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

[JabbaUK007]

It's not ok to have full i250-260 HW stuff in Doma Castle (a lvl 67 dungeon), even if you do meet the minimum requirements.
66 quest/vendor whites are i279. That gap is a lot more than some people think it is.

tell me about it, i have a 70 sam so i started to lvl my DK from 60-70. mostly im just doing random dungeons etc but the last 2 times i did the random leveling dungeon i got the first SB dungeon you do twice, my dk is now at 63 after a few days and is in full 260 gear but i have started to buy the lvl 64 peices off the market board that are upgrades just in case i get a stormblood dungeon that wreck me if im in lesser gear lol


and it all started with having the same thing that happened to you, did doma castle with a friend (both dps) and tank was just getting melted while having mostly 250-260 peices

[TankHunter678]

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Why not just run Shisui then for 270s? The shisui 270s are better then the whites and can last up to Doma Castle which is where you then upgrade, or you can just get the nomad gear from bardam.

The 61 dungeon also drops 260s for the purpose of gearing people who are 235/250.

[Rawrz]

Did trials. Got Susano normal. I was just helping a friend get their queue. We wiped the first time because some dps positioned so that 4 other people couldnt get to the safe zone. The other healer at one point, says "Malefic isn't a healing spell. I need help healing. You aren't healing. My MP is almost empty." Was 50% at the time, when mine was 25% from both carrying the healing and dpsing. I'm sorry but spamming succor instead of ET succor, or you know JUST LETTING MY REGENS DO THEIR WORK, is just a terrabad way to play. At the end she calls me a "Garbage healer."

Not the greatest AST (forgot i had Earthly star for like half the fight,) but just watching her play SCH and call me a bad healer for dpsing and healing just pissed me off. lol. The tank jumped on the bandwagon too, saying how glad he was that clemency was an "ability". I watched him use clemency a couple times. It was always after my benefic II or Essential dignity had already landed. lol. thanks bro. Chat happens the last 15 seconds or so of fight.

Recorded it:

https://youtu.be/zZDAmRhxVQo

[bearcat01]

Decided to finish the Omega normal series last night. Hopped on my WHM since I hate waiting to queue as my SAM. Sure enough got an instant start, but it was actually a party in progress (11 minutes in). Clearly, I thought people probably rage quit. How many though? That is always the big question. Luckily, it was only the healer I replaced that quit. Apparently, it was too difficult for him/her to heal. So the tanks have a discussion about swapping and we start. Thankfully, I watched two separate raid guides on YouTube, so I knew what moves were to be expected. Needless to say it still was far from easy since there was one SAM in particular that kept dying. He died 7 times!!! He stayed dead for a good 4 minutes since the other healer and I were busy AoE healing to prepare for meteor and cure after, then enhanced fire III followed by flares. Besides the SAM, the other DPS players died throughout the fight due to mechanics. Some would run into blackholes then get hit by AoE immediately after, once 3 dps died from vacuum wave and falling off the side of arena. Thankfully, we saved the LB 3 for healers. This was definitely a major healer intensive fight when people die consistently. Healing tanks and AoE healing party wouldn't be bad, it's when DPS get hit over and over again by avoidable mechanics that it becomes quite taxing. However, despite the numerous deaths, the other healer and I were able to keep tanks and ourselves alive to recover when necessary and raise our dead DPS friends. In the end we were able to clear the fight on the first try (Well my first try, probably their second or third. However many tries they got in during those first 11 minutes).

[tinythinker]

First run as a DPS. I queued specifically for the level 15. When I started playing last year I tried all ARR magic-classes, got Thaumaturge to 26 for the stories, then went with ARN and CNJ to max level. Sastasha isn't hard of course and I am a true 26/no soul crystal so I figured would get smaller expectations. No complaints, no comms, highly experienced tank plus two sprouts. Went fine. I tried the whole "fire-fire-fire-fire-thunder-transpose-ice-ice-ice-ice-thunder-transpose" thing with some Scathe tossed in, but wow, mana regen was so strong it seemed like it would be better just to switch straight to fire from ice and skip transpose. Finally did that rather than wait to get more fires in. So, a nice, boring, yet successful tale. Now waiting to get into Tam-Tara for more lowbie practice.

UPDATE: Second run OK. I realized in first dungeon that there was no real reason to use Scathe when you can't go higher... lol. Had healer in Tam DC, tank figured it would take too long to get a healer and left. New tank popped in, we did a small pull, then a new healer popped in. Smooth run. Lots of things died in fire. So, at least at low levels my skill and class knowledge are adequate

EDITED again for typos

UPDATE 2: OK, got through all available dungeons on Thaum, hitting level 30 in Haukke Manor. No real problems, except that in Haukke I was asked to LB at the end of the final boss fight when the adds spawn. I have only used healer lb and only a few times. Figured it out (hey you ground target with it) and got the clear. If the skills stopped here I would feel pretty confident, but I know there is a lot more complexity if I keep going. Guess I can go get my crystal now at the guild...

[killstein]

was in vault leveling my then lvl57 rdm. it was myself, an ast, a (lvl70) pld, and a smn. right out the gate we're having problems. i'm ripping hate from the tank with my scatter bombs and this continues well into the mob right before the first boss. i try to help them as best i can, bringing strays to them, holding off on attacking after the tank pulled, etc. even the smn was ripping hate. the ast very nicely tells me to "use diversion you d*ck!" so in the midst of downing this mob, i look at the pld's buff bar and notice they had no tank stance on. none. no WONDER. so i tell them to shield oath and in the middle of killing this mob i WATCH them pop it and then tell me "i had it on right from the beginning." the ast feels a need to back him up, tell me all three of them are together (as if that was supposed to scare me) and act hostile towards me.

funny how after they activated it, i never pulled anything else from them from that point on... hmm.

[Averax]

Doma Castle is an okay dungeon, but i hhhhhhhhate the second boss. Not because it's difficult, but because literally everybody goes out of their way to get into the towers....when i'm already standing in them....

Only one person needs to stand in them, people. More people does not make it better. Especially if you're a melee dps. Let the ranged person who's already standing in it handle it.

Had a tank today that did it too, except it was one that was way behind a bunch of mines, and i had already been standing in it for a solid 5 seconds, so the tank in his infinite wisdom decides that he should run through them all to get to it, while i'm still sitting safely inside of it.

[MoroMurasaki]

Doma Castle is an okay dungeon, but i hhhhhhhhate the second boss. Not because it's difficult, but because literally everybody goes out of their way to get into the towers....when i'm already standing in them....

Only one person needs to stand in them, people. More people does not make it better. Especially if you're a melee dps. Let the ranged person who's already standing in it handle it.

Had a tank today that did it too, except it was one that was way behind a bunch of mines, and i had already been standing in it for a solid 5 seconds, so the tank in his infinite wisdom decides that he should run through them all to get to it, while i'm still sitting safely inside of it.

I've seen this too and I think it would help if in the second "boss" of Bardam's they would penalize you if more than one person stood in the towers there to teach that for the very next dungeon.

[Annah]

had a tank in "The Keeper of the Lake." Apparently, didn't like the dungeon so he wanted us to kick him rather than bailing out witht he 30 minute penalty.

Long story short, we didn't kick him but I healed the Red Mage who tanked and the Bard provided backup support. We did the entire dungeon with him still sitting at the entrance. We completed the dungeon but kicked him right before the last boss....27 minutes in

[Rivxkobe]

had a tank in "The Keeper of the Lake." Apparently, did didn't like the dungeon so he wanted us to kick him rather than bailing out witht he 30 minute penalty.

Long story short, we didn't kick him but I healed the Red Mage who tanked and the Bard provided backup support. We did the entire dungeon with him still sitting at the entrance. We completed the dungeon but kicked him right before the last boss....27 minutes in

Omg I love you.

As a side point, I don't understand why they would dislike that dungeon. I LOVE tanking it. Especially the final boss.