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

[StarRosie]

Iirc, it was right around Bardham that the Augmented Shire gear started getting outclassed by the dungeon drop gear.

Yup, Bardham is when Augmented Shire starts falling off. I believe Shisui is still ilvl270 but bardham is 273. By Castrum though, you shouldn't have any signs of Shire gear left. It's just a problem. (That I personally experienced due to my own derp.)

Well, good level 60 gear should actually be quite viable even at level 69. Augmented Shire gear is ilvl 270. Best lvl 69 gear is ilvl 288 from what I can see. That really isn't all that big a difference.

Besides what other people have said, there is a big difference. I had to abuse CDs and really plan out my shieldings much further in advance then normal and often it would take at least 2 lustrates and an Adloquium to bring the tank back from the brink. Compared to the 1 lustrate in my regular healer gear. No one should be in augmented shire by Castrum. Not even a DPS. I honestly am surprised they didn't boot me for the mistake, cause they had every reason to! It reminded me how forgiving and kind this game's community can be.

[Tridus]

Iirc, it was right around Bardham that the Augmented Shire gear started getting outclassed by the dungeon drop gear. I can't remember if Shisui gear was about the same or just marginally better. But either way, by the time you get the Castrum Abania Shire gear's been obsolete for a couple dungeons at least. And I'm pretty sure MSQ and a few side quests offer some better pieces of gear around the same time as rewards. So there should be plenty of chances to upgrade gear up to that point.

Yeah it's aorund there. The vendor 64 white gear has better defense than Augmented Shire, and it gets noticeable VERY quickly because it scales up in rapid fashion.

[Namallama]

This one's very minor but I ran into a player that... I just don't know. I queued for a PF Sophia Ex to help someone get a clear. First time bonus and what not, plus Sophia is fun. The tank was... not helpful, to put it lightly. I honestly wasn't sure if he knew what he was doing. Sure, he was familiar with mechanics, as he so claimed, but his performance said otherwise.

He fell off on tilts many times and refused to use mitigation/cooldowns when he had vuln stacks on him. This lead to tank busters killing him. However, he repeatedly blamed the healer for "only healing him 5 times throughout the entire fight." She kept telling him it was impossible to heal through as much damage as he was taking, but WRONG. HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING.

Tank also kept dropping the demiurge puddle in the middle of the platform, and in a party of newbies, they ended up sliding into it and taking hits from frostbite. Did I mention the healer was going solo, so it made it more difficult to keep up with Mr. I Don't Need Mitigation? I told him to take the puddle to the corner to prevent this. His response? To be snarky and basically say "noooo, my way is best way." The real kicker was: "If Sass stood on the wrong end of the platform, would ya'll follow her there? For a party full of experts, you all are sure dying a lot."

Though to his credit, on the following run he did take the puddle to the appropriate corner. Of course, people ran into it because he didn't take the adds away, and we basically wiped there. "See what happens when I leave it there?"

But that's not even the BEST part. This tank was a mentor. Thanks for being rude to a party of newbies there, buddy. You really earned that title.

[MoroMurasaki]

I'm looking to gear BRD and fishing for Rabanastre drops. The queue on a DPS was 30+ minutes so I pop in on WHM where it's almost instant.

My cohealer is close to me in health and upon closer examination has several more classes at 70. I get excited - not often I get a good cohealer in a PUG, much less in an instance where it can matter.

In hindsight I could have probably avoided our only wipe if I just stopped expending resources rezzing and healing my cohealer. He took a lot of avoidable damage, far more than our RDM who announced he was new from the start.

This other WHM cast one raise (for our party at least, though I'm pretty confident it was only one overall) and that was to raise me when I died to getting cornered in on Extreme Edge by some poorly placed Jagged Edge AoEs. At one point I watched him run out of the safe side for Extreme Edge and into the center. I didn't raise him that time.

We finally wiped during a golem phase on Hashmal when I went OOM and just couldn't do it anymore. He and the rest of the party went down real quick.

I try to not call any specific person out over one wipe, I'm keeping my mouth shut and my party tells him a bit about himself. I just stay quiet then tell them we'll be able to clear this time around.

To his credit he started healing a bit more at this point though still not very effectively. We didn't wipe anymore but we got close a few times. I scaled back my DPS quite a bit to make sure I could keep my mp up.

End of the story is I wound up with all 7 comms which was nice but it was hard to be happy about it because that other WHM was just so bad. I am still kinda bothered by it. I'm of the opinion that every party member should at least be offering enough contribution to offset the mp cost to keep them alive and just... ugh.

But 7 comms! Yay! Gonna try to focus on that!

[HyoMinPark]

Well, good level 60 gear should actually be quite viable even at level 69. Augmented Shire gear is ilvl 270. Best lvl 69 gear is ilvl 288 from what I can see. That really isn't all that big a difference.

Oh it make a huge difference when you’re a tank, not only in terms of defense, but in terms of VIT as well. A tank in full Augmented Shire doing big pulls in the level 69 dungeon is a recipe for absolute disaster. Trust me on this.

[Cakekizyy]

Running a PF in amdapor castle, the paladin there's was pulling the mobs by passing through them and don't even attack, pull large pack and then complain about a overhate from the SMN, or my MCH or even the AST... Trying to give advice, he don't give a single fuck and "know his job".

That's not how it works you little shit

Why I wait for pull to finish before attacking.

[AxHell]

Sastasha with my GLA, a CNJ, an ACN and a PGL. All new.

Both DPS and CNJ charged to aggro mobs. Told them that's the tank's job. Also told the ACN to switch carbuncles. He had his topaz out.

Then both DPS did a great job. But the CNJ was an a**.

"How dare you give advice to me who knows all about this game. I spent more time playing it than you ! So stfu !" More insults but I didn't care. I wanted dat xp and dem bonuses.

He tried to aggro mobs. "You pull you tank" I said.

He died, spat more insults but started doing his job. Told him : "Whatever you say you who knows more than me with 4 jobs at lvl 70."

After the final boss, more insults and this : "Maybe you should change your attitude."

I laughed and said : "YOU should change your attitude. If you keep being like that, people will hate you and you will have a bad time playing this game."

Whatever he is doing, I hope other people are teaching him a lesson and that he is suffering. Don't care if he was a newbie.

[Galgarion]

Got the Dusk veil today while leveling my white mage job. We have a Dark Knight tank who seems like a perfecly nice person, in all 330-340 gear in a beautiful glamour. I figure this will be easy and enjoyabe. I'm wrong, nice though he is, the guy can't hold threat against the dps, (an average geared monk and machinist.) What should be fun, is an utter chore. Worst of all, is that he seems oblivious to his issues, but seems to be having a great time, making me think he might be a kid playing on his parent's account or something. I grit my teeth and bear it, since a bad party is great healer training, we slog through it, and clear the dungeon. The tank gives everyone a friendly farewell. Someone leaves. I think it's the tank. I decide to indulge in a little shop talk with the machinist before taking off (already gave him my comm after all.)

"Wow, that tank was f***ing awful, huh?" I type. I look back up at the screen.

It wasn't the tank that left. It was the monk.

I've never before been caught red-handed speaking shit behind someone's back.

The tank and the machinist just stand there staring at me.

I freak out and run for the exit.

I now know I am a coward.

[Aosha]

Capped my tomes yesterday by helping clear parties on O1S and O2S. O2 took a few tries with people having trouble with Long Drop, but we were done in less than an hour, and people learned well. The first O1 party disbanded after one wipe, and showed some bad attitude in general (but my co-tank DRK was nice, too bad he couldn't get his clear there). Second party went through it real easy. A pleasant experience overall, helping people is fun.

[killstein]

had a weird encounter with two people in skalla who swore they knew me, even though i literally had no idea who they were. they were friends and i think they were just messing with me tbh bc one would say "you remember me don't you?" and their friend would more or less back them up, trying to convince me we had all met previously but failed to give any specifics. i was on ps4 and didn't bother plugging in my keyboard so was virtually silent the entire time but when i got out, one friended me... idk if i wanna accept, the entire situation was just Strange. :x