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

[Lynde]

Welp, at least the guy is safe from brain-eating zombies...i mean, he's got nothing they would be interested in

This made my day. XD

[duvvvv]

Personally, I have a few issues with AST. I do like the class but because I have issues with multi-tasking most times, I panic a lot when playing it. Not only do you have to watch everyone's HP but you need to micromanage your cards at the same time, and that can get chaotic sometimes. I do try my best to get the cards out to the right people but sometimes it's really hard for me. And my main healer is SCH right now! (Lol fairy micromanaging)

So all you ASTs out there that can pull this off super smoothly, you have my respect. XD

I have all healers at 70 but I'm no expert, I just find it really annoying that at level 50 (I finally had to look up this player's profile, AST is actually at 59) someone decided to run the whole dungeon without a sect.

[EdwinLi]

One day in Eureka.....

It started with talks about food....

then it turned into talks about how too cook a lalafell.

[SoleilAlphi]

dear red mages in dungeons, you have a wonderful aoe skill called Moulinet. When you build up enough mana it turns into Enchanted Moulinet. It's beautiful, it's flashy, it's strong and with Embolden mows down pack of mobs. Oh and makes you earn comms! Moulinet is your friend, don't be allergic to it

[Mhaeric]

You might be reading Moro backwards here. I dont think she's saying "Zalera is so small that 3 people couldnt group together". I read it more as "Balmung has a large population, so i dont know if these 3 came together or if its just a coincidence that theyre from the same place".

I suppose I can see that, although the third phrase should be attached to the first rather than split by the other one. I.e. "Not sure if this is a coincidence since balmyng is so big, or if they were a pre-made." The way it is now is ambiguous at best.

[KaldeaSahaline]

Could have kicked the guy out but it might take longer to get a new tank + clear than it takes to clear even like this. They did turn Shield Oath on after it was mentioned but didn't react to anything else.

Should have definitely kicked him. Would have been a great teaching moment.

The last time I had a tank that was truly awful, I kicked him before final boss, wrote a post in here about it and he made a nice long woe is me I was wrongfully kicked post in GD that ended up 20+ pages deep that they read worth of knowledge and criticism.

I like to think they're a better player now because of me.

[Skivvy]

Should have definitely kicked him. Would have been a great teaching moment.

The last time I had a tank that was truly awful, I kicked him before final boss, wrote a post in here about it and he made a nice long woe is me I was wrongfully kicked post in GD that ended up 20+ pages deep that they read worth of knowledge and criticism.

I like to think they're a better player now because of me.

I'll take the other path and suggest that perhaps they should have tried to give some quick tips. Looks like there was just a lot of mocking and not much else. They did say that he put on shield oath once it was mentioned.

[Makeda]

The problem was the main tank, who went in sword oath, used cooldowns sparsely and ignored our polite requests to switch to shield oath. In fact, he did not speak at all.
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After he was done being rude, he just let the other tank take aggro and we finally cleared.

I'm also wondering where the other tank was.

How did this guy get to be seen as MT if he was in Sword Oath? When I tank and I see that I just switch to my tank stance and take over...

Actually did that yesterday on my MiQote tank with DRK - hadn't played it in 6 months. After an hour to two of target dummies and 2 runs of palace of the dead to try and remember my skill bar, I queued for random trial thinking "my DRK is only level 64, I'll probably get an easy one and just be able to practice".

We get bowl of embers hard, which is actually easy...

3 seconds into the fight the guy I thought was the MT is dead - he's managed to leap off the edge of the platform so he isn't coming back. I swap in grit and just handle the rest of the fight smoothly... I had only a vague idea of what my buttons were... but hey, grit is grit and position is position and I knew that my damage mitigation skills in all MMOs are set to the same keybinds, so I just kept spamming them and cycling the enmity skills I have bound to my 1 to 3 keys...

Which is to say... even if you have no clue what the heck you're doing... if you're there as a tank, and the other tank fails... the one thing you can do right away is grab aggro and at least pretend to have a clue...
- That will NOT save you in Susano... but it will at least instantly flip who is the 'MT'...

So I guess I'm trying to say... your problem wasn't the MT. Your problem was both tanks. The MT was worse... but no tank is an OT unless the MT is actually doing their job... Otherwise the other tank should just 'rise to the occasion'...

EDIT: Hmmm... My browser said I was looking at posts from today, but I quoted one from 11 days ago... odd.

[Makeda]

After that there was a nice experience, even if it started badly ^^. Did Trials Roulette and got Lakshmi normal mode. No one was bonus so it looked like an easy kill. But dps and healer(s) died many times (f.e. healers ran back on the stack mechanic and only stack with two, or dps overlapping the aoes) and we wiped a total of five(!) times! After a short explanation of the basic mechanics we killed her on the 6th try.
Even with the bad start it was still fun, no one was mad at each other in the chat, and the best part was that no one left the party during all these tries! Everyone stayed to the end. That made me happy again ^^

Wiping with friendly good attitudes can be a better experiences than one-shotting with jerks. :P

[KisaValkyrie]

Okay need to vent about a WHM...
Let me give some background- my main is BLM but my 2nd class which honestly I could switch with ease for my main is WHM. I don't have time to do hard core raiding due to my schedule & same for my friend. Now my buddy and I are running a 70 dungeon. Now typically when he runs as his WAR- I will run as my WHM but this time he says I can run my BLM. So it's him on WAR, a WHM, BRD, and me. The BRD is new but had good dps. So we are going through & I constantly see this WHM spamming dps spells but is not really healing- like my buddy almost died many times & during the second boss- both myself & the BRD died from the stuff that you can't avoid. So I look at this guy's gear- thinking this has to be a secondary job for this guy but his gear is mainly 360, augmented accessories to 370- 2 diamond pieces from sigma savage & only 1 piece that was 350. Fully melded. Am I wrong to think he was just be a total ass not healing us?