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

[VanilleFang]

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The PLD was a jerk, but that has nothing to do with Him being a mentor. The NIN wasn't a jerk and they were also a mentor so... It seems a bit biased to assume someone is going to be a jerk to you just because they have s crown. I've seen more rudeness cone from people without crowns yet I don't automatically assume all non-mentors are jerks.


That aside he deserves the kick. He was a complete asshole for no reason and caused more issues than the BRD not using LB. That's one thing I've never understood. You blame someone for making the run worse than you like and then make it far, far worse? What kind of logic is that?

@MoroMurasaki: RDM has a lot of upfront burst damage so they tend to pull things more easily when paired with tanks who aren't prepared for the burst.

[MoroMurasaki]

@MoroMurasaki: RDM has a lot of upfront burst damage so they tend to pull things more easily when paired with tanks who aren't prepared for the burst.

Oh don't I know it.

That's why I've got 2 enmity reduction skills cross-roled.

[Kaabi]

That being said, I’m noticing something of a trend here, and this falls on healers in 24-mans. Is it difficult to keep everyone relatively healed? My alliance healers…I dunno what they were doing. Even accounting for the fact that everyone is spread out, the healers were not really healing that much. In fact, they weren’t really DPS’ing much either, so I dunno what they were doing. I’ve noticed this a lot happening in a lot of 24-mans, lately. Healers would both ignore pretty much their main role and focus hard on DPS. I’m not even talking about just Rabanastre – I’ve seen this happening all week in the Void Ark (someone, both of the healers in my alliance were killed by the very first void death), Syrcus Tower, and most recently, in O1S.

They wouldn’t even rez people in our alliance. Case in point, the tank messed up and didn’t grab an add during the Mateus fight and it zeroes in on a healer – so I DPS’ed the hell out of it to pull aggro – our tank is not even registering on the aggro list. I kited it around for a good 10 seconds before it finally killed me. I guess the tank noticed and finally provoked it…but neither healer would rez. At all. It was like that for the whole Rabanastre run.

Anybody noticing this lately? Healers that don’t want to heal or rez?

I see this quite a lot lately yeah. I tend to queue into Rabanastre on WHM (yay for being able to save those trainwreck runs), so I keep an eye on the other Alliances as well when I'm not busy Curing my butt off. Yesterday I've raised a SMN from a different Alliance about 3 times over the course of the raid, maybe their healers got fed up with them dying or w/e.

[Aosha]

(though to be honest, I’m confused by that mechanic when a false god tells you…like, how do you pass it if you aren’t supposed to listen to false gods). [snip]

That being said, I’m noticing something of a trend here, and this falls on healers in 24-mans. Is it difficult to keep everyone relatively healed? My alliance healers…I dunno what they were doing. Even accounting for the fact that everyone is spread out, the healers were not really healing that much. In fact, they weren’t really DPS’ing much either, so I dunno what they were doing. I’ve noticed this a lot happening in a lot of 24-mans, lately. Healers would both ignore pretty much their main role and focus hard on DPS. I’m not even talking about just Rabanastre – I’ve seen this happening all week in the Void Ark (someone, both of the healers in my alliance were killed by the very first void death), Syrcus Tower, and most recently, in O1S. [snip]

Anybody noticing this lately? Healers that don’t want to heal or rez?

For the false god you just need to do the opposite of what he tells you. Stop everything when he tells you to run away, stare at him when he tells you to look away. Just be as much of a defiant jerk to him as possible.

And oh yeah, this... Recently went to help a group get an O1S clear, and the WHM was just happily Stoning the boss after every Charybdis. No heals on the DPS when a Roar is incoming afterwards, no heals on the tanks when a Twin Bolt is coming afterwards. Just Stone. The first variant we survived thanks to the scholar blowing everything they had, and some Second Wind help from ourselves. The second one killed the tanks (they could have used LD and Holmgang, sure, but you'll still need to heal them...). Second run through it worked out, since the Scholar now knew to anticipate solohealing...

[Mixae]

Ok so doing brayflox. It's weird already because when it popped "3m" started already lmao. I'm BRD

Anyway SMN has pet out for a little while and I guess eventually it dies or something and I notice and say: "Don't forget to summon your pet" Because it's like a big DPS loss. It takes me saying it 3 times and another person saying it and he finally summons it during the final boss, Aiatar and it sits in poison LOL

[killstein]

i had queue in prog selected for rabanastre, when it finally popped it said they were already 93min ito the run. i didn't accept. :')

[Rowde]

we get to the closed fist and the tank starts backtracking, pulling mobs out of the room?? (i have no clue why)

I tank and my sister runs healer. If it's the part I think you are talking about, after the second boss and you enter the temple. First pull is five mobs only, but the room you end up in gets this purple mist and orbs spawn that drop and aoe explosion area once they reach a player. First two mobs are in the hall, next three are in the room, I pull the three mobs out of the room into the hall and my sister stands at the entrance to the room. It's easier for her to proc the orb explosions and dodge them while still healing me than to have the DPS proc the explosions and have to worry about dodging the aoe and maintaining dps on the mobs. I do the same thing with the 2nd pull too.

It sounds like your tank was pulling them way too far back though.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Healer Hijinks

Did a Ramuh EX farm with a Scholar who said: "I don't heal at all. I just DPS and let my little elf do it. [huehuehue]" And this person had no other lvl 60/70 classes. They main healed. I think a lot of people are reading old HW crap online and thinking this is ok for SB. (Didn't the fairy get like...a huge nerf?) Needless to say, I stayed RDM for that. I blame all the META crap going around that healers who don't DPS are pondscum. #notrue

[SlogDog]

Did a Ramuh EX farm with a Scholar who said: "I don't heal at all. I just DPS and let my little elf do it. [huehuehue]" And this person had no other lvl 60/70 classes. They main healed. I think a lot of people are reading old HW crap online and thinking this is ok for SB. (Didn't the fairy get like...a huge nerf?) Needless to say, I stayed RDM for that. I blame all the META crap going around that healers who don't DPS are pondscum. #notrue

It not Meta, they literally are pondscum. Every job should have to press their buttons, not stand around watching you do all the work while they gab. Unless doing your job correctly is now META, maybe i'm behind the times.

The funny thing is most of these pure healers are trash at healing too, just watch how many of them understand precasting.... watch and be appalled.

[SenorPatty]

Did a Ramuh EX farm with a Scholar who said: "I don't heal at all. I just DPS and let my little elf do it. [huehuehue]" And this person had no other lvl 60/70 classes. They main healed. I think a lot of people are reading old HW crap online and thinking this is ok for SB. (Didn't the fairy get like...a huge nerf?) Needless to say, I stayed RDM for that. I blame all the META crap going around that healers who don't DPS are pondscum. #notrue

Ramuh Ex...unsynched? Cuz if you're farming it it, then I imagine that's what it is.


And if that's what it is then perhaps SCH was joking?

I hate to be that person but the only thing to be taken seriously there is the adds. o.o

FURTHER EDIT: I mean, you didn't specify if you solo healed that afterwards or if you both did or...whatever. Maybe I'm reading into this too much.