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

[Averax]

It turns out Earthly Star is a great spell if you like to scare people.

Pretend you're ignoring their health bars as they all get super low and then explode the thing and everyone's right as rain.

[Miste]

It turns out Earthly Star is a great spell if you like to scare people.

Pretend you're ignoring their health bars as they all get super low and then explode the thing and everyone's right as rain.

Yeah I do that too...lol

BUT, it sure is frustrating to use...as typical DF groups go you get people who will stand just an inch outside of it so they don't get healed and I'm like ...."HELLO!?" :/

[The_Profezzor87]

My first attempt at Susano NM and got matched up with dps and another healer who couldn't dodge and a Tank who insisted main tanking over the other more experienced one and he kept turning Susano all over the place........I kept having to use LB3 to revive everybody only for them to all die again. I voted to disband. (Stuck around for a while until, I had other stuff to do).
P.S. Everyone knew the mechanics....

[Nix]

Most of the tanks I've partied with are still stuck in the pull everything mentality of HW that I'm spamming Cure 2's like no tomorrow with no time to DPS. Granted we cleared but geezus, we're all new and not overgeared anymore so slow down please. Not good for my little heart.

It was interesting to actually see lily generation happening, though...

Had a few of these... One yesterday in the lv65 dungeon. He started to do mega pulls at the start so I gave a little head's up and was like "Hey, some of the stuff can hit a little harder so take care with giant pulls." To which I got the DRG saying "Well, heal harder." (Because telling me to heal harder is really going to help shorten my recast/cast times, or make my HoTs tick stronger...) And the tank bitching saying that he didn't have to use so many CDs back in that pull (I hardly saw any go off... oh well).

No one died for sure, but having to mash buttons and just pray that the tank wasn't going to eat a crit wasn't fun; god knows if we'd wiped it'd be my fault.

Tanks aren't the only ones who drive... I think the pt should adjust to its needs, whatever they may be.

For the most part though, parties have been surprisingly cautious which has been nice. Once they get a feel for how much they can handle, I start to see 'em pushing limits a bit more which is nice, instead of having everyone run in panic from the get-go.

[Jeibird]

ran sirensong for exp and got the densest red mage. second boss used enter night an the rdm just stood there taking the hits and the vuln stacks every single time he had 9 stacks at one point. even sacred soil and a single Target galvanize couldn't save him from bloodburst lol

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I probably would have but I honestly think I was more in shock that day 3 and booted before the first boss cus mr Tank can't tank. Besides, would probably have been chalked up as "Difference in style", obviously a good dps is against what they want. xD

Difference of playstyle should only be valid if the party attempts to communicate with the 'offending' player first, and work out their differences.

If the differences turn out to not be reconcilable, then a kick may be considered.


Otherwise, it's just a random kick, and should be considered abuse.

[Hamada]

Tanks that lose half their max HP during cast timers in doma castle/castrum abania. SPAM CASTING does not even save you when you try pull that giant that is the 3rd? pull of doma with the next group.

Tank trying to Deliverance in mass pulls that no one overgear is just 10/10, talk about stressful healing. I did not see any damage output from it, I do not understand why people try it when kills take so long while the healer keeps draining mp.

[Anarnee]

PF, not DF.

To celebrate getting to 70, I've been helping random clear groups in the PF. Helped with a few so far. Today I am in a T9, and the group wants a clear, but when we get to meteors, its clear no one knows what they're doing, so I give a quick explanation.

We then get to the heavensfall phase, and people start dying again, I try to give some tips, and there is one person in particular that starts critiquing my tips. I didn't notice till after we wiped and they left though.

I joined to help groups clear, not to teach people that had no idea what they were doing, yet still here I was covering for your sorry self. It said clear group, not learning party.

:P Either way they left, we got more people and cleared like cake~

[Fyce]

The number of people doing the last duty of the MSQ without having done their Lv.70 Job Quest is astonishing.

[Causality]

The amount of duty crashes completely brought down the lobby server to the NA/Aether Data Centers. RIP