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

[LunaFaye]

I know that feelin

Everyday I get this trial, either on healer/tank or even dps. Every time people run with the marker to limsa upper deck, even tho we tell them not too. Then complain that they die or they take out that poor healer/tank that wanted to do mechanics but everybody else didn't get the memo lol. It's getting worse every day via DF.

[MoroMurasaki]

I've just gotten to 60 as BRD and am so excited for 70! I queued for leveling roulette today and got everyone's favorite dungeon... Aurum Vale!

I had a new player message so I didn't want to bail on them. Turns out the new player is the tank. And the healer. Okay, thats okay, I can explain mechanics.

The tank dies a lot and my co-DPS is a NIN who must not be doing much because he is never the one to inherit enmity. On the second boss the tank goes down, boss comes for me and I start running. Yay no more bowmage! I kite Coincounter through 70% of his HP, somehow even after he is up the tank just never reclaims threat. At one point I am literally circling the healer to make sure Refresh stays on him so he can keep healing me.

That whole dungeon has made me so much more comfortable on BRD, I got us out of a ton of sticky situations. Wound up with everyone's comm, first time for me to get that on a DPS class.

[Nestama]

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They'd have seen the stack marker on the first boss of Sirensong Sea. Chances are they just weren't paying attention/expected a carry.

[Paladinleeds]

I had a quite interesting run of Ala Mhigo. Start off with the usual double pull. SCH is healing me through this with neither of us touching cooldowns. So then I carry on. Beat the first boss (which I spent 90% of the boss fight in Sword Oath. That's a first for me without a healer I know). We then enter the next stage. We then go for broke and QUADRA-PULL. We start using cooldowns. Nobody dies. Insert obligatory "What was that about SCH being underpowered?" jab. I jokingly say next time we're doing a penta-pull if we're tank/heal together. Beat second boss. We then start pulling everything again. Bust the lasers down while mobs are still alive, pull the rest of the mobs. Second pair of lasers. SMN uses LB and then dies straight after. Jokes are had saying it was a noble sacrifice. Still, aside from that poor SMN mishap, everything going well.

Final boss. SCH accidentally gets hit by something they shouldn't and dies. I'm too busy focusing on tanking and pushing out muh deeps as a paladin to notice they'd died. SMN was having mana issues for some reason so couldn't ress. Not to worry. We try again, beat it without a hitch.

I wish I could have commended both the healer and the SMN in that group. That was an amazing run.

[Lalafallen]

*edit because I'm mad right now*

This MENTOR tank in Shiva EX, telling everyone after the first wipe to look for groups through GF and not DF and after being questioned for tactics, answering: "Explain is: a 4 years old content have b done unsync, not in df"
So someone else explained what to do and we got started - all of us but the mentor bard. Instead of helping out he refused and sat at the edge of the arena, doing nothing else. Wth? I mean seriously, I get that df-ex-primals can be frustrating, but you're a freaking mentor! So do your job instead of sitting in the corner like an angry baby.

[Lilseph]

Feels like Susano's normal fight is harder than Susano EX...I'm not even joking.
*blink* Jump potion...ohhhhhh....

This is why the first boss of Bardam's Mettle should be part of their introductory tutorial when they use these pots. The core mechanics are there to make a decent tutorial. Add stack and spread markers, proximity damage tethers and AoEs. That sort of thing.

[Vidu]

We tried to do some Susano EX for a friend today - she still needed her clear and the three of us were bored, so we just hoped into DF. Expectations were low and we already told her not to worry to much and that we'd eventually just rally the troups and get her that kill.

A couple of people seem to be new, specially my Co-tank, whos essitially one big red flag from the beginning - despite having both paladin and samurai to level 70:
Even though my gear is way better than his, he stays in Shield-oath. Okay, no problem, I can adjust.
...nothing happens for a while and I already consider switching back, ready check and go for it when the tank asks "r?" in partychat and charges in without a countdown.
Cool, we can deal with that - and we sort of have to because even after explaining to him twice why and how to use ready check and countdown (even in which menu to find them), he just doesnt.

We get to orbs and I get told by him to grab them - sure, I can do the first round... and I barely manage to snatch the second sword before he can get himself killed by taking it again. We wipe since he doesnt know how to grab the orbs. I throw out markers for the order and we actually manage to get past that whole phase, wohoo!
Few people miss their purple marks, no big deal, we're learning a new, boss-specific mechanic here!

...something is a big deal however: I had informed my co-tank about the tank-switch earlier and made the big, horrible mistake of assuming that a person with a level 70 tank would know what a tank-swap is. That guy doesnt.
We wipe and I explain to him in detail what "tank-swap" means and which skill to use etc.
He still doesnt gets it and I will admit that while I stayed polite I got seriously annoyed by this. So I was pretty happy when we voted to disband the party...

Yes, yes, we've all been new at somepoint blablabla... but this is just frustrating - I dont know wether that guy used a jump potion or not, but it wouldnt surprise me. After this run I really wished the game would tell people more clearly that they need to make themself familiar with their jobs. I dont feel a current EX-primals is the right place to teach someone basic mechanics...

[Burmecia]

Whenever I tank, healers who use HoTs before pull is done have began to piss me off. Dps who interrupt pulls too, but for some reason this does not annoy me as much as "100% medica2 + regen upkeep!" people. Whom I meet every time I dare to do roulette, sigh.

Also the classic: super overbearing people in learning parties. There are good suggestions, and then there are effin dictators who would like to play your job for you x7.

[Ignnis]

If the tank couldn't keep aggro because of a regen and medics II, that's on him.

I tank too and a single flash or shield lob is enough to keep aggro at the beginning. HoTs or not. You can't expect to hold aggro when all you do is walk past mobs.

Medica II pre pull so when they lob a monster to start the others fly to the healer meaning the tank has to spin 180 and run to the healer. Also spamming medica II generates so much agro t-t the moss walks being a piticular problem since enemies spawn mid combat and have a high chance of getting healer agro first with all those unneeded regen ticks going.

[Odeon]

I just need to vent because I just did something bad and ragequit a dungeon.

Fractal Continuum, first pack. With sentinel on.

I CAN'T CLEMENCY MYSELF THROUGHOUT AN ENTIRE FIGHT AND YOU DON'T HAVE THE DPS YOU THINK YOU DO, SO PLEASE THROW A LITTLE BIT OF HEAL MY WAY YOU FAILED WHITE MAGE.

Ugh. This has to be the first time in 70 levels of PLD that I suffer a death on the first pack of an instance, and it wasn't like a surprise death either, just a "MAH DEEPS NEEDS ME SO NO HEAL" death.

I just left there and then. That's not right, but hey, I'm not about to waste my gaming time being angry at something...