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

[Kakiko]

This is why I wish you could gave comms to more than 1 person.
Seems like both tank and Kakiko did a great job here. If I was one of the two other I wished I could gave comm to both.

My tank friend received no comms either for that run. :-/

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Thank you, random group, for taking me in then leaving me to respawn when I accidentally got separated (this is why you should always mark your group members >_>). I sincerely hope that when I left the group I took away your LB 2 (that you were about to use) since it was obvious you had no intention of coming back for me even though I was only a short distance from the NM fate and was shouting repeatedly for a raise. (Thank you to the person who responded but couldn't get there in time. You're still my hero. <3)

To add insult to injury, right as my timer was ticking down a WHM came by (within raising distance) and paused but then left. I can only assume they didn't see me (I'm a lala at the moment) because otherwise that would have been an extreme dick-move and I literally didn't even have time to type in the chat to bring myself to their attention. Yep. Just another night in Eureka grinding for useless glams.

[MoroMurasaki]

If there is any advice I can give you guys it's don't wait for Monday to get your weekly sigma normal clears/drops. Dear god DF was full of nightmares.


Some highlights included a 4-man premade of tanks and healers who were kicking DPS from o6n when the dps got mad that the tank was making no efforts to hold threat. Loved the BLM in o7 that teleported to me during the missiles only to kill us both by blowing up two of them.

And the healers today - dear god the healers.

A pair in o6 who murdered us once by taking Typhoon and blowing feathers at the party and once by dying together right before a Demonic Wind they didn't heal us up for. They died together again on our third try but I Vercured the tanks while I raised them so we avoided another wipe.

I don't get it. Apart from o2 I feel like this tier of normal raids is actually easier to heal through than Deltascape and yet people are letting me die on RDM to a knockback/Acid Rain combo in o5. Why?

I think I encountered one competent AST in all 10-12 runs I had to do for my drops. It just makes me dread DFing things.

[Claviusnex]

Thank you, random group, for taking me in then leaving me to respawn when I accidentally got separated (this is why you should always mark your group members >_>). I sincerely hope that when I left the group I took away your LB 2 (that you were about to use) since it was obvious you had no intention of coming back for me even though I was only a short distance from the NM fate and was shouting repeatedly for a raise. (Thank you to the person who responded but couldn't get there in time. You're still my hero. <3)

To add insult to injury, right as my timer was ticking down a WHM came by (within raising distance) and paused but then left. I can only assume they didn't see me (I'm a lala at the moment) because otherwise that would have been an extreme dick-move and I literally didn't even have time to type in the chat to bring myself to their attention. Yep. Just another night in Eureka grinding for useless glams.

Wow that sucks. I generally followup the end of NM trains to catch folks who get killed along the way or to cleanup after the boss fight.

One thing I would like to see more players do is mark themselves when dead in the open world. A dead body in the grass or bushes can be hard to see. With how easy it is to aggro mobs in Eureka just using <pos> means I have to get very close to look for the downed player making it more dangerous. By flagging oneself I have a marker to target on and have a better chance to raise from a safe distance.

[Vidu]

One thing I would like to see more players do is mark themselves when dead in the open world. A dead body in the grass or bushes can be hard to see. With how easy it is to aggro mobs in Eureka just using <pos> means I have to get very close to look for the downed player making it more dangerous. By flagging oneself I have a marker to target on and have a better chance to raise from a safe distance.

I'm curious what you mean by that? It sounds like I'm missing a game function here - how would one mark themself? I could only think of the stuff you can place over your head (the numbers and shapes and such) or the glowy letters - but both are only visible to your group, so if the dead person isnt in your group... what can they use outside of <pos>?

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

I'm curious what you mean by that? It sounds like I'm missing a game function here - how would one mark themself? I could only think of the stuff you can place over your head (the numbers and shapes and such) or the glowy letters - but both are only visible to your group, so if the dead person isnt in your group... what can they use outside of <pos>?

Right click yourself (or target yourself and press square for ps4). There should be a 'Mark' option. If youre in a group, only group members can see it but if youre solo it should be visible to anyone in the instance. Try it out.

[Claviusnex]

I'm curious what you mean by that? It sounds like I'm missing a game function here - how would one mark themself? I could only think of the stuff you can place over your head (the numbers and shapes and such) or the glowy letters - but both are only visible to your group, so if the dead person isnt in your group... what can they use outside of <pos>?

I could swear I've run across marked players outside of a group in Eureka. They were marked with a target to attack symbol and looking for a raise. I might have missed their map dot and not noticed they were part of the party but it's happened a couple of times. Both were Lala's by the way.

[Vidu]

Right click yourself (or target yourself and press square for ps4). There should be a 'Mark' option. If youre in a group, only group members can see it but if youre solo it should be visible to anyone in the instance. Try it out.

...intresting - I know that that doesnt work in the open world, but yeah, you're right, Eureka is an instance. So things are probably different there - I just assumed that it would be to confusing to have those marks flying around outside of your group.

(I do know how to mark and such, I just assumed outside of your party no one can see those marks since thats how it is in the open world - but then I guess you can share marks outside of your group in the 24-man-raids, so it does make sense...)

[Kakiko]

I was dead in Eureka yesterday, shouted for a raise and got replied back "too far, sorry!" >.>
I've had people run up to me, pet me, then run away. I try to remember them and make a point of raising them with my "suppository" macro (which I don't usually use in Eureka b/c omg chat spam).

[killstein]

join a savage pf for my weekly that says something along the lines of "don't suck". selfsame person sucks and we wipe an amazing 6 or 7 times before getting a literally last milisecond enrage clear.