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

[SenorPatty]

Well, I always played this way and does not seem to interfere too much. For example, doing Lost Canals of Uznair with 2 friends and we finish last week. Was warrior, white mage and me as bard (only 1 dps in party). And I always use Tactician and Refresh for help MP/TP of party members, besides Palisade and Nature's Minne on tank :/

But you were with your friends. Your friends know how you play so they don't mind. But if this was a regular pug party and I noticed, I would've called you out--politely that is-- and suggest you to do more aoe moves. Also, the Lost Canals are different content than expert.

[bounddreamer]

Oh boy do I have a good mentor roulette story.

I queued this morning to a 0 min in prog Vault. I'm the replacement tank. The healer is also gone. Two dps are waiting, sitting, playing dead. I examine them both, nothing unusual. I've got nowhere in particular to be, so I wait to see if we get a a healer. One of the dps eventually leaves but the bard, almost 70, stays.

I've been there. So I stay. It's pretty early in the morning. Chances of getting another replacement tank are low. We get a replacement dps, a RDM, almost instantly then as I'm saying "not sure were going to get a healer," the light party fills up and the healer loads in.

And dang, I notice right away our dps is smooth and fast. The Astro is on point with cards and Gravities. After the first boss I start double pulling packs together. It's never an issue. Sword oath for the entire boss, no problem.

That run may have started late but we were out of there in no time.

Just here to say some duty finder parties are an absolute delight. And that kind of run is why I always join in progress. You can find some real gems in your fellow players.

[SixtyLove]

I can't believe your healer was using just Medica 2, jeeeeze... if they comfortable healing in there and doing nowt else, that's flippin' lazy.

There's a post over on the FFXIV Reddit in one of the threads regarding the new healer abilities, posted before Stormblood launched where someone actually states that "Real WHM's don't need to use Cure/Cure II to heal". So I am guessing that is where the Medical II only ideology comes from. I was so confused when I read that tbh am I supposed to just Regen and then Medica II spam through an unavoidable AOE and hope for the best? Crazy. I wonder about some of the people playing this game to be honest lol.

[Lyrai_Celestine]

I was doing roulette expert now as bard and a ninja started to complain about I was not using Quick Nock. Well, particularly prefer to put dot in each one of enemies and to use Rain of Death when available. As I foresaw that I was going to be kicked of instance, only said Sorry and leaves by own wish.

Ideally, imo, it's better to give two DoTs to only two or three mobs before starting to spam Quick Nock with Mage's Ballad active. The reason for this is the fact that you have to spend a whole GCD for each DoT. This way you can do some massive damage without having to sacrifice your AoE burst. The keyword here is a good balance.

Just here to say some duty finder parties are an absolute delight. And that kind of run is why I always join in progress. You can find some real gems in your fellow players.

I'm the kind of person who likes to join in-progress parties as tanks & healers. Everytime this comes up I know that they are in distress and needs a good player to fill in the spot. Rest assured, everyone! Your tank / healer is in good hands. As always, whenever I come in, "I am here to help!" even before I became a Mentor.

[lockey_breezewalker]

Did a temple of the fist earlier, warrior kept mass pulling without using cooldowns, kicked the healer with the help of his FC buddy. I left right after.


Learn to tank before blaming others.

[VitalSuit]

Not really a duty finder issue but... In Susano EX, you see that purple glowing thingy above your head? It means MOVE THE HELL OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CHASM.

[Cenerae]

Some oddities in levelling roulette. Both of them took place in Dusk Vigil.

First go around, I'm getting my DRK to 60. Healer is a WHM with a level 47 weapon. In a HW instance. Fortunately with Souleater self healing and judicious use of cooldowns (and the fact that it's only Dusk Vigil), I was able to survive the whole run, but I think I probably ended up doing a good third or so of the total healing for the run.

Second time, I'm on my RP alt RDM. I get a SAM who is level 52 and who has the basic SAM starter gear. Which isn't a problem at all for Dusk Vigil, but he had an ilvl 110 dex belt and accessories, and he never once used his Iaijutsu skills throughout the entire run. And I'm fairly sure he was only performing the Kasha and Yukikaze combos for the most part, because most of the time the Jinpu buff was missing. To say that run was slow would be an understatement. It's a good thing that RDM is on the kinda rediculously strong side at that level.

I wonder when people will realise you can just buy some adequate white gear off the Ishgard vendor for jumping into either HW or SB with...

[Kanitezz]

Qued for Susano Normal for fun. Group with fair amount of new people. We wiped a lot. The main thing that kept bugging me is that our Summoner for some reason kept refusing to get close to people when she had the stack marker above her head. "Why not just run over to her?" You may ask. She was standing a mile away from Susano so me being a Paladin, yeah I could stop attacking to run all the way over to her, But me alone wouldn't save her. Believe me I tried. I told the ranged DPS we had to please stay closer to Susano so we can save them when they get the marker but the Summoner was the only one that didn't listen. Even asked her by her IGN to not stand so far away. Still didn't listen. Felt like she was ALWAYS getting targeted by the marker too. Whats worse is that the healers kept wasting their MP and time reviving her. So they were pressed for MP when all the actual damage was rolling out in phase 3. After almost an hour of trying, we didn't win, I left, I had class in the morning.

[MoroMurasaki]

After almost an hour of trying, we didn't win, I left, I had class in the morning.

I've seen several people run with stack markers in this and one time I was telling a BLM about it and she seemed responsive (I mean she said "ok") and then the next time she got marked with it I had just been hit with something. I was leaving my health alone healing a newish tank through no CD Stormsplitter since that was a bigger concern than my own 50% health with no unavoidable AoE coming.

The BLM was standing between me and the large group of melee, tanks and RDM when she got the stack up marker, who do you think she decided to hug?

Yeah, sometimes explaining things bites you in the ass.

[SixtyLove]

Did a temple of the fist earlier, warrior kept mass pulling without using cooldowns, kicked the healer with the help of his FC buddy. I left right after.


Learn to tank before blaming others.

Same Problem, same dungeon....Wiped on trash mob right before boss as WAR pulled EVERYTHING up to the locked door of the boss room and he was super-squishy so I'd popped Benediction and Tetra on him already, had a regen up and I just didn't have the spellspeed to outheal/negate the damage he was taking. Tank apologised and paced trash second time and we managed the first boss.... then proceeds to mass pull everything up to the mob with the bear where the mini doblyns/coblyns spawn??... They aggro'd onto me because I was healing him, but he didn't attempt to grab them quickly so I got stunned, he provokes them, I have 5 second stun on me soo.... WIPE.

I wasn't feeling too good so I dropped out silently... not my finest moment tbh but I wasn't in the mood for an argument and sometimes it is better to admit to yourself that a run isn't going to end well if you don't feel at your best and there's already been some issues. I felt for the dps players since they tried to zerg all of it down as fast as possible but nvm. I've had massive trash-pullers all week this week too, and normally I don't mind big pulls because I can handle them on both WHM and AST... but the pulls this week have just been on another level of bad decision making.