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

[Hestzhyen]

I asked, "Do you use aetherflow? You get 3 stacks every time."

Cue the healer going nuts. "OH MY GOSH, I THOUGHT IT JUST GAVE YOU BACK MP!" "This is a game changer!" "My mind is blown!" "I thought aetherflow stacks just randomly procced!"

I'm glad the story had a happy ending, but how in the world do you get to Sohm Al and not know how Aetherflow works? It's the simplest form of "push button, receive bacon strips + MP" ever. The tooltip is pretty clear on what it does too.

[Silver-Strider]

Trial Roulette
Good King Moggle Mog
OT continously DCing every 3 minutes without fail.
Clear the fight just as he returned from his 10th DC and he got the Kingly Whisker.
Salt was plentiful

[Tracewood]

Ripping on myself, leveling up my NIN to get to 70.

If anyone was in my PT and feel like my damage was lacking, I'm sorry. Between goading the tank, smokescreen the healer, keeping Armor Crush and Shadowfang up barely being able to Aeolean Edge while dodging aoes, I can't help that when I see myself 3-4 on the threat list, it feels I'm not DPSing hard enough. My gear is NQ and dungeon until I get to 70 and get some good gear on it. I'm used to going full force on SAM/MNK that it has spoiled me, going NIN there's more utility than I'm used to.

[Aosha]

aetherflow

Ah, bless their soul XD

I do wonder how one gets to 53 without understanding Aetherflow (besides jump potion), but I'm almost glad it happened this once, because we got such a cute reaction from someone learning.

[HyoMinPark]

I’m done trying to farm ShinEx. Why are these PFs so bad. >.>
Been trying to farm it all day so I can at least get totems to buy the weapons for AST/SCH (barely can care about the mount right now), and can’t even get a group to get past first phase.

I’m just done. Not worth the damn headache anymore.

[texasminotaur]

Here's one....moral of the story before the details: Make sure your cables are working properly and controller battery charged before going into a dungeon!

Details: I'm on PS4 for the record. I was going through Shisui of the Violet Tides with a Duty Finder party. We got through the second boss, and then all of a sudden, I got notices on the screen that my controller battery was low. Thinking that was odd as the USB cable was plugged in, I kept chugging on......only to be stopped in my tracks because the battery went out. I barely got two messages: "Stand by. Battery issues", and "Sorry" before I had to log out to try to switch over to the PC (Not sure it can run Stormblood). Obviously, it was too late to stay in the party, I did get kicked. But, after 10 minutes, I found the USB cable wasn't working so I switched it for another and I think it started charging the controller.

[Aosha]

On that note of ranged not sticking around for goon tethers...
Yeah, that's my DRG leveling summed up right there. Some even actively running away.
Even now, when I ran an expert on it for a change, cue the ranged (can't remember what class, was 3 days ago) sticking to the maximum range. Stuff like this is why I have 2 separate Sight macros: target #4 (or other in 8-man), and target closest ally.
At this point I'm just waiting for someone to say "why aren't you tethering me?" from 18 malms away.

[killstein]

rabanastre, last boss: i was going to place a sword in the corner (which tbh i find my alliances preferring, so i just do it), one of our healers rescued me back to centre, through one of the aoes and i died bc of it. : ))) it was a giant mess bc nobody stacked the swords neatly in the middle and a bunch of people died (this is why they should go in corners! less aoe to run through!) but man i honestly hate being rescued. :/

[HaoNam]

I was in leveling roulette: Shisui.

War decided to pull multiple groups with deliverance stance. Of course, he died and whole group wiped. He then switched to Defiance and do single group pull which yielded a better result. After the first boss, he tried to pull multiple groups with deliverance again and we all died.

I said to him, can you please stay on defiance if you are planning to do bigger pull? I was playing as a dps. He then replied I can out dps you with deliverance while pulling.

I just don't bother to help anymore. If you cannot protect the group then what's the point of being a tank.

[Awha]

I was in leveling roulette: Shisui.

War decided to pull multiple groups with deliverance stance. Of course, he died and whole group wiped. He then switched to Defiance and do single group pull which yielded a better result. After the first boss, he tried to pull multiple groups with deliverance again and we all died.

I said to him, can you please stay on defiance if you are planning to do bigger pull? I was playing as a dps. He then replied I can out dps you with deliverance while pulling.

I just don't bother to help anymore. If you cannot protect the group then what's the point of being a tank.

He had to pad his numbers, clearly it was the groups fault.