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

[Mysterysword]

Not really Duty Finder, but well...

This week, I've tried out the Triple Triad tourney for the first time ever.

All I've learned so far is that I suck at math.

Speaking as someone who's played Triple Triad since FF VIII, you can have all the possible calculations memorised and still get screwed over by RNGesus. As usual.

Also FF VIII didn't impose a time limit on turns so it would be easier to learn.

[kupokage]

What keeps a player from switching to below min ilevel gear once they're qued? Had a MNK in Sohm HM with 18k HP at the start and then 14k (no weakness buff) halfway through. I checked its gear and its eqipped with the Anitquated i170, NQ i120 hands, and DEX accs.

There needs to be a way SE can police this. Unforgivable.

[LittleChickenNugget]

It may be that he forgot to check his gear before entering the dungeon and it all broke. I've accidentally done that.. plenty of times as a healer and I'll throw on lower level healing gear.

[Lunaxia]

Farming Venting Part 2: Sophia. Today has been extra special.

Log in, join a farm. It's a fantastic hot mess, but my co-healer is decent so we scrape through two runs with DPS not avoiding Thunder III, getting blown off by Aero and falling off during tilts with bad positioning, but after that everyone gives up.

Farm #2: We join, we go in, there's a bonus. It's the tank. "It looks easy, just tell me which add to take." Nope, no, a thousand times no. I just leave.

Farm #3: I set up my own PF. Explicitly state no bonus, no first timers. Fills up, in we go. Naturally, bonus message pops up! I ask who (because of course no one comes forward of their own accord.) It's the DRK. "I've seen a video -" No. Group agrees to get rid, we boot, back to PF. We get a second tank fairly quickly, and in we go again. The bonus message appears again, and with it my soul dies a little inside. No ones owns up to it, until one of the DPS points out the DRG has a Padjali weapon and Makai armor. DRG links a totem to prove it isn't him, but no one else seems likely. We boot, find a new DPS, come back in - the message is gone. DRG had lied and linked one of the other DPS' totems.

Finally, we start! It starts off well, no silly mistakes... then we get past adds, and it goes to hell. The NIN disconnects for the entire fight, DPS and my co-healer regularly fall off, half the group runs off and drops their meteors in the wrong place so a chunk of the groups gets annihilated, and another chunk gets blown off by Aero. I We pull through and bring it back, and we're at 1% when the enrage hits; I switch to Cleric, let loose an Assize and Fluid Aura and we just make it. The lanner drops. I'm beaten by 2 on a roll by the DRK who nearly wiped us with meteors. Half the group leaves, and the DRK decides to use this as an opportunity to grab the mount and run.

I hate people.

[ArrowAmethyst]

/rant
Been leveling BLM on another character in duty finder from 50-57 so far and I finally lost my Sh*t today and chose to drop.
It is very sickening when every single party I have been in has at least 1 if not 2 players that have underlevelled gear on (usually by atleast 5 levels or more). This last run in the Vault, our tank had a level 1 ring on... (not to mention, our ninja had lvl 50 gear on and did not have kiss of the wasp turned on nor used huton or anything. (Which is why I dropped after the first boss)

This last run aside, while leveling up, every single Bard I have encountered from 52 onwards NEVER uses Wanderer's Minuet and not one of them so far has sang a song (except one bard that used Swiftsong but nothing else...) This grates on me immensely because I consider BRD my main job, and its very disheartening to see people playing it so poorly. Wanderer's Minuet increases your dmg dealt by 30%, and Sure, it turns you into a caster class... BUT without it you barely do any dmg at all, and if your not gonna turn it on, atleast play me a Foe Requiem so I can make up for some of your lost DPS....

/endrant

[HyoMinPark]

Getting over some tankxiety (since it's been a while since I've tanked anything), and started tanking Dun Scaith today (off-tank, as I need to level my PLD one more level for Awareness this evening in the event I end up MTing Diabolos Hollow; I just dislike PLD so much). Anyways, not that bad. Actually kind of fun. Plus, getting some light for my relic. I was actually enjoying myself.

Minus the healers that refuse to heal me when I pick up Scathach's add, forcing me to Living Dead. Or follow me into the middle door for Diabolos Hollow when the third tank is dead and very obviously can't go in themselves. So thank you, healers from the other alliances for keeping me up.

Of course, one of the healers we had was too busy nit-picking everything their co-healer was doing (which it seemed to be that person's first time healing Dun, so advice is fine, but at least be nice about it). Though, they were in full Alexandrian with the weapon as well, so I guess that means they know more than us lowly scrubs who haven't cleared A12S.

Wiped to Ferdiad Hollow for the first time today as well. People changed the puddles to fire while we had Fire Resistance Down. LOL. Thank goodness I was on DRK and had Dark Mind. I was one of three people left standing in our alliance, the other two being a MNK and DRG with 2k health left. Most everyone was raised, but we didn't have enough to clear the DPS check so. My only reaction was just to start laughing.

[bardaboo]

Trash smn in expert. Sohm hm. No dots for the first half of every pull. Would only use tridisaster to apply dots on first boss. Then let them fall. Dies to boss. I mentioned the dots "oh i forgot" oh ok let's continue. Next trash pull, 8 mobs, ruin 3 spam, no dots. Till he's half out of mana. Finally uses dots near the end. Tries to convince me he used them earlier, without getting dread stacks, so, nope. No shadow flares either. At all. Was convinced ruin 3 was better than bliz 2, even though 6 mobs are up. Dies to second boss as well. Calling me a r**ard for knowing more than him. Final boss. No dots for a long time, ruin 3 tridisaster. Ruin 3 till oom literally. .. he had 250 mp.. no stacks.... what does this genius do? Yup pops raging strikes. Tell him dots are priority not spamming ruin 3 till oom, and to take advice instead of being argumentative, "you know what? Go f**k yourself". healer top drops on final boss he has the gall to ask if he can have it and sits out the loot timer.

[LittleChickenNugget]

Running Aery for Anima weapon and get pared with a Dragoon. He's level 56, all of his gear pieces are grey level 50 basic goon gear. No big deal. Except I start to notice right away that he has a pattern. Never once uses Heavy Thrust as an opening. The ONLY attacks he does is the jump attack and spear throw. Dungeon is going incredibly slow but I'm DPSing and just watching the Goon. Make polite comments a couple of times about rotation. Come to bosses, he stays away from the boss and just throws his spear over and over, waits for jump to be available, and then runs away again. Dodging most AoE's pretty well, occasionally approaching but never much. Get to final boss, he's just attacking from afar. Warn him about his rotation one more time. His fear of approaching mobs causes us to wipe on final boss. Vote kick successful. Ninja joins and we kill the boss in record time.

[Lunaxia]

The ONLY attacks he does is the jump attack and spear throw.

[Silverquick]

Mine has been a string of bad tanks lately that have me seriously wondering what's going on with the ones coming up the ranks lately.

I mean I was with a DRK the other day that could not hold agro on a 6-10 mob and I was just like... wow... never seen that before. Couldn't even hold agro on a 3 mob spawn, I was just dropping my jaw. Most DRKs I worked with can EASILY handle that many and never lose control, not once.



I'm already looking at the Tank who is only pulling one spawn point at a time with apathy.

As a Summoner I just look at it and go... man, is that even worth my time to go into Dreadwyrm for? What a waste. At least pull two spawns worth of mobs, I promise I can wipe them out real easy .

I've just had this wierd string of tanks lately that can't even hold agro on even 3 mobs, let alone the 6-10 mobs I can handle. One cast and they're all over the healer or strung out between me and half the field.

I'm just sitting there going... dude seriously gather that crap up... I'm waiting for you to get your house in order so I can wipe them out. But I can't do that if you can't lock them down. But no, just sits there whacking on this one mob.

The REAL tanks I'm used to working with are holding a good 6-12 mobs at a time and I'm just wiping them out as a Summoner... and then there's these other guys... the ones who seem to think this one mob is more important than the others running all over the field and wreaking havok. (One a newbie in Balthar's Wall, handled that like a pro)

The Paladin I ran with in Sohm Al Hard today, did lose control once... but ONLY once... but damn, after that he started seriously locking down those mobs. Thats a real tank...

But some of these other guys lately have me wondering how in the heck they got to that level.