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

[Kakiko]

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Trouble executing them.
I get that when he says something about two out of three elements, you choose the one he didn't say. My problem is I have difficulty dodging the aoes, healing (or keeping enoch up if I'm on BLM) while figuring out which one he left out and then making my way to the correct tower. The first time I did that dungeon, I had someone calling them out for me, and yet I was still getting knocked back even though they said I was doing it correctly, and they were confused by why I was getting thrown back but no one else was. I've been in there three times now; the second time was rough enough that our tank peaced out and we had to find a new one, and then the healer and DPS decided to leave as well. This time, only one person left. So.. sort of an improvement.


The same goes for that Kelpie in Skalla. I kinda-sorta understand the mechanics (although not sure what I'm supposed to be doing when I get tethered to a water ball) and the BLM I had in there the other day when I was healing was /oh so helpful/ by telling me to "pay attention to the mech" and "dodge the aoe" - excellent advice, b/c that's totally not what I was trying do while saying "I don't know what to do."

[Sieben79]

Trouble executing them.
I get that when he says something about two out of three elements, you choose the one he didn't say. My problem is I have difficulty dodging the aoes, healing (or keeping enoch up if I'm on BLM) while figuring out which one he left out and then making my way to the correct tower. The first time I did that dungeon, I had someone calling them out for me, and yet I was still getting knocked back even though they said I was doing it correctly, and they were confused by why I was getting thrown back but no one else was. I've been in there three times now; the second time was rough enough that our tank peaced out and we had to find a new one, and then the healer and DPS decided to leave as well. This time, only one person left. So.. sort of an improvement.


The same goes for that Kelpie in Skalla. I kinda-sorta understand the mechanics (although not sure what I'm supposed to be doing when I get tethered to a water ball) and the BLM I had in there the other day when I was healing was /oh so helpful/ by telling me to "pay attention to the mech" and "dodge the aoe" - excellent advice, b/c that's totally not what I was trying do while saying "I don't know what to do."

Three times with different jobs is hard to understand the mechanic. As a healer (castrum abania) you have watch for the tankbuster, the yellow aoe, the towers (if you have some melee DD) and the boss buff (if you want to do some damage. Since not every tank and/ or dds are good players you don't have really time to learn the mechanic. Run a few more times with healer then you'll get a hang of the fights

Edit: only one person per tower

As Blackmage you have to do the same mechanics except of the tankbuster. If you think enochain will fell off, use Transpose and start your rotation from beginning.

I think the rotation from the boss ist Tankbuster -> yellow AoE -> Towers -> Buff -> yellow AoE -> Tankbuster and so on. Like Vidu said: very straight forward.

For the Kelpie: Place the portable aoe in a corner or at a side (the less place the puddle takes from the arena the better). After that the tethered orbs appear. You have to drag them from your partymembers away but also have a good distance between you and the orb, cause after 5 seconds or a bit more they explode with a quick circle aoe. While that the kelpie casting push or pull.

Edit: If your're unsure with mechanics, ask three friends or FC members to run with you, so you'll have more time to analyse the battles.

[MeridaQ]

Im on Coeurl for my main, but Gilgamesh for my alt. My Gilgamesh character is in the 20s, I think, for Gladiator, but I really like DRK on my lalafell on Coeurl. If you have Discord, my handle is ..Maple..#5890, we can coordinate a private PF to get on each other's friends list that way then

I sent you a friend requests Da Quigg

[Mhaeric]

Trouble executing them.

As a tip: When I run that as a healer I don't pay attention to the boss buff status like I would when on dps. I just watch where the others move to to pick up the elemental effect and just copy them. It lets me worry about one less thing in that fight, since it's not a super priority for the healer to switch immediately like with dps/tank.

[Tridus]

Red Mage hardcasting rez in Rabanastre. What. :^)

I mean, it's a step forward in the right direction from the RDMs I usually see that enjoy to just derp around with their full MP bars, jumping over the dead bodies of HALF AN ENITRE ALLIANCE - but, like, I still have to wonder why.

That's pretty odd, but at least they want to do the right thing. So there's hope.

[ChaoticCrimson]

That's pretty odd, but at least they want to do the right thing. So there's hope.

Reminds me of the other day after I made some adjustments to my hotbars. Tried to Swiftcast a Veraise to save a healer, only to see the spell start hardcasting instead. That's when I realized I accidentally used one of my emergency ethers instead of Swiftcast and momentarily forgot I switched their keys... Ironically because I thought it'd be easier for me to press the new Swiftcast button on my controller as I'd need it far more often than an ether. Thankfully I've adjusted since then.

[Mhaeric]

Why use swiftcast? Just use the dualcsst proc to raise since swiftcast pushes back your dualcast rotation by 1gcd anyway, so it's not a gain.

[MoroMurasaki]

As a sorta-appropriately geared DRG you can actually tank the majority of Haukke Manor. I know becausecof my leveling roulette today.

Props to the healer who kept me standing. The tank was maybe the single worst tank I've ever witnessed. Even after coaxing him into using Flash he couldn't hold anything in gear 10 levels higher than mine.

The best part? When we had to return after the one boss battle he didn't do it despite us telling him in chat. He eventually died to mobs he aggroed and rezzed to the start of the dungeon.

[Mhaeric]

As a sorta-appropriately geared DRG you can actually tank the majority of Haukke Manor. I know becausecof my leveling roulette today.

Props to the healer who kept me standing. The tank was maybe the single worst tank I've ever witnessed. Even after coaxing him into using Flash he couldn't hold anything in gear 10 levels higher than mine.

The best part? When we had to return after the one boss battle he didn't do it despite us telling him in chat. He eventually died to mobs he aggroed and rezzed to the start of the dungeon.

From experience, you can tank all of Haukke Manor HM as a black mage! Except maybe the last boss... I wasn't able to find out, since just before we started it we finally got a replacement tank for the one that instantly dropped after the dungeon loaded.

[Meui]

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I've learned with a good healer around there's actually quite a bit you can accomplish! Funnily enough I got an in-prog Snowcloak on my RDM the other night. No tank, just WHM and a BRD working their way up to Fenrir. We decided to try the boss as is and I learned he's very doable with a RDM "tank" so long as heals are incoming when they ought to be. Which they were, thanks for that pleasant (and quick) 50/60 Roulette!