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

[SavageCipher]

Was DPS'ing Navel on Hard, so as ADC carry rules apply, I shut up and become a rotation machine. First Fail; Bard jumps back off the edge...genius. RDM literally back pedals off the ledge....I was facepalming and dying of hysteria. Nothing major, just super effing hilarious.

[Kakiko]

Was DPS'ing Navel on Hard, so as ADC carry rules apply, I shut up and become a rotation machine. First Fail; Bard jumps back off the edge...genius. RDM literally back pedals off the ledge....I was facepalming and dying of hysteria. Nothing major, just super effing hilarious.

Had someone do that in Weeping City a few weeks ago, during Ozma. Alliances load in and we all start running, someone in alliance chat is saying how cool it looks (their first time there) and just as someone posts "don't fall off" that person swan dives off the edge. The entire group, all of us, were in alliance chat with 'lols.' I commented "9.5! Great form!" lol The person who jumped was like "omg you can FALL here?! That's awesome!" Absolutely hilarious!

[Hasrat]

Also I will suggest to have a chat window without the commendation thing on it.

For a long while, I didn't even understand how everyone was so intent on watching when they were getting commendations. Took me a while to realize I had turned those off very early on. Still a bit baffled that anyone wants to know when they get any. We all know they're not exactly a metric of anything, right? >_>

[Aster_E]

For a long while, I didn't even understand how everyone was so intent on watching when they were getting commendations. Took me a while to realize I had turned those off very early on. Still a bit baffled that anyone wants to know when they get any. We all know they're not exactly a metric of anything, right? >_>

At this point I see them as a metric of being in a party where at least that many people felt like giving a hoot about other people's performance. I mean, when you hit over 5100 of the things it becomes just another number, and not really one you can use outside of some e-peen waving sort of deal. At that point you pretty much just ignore said number and continue playing the way you've been playing, I suppose. *shrugs*

[KaldeaSahaline]

Now I'm no great player, I haven't done any of sigmascape savage yet, never even attempted ultimate nor do I really have a high desire too, and consider myself a casual player. But a tank claiming that I can't control my aggro when I use more aggro-dumping actions then they do enmity combos across the whole duty just /grinds me :/

For reference - I only use 3 enmity combos per dungeon. One for each boss in ShO and then I swap to SwO and proceed to DPS. I don't think I've ever had anyone pull off me in the pull. While the tank definitely sounds like a goober, you did openly admit to failing to utilize your threat dumps efficiently so there's room to improve!

[Sesera]

For reference - I only use 3 enmity combos per dungeon. One for each boss in ShO and then I swap to SwO and proceed to DPS. I don't think I've ever had anyone pull off me in the pull. While the tank definitely sounds like a goober, you did openly admit to failing to utilize your threat dumps efficiently so there's room to improve!

Well threat dumps have like 3 minutes cd so you can succeed at not stealing aggro for one pack but when it's on cooldown, beside throwing a spell every 5 seconds to be sure you don't pull aggro I don't see what you can do more. Maybe waiting a bit for the tank to generate aggro if you see he is struggling.

[Avatre]

Yesterday ran an Alliance Raid Roulette with a friend(her on BRD, me on my worst class...WAR). The other tanks were another WAR and a DRK. At some point before the second boss the DRK tells the other WAR to turn off Defiance as they were always fighting for agro. Lots of bickering later about WAR having higher DPS than DRK, and that DRK should be the MT in there(honestly, at this point in the game...it doesn't matter when most people are over gearing those things). Finally I decided to pipe up(I had Defiance on the whole run, and not taken agro at all aside from a short burst on the first boss - we're talking 2sec of me having agro) with "*coughhashaddefianceonthewholetimeandnottakenagrocough*. Not a single word was said(other than between my friend and I over PS chat) the rest of the run.

[Vidu]

I'm 80% sure he was joking, but it still bothers me to be honest. One of the main reasons FFXIV is appealing to me is that classes aren't locked behind races. Honestly what is wrong with a big dude being a healer?

I remember a mentor roulette I did once that put my scholar (very classy looking btw - Diabolic Coat and glasses) into Hullbreakers. Whole group saod their hellos and we went on but right before the first boss the tank suddenly stopped moving, stood still for a good 2 minutes and then said in chat "never seen a Roegadyn caster before" - I suspect they were playing on PS4, maybe without a keyboard which is why it took them so long to share this.
While it didnt seem to be meant as any kind of insult and rather neutral or at best even as some kind of positive statment, it still irritated me a bit...

[Fresky]

Was DPS'ing Navel on Hard, so as ADC carry rules apply, I shut up and become a rotation machine. First Fail; Bard jumps back off the edge...genius. RDM literally back pedals off the ledge....I was facepalming and dying of hysteria. Nothing major, just super effing hilarious.

I remember my first time doing O8N. I looked around the platform and asked in party chat “can you fall off?”
One of the healers replied “yes” followed by “let me show you” as she jumper off the platform after the fight has started. It was not really a big deal but I found it to be pretty funny.

[Avatre]

Was DPS'ing Navel on Hard, so as ADC carry rules apply, I shut up and become a rotation machine. First Fail; Bard jumps back off the edge...genius. RDM literally back pedals off the ledge....I was facepalming and dying of hysteria. Nothing major, just super effing hilarious.

I was in a Titan EX WT run a while ago(shortly after I got my RDM to 70), and people advised not to use Displacement at all as you will always fall off. Well, I showed them that is false(and this was later into the fight when the platform is as small as it can get). Titan was being tanked directly in the middle of the arena, and I got right under him, used Displacement, and landed with just my toes touching the edge of the platform. A few people commented how they figured I was going to kill myself.