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

[Mhaeric]

Also, I have no idea by what you mean by "can't revive in the middle of a primal fight", because that's pretty blatantly untrue.

They meant release.

[The_Shang]

So yesterday I was helping out a friend with leveling Rogue up to 30 (she wants to try ninja). I was using Scholar because, I'll admit, I was being lazy and Eos can handle all the healing pre-30 anyways.

We landed in Toto-Rak with an inexperienced Paladin and a really new THM.

So, we were doing the usual pulls and I noticed stuff is dying slower than I'm used to with the current party set-up. I noticed that the THM was alternating between casting Fire and Blizzard. I pointed this out and quickly explained the most basic rotation for THM's (Fire until you run dry, Transpose, Blizzard until you're filled up, Transpose...). He was genuinely surprised about it being more damaging, as he thought Fire -> Blizzard -> Fire was the way to properly do things.

Things went more smoothly, with the THM using the rotation I suggested. He asked for more pointers too, as I said I used to main BLM. I told him to review the tooltips for his skills after the run, since that could never hurt.

It's REALLY refreshing to see someone receptive to advice, and not encounter someone that instantly jumps down your throat if they even *think* you're critisizing them. I've seen so many of them, to the point I took off my mentor crown because I just cbb anymore. Only when people seem new and are relatively chatty will I even bother >_>

[Texa]

Got a dude in PotD earlier who would pop rage poms, punch things until the portal opened, and then just sat on the portal doing nothing while there were still monsters everywhere. Like, sitting right in front of us with the manticore still active watching us kill things so we can leave.

Needless to say we kicked him on floor 58.

[Acantha]

Haven't posted in a while so 3 mini stories, good, bad and my bad >.< lol. One mini goal I set myself before Stormblood was to at least have all my jobs unlocked, so have been levelling ones i'm not great with! Plus side all combat jobs are now at least 30 so that's one goal down. Now just another 7mil at least to make/save and hopefully finally get an FC house in Shirogane >.<


1. Halatali, newbie tank, did some general explaining for them and tried my best to not rip hate from them (I was levelling pugilist at the time) or run it over to them if I did. Went lovely & smoothly, right at the end they stuck around to /pray to me and say thank you ^^ (I'm gonna keep this one in mind from now on when people are crappy lol)

2. Halatali again, another newbie tank having issues keeping aggro, but this time with a dps and a healer who were doing their best to make it awkward for them. Medicas all over the place, other dps attacking before tank had had chance to attack or even flash etc etc. Tried to give hints to tank (had no acc equipped at all :|) and ask the dps/healer to not use medica when a cure would suffice/attack random targets or attack first. They started going on in the chat about how the tank had "had enough chances already" "needs to learn their job" and it was like.. um.. yeah... they're learning and you act like this!? >.<

3. Now this one i'm not proud of at all... I was feeling down after a few crappy runs so thought i'd do one more since that was all I needed to get PGL to 30, unlock MNK and be done for the night. Loaded into Hakkuke NM and went through it as usual, got to first door and was on auto-pilot so ran up to the boss door and waited... and waited... oh wait no ok they're going up the hallway and doing that bit.
Oh... kay... exp is negligible so I don't usually bother. By the time i'd noticed they were pretty much done anyway so just waited, threw away some crap i'd accumulated up until then.
While i'm sorting my inv, tank: "LOL mentor..." just like oh... Should have removed my crown. Was not in the mood for this. Yeah, totally my bad, but out of the crazy amount of times I've run Hakkuke now i've only had 2/3 occasions of people wanting to clear the whole place out... so, I ignored it and just carried on.
The tank goes a bit passive aggressive and ran the rest of the place so slowly I contemplated taking the penalty and just leaving if I hit 30. Definitely should have logged off or at least removed my crown before that run :'( I don't wanna give mentors a bad name! I try my best the majority of the time. We just all have our off days

[Edit] To try to not be too negative, remembered another couple of positive runs to add ^^

2x runs of Sohm Al HM, 1st I was running as my BRD, I played Foes as often as possible (as I usually do) and the healer was beside themselves that I was singing for them lol (I can't remember now but I think the other DPS was melee, so I was only singing it for the healer :P). 2nd run I was WHM with SMN & BLM (I think) and it was seriously the fastest i've ever seen that dungeon done. And the tank was superb and so polite I'd never even thought to use caster LB on last boss to instantly take down the 4 adds that spawn and can cope without it being done, but it was definitely nice to have that extra time to dps.

[Hasrat]

Stone Vigil run with a new PLD partnered with a mentor WHM (I assume) and a MNK. Mostly a fine smooth run, no big issues. But would've liked the chance to suggest PLD work in a few more Flashes, or at least rotate hits on all mobs. Couldn't quite go ham on the Fire II without ripping aggro on everything tank wasn't focused on.

I was mostly mindful of enmity and only pulled a few times, but, progressing forward, if you're out there PLD, not everyone will be so content to hold back their AoE.

[Faliandra]

So yesterday I was helping out a friend with leveling Rogue up to 30 (she wants to try ninja). I was using Scholar because, I'll admit, I was being lazy and Eos can handle all the healing pre-30 anyways.

We landed in Toto-Rak with an inexperienced Paladin and a really new THM.

So, we were doing the usual pulls and I noticed stuff is dying slower than I'm used to with the current party set-up. I noticed that the THM was alternating between casting Fire and Blizzard. I pointed this out and quickly explained the most basic rotation for THM's (Fire until you run dry, Transpose, Blizzard until you're filled up, Transpose...). He was genuinely surprised about it being more damaging, as he thought Fire -> Blizzard -> Fire was the way to properly do things.

Things went more smoothly, with the THM using the rotation I suggested. He asked for more pointers too, as I said I used to main BLM. I told him to review the tooltips for his skills after the run, since that could never hurt.

It's REALLY refreshing to see someone receptive to advice, and not encounter someone that instantly jumps down your throat if they even *think* you're critisizing them. I've seen so many of them, to the point I took off my mentor crown because I just cbb anymore. Only when people seem new and are relatively chatty will I even bother >_>

Sigh. And here I had a BLM yesterday in lvl 60 Roulette who would keep spamming Fire III on a single target when theres multiple to hit.

Told him Fire II was AoE and more helpful and that Fire III isnt even meant to be spammed. He then replied "NICE TO KNOW"

So I said "well, then maybe try it?" and he replied back "UHMMMMM, NOPE"



That guy did 500 dps. I was gonna do a votekick but I saw that all 3 of them were german,so I assumed they queued up together, so I just left instead.

Honestly, I am so ashamed of my own people. I am german myself but the german online community (doesnt even matter if WoW or FFXIV) is not only toxic and rude af, theyre the worst players around.
People on EU make fun of french players, but germans are ten times worse. Ugh. I've just seen SO MANY COUNTLESS bad apples of them.

[The_Shang]

Sigh. And here I had a BLM yesterday in lvl 60 Roulette who would keep spamming Fire III on a single target when theres multiple to hit.

Told him Fire II was AoE and more helpful and that Fire III isnt even meant to be spammed. He then replied "NICE TO KNOW"

So I said "well, then maybe try it?" and he replied back "UHMMMMM, NOPE"



That guy did 500 dps. I was gonna do a votekick but I saw that all 3 of them were german,so I assumed they queued up together, so I just left instead.

Honestly, I am so ashamed of my own people. I am german myself but the german online community (doesnt even matter if WoW or FFXIV) is not only toxic and rude af, theyre the worst players around.
People on EU make fun of french players, but germans are ten times worse. Ugh. I've just seen SO MANY COUNTLESS bad apples of them.

I used to be on Moogle, so I know all too well what you're talking about.

[HyoMinPark]

Had the best kind of Frontlines win earlier while farming wins for PvP mounts (Garo and non-Garo). The other two GCs completely ignored the ice, and just killed each other. And the one I had freelanced in was just like "lol okay", focused down ice while landing a few KOs, and won by a landslide. It was stupidly amazing.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

Mog EX unsynched

We're putzing along, but the party accidentally triggers the DPS check at around 50% health. We beat it down as best we can, but it goes off leaving only the tanks alive: a PLD and WAR. WAR was able to recover his health, but PLD had no such luck and died on the 2nd attack. The WAR is left to solo the last 20% or so. He gets 2 more big attacks, but was able to fully recover each time, securing the victory.

[Dreggit]

I wish crafters and gathers had a duty finder thing