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

[TwoOfEleven]

I feel like most healers I encounter now have no idea what they're doing. My first guess is jump potions.

PoTD maybe? One thing if they want to finish a level, and another if they just spam it 1-70 or 60...

I had a worst leveling run in a while, got Toto-Rak and I don't even know how many times we wiped. I don't consider myself a great tank, but I thought I was doing okay, and my friend was depressed too at that point. The SAM just ignored all mechanics, dying to all dooms etc. First thing he did was run in and pull the boss before we were done with mobs, getting locked in, and the whole run pulled despite me asking not to. Boss dying so slowly made me notice between the rare Cure WHM was just standing there. I can understand that if you need every bit of mana, but it was uncalled for, so I asked them to help - and what they did was come close and autoattack. No Stone was used that run (at least they used the DoT and were a nice person)

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

DO NEW PLAYERS UNDERSTAND MEDICA II?

I had this issue when learning how casters work here. In non-mmo FF, the spell designations work a little differently. Numbers denote potency, and are largely single-target unless the base spell was a target-party spell. So I used to spam cure 3 a lot thinking it was more like Curaga instead of a slightly more potent proximity aoe heal. Man did I gey schooled. LOL.

[Urthdigger]

I'm now at the point where the only jobs to get to level 70 are now my tanks and healers. Trying to get WAR to 70 so I can ding into my Byakko's axe.

i200 equipment. SMNs that don't Bane or use DoTs. BLMs that don't use Enochian, the mighty DRG that doesn't use Blood of the Dragon. People that don't AOE on speedpulls but insist you speedpull. Me being top of a parse on bosses. Just a few highlights I've had on the way from 64 to 65.

Every single time I've just bailed on these people and done my beastman dailies during my downtime. I don't regret it for a second. I have an instashing now and I'm going to abuse the hell out of it.

Lately seems to be quite an epidemic with people in leveling dungeons with gear far, FAR below what they should have. I have a few things left to take to 70 and I'm tempted to do it solely on beastmen dailies, hunts, and FATEs.

[Jijifli]

DO NEW PLAYERS UNDERSTAND MEDICA II?

I had a WHM in Doma Castle that refused to ever not have Med II up. They wouldn't spam it, but they'd use it every 30 seconds. Even if nobody else was hurt. They'd also do it at the end of a pull, and if I paused at the boss, they'd do it right before the pull.

It's a terrible regen that drags uneeded threat unless everyone is injured. The total potency is the same as Cure II as well so why not just... cure II?

[RayneBoemir]

Had a lv 57 lancer not dragoon a LANCER in the Vault. I left that place so fast not even exaggerating.

[TwoOfEleven]

Had a lv 57 lancer not dragoon a LANCER in the Vault. I left that place so fast not even exaggerating.

I saw a conjurer in Rabanastre

[Thoosa]

Did a Hell’s Lid run and the White Mage died to every boss. Me as a summoner had to raise them and we wiped twice on the second to last and the last boss.

[AxHell]

A new positive story.

Got Wanderer's Palace normal as PLD. Party was a MNK, WHM and BLM.

At first I'm anxious about this dungeon because of the giant chasing tomberries, and the mass pull you have to do in order to get far from it.
I told the party it was my first time tanking in this dungeon and that I would do my best. They reassured me saying stuff like "Don't worry go at your own pace." or "You'll do great."

And the MNK who had 2 tanks at 70 gave me advices on where the big Tomberry spawned and how to manage it. The dungeon went very smoothly and I was able to mass pull without a problem.

At the end I got all 3 comms, compliments on my tanking from the MNK and became friends with him. So MNK buddy if you're reading this (as well you too WHM and BLM), once again thank you !

[RenAshdoll]

Not DF but...

Me exploding the skull too near a melee on the last run of a aim-to-clear for O8s for forsaken 3.... god that run, if we made no mistakes is definitely a clear T_T.

[Anarnee]

So I've been leveling my WAR on one of my alts, just to get her a tank, and I just did Doma Castle.

The run from the start was "rocky". I died doing the first double pulls. I popped every cool down but the SCH just could not keep up. I wasn't mad. The SCH was 70, so I assumed they could handle it, but I know that the mobs start hitting really hard in Bardam's ownward. They apologized and said they just didn't know where all of their abilities were. I asked to be sure if they wanted to try again. They said yes. I was willing to go slower, my gear is mostly up to par, with just the chest piece still at 270, everything else is either from Bardam's or DC.

I do the Golem pull separate. I've seen people do the golem and the last two, but I always feel it's needlessly difficult so I do that one alone. We do the next pull and I die again. This one we save though, I tell them to run back a DPS brings me the adds on the way.

The first boss goes fine, and the adds go fine. I pull the big armour and the two dogs... Cept one dog glitches and gets stuck up top. I laugh as we kill it with ranged attacks (I'm a WAR, the two DPS are DRG and SAM). I don't do anymore double pulls, just to be safe and we get through just fine.

The second boss... We all end up being shot around the room like pinballs. No one dies. I'm just chuckling to myself. I make a few jokes about it and the healer says they thought it was funny. As I'm making jokes, one of the DPS runs ahead of us and pulls the ninja's that drop from the ceiling.

But we kill them and the rest of the adds just fine.

It's when we get to the last boss that I realize the DRG is new, they watch their CS and me and the healer use /charmed at the boss, and the SAM dotes at him. I took a quick screenshot cause I thought it was cute.

Then the fight begins. The DRG gets all of the prey proximity marks and obviously has no idea what to do with them, leaving them near the group each time. So I'm just skirting around trying to position for the upcoming aoes from the floating death circles.

LB2 pops and someone uses it, then the proximity marker pops again. I pop the gate things so that the dps can move it away but they don't, and so the healer and me run away. Both dps stay and keep attacking the boss though.

It was so hilarious when the bomb went off. Both DPS died AND the fight ended.

I was just laughing so hard. Despite it not being the smoothest run, a little banter in the chat made it such a fun run.

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Also, last night I think I experienced a bit of karma. My I've been leveling WHM on my other alt and I was 59, trying to get to 60. The queue was longer than my vault queues had been. I got a tanking in all ironworks 120 gear, cept for their rings, they had the level 30 brand new ring, and a ghysal ring which I think was 40 something.

I literally could not stop healing them or they'd die. I had to keep regen and medica II up constantly. At first it wasn't too bad but then they tried to do double pulls, one one they didn't get an add off of me so I died, then they died while the DPS finished the adds.

During the first boss them and one of the DRG kept getting hit by the aoes. The DRG said they were lagging.

Second boss didn't go so badly, and neither did the last one, we did the demon gates properly and everything, though at one point the "laggy" goon left their orb in the middle of the room and everyone, except me, just stood in it.

Why is this karma? Last week when I started leveling my WAR on the other alt, I went into Sirensong sea with a level 40 ring and the brand new ring. Most of my gear was 270 though, and I'd done it before just fine, I was hoping to get the ring from there so I didn't have to buy it, but I went to run it again, and I tried to do the double pull as I had before, the SCH couldn't keep up with the healing. I apologized and mentioned I should have asked if they were ok with it. I looked at their gear and noticed it had to just be about the right level, but they looked at my gear and were like "Your gear is not good enough."

;; I was so embarrassed. Like I said, I'd just done it before and had no issues with the other healer, and I didn't want them to feel bad about it, or feel like I was blaming them. I didn't mind doing the single pulls.

After the second boss they pointed out my rings again and I was just dying, though I did explain light-heartedly that I had been trying to get the ring from there. I already had a ring for when I leveled up a couple more levels.

XD At least the rest of my gear was the right ILV though... geez.....

I had a WHM in Doma Castle that refused to ever not have Med II up. They wouldn't spam it, but they'd use it every 30 seconds. Even if nobody else was hurt. They'd also do it at the end of a pull, and if I paused at the boss, they'd do it right before the pull.

It's a terrible regen that drags uneeded threat unless everyone is injured. The total potency is the same as Cure II as well so why not just... cure II?

Keeping medica II and regen on the tank usually helps me dps more as WHM... but to keep it up all the time >>; That's just silly...