankfully we got a replacement SCH soon after who did a great job, and proceeded to smash the rest of the dungeon.

[Mysterysword]

a healer who kept spamming cure 3 on single targets

Feels like I've posted about this exact person before... nice to see they haven't learnt anything.

In other news, there are no words to describe the sinking feeling you get when MTing Dun Scaith, getting Doomed, and watching your healers being too busy healing scratches to cleanse you, forcing the BRD to save you with Warden's Peaen (before succumbing to Doom themselves). Or watching BOTH your healers dying to Doom themselves. Or having one of them say "lol i always forget about doom".

This is the kind of thing that makes you realise you shouldn't be MTing. And I'm sure there were a lot of people in the other two alliances who were pissed at me for not MTing when I was a PLD and the other two tanks were not, but at that point, one of the WHMs in my party was down to 11k max HP due to Brink of Death, and the other kept dying to the mechanic of the moment. So while the SMN had to serve as the backup resser, and the BRD fed us a steady stream of MP, I had to serve as the poor-man's third healer/shielder instead of tanking throughout the rest of the dungeon. It was all very inspiring, watching a bunch of people come together to compensate for a pair of healers who kept dropping like flies to the simplest of mechanics. Our DPS was awful, but we survived!

[Rymm]

Was working on leveling my MCH class and ended up getting Vault last night. There was no 'new player' message when we loaded in but the healer was only 57 like me (AST with a lvl capped MNK and DRK also in the party) and admitted that this particular dungeon makes her nervous about healing. I made some comment about being sure it will be fine and we take off. Second pull in and the DRK ran dry on MP, lost aggro to both me and the MNK (I even popped quelling and still pulled off him) because he couldn't unleash any more. As soon as the MNK died he started in on the DRK telling he needs to use darkside to hold better aggro, I pointed out that he was using it and that is why he ran out of MP in the first place which led to the loss of aggro. MNK then goes off about the tank needing to manage his MP better, etc., etc., and while he wasn't wrong, he presented his advice in the most abrasive way possible. We picked ourselves up and kept going.

After that the MNK seemed to feel the need to micro-manage everything the tank and healer did: you need to pull more, you should move the mobs here, don't face that way, use X cooldown, you aren't dps'ing enough, on and on for the rest of the run to the point where I don't even know how much dps'ing he was doing with all the time he spent typing. He really started in on the AST in the later part of the dungeon and, as she already said she was uncertain at the start, she was really shaky by the time we got to the last boss from his constant stream of criticism. We wiped twice on the final boss and he was really laying into her at this point. Like I said, some of his advice was actually good, like changing her sect, but after the second wipe he was just saying total BS like 'Stop screwing up already' when, during the attempt right before that, he was in such a rush he pulled before the tank and before the AST even had a chance to rebuff us. At that point I called him a bossy britches and told him he wasn't helping anyone with "advice" like that. The healer took a moment to collect herself, got us all buffed, and then told the tank to go ahead and pull. We finally downed him on the third attempt (which was good because my gear had really taken a beating by that point) and as everyone was filing out the exit the healer admitted that she was a total nervous wreck that whole fight.

I can understand giving advice to other players when in a dungeon, god knows I've done it enough times in both FF14 and other MMOs, but you can't expect to micro-manage people down to their last hotkey or present your suggestions (no matter how right they are) in a completely nasty way and expect anyone to listen to you.