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

[SpiritMuse]

Sure, I'll get right with you, making the vid in a couple of minutes.

Do you have a link to the video? I'm curious to see how it's done.

[Thoosa]

On Byakko quite often people can’t dps the tiger well and so it’s health doesn’t go down far enough and everyone wipes except the tank and off tank. They also can’t seem to place puddles on their markers so we end up with nowhere safe to stand.

[jellopy]

I find that tends to happen the most when the MT doesn’t tank Byakko on A so when the markers appear, people panic and run like headless chickens.

[MoroMurasaki]

I have to admit it's one of the better victory cutscenes.

Wait - do you mean to tell me one of my little heal spells can save someone from the horror of Doom-death?!

My god, I'd have to be an absolutely horrible person to not be willing to toss someone a heal with that kind of payoff.

Thanks for the tip, this was something I didn't know but now that it's been explained I will graciously accept the knowledge and not argue with you for five pages for no reason.

(See, that's how that should have gone)

[Nestama]

I love it when people join a PF group that is specifically looking for people who know the fight up to a certain point and then clearly show they have absolutely no idea what they're meant to be doing. Progression/Learning might be in the advertisement, but you can't ignore everything else that is written.

"O7S progression, know up to Virus," is roughly what our party leader wrote. NIN who joins showed us they did not know what they were doing and even commented the video did not prepare them for this. Majority of the group wants to learn the later phases of the fight (MNK we got later was fantastic and we saw Enrage) and as harsh as it sounds, we didn't want to spend our time teaching one person the ins and outs of the fight leading to Virus. Also did not help that their DPS was abysmal. Was informed it was around 1300-2500, which explained why Dadaluma was still alive by the time Guardian used Retrieve Program - Ink (normally, if our DRG wasn't sick today, we can kill Dadaluma after two Aura Blasts. One if the Gods of Direct Crits grace us with their presence).

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Meant to post this the other day, especially seeing it continues the beloved trend of never accepting fault for one's own mistakes

Friend and I queue into 50/60 and wind up getting Halatali Hard. She's on WAR and does the big pull at the beginning but despite rotating every single CD, including Holmgang, goes down near the very end. No big deal, right? The three stranglers left had barely a sliver of health anyway. Nope! The healer gets incredibly salty, insisting big pulls like that are "dumb." Checking out his gear... I noticed a problem. He had multiple level 45 stuff, and what he did have at level was either i100 or lower. Basically, he was woefully under-geared. So I point this out as he still hasn't stopped whining. He initially tries to claim his gear's the proper level until I specifically mention the aforementioned pieces. He promptly handwaves it as "its fine lol." We finally keep going and he proceeds to wipe us on the first boss because he just couldn't let this go.

Round two! He dies almost immediately, again. Friend and I end up duoing the boss from 50%ish after the other DPS does down. This trend continues, and I swear, I'm holding back a snarky comment about his gear again but decide to focus target him to see what exactly he's doing. Cure I. He only used Cure II if he got free procs and never touched Medica or Medica II.

The irony? He's a tank main with a level 70 Paladin.

[JohnnyDevo]

Do you have a link to the video? I'm curious to see how it's done.

I like how he says "I'll make a video to prove it!" and then minutes later, he's only saying things like "just move on" and "bandwagoners".

Makes me wonder what the contents of the forbidden video are.

[Tridus]

Let it go, we're both not believing each other, so we're doing nothing but stroking our own e-go's.

But you don't coddle ignorance. You said so yourself. Funny how you now want to coddle your own ignorance and want everyone to please just let you get away with it.

Sorry, but we don't coddle hypocrisy.

[NephthysVasudan]

But you don't coddle ignorance. You said so yourself. Funny how you now want to coddle your own ignorance and want everyone to please just let you get away with it.

Sorry, but we don't coddle hypocrisy.

*Emote Cheer*

[Corue]

I had a really bizarre run of Hells' Lid the other day. We had a PLD who must have bought a secret new jump potion or something. They were level 70, had Ryumaku and normal Sigma gear with augmented Lost Allagan weapons but they had absolutely no idea how to tank. They were constantly in Shield Oath, never used a DPS combo and always had bosses face the party. Despite constantly being in tank stance and using aggro combos, me (BLM) and the MNK were constantly wrestling with aggro no matter how many aggro dumps we used.

It's not like the tank was new or anything because they explained the boss fights to everyone even though none of us were new.

I have no idea if they were trolling or they had somehow got to 70 without anyone telling them how to tank.