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

[Vidu]

I wish crafters and gathers had a duty finder thing

You mean... like Diadem? Which makes it terribly annyoing to gather stuff because you cant just do it on your own but are either waiting for a queue or need to have company-airships ready?

I mean this is very, very offtopic right now (if you're serious you might want to open a new thread making this suggestion) and as much as I would love to be able to gather in some of the dungeons (Brayflox looks PERFECT for my botanist, WP even has a boat for my fisher and Copperbell is literally a mine, like in "miner") I cant see what a DF for gathering and crafting would add to the game - besides maybe more funny stories in here, because DF actually makes people work together why gatherin/crafting are extremly solo-focused activities...

[vanitaslaughing]

lbing adds in sohm al hm

I do that when I'm on summoner! It's very nice and convenient, especially since that one spawns two borehole scorpions and normally the boss is down before the third set of adds spawns.

The other night I was super sad and my friends dragged me into roulettes with them to cheer me up a little, and since Ex Roulette for me is just Sohm Al Hard: The Reckoning, well guess where we were. Now, I've got a bad flying insect phobia, and in the middle of the last pulls before the final boss, a goddamn moth flies into my face and has me autorunning into an invisible wall for a couple seconds while I'm desperately trying to get rid of that thing, crying all over again.
Sounds pretty dumb when you say 'SORRY, MOTH IN FACE' while your friends are healing/tanking/laughing and that other summoner probably thinks "what the fresh hell is wrong with that woman", but lemme tell ya,

I slapped that moth-ery hellspawn right onto my bed and clapped it dead before my stacks fell off. Helped take down mobs again after that minor panic. I just wish I knew why all insects that enter this house always end up in my room.

[Lokier]

I only just started playing again maybe 2-3 days ago so decided to try some EXT practice parties to refresh my memory. First group was for the newest primal and I eventually got kicked without reason (thank god, because they couldn't get past the sandwich/pizza phase in the eight or nine times we wiped.) So much for 'training' when no one would say anything during the fight for mechanics, lol... Though, tbh, I should have known it would not go well when I found out they were Germans and French players, haha...

Second group I got was for Nidhogg, and I remember this fight fairly well but needed a refresher. I can openly say I did not miss having to work with morons like this;




Ninjas have a rotation, for christ sake it's built into the game to teach you to do your rotation from level freaking four or six...

I wont even go into the torture of trying to do the Dun raid and the WC raid because it's just the usual crap you have to endure, imo...

[Paladinleeds]

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Ninjas have a rotation, for christ sake it's built into the game to teach you to do your rotation from level freaking four or six...
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Just to double down on this... as I was also in that NidEx group (and almost dropped my face into my desk in shock). Here's a more complete version. The names of the rest of the party I'm in are taken about because we took this screenshot afterwards. The NIN that made my jaw drop is in green, the other NIN in red.


Yeah, I was like "Holy smoke..."

(thank god, because they couldn't get past the sandwich/pizza phase in the eight or nine times we wiped.)

Ok, I am WHOLLY to blame for her referring to the different types of soar as sandwich (where they're all stacked together next to each other) and pizza (where everyone has their own triangle to stand in)... since that was how I pointed out which soar is which.

[Watachy]

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 love you.

As a french player i've been called out a lot for being an "elitist a-hole" when i ask people to wake up and not being lazy.
The worst thing in EU imo are the german players, most of them don't really bother talking english in party chat so you end up spammed with german language you can't understand.
Well, that's when they're talking, cause most of them ain't polite/talking/responding.

Disable the "D" research years ago but still got some to remind me my wise choice !

[Faliandra]

I love you.

As a french player i've been called out a lot for being an "elitist a-hole" when i ask people to wake up and not being lazy.
The worst thing in EU imo are the german players, most of them don't really bother talking english in party chat so you end up spammed with german language you can't understand.
Well, that's when they're talking, cause most of them ain't polite/talking/responding.

Disable the "D" research years ago but still got some to remind me my wise choice !

i even disabled the "D" on my own profile to stay undercover lol...cos otherwise they will randomly start insulting you if they dont like something (new tank pulling half the dungeon,not using a single cd,dying and the flaming then healer),
but only if they see youre german too. Cos they cant speak english.
They also seem to have a thing with wanting to get rid of you just before the last boss by votekicking you (happened several times to me lately,and its really definitely not me...its just them not knowing wtf theyre doing
and them thinking im not doing my job >_>).

However, there are many bad french players. What I noticed is that they are OVERLY careful at any given moment.
And many times,they dont speak english either. But I do speak a little french and I sometimes try to communicate on a basic level.
Still, I have seen many decent french players lately also,and they were friendly,and Id take them any day over germans.

disabling the "D" on DF wont help though,because they enable "E" and so do you, I suppose. So youre gonna get them from time to time.

[Delorean]

stuck with an awful group all the way to last boss of sohm al, keep wiping because bard doing 700 dps wont switch to adds. i am not doing amazing dps myself as i am gearing up and working out some of the little nuances as id just hit 60 but at least mine was above 1k

anyway we wipe a few times and this guy asks me why im using foes and casts vote abandon after i say "because it's free damage". probably why he's doing 700 dps since he obviously can't read. but i guess i shouldn't have been surprised; most bard players are about as useful as a pair of keys wedged between the console and the seat of your locked car. like seriously id fight another bard to to kick them out of party and loser takes 30m debuff and gets replaced with dragoon because id probably beat 60% of bard players blindfolded with one arm tied behind my back lol

but just an awful experience really. i don't get the point of vote abandon... plenty of people are willing to pick up a dung on final boss. instead everyone who wants to finish is forced to leave as well just because one guy doesnt want a 30m lockout. stupid as hell.

[Acantha]

So... am trying not to be melodramatic but almost cried watching the WHM changes yesterday lol. On a positive note thought i'd give AST a proper try again and i'm enjoying it.
However... I was doing levelling roulette so synced down for 2 or 3 dungeons in a row to a point where I couldn't use cards. Then I went into cutters cry... and totally forgot about cards for a good 1/2 the dungeon D:
Luckily I realised, said sorry to pt (who I then got to talking with about the new hairstyle/was AST fun/two of us used to play ESO/how it was playing on ps4 & with a controller etc) and started chucking them out lol.
/grovel

[Urthdigger]

Did an expert's roulette where I stated I was practicing for Stormblood, then proceeded to only ever spam cure and cure 2 while weaving in tetra, assize, asylum, and presence of mind. Kinda disappointed nobody called me out on my bullshit, even when I was doing stuff like dropping a tetra on the tank when they had full health.

[silverlunarfox]

did DD with a SMN who would only Blizzard 2 in mobs.......

Longest dungeon........

Ever....

Please don't be an "Ice Mage" T.T I don't speed run dungeons often, but....it should not take over 30 minutes to complete.......