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

[Urthdigger]

Tanking Keeper of the Lake and came across a sprout WHM attempting to do damage as well as heal. Since I main WHM, I asked if they wanted some pointers, they said that they did, and I gave them a few tips on how to give themselves as large a window and cram as much DPS into as they can. They took the advice to heart and did pretty good! Always nice to see a sprout learning how to push themselves to the limit.

[HyoMinPark]

Lord help us all. I have two birds left, Sophia and then I have to actually clear Zurvan...but it may not be till Stormblood now.

Sophia is very easy. With a good group, you can easy push her enough to skip most tankbusters, and a few other mechanics. And with a good macro, marking players for Sin and Punishment is a piece of cake. Good groups know when and where to stack with each other as well. Other than he sometimes switching up her Aero III and Thunder III, her fight is more-or-less scripted, just to a lesser degree than, say, Thordan or Sephirot.

Zurvan I find a little more tricky since his fight can have a bit more randomness with regards to some skills he uses (Tail End, Biting Halberd, Circle--I know it's like Circile or whatever but I call it Circle), and if DPS is slow, Soar can't be skipped--which results in a lot of salt. Broken Seal and the tethers can cause issues too, since unlike Sophia, they are randomly distributed compared to Sin/Punishment and cannot be easily solved with a pairing macro. And if people strain them, that causes more issues (a beautiful Bleed debuff that ticks for a decent amount). But with a little coordination (Discord helps a lot with Broken Seal and determining which pairs run where), Zurvan isn't that bad either. It's only bad because of the salt, really. Lol

I personally find Sophia to be the easiest of the two, but maybe that's because I've done her fight close to 200 times between weapon and bird farming that it's just second nature to me. Zurvan I've done 30-ish times or so. Neither are that bad; SephEx is definitely more difficult compared to the other two Warring Triad. So if you do fine with Seph, I think you'll do fine with Sophia and Zurvan. :3

[bounddreamer]

@Hyomin, on Primal I tried to join several Sophia "farms" last month while working on SCH and WHM relics because I figured it would be decent light farming and I didn't need to roll on the bird. Sadly, the groups were all so bad that some didn't get a single clear, let alone multiples. People kept falling, dying, getting knocked off, tanks wouldn't mitigate tankbusters...it was a real pain and I went back to getting light from pvp.

[SeriousxSarcasm]

This is actually one that I wasn't personally involved in, I watched my sis do it yesterday. She got Neverreap in 60 roul, was running as PLD with two friends from our LS. I'll... be completely honest, they both main DPS, they do roughly half the damage a casually dpsing WHM can do. >_<; So, already the run is gonna be painful. She actually hates bad DPS more than bad tanks/healers lmao. But friends are friends, so you put up with it.
Well they get in, she does the standard pulls, shite dies as agonizingly slow as we think it would until WHM Holy spams... and then keeps Holy spamming on next big pull.

Me: dude, you using cooldowns?
Sis: Uh yeah, they ran out.... No regen even, He's gonna let me die, I don't have the MP for a Clemency.
Me: Sword Oath? ((enemies were low in HP, was thinking maybe she could kill them before they got her))
Sis: I can't risk the extra damage if he's not healing.

Sure enough, wipe. WHM says "stuff is dying too slow." Like, okay? So you screw the tank to teach the DPS a lesson? :/ I told her to kick him, you don't need a healer that doesn't have your back, but she's always been more tolerant than me with jerks. She says she doesn't blame healer for being annoyed, because she's annoyed with them too. But dude, now she's stuck with bad DDs, and a pissy healer that's gone full DD mode, so pretty much she's carrying the run by the 3rd pull.

So yeah. I eventually convinced her to go yolo-Sword-Oath mode on everyone since healer was so dang concerned about damage. XD There is nothing more depressing than seeing PLD out dpsing everyone, holding hate and also healing themselves through 70% of a dungeon. XP I think I would die in shame.

[HyoMinPark]

@bounddreamer - That's unfortunate. I can't recall ever having too many issues with the PF (or even RF) groups I was in on Aether. The only times I remember having any major issues were when bonuses were sneaking into farm groups without listening to any of the mechanic advice others gave them. But this was a while ago; I haven't been in any Sophia groups the last month or two since I had her bird and was focused on Zurvan's or other birds.

With regards to light, have you done any A1S? Easy to farm, and a decent source of light, especially if you hit a sturdy bonus window. And much faster than Sophia or PvP.

[bounddreamer]

With regards to light, have you done any A1S? Easy to farm, and a decent source of light, especially if you hit a sturdy bonus window. And much faster than Sophia or PvP.

I did clear parties on my alt on Aether and was pleasantly surprised how fast I got my alt's clears for Thordan, Sephirot, and Sophia. Have yet to get the alt clears for Nidhogg and Zurvan, wanted to gear her up a bit more.

Got very farmed out on A1S, it's too boring. I did it some on WAR, DRG, a ton on PLD, DRK, and a bit of AST, then swore off anymore A1S parties.

Variety became more important to me than speed, and the plus side of doing so much PvP was I gained a fair number of PvP achievements in the process.

[Lilyth]

Heya, just wanted to pop up and say thank you to everyone for the amazing support!
To be bonest I'm still a little in shock by the all the atention my silly story received. x_x

Still, seeing all those msgs made feel really warm inside. Makes me wanna try even harder next time cause I know there are awesome people out there and they deserve my best.

Hm... l better stop before this becomes too cheesy... xD
Ty all again!

[Miste]

I never see good DRGs in DF. Ever.

Just got out of a Sohm Al Hard where the DRG never once used heavy thrust or blood of the dragon. Not. Even. Once.

I don't even care if you have trouble keeping the buff on or forget sometimes its fine.....BUT at least ATTEMPT to try to use them??? /smh

Level 60 in Expert...no excuse at all for that.

[Lunaxia]

Maybe I'm too stupid, but is it just me or does this forum not allow PMs?
One of us should set up a PF to exchange Discord / Steam / whatever contact data.

Anyway, Expert Roulette, Sohm Al HM.
Premade (Tank, Healer and me as SMN) and a random BLM.
They were able to pull their own weight, which made me happy.
I thanked them for doing DPS.
They responded with:
"I know that feeling."

Commendations were exchanged after that run.

Sure, what time are you on?

It's sad how much gratitude you do feel when a player goes beyond the bare minimum...

[RLofOBFL]

Somewhat "hard" 8 man content where you queue as healer & the other healer seemingly does nothing for awhile so you watch their cast bar and see them do almost nothing as you basically solo heal the entire fight besides a few aoe heals and an odd cure 1. Then after sweating bloody bullets trying to carry this lazy -censored-, you get no comms to top it off.


This has happened to me more times than I can count ._.