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

[KalinOrthos]

*If* that is true (I don't know tanking well enough to make such a judgement), then I had some reeeeeally bad luck with tanks after 4.0 dropped.

It's not entirely true. Grit gives a +20% damage redux, as does Shield Oath, while Defiance gives +20% HP and an increasing parry chance based on Beast Gauge. All of them give enmity boosts, but it's still fairly easy to to maintain enmity with occasional use of the enmity combo and use of threat reduxes on DPS. Tanks in Shire gear in Doma Castle are certainly a problem, but it's also the fact that these tanks are dropping their tank stances because MUH DPS, GOTTA GO FAST.

Keep in mind, too, that starting at Bardam's Mettle, incoming tank damage takes a massive spike up for add pulls, and most tanks either don't know this or willingly ignore this.

[Avatre]

Tanks in Shire gear in Doma Castle are certainly a problem, but it's also the fact that these tanks are dropping their tank stances because MUH DPS, GOTTA GO FAST.

Because of my cheap self(not buying gears on MB since I'm saving to hopefully get a house when Shirogane opens), and my VERY bad RNG with getting loot, I can sometimes go into Bardam/Doma with almost complete Shire if my roulettes give me all lower dungeons. My WHM was mostly Shire by the time I got to Doma, my DRK is 66 and has all Shire, and I've only ran Shisui and Sirensong as my Leveling Rou on that. As such, I tend to keep Grit on no matter what due to this.

I've not had issues with surviving/keeping people alive(99% of the time) due to my gear, though as someone said to me earlier in this thread, I'm a "burden" on my parties due to it.*

*Edit: And this is with using CDs at the appropriate times

[raela]

As a SCH, I hate when LD is used. The DRK is likely going to die.

Terrible mentor story: went to trial roulette and got Titan HM. A mentor tanked it, and somehow the OT fell off fairly quick into the fight. The mentor started with Titan in the exact center, which was odd enough, but after heart phase, he started spinning it like a top. I was healing and tried to avoid being in front, but I kept getting cleaved (and a DPS died as a result). I stopped healing the tank to let him die, and tried to heal the DPS that took it after, but Titan was doing too much damage, so we wiped.

Mentor tank told us healers that it was our fault for not ressing the tanks. Several people pointed out that it was his fault for spinning a cleaving boss, and I added on that we can't ress someone who fell off. I vote kicked the tank and it went through, then we got another tank soon after and cleared it without any issue.

[Avatre]

-Example of why Mentor status is too freely given-

I am someone who strongly advocates for the Mentor Status to be harder to obtain. Way too many leave at the first sign of something they don't like, troll/grief people the way that one did in Titan for you, or just refuse to do anything until they are kicked.

[Mysterysword]

I am someone who strongly advocates for the Mentor Status to be harder to obtain.

I've said it before and I've said it again: there needs to be some sort of proper test that you have to pass to become a mentor. The current requirements prove nothing about you, except that you have loads of time and money on your hands. And the people who have an abundance of time and money, very often are not the ones who want to use it to help others.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

Had a tank wearing a mix of i130-150 gear in sirensong, only had a max of 14K~ HP in defiance. They dropped like a boulder sinking into the ocean on the first pull and lost aggro within a nanosecond of me looking at the mobs. After the first two pulls, the healer left a 'tasteful' message to the tank and fake dc/ed. Once 5 minutes had elapsed, other dps initiated vote kick on the healer, at which point I left a message to the tank explaining they are almost 120 ilvls what they should be wearing for this dungeon, and that they should immediately go find at the very minimum, some vendor gear in Rhalgar's, then left once the vote-kick went through to re-queue. Dunno if they were trolling or not, but I didn't want to try and figure out if they were legit.

They seriously need a minimum ilvl lock on Stormblood dungeons, that kind of low ilvl is just criminal to have at that point.

[Cenerae]

Not really much of a story, but had a great Qarn hard run in roulette on my WHM, only to get the same tank again when queueing levelling roulette and getting Vault.

It's a small world sometimes. :P

[Inuk9]

Level 50/60 roulette as RDM, Aetherochem. Facility. The healer was a WHM and they had Medica II up on us all. The. Time. Even when we weren't fighting anything. Same thing with Regen on the tank.

Deltascape 2 as BLM again, double WHM. They both threw up Medica II before the boss was pulled.

I don't know what the logic behind this idiocy is, but I hate it.

That happened to me so many times. I don't know why WHMs love to spam Medica II so much in dungeons, even when the only one taking damage is the tank. Is so obnoxious to making pulls with thos medica II ticks ALL THE TIME.

[Seig345]

That happened to me so many times. I don't know why WHMs love to spam Medica II so much in dungeons, even when the only one taking damage is the tank. Is so obnoxious to making pulls with thos medica II ticks ALL THE TIME.

Not advocating medica 2 outside of battle, but if we want 2 hp regen buffs on the tank, medica 2 is a target aoe, meaning others will get it whether they need it or not. Not sure why anyone other than the tank would have an issue with superfluous medica 2.

[Mysterysword]

Not advocating medica 2 outside of battle, but if we want 2 hp regen buffs on the tank, medica 2 is a target aoe, meaning others will get it whether they need it or not. Not sure why anyone other than the tank would have an issue with superfluous medica 2.

Because when the WHM is repeatedly casting it, the noise and visuals can cause one hell of a headache. Also, as a WHM myself, it is aggravating to see the job being played so badly.

But anyway. Leveling roulette as AST. FRICKIN' VAULT. PLD, DRG, and SMN. The SMN was new. Halfway to the first boss, I made the executive decision to feed all the cards to the DRG for the rest of the run, because this SMN never once used Bane or Shadowflare, I don't think I ever once saw a Fester, and no Rouse or Enkindle either. What they DID do consisted of 3 easy steps:

1. Cast Bio and Miasma on ONE mob. When the PLD is holding 5-6 of them at a time.
2. Hit Ruin II occasionally.
3. Stand around looking STUPID and being USELESS.

I tried to tell them what skills to use. They claimed they didn't have Shadowflare. I haven't hated other players like this in a while.