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

[Ryuseigoes]

I think my favorite is my first run in Keeper of the Lake was just me, this small lalafell paladin running around with three girls in nothing but bikinis. Why can't I be as lucky as my character in real life?

[Anarnee]

I saw you standing there in your bunny eared glory and thought to myself, "I gotta take advantage of this."

XD I saw it and just stared for a moment in awe! I'm so glad you did cause that made my day!

Edit time:

New story! Decided to binge run mentor roulette as AST.

I got Sastasha normal, Sophia normal, Rabanstre in progress, The Wanderers palace normal, a guild hest, and then Final steps of faith.

Final Steps of Faith EXTREME. In progess.

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I've only cleared it a couple of times. And only as DRG... Sooooo haha I was a little worried, but I wasn't the only mentor, and we all pushed through together.

Got a PLD, SCH and MNK their clear ^^

[SenorPatty]

So I've been very eager to improve myself on my SMN, trying to break out of my average shell. Decided to clean up my HUD, move some hotbars around, the works. Even read up on things I read before just to be double certain. After what seemed like forever of tinkering, with my new hotbars, I decide to step into Rabanastre.


To the 2:00 AM-ish party I joined, I would like to offer my sincere apologies for playing like complete trash.

It was just...so, so bad. My eyes were lost on like, all my skills. Turns out muscle memory doesn't just apply to muscles, it also applies to ya damn brain. Couldn't find my fester, couldn't find my aether gauge (it used to be on the right side of my screen so I kept looking right even though it was on the left), couldn't get DWT right.

After clearing Hashmal, I took my atrocious ass out of the raid. I just couldn't in good conscience continue.

The moral of this story: when you had something good visually, don't mess with it. /cry

[pa1kia]

Just leveled up RDM to 70 and decided to celebrate by queing up for Deltascapes. Ended up in v1.0... when one of the tanks immediately leaves. Group decides to solo tank it with one of the better geared DPS jumping in for Twin Bolt. Had a few deaths and rezes mid fight but the fight was smooth with a pair of 2-bar LBs going off during the battle.. Props to the DRK that didn't leave.

[Jellybums]

You know that healer who can't Aurum Vale. Sorry, I wish I could help you but I know nothing about healing. We all died fast. Some of us died laughing, at least two of us anyway, out of six (had to replenish ranks), all in good fun though. I wish you the best, hope you do better.

[Aosha]

What parties have you been getting? Most of the time, I'm too busy keeping my tissue-paper, over-pulling Random tank from face-planting (or too close, aoe sitting DPS--or both) to waste time/mana on DPS let alone stand there and 'GAB'. If I'm not healing or setting up a card buff then yeah I'm doing what shitty DPS AST can do (or whatever healer I'm going as ATM), but that's not my priority. I suppose that makes me a bad healer. But you know what makes a worse one? Wiping. I never put DPS before that. Sorry-not-sorry.

And I absolutely don't understand why starting battles with Regen/Medica II/Enhanced Helios (w/Diurnal) is a thing. I assume that's what you're talking about. I facepalm everytime.

Of course, if you're having to spend all your time keeping people alive, nobody should call you a bad healer, at most you're still somewhat inexperienced. You're trying. The problem being healers who either keep overhealing unnecessarily doing nothing else, or do nothing while waiting for damage to happen. The windows to do damage are going to keep getting bigger and bigger as you get more comfortable/confident with your healing toolkit.
(I think the original point was "healers who willfully forego DPS when they'd have ample time to do so tend to also be worse at healing itself", which I would agree with. Being unable to DPS due to circumstances and knowing that you do not have the time to do so is not bad healing, quite the opposite for the latter.)

And if you're referring to the precasting comment with the latter line: Precasting refers to "beginning to cast a heal before damage even happens, but timing it so that the heal hits after the damage". It's a vital skill in savage level raiding for healers to have. Not necessary in dungeon content by any stretch, but it's one of the things that separate the truly good healers from the kinda good ones.
But yeah prebattle regens are kinda silly.

Everyone has run into a tank once or twice who was squishy but I have never had a tank where i literally had to stop all dps and just baby him, that's an exaggeration some heals choose to use to try and vindicate their actions.

Then you've just never found the worst of the worst. Believe me, there are tanks that are literally impossible to keep alive no matter what you do. I remember one guy going from 90% to 0 in less than a GCD. Think that was Doma or Bardam and the guy was a DeliWarrior in mostly i200 or something. But these cases are very very rare outliers, so I do kinda get where you're coming from.

[PuppytimusLeoroccanz]

Qued as a tank for brayflox to help a dps friend clear it for msq. Got a healer who instantly said he/she was inexperienced in healing so we took it very slow. My HP as a tank dwindled even with the use of CDs but it was never at a dangerous level and the healer hardly did any over healing and even practice dpsing... so I'm impressed actually. No wipes and pretty smooth run.

[VanilleFang]

Then you've just never found the worst of the worst. Believe me, there are tanks that are literally impossible to keep alive no matter what you do. I remember one guy going from 90% to 0 in less than a GCD. Think that was Doma or Bardam and the guy was a DeliWarrior in mostly i200 or something. But these cases are very very rare outliers, so I do kinda get where you're coming from.

I had one of these way back in ARR when Sunken Temple HM was new. I was literally spamming Cure II (with Divine Seal and PoM on CD) and we kept wiping because I couldn't keep the tank up.

Guess who got blamed? This WHM right here.

[Aerori]

I'm still relatively new to healing (picked up WHM and rushed through the levels after struggling to get through a an MSQ as BLM) so I would by no means call myself a good healer.

One run (I can't remember which dungeon) I got in roulette, the text interface on my screen decided to take a hike. I'd also gone and decided to move all of my hotkeys around right before. I tried clicking around but it didn't fix itself. I told the party after I wiped, but of course if they responded I couldn't read it. They didn't give me any indication of wanting me to leave right then and there, so we just continued on with me having my fingers crossed that I'd still be able to throw out heals/dps at the right targets without too much delay. I messed up, party wipes, gestures for me to leave, and I get kicked before I could decipher their motioning. I really hope they didn't have to wait too long for a new healer, but that remains my great shame in DF.

The other really memorable party I had was also as a healer. It was either in Haukke Manor or the Aery if I remember correctly, and the tank liked to pull more than one mob at a time. Not really an issue as the tank kept it manageable. But being a BLM main I noticed that the BLM in the party was using mostly Blizzard III and the occasional Fire I to finish off a single target. If they tried to cast anything else, I didn't see it on screen. I give them the benefit of the doubt starting out, but notice we're really slogging through the dungeon. I start tossing out holy on the trash mobs to help out a bit since the DPS were mostly doing single-target damage, and eat my way through mp. I don't really know much about melee DPS classes so I can't speak for that player, but I started thinking maybe the BLM is new and unfamiliar with the dungeon or their rotation. But looking at their character profile, their gear is for level 60+, and they're definitely skipping through the cutscenes. I figured by this point we only have a bit of the dungeon left to go, may as well just finish. Things do get a bit hairy with the bosses when I'm barely able to keep up with heals near the end of the fight because I'm scraping the bottom of my mp pool, but we managed to get through without a wipe, if at a painfully slow pace.

[Anarnee]

After a day of really good runs, I have a strange one and I'm not sure how to feel about it.

I'm still binge running mentor roulette, celebrating having all battle classes to 70. I've gotten AV in prog with silent, but perceptive people, DPS abandoned by their tanks and heals, as I mentioned earlier, a NIDHOGG ex clear for three, it's been a fun evening.

I just got Sastasha in prog, and I ask what happened, they told me they kicked the other healer because they were being lazy. The tank is the one doing the talking.

I already have a bad taste in my mouth, but I push on, before getting the threat of "if you do the same i will initiate the vote without telling you."

That I really don't like... I'm only half joking when I reply "No need for threats if you're gonna be like that kick me now."

The tank replies "Ok" but nothing happens and we keep going.

It's a bit before the second boss when they ask "you playing on pc or ps4?" and I reply without a thought. "PS4"

They ask if I have a mic, and I say no, I do all of my chatting on pc via discord, we banter a bit more, nothing significant.

In the second to last boss room I decide to not roll on the loot... I'm a bit paranoid that to get their jollies they might kick me at the last fight, so don't pass on the trash loot.

We get to the big open room before the last boss and he proceeds to pull half the room. I think its three packs of enemies? I suspect they're trying to mess with me... but his is Sastasha. If they wanted to unnerve me, they should have pulled the whole room pft. After pulling the remaining mobs, and finishing the room with no incident he types again.

">.>"
"You ok? XD lol"

and I play stupid. "Me?" "yea" "Why would I not be."

They stand around in silence at the last boss for a bit before finally pulling it.

In the end I'm ready to go, but try to stay polite. I type my usual parting lines. "o/ GJ Happy Journeys."

The last thing that is said to me before I go is. "rape you later"

I kinda wish I'd have just left and not waited around for them to say anything, but I figured if I just left, it would appear like I was bothered.

Honestly the rest I can roll my eyes at but the last line was very annoying. Flipping creepo.