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

[Mysterysword]

most tanks are aware of this

From what I've seen, no, no, they are not. I don't understand why we had a good thing going on with VIT that had to be broken.

[FedoraTheExplorer]

I just did Susano HM and uhhh, there was this smn who wasn't using DoTs or DWT or anything they were just... waiting for ruin 4? I mean, I guess you do you...

[BlastHardcheese]

I'm currently leveling my mid 30s WHM and mother of God the lower level dungeons are a dumpster fire atm.

Earlier today I tanked Halitalli because the tanks rotation consisted of: Body pull > Flash (whether it hit every mob or not) and that was it. Multiple attempts at communication resulted in nothing but the next awkward pull and mute silence.

Similarly: Brayflox, same deal as above except with the occasional "stfu I'm learning" or "OMG let me keep monsters." On Aitar we were told "I have my strategy you need to follow it" that strategy being standing him on poison while taking breaths to the face and shouting at the dps for not killing it faster.

I could go on, but I'm literally staying in most parties because I feel sorry for bailing on the dps that had to wait 30 minutes for this garbage...

[Mysterysword]

A few days ago, I queued as PLD for Trials roulette, because quick queues and I usually prefer tanking for trials anyway. So, Titan HM, which seems to be all that roulette consists of these days, if not some variant of Steps of Faith.

The other tank was a sprout, but decently-geared, DRK. They already had both Grit and Darkside on, so I popped Sword Oath, and off we go.

Except that, a few combos into the fight, I ended up ripping aggro by cycling through RoH combos. In Sword Oath. The DRK tried to take aggro back, but still couldn't keep aggro off an OT in damage stance. Fine, I popped Shield Oath, dragged Titan to the edge of the platform (as opposed to the middle, where the DRK had been keeping him, because giving people less room to dodge AoEs is such a great idea), and started MTing with no issues.

Did this DRK take the hint and start DPSing? What's that, common sense? In my DF? Hah! Perish the thought! No, they just kept Grit on and kept trying to take back aggro all throughout the rest of the phases. When they finally took it back in the last phase, I decided it wasn't worth fighting for it and went back to Sword Oath.

I probably should've just made an effort to keep aggro, because they, of course, took Titan back to the middle, making everyone's jobs much more difficult because of their own idiocy.

I really want to just play DPS. I'm a BLM at heart and always will be, but if I'm not tanking myself, or running with an FC tank, I end up with countless stories like these.

[Ghishlain]

When you're in the Royal Menagerie long enough to get TWO Healer LB3s out within the same fight. We got the clear too

.... I love healing this fight so much. No sarcasm. lol.

[HalfLegend]

A funny moment in my duty finder.

Everytime I DirectCrit with Midare Setsugekka.

I laugh everytime :3

[HyoMinPark]

I actually almost left Doma Castle a few minutes ago.

I know SE is still claiming they're being DDoS'd (at least, according to the login notification I see every time I enter the game), but I'm beginning to think that's just an excuse. I will be completely fine everywhere until I get into an instance, and then my lag is so bad the game is practically unplayable. Now, in the past, I've usually managed to fix this by simply restarting the game, so I asked the tank after the first boss (because I lagged out and nearly died) if I could just quickly restart my client because I was lagging. Well, they continued to charge forward. I asked a second time after a couple trash pulls. Again, no response. So I spent the entire duty lagging and rubber-banding 90% of the time, could barely DPS at all, and I was certain I was overhealing a lot just trying to keep everyone alive in the event I lagged so bad everything froze. I felt completely and utterly embarrassed and useless as a healer.

I checked my connection and it was fine. I checked FFXIV my Resource Monitor, my latency is the same as it usually is (lower, actually, according to my Resource Monitor), I'm not having any visible packet loss, CPU usage and Memory usage are all the same, and again, this only happens when I get into a duty. Others in my LS are experiencing the same issues, and I'm sure people on other servers are as well. I just really wish SE would get this sorted out. Early Access was already a fustercluck, and I dealt with that. DF has been having issues every other night lately, and I dealt with that. But my patience has reached its end now.

[Baalfrog]

From what I've seen, no, no, they are not. I don't understand why we had a good thing going on with VIT that had to be broken.

Beats me, vit scaling was the best thing. Well, better get used to full slaying for now, the dps increase is so high that it would be stupid to ignore.

[LunaFaye]

From what I've seen, no, no, they are not. I don't understand why we had a good thing going on with VIT that had to be broken.

But we didn't. This whole Vit bs was implemented with HW because people kept crying about tanks having low hp. A real good thing were full STR tanks in ARR, glad we are going back to that.

[Rita1989]

But we didn't. This whole Vit bs was implemented with HW because people kept crying about tanks having low hp. A real good thing were full STR tanks in ARR, glad we are going back to that.

Every other job in the game now scales their damage from their main stat why tanks should be different is stupid, having to use 270 acc at 70 is stupid even hardcore raiders agreed that Vit scaling was perfect.

SE is either going to change it back to Vit scaling or lock out all STR accessories so we are never going back to that in the long run.