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

[LunaFaye]

Halatali, pugilist wearing no right side gear, and no pants or belt and the gear they were wearing was level 14 and below.

Am I allowed to try to kick in that situation? I don't understand why there is not option for that in the kick options. Ended up leaving group due to emergency anyway but I find it absurd that someone does that.

You're allowed to kick anybody for any reason (personal/bias/having a bad hair day etc), but the question is more how often will it get through, before your team mates will either kick you for spamming the removal button, or declare you as sheer insane. Always need to keep that in mind, also it's a leveling dungeon even with these slots equipped, you are not going to have the pugilist doing extreme dps, or anybody for that matter but I can see why it would irk someone. But back to the question, if you feel for whatever reason you'll like to kick someone, go ahead and hope your party agrees or doesn't read the little pop up.

Or you could be old school and ask why the person is missing there pants, just make sure you phrase it right, don't want to get reported for sexual harassment. This by the way wouldn't surprise me anymore with the current players but let's move on, there have been plenty of times I forgot to equip something, because i switched from high level to low level, df pop'd and well I just forgot. But someone pointing it out made me equip it as well as got my com for being helpful and mature about it.

Guess you've to figure out what way you would like to go.

[Mysterysword]

To that person in Wiping Shitty who noticed me and said hi, hi back. Sorry I didn't respond, I just didn't really feel like it after being insulted for a mistake I simply couldn't control and those lag spikes were just horrendous.

[dayspring83]

Ex Roulette, Baelsar's Wall.


I went in as Summoner since melting the enemies away with aoes is just so satisfying.

I'm of the mindframe that DPS don't get to dictate the size of pulls. Sure you can have a say but I feel like whatever the healer and tank agree upon is what goes.

That being said I don't disagree with your annoyance at a non AOE-ing DPS.

Just my two Gil.

[SilkaN]

I'm of the mindframe that DPS don't get to dictate the size of pulls. Sure you can have a say but I feel like whatever the healer and tank agree upon is what goes.

That being said I don't disagree with your annoyance at a non AOE-ing DPS.

Just my two Gil.

Well... the first pull usually is representative of the whole run.
Even if a tank / healer isn't too confident in their abilities, they should at least give big pulls a try.
If the party wipes, it doesn't matter. Not much time wasted, since it is only the first pull.
If the party survives the pull and enemies didn't take ages to kill, even better. Now you know that big pulls are okay.
There is literally no downside to trying big pulls (if you don't count the 30~ seconds after a wipe).

Also, when I don't get to melt things as Summoner I become really sad.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

To that person in Wiping Shitty who noticed me and said hi, hi back. Sorry I didn't respond, I just didn't really feel like it after being insulted for a mistake I simply couldn't control and those lag spikes were just horrendous.

It was no problem - I could clearly see you lagging at times, and I know how frustrating that can be. Especially on a healer, urg. x.x That SMN shouldn't have been so rude about an honest mistake that I've seen happen any number of times in Wipe City, especially when no one actually died from it. We weren't the team all down on the ground by the end of Ozma, after all.

You still did way more than the healer we kicked out after Forgall, at any rate. They should have been thankful you were just lagging here and there, dropping only one meteor on us - rather than... you know. Afking outside the boss arena, /sit'ing and making no effort to even act like they wanted to help. Never seen a kick go through that fast, lmao. I'd take a laggy healer over a lazy healer any day, for sure.

[Mysterysword]

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I imagine it'd be difficult to do less than someone who AFKs outside the boss arena. I swear, if I hadn't been lagging so badly, I'd have been able to do way better. The worst part about that meteor was that I even saw it on me, ran all the way to the back with the marker on my head, and then lag just kicked me in the metaphorical nuts and said "Nope, you dropped it next to everyone else!" That was just a new kind of bull.

[HyoMinPark]

Was trying to farm some more A10S this morning, since I finally got 6 pages last night to buy my BRD circlet, and so I need to get pages to buy the healer headpiece. Well... I bounced around from PF to PF from about 10am until 1pm when I finally gave up, and only managed to get in 2 clears (funny enough, they were both with groups that had at least one bonus). The "farms" I joined were all traps. People were dying to Single Charge, dying to the ice, tanks weren't doing the swap correctly, facing the add towards the party so a lot of people got cleaved... I lagged a couple times and got caught in some of the OUT charges, but not nearly as much as some of the other members.

One of the groups I joined, the healer (who kept dying), openly admitted that they were Netflixing while in there. Not only were they my prey buddy (I was on BRD), but the other healer was not extremely familiar with healing the fight. So we had an inexperienced healer (who, in a clear group I'd had the previous night, claimed to have only healed the fight...guess they meant healed the fight once...) who would die to the ice trap more than anything, and another healer too busy browsing his Netflix app, but had the audacity to complain every time they died. ._.

In that same group, had a healer who acted shocked that BRDs were considered part of the speed-kill meta for raids, and then kept making comments about how they would BRD, but they disagree with having Blood for Blood as a cross-class skill, and refused to level lancer to 34 for it. Also refused to touch BRD again for raiding content unless SE removed B4B as one of its buffs. I was just like "Uh no. SE does not need to touch/remove any of my precious puffs. PotD Lancer to level 34; that's the most painless way to do it, and you won't even have to do any class quests for it." I was also kind of insulted that they were acting like BRDs are so weak. I know there's a ton of crappy BRDs out there, but just look at some of the BRDs' numbers in the top FFLogs parses.... BRDs are far from weak, even if we don't have DRG Disembowel/Battle Litany, NIN Trick Attack, and AST Balances buffing us....

I finally just gave up, and joined an A11S learning instead. Thank you, Cassandra, for all of your help! Got to see up to the shield/Blassty Charge, so hoping I can make it to towers soon, and hopefully clear by next weekend so I can look at learning and clearing A12S next.

Did blacklist someone though, because they joined a PF clearly labeled as LEARNING, where multiple people said that we were learning, and then got mad because we wiped twice, and left. Don't join LEARNING PARTIES if you are expecting to clear in one pull. Don't join LEARNING PARTIES if you are expecting them to be wipe free. The joined in on a second group I joined, and I informed the other members of what had happened in the last group, and they informed the person that, if they weren't okay with wiping a lot, then they needed to leave.

Person promptly left.

If you want an one-shot clear, get a group together that can one-shot A11S. Instead of posting your arrogant PFs about "A11S clear; know fight; 2-point strat; 3 mistakes / wipes = disband & blisted." I didn't even block them for leaving after 2 wipes; I blocked because of their PFs they continued to put up all evening. ._.

[Alynn]

Queued for expert roulette and got Sohm Al HM and a WAR/BRD who amazed the hell out of me. We had a bonus but I turned a blind eye to that because even bonuse. s know no to stand in AOES right? Nah. The WAR proceeded to face tank everything and its amazing we got through the first boss. BRD didn't use WM even though he spoke english. Next set of mobs he ate every AOE and got 1 shotted. At that point I just ate the penalty and noped the heck out of there.

30 mins later, my group got through it without a scratch.

[Meui]

Here’s one of those (apparently) rare stories that isn’t actually bad! Had a really great run through Baelsar’s Wall tonight. Kinda hard to believe, right? I’m not sure if I’m really “allowed” to name other players here, so I’ll refrain, but if they see this:

Thank you guys for the pleasant and fun run! Everyone had such a great attitude, we made it through without a single hiccup and in record time, too. For someone who hadn’t been through that place in a while, our WAR did splendidly and I don’t run into very many MCHs (at all) that can output that kinda damage. Our AST was also really awesome, amazing heals and some cute macros! Had some good laughs throughout and I sincerely hope to run into each of you again sometime, maybe once the cross-server Friend List is enabled.

‘Til then, stay awesome!

“Fists and bullets” should totally be our new motto.
Arm & Hammer got nothing on us.

[Mhaeric]

and some cute macros!

You lost me at this.