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

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

PotD bads

This kind of stuff right here is why I literally outright avoid PotD where I can. It can vary in wild swings from halfway decent to absolute cancer - with the very, very rare super fun group sprinkled in for good measure.

I'd rather bash my head on AV or any number of other hated dungeons than ever step foot in PotD again. @.@

[ChameleonMS]

Oh my god...I mistyped again. I meant left side. Damn me typing this up at 2am my time.

Left side is very impactful for tanks when considering damage mitigation. That where your DEF rating comes from. DEF forms the basis of your base mitigation.
You should have a reasonable number of Poetics at this point, go to Mor Dhona buy some i120 ironworks gear, that will carry you to lv56. Then you need to replace this with i139 crafted / vendor gear or i133 dungeon gear. Due the RNG nature of gear drops grinding Sohm Al is a very inefficient choice. You have already out levelled that dungeon and it will only get worse long before you get a set of gear.

[Avatre]

Oh my god...I mistyped again. I meant left side. Damn me typing this up at 2am my time. I'm not sure what gear the other 3 had - I only know that the WHM and one of the SAMS (the one that said something to me) were in the same FC. I do question the healer though because there were some parts where they healed me just fine, even on an accidental big pull. But just to cover my bases, I'll probably grind out Sohr Khai before I move on to the next dungeon - I'm mostly just trying to hit 70 so I can get my Omega gear over to this job.

If you have spare Poetics, I recommend going to Mor Dhona and grabbing the Ironworks gear. Even not augmented it's i120(i130 when augmented). Plus, using the augmented versions can carry any class to 60(my RNG sucks, so I've leveled every class practically - like 90% of my gear being - in Augmented Ironworks from 50-60).

[Iscah]

Had an 'interesting' run in Qarn yesterday, and I may have accidentally led someone to ragequit...

We got the "new player" message at the start; nobody watched the cutscene so trying to guess who it is. The tank immediately dashed off down the stairs instead of engaging with the first group of enemies, leaving the rest of us to get attacked. I wonder if they're the new person.

The first boss takes a few tries because our healer goes down to the Doom spell. I try to let them know what to do, but they're Japanese so I can only beckon and hope they notice amid the chaos.

The real fun begins at the point where you're supposed to lure the stone heads onto the switches and aquire the tablets, because the tank just runs straight past and onto the next room. And onwards down the stairs, at which point I manage to call [wait] and [this way] and beckon everyone back toward the switches, still thinking the tank might just not know what to do.

Turns out the tank speaks English, and tells me "we can skip it". I say "okay" but the other two have already engaged the stone heads so I say "or not" and join the battle, expecting the tank will come and join us.

He doesn't, and suddenly I realise he's not on the party list any more.

Awkward.

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So after a few uncomfortable minutes stuck without a tank and unable to speak the same language as my two remaining party members, we did get another tank, and while we didn't have any problems in the end, the first thing they did was pull a mob of yarzons right into the golem boss chamber. Turns out the golem stays inert until you actually engage it, but it was a bit of a panic moment because I haven't seen anyone do that before and I thought we'd be fending it all off at once. Is that a normal strategy for some people? What does it achieve over just fighting them in the tunnel?

[Iscah]

On a more exciting note, tonight I very nearly managed to defeat the chimera in Cutter's Cry solo from about 15% health! Playing as a bard, and suddenly realised everyone else except me was dead and I was actually surviving okay. I'm sure I wasn't fighting as efficiently as I could have been - I'm still learning, and there are so many things to pay attention to at once - but I got it down to 1% health and I was just firing Misery's End when it finally got me. Massive adrenaline rush while I was doing it though.

[Erim-Nelhah]

using [i130 augmented ironworks gear] can carry any class to 60.

This works well enough for DPS, but for a tank/healer the undergeared player has to be good at the job, and so does the non-undergeared tank/healer. And then you can't carry bad or similarly undergeared DPS, so as a tank (or healer) I would start checking the MB for affordable upgrades at 55-57, and vendors at 58+.

--Erim Nelhah

[Tridus]

Left side is very impactful for tanks when considering damage mitigation. That where your DEF rating comes from. DEF forms the basis of your base mitigation.
You should have a reasonable number of Poetics at this point, go to Mor Dhona buy some i120 ironworks gear, that will carry you to lv56. Then you need to replace this with i139 crafted / vendor gear or i133 dungeon gear. Due the RNG nature of gear drops grinding Sohm Al is a very inefficient choice. You have already out levelled that dungeon and it will only get worse long before you get a set of gear.

You're guaranteed at least one item you don't have from Sohm Al, since it's a HW levelling dungeon. You get one automatically at the end of the run. Plus so much stop drops between bosses and chests that you'd have to be very unlucky to walk away with nothing two runs in a row.

For tanks and healers, levelling exclusively on the highest tier dungeon you have access to works out pretty well. You'll have the entire set of gear for that dungeon (except maybe a weapon, since that's just RNG) by time it's time to do the next one in the list.

[PuppytimusLeoroccanz]

snip (qarn)

When things like that happen to me too in JP server I'll just use waymarks a b c on the 3 platforms(doom) and type respectively.

Also put the no/cross symbol on the heads and just bring it to the platform if the dps/tank doesn't do it (this one is hoping they don't simply kill it before it reaches the platform tho) its more work to mark the plat form 'A' and label the head as '1' and type 1 --> A but it works, really!

Probably a misplay in regards to the yarzon part, that for one never happened to me before.

[Lammas]

I continue learning healing and today I got Sirensong Sea. Things were dying a bit slow but I didn't think much of it until the first boss during which the unavoidable AOE's knock the SAM into about less than 20 % health from full. After the fight I notived his low amount of HP and check his stuff. This guy is running with a lvl 59 weapon and none of his gear is 60. His chest and I think belt were 57. He could just buy ilvl 255 stuff from Oriens for heavens sake. I didn't check his average item level but it was probably around 150-160. We stunned the the first 2 charms from the last enemy before the last boss but the 3rd went through and the SAM got one shot from full.

I probably should have told him to go upgrade his crap but I'm fairly sure he realized it himself and I just left. At least I got a commendation out of it. I know it was from him because I was running with 2 FC mates.

[AnukaVakath]

So doing Levelling Roulette, I'm DK tank. Astro healer is returning player. Two new players bard and dragoon are dps.

First Boss (the book). First pull nobody get heals. Healer informs us he had someone talking to him in real life so was distracted and couldn't heal. Second pulll bard dies around 5 times but we win.

Second Boss: We wipe once as I forget ball mechanic. Totally my bad. Second try zero deaths.

Third Boss:
Try and explain fight. On all pulls healer or dps either die from standing in balls which they keep dropping in the middle (despite me saying otherwise) or nobody making it to the platforms in time bar myself. After 4 tries of me trying to explain. I leave. Really frustrated.

Wrong of me? I don't remember having that much difficulty with it even when the content was new and I was trying to explain the whole time. Nobody said a word on the third fight, no acknowledgement of my instructions (which I dont think were rude or anything). Nothing.