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

[Avatre]

Newbies are adorable. ^^

The ones who are willing to accept help, and don't bite your head off for asking a simple question(such as why they prefer to use Provoke instead of Shield Lob - or something like that). Yes, they can be adorable...they can also be massive hellions who need to be exorcised(afore mentioned head biting).

[Mysterysword]

I ran a level 50/60 roulette as PLD. Dropped into a 46-min in-prog Keeper of the Lake, at the last boss. I think the healer was a WHM and the DPS were a DRG and SMN.

Well, I accidentally locked the DRG out of the arena because they decided to go AFK while standing out of it, but we cleared Middy with 3 people. It would have gone faster, however, if the SMN hadn't had Titan-Egi up for half the fight, wailing on an invincible Middy, and if they'd used any damaging spell other than Ruin II. I am not joking when I say I never saw them have a cast bar up, or any DoTs on any of the enemies in that fight. When Titan-Egi died, they resummoned him.

Oh, and this SMN was level 70 as well. What else can we expect.

[Aosha]

Stone Vigil does seem to have a knack for finding the tanks who are in no way geared to actually run that place though, it happens too often for too many people to be a fluke at this point.

Why aren't item level restrictions a thing in more dungeons again? :P

[MiquSuke]

Got another tale form the Aurum Vale!

Tank goes out and gathers mobs, another I can't heal tank faster then hes taking damage situation, tank dies, he insta rage quits, we wipe, dps says "Man fk that tank!", both leave, im all alone, sit down and cry in corner, new team shows up and consoles me, we clear and i get lv 50. At least it had a happy ending.

[Lissandra]

Highlight of my day today. Did Brayflox Longstop (normal mode) for leveling roulette and towards the end of the dungeon, the other dps blamed the tank that most of his gear was broken because he pulled too much trash to kill. The tank didn't believe him obviously. I had a laugh.

[Bongaboi]

Some adventurers would be best to keep their mouth shut. Ran Susano normal for the first time. The party only had to restart once, and I avoided as much stacks as possible while using regular Cure. The Party List blocked the Limit Break button, I have since moved it from my hotbars to the right side. One user suggested I should change classes. I had the user reported and blacklisted as a result. You know fam, I would love to switch to MNK or BLM...problem is 4.1 is not out yet and I am not going to be in a PotD spam queue since my PGL is only at 16, I am stuck at WHM for now. The person in the party that got my support exchanged commendations with me.

[Luciel-Nyx]

I've cried real tears at y-day Shisui. Our tank pulled big group of mobs, which is fine by me - with composition of whm, me as drg and bard, aoe should be okay, plus the tactician replenish of tp is going to help, yeah?

Well, no. The mentor bard (sigh) was single targeting the whole dungeon. 6+ mobs? Single target away. Whm was dpsing and holy-ing - foe? What's that? Other songs? I think I've seen once the crit buff up - at the end of the dungeon trash mobs. I bled my tp dry every pull, managed to have invigorate on cd twice for how slow it was at really big pulls. I was at 0, there were still mobs alive, and the bard was happily dpsing one mob at time still. I was really, really tempted to leave - it was late, but I was so close to a 65 level So I stayed and suffered through, but even though I am not the best bard or maining the class, this was really a badly played one. In comparison the run before threw me in with mch and we were perfectly matching with his well-timed tactician and my goad and invigorate when tactician was on cd, and everything melted. That bard's tp didn't even move during trash pulls.

End of rant.

[Rinion]

I've been lvling astro recently and had a few interesting experiences.

First was at 63/64 in Violent Tides. After the first boss the tank pulls all the way to the 2nd in 1 pull......didn't even know that was possible XD I thought that you could only pull the first 2 packs at the same time (in the slidy door rooms). then the tank stopped just before the last pack so I decided to use Earthly Star....and he moved to get the last few mobs DX It was a tough pull that's for sure, and we did actually make it. I was mega happy when we did, although the tank did die unfortunately but the rest of us got through. I was a little miffed that he did that but at the same time amazed that we got through it without wiping.

Then I had a terrible Bardaam's run at 66. I'm not sure why but I couldn't keep people alive. I admit that at least 70% of what went wrong in that dungeon was my fault. I think for the first part I underestimated how much damage stuff did then it kinda snowballed and got worse as the dungeon went on. T.T

Finally, a couple days ago I went into Doma Castle. Had a great time! ^^ I was a little nervous going in since I hadn't actually done anything with astro since the fail of a run I made Bardaam's into. We load in and the tank asks if I'm ok with big pulls. I took a sec to answer but we both agreed we'd try it and if it didn't go well, then we'd stick to small pulls. So we're going along as usual (most people do larger pulls now, so I know roughly what to expect). I'm starting to feel at ease with it again.
However. When we finish the first boss, he proceeds to do what my Violent Tides tank did and pull everything until the 2nd boss. It was super tough and he almost died a few times. I don't think I've ever fished for so many Boles before XD I finished the pull by alternating between Benefic I and II simply because I didn't have enough mp anymore to spam II. So we finish the pull, I say, 'Phew, that was tough XD' and the tank just said, 'I could see by your MP'. We finish the dungeon and everyone comments on how good the team is and I actually leave with 3 comms!! =D It was a super fun run with really friendly people. I hope I run into them again in DF ^^ Thanks guys!

[CatStarPrime]

The party only had to restart once, and I avoided as much stacks as possible while using regular Cure. The Party List blocked the Limit Break button, I have since moved it from my hotbars to the right side.

As a tangent, you will likely find it useful to tie a critical action like Limit Break, to its own hotkey. Because LB - like pet actions - are notorious for "I clicked and clicked and clicked but it never went off and finally the Monk -"

I have LB tied to my "L" key, and have for a long while - due to one too many cased of "I clicked the tile but it never activated". That solved the problem!

[Sylvina]

In shisui in leveling roullete (I needed clusters) as Tank I suggested the black mage use thunder 2 in her aoe rotation because she wasn't. she proceeds to use thunder 3 instead- NOT AOE.. lol.