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

[kordhaldrum]

Don't be sad! It's an honest mistake as I didn't know. I thought you turned it off when you were MTing and keep it on when you're OTing. I'm not a tank main, I'm a BLM main, and I'm still learning tanking. I know now, and that's the important thing

Don't feel bad abou it since for a weird reason, you are the third DRK I see with this doubt on the last 4 days.

[Paladin776]

I just tell the party that it's my first time if I get a dungeon/trial that I've never run before. It actually helps.

I do also and it does indeed work. The usual responses I get are "We''ve got you." or "No worries." It helps with the confidence more than anything.

[Raven2014]

Just to throw out a shout: great expert group I got in yesterday for the last roulette to cap tome for the week before reset. We blew through FC hard in 12 minutes. We were complete silent, and proceed to melt the dungeon like they are last year content. The pull was professionally done, the LB was on point, the sound of Holy was pleasant, and the sight of bahamut was inspiring. It's the perfect run.

I had noticed something for a while though, even though I rarely wait until the last to cap, sometime it happens I just need one or two on Monday. But without fail, it seems this is the time you see the people bringing their big gun out in dungeon. You don't get either of the "hello I am an anime cheesecake and it's very nice to meet you" group or the "uhh man, this is a drag I don't want to be here, maybe I should tab out once a while between mobs" group. Rather you always get the "I DON"T HAVE TIME I NEED TO CAP NOW BEFORE THE SERVER GO DOWN! JUST SHUT UP AND KILL STUFFS I HAVE 5 MORE RUNS TO DO!" and boyz, ain't those people fantastic.

[weirdbug]

Six recent Ala Mhigo runs (not exaggerating), all in a row, where melee DPS did not AoE. At all. Ever.

[lujate]

Ran Skilla with two RDM dressed as snowmen.

[Ilenya]

So... vague spoilers for fight mechanics?

I figured T9 was one of them, which is where I stopped due to my lack of knowledge, kinda surprised on the other, though.

In regards to knowing mechanics, I am aware that I am unlikely to ever experience them as they were when Coils was current, but I'd still like to have a general idea of how it works. The fact that I never got to try T2 properly still bugs me, even though I know at this point it's a harder way to do it (And that I can solo T2 as a SCH, so why would I even need to learn it properly? )

[Thoosa]

I had a great expert roulette in Hell’s Lid - a Samurai and Summoner, plus a healer I can’t remember which type. We flew through it, great dps and stuff died so fast.

Then a looooong Skalla - a scholar and two red mages - i died on the pull before the last boss because everything was taking forever to die! I used pretty much every cooldown to survive it and didn’t. Then after the boss took forever. I think it took well over 30 mins. Not sure what was going on.

[Texa]

ALLIANCE ROULETTE STARTER PACK

[SenorPatty]

ALLIANCE ROULETTE STARTER PACK

So accurate, it hurts me in my guts

[Kacho_Nacho]

I do also and it does indeed work. The usual responses I get are "We''ve got you." or "No worries." It helps with the confidence more than anything.

Very true. For all stories of bad apples, I have found the majority of players quite nice and willing to work with me when I tell them that this is my first time or that I haven't been in that particular instance in awhile.

Six recent Ala Mhigo runs (not exaggerating), all in a row, where melee DPS did not AoE. At all. Ever.

I used to be guilty of this because I thought focusing each target in turn was more efficient. A nice forum poster broke down the math for me and I learned AoE was much better. Perhaps all those melee were under the same assumption.