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

[CainCrimson]

I thought they changed it so that once you have it unlocked, you can have access to them at any level sync. Or were you just at that level before you were able to get access to it?

Yeah I was running the content at level 14, but you cant access the skill until 16. odd level choice

[Sylvina]

Came back to the game after a month away and did the dumbest thing possible, unlocked and went right into the Ridorona Lighthouse. As healer, WHM. I did apologize in advance to my alliance and other healer for how bad I was about to be, since my muscle memory was gone, but it felt horrible letting people die I could have saved back before I left. fortunately some of the rust came off as we worked through the raid, and by the last boss I was doing kinda ok. I would like to thank everyone in that raid group for not being rude to the bad healer, becuase that bad healer was once a decent healer and will likely be once more soon. Plus being rude to me makes me feel bad (surprise surprise) and that sucks. So thanks for being great everyone this community did not dissapoint. I still consider it the best in the MMO world.

[Nestama]

You should have. Otherwise he probably thinks he did ok.

I rarely tell people in-game they're outright terrible, unless they're my friends and it's usually in joking fun
I definitely should have said something along the lines of "you need to work on being a tank first and DPS second. Your DPS is meaningless if the actual DPS Jobs are being killed by the tank busters you should be dealing with."

[Iscah]

Yeah I was running the content at level 14, but you cant access the skill until 16. odd level choice

You’d have it at the point when you start doing dungeons, I guess. (Unless you end up in Sastasha before hitting Lv16, but still not the end of the world.)

Early guildhests are not great for abilities in general - particularly, tanks not having access to their ranged opening skill yet, and unlike Protect that’s a permanent restriction.

[MoroMurasaki]

In the spirit of "Oh god, why am I tanking this?!" I did the MSQ trial with another friend as they unlocked it. In retrospect I should have gone on WHM for the safety and since the dps check is so lenient but I went RDM. Friends on WHM, SAM and MNK.

I definitely got to flex my Verraise muscles in the beginning, as has happened both other times I've been in there both heals died to fans together at least once. Not a big deal, early on she hits like a summer breeze. We make it through adds okay too, dps seems good. Probably because we bright 3 of our own.

In final phase she is killing people left and right. Both my dps friends die and at one point the MT dies... and I am tanking. And I have no Lucid because I've been using it on CD to raise/Mana Shift.

Thankfully tankbusters are rather infrequent on that fight because even after the tank was back up (since the OT never even tried to take it off of me) I kept the boss for the remainder of the fight, something like 30 seconds. Lucid came off CD as we finished the fight. It was incredibly unnerving because I don't know that fight yet and I don't know timimgs on busters so I knew at any point I could just get one-shotted.

Props to both healers for keeping alive the RDM tank, I was very thankful.

But yes, as Nestama has said, if you're a tank not picking up or holding an enemy off of a dps for the sake of your own dps it is not worth it. If the dps that has pulled off of you is holding threat that likely means they're doing more damage than you can ever hope to as a tank. Swap stance, do a threat combo, do whatever you need to do to get that thing off of them. It is a bigger dps loss for the party for an actual dps to die than it is for you to eat a self imposed 20% damage down and lose some GCDs to building a threat lead.

Also, it's your job.

[Iscah]

I got called into an in-progress Amdapor Keep (hard) and arrived to find..... I'm the only person in there! Presumably everyone else abandoned it as I was loading in, but it was weird.

I exited again once I realised what was happening, but I do hope there wasn't anyone else on the way in! Could be an interesting revolving door of people loading in and out of that instance all night!

[AxHell]

So Lakshmi normal with my DRK.

Other tank is a WAR and has his DPS stance when I come in. We hesitate a bit to see who's going to be MT...So I decided to MT.

Except...no healing. Well there was but not that much. Despite all my CDs and Soul Eater combo I die.

WAR goes MT and oh surprise he gets all the heals.

At the end of the boss fight he and the healers and some DPS instantly left...If you wanted to be MT why didn't you pull the boss after the adds in the first place you butt ?!

[Tridus]

I definitely got to flex my Verraise muscles in the beginning, as has happened both other times I've been in there both heals died to fans together at least once. Not a big deal, early on she hits like a summer breeze.

In our defense, both us healers were rookies to the fight. Was certainly glad for your bailing us out until we figured it out.

[HyoMinPark]

Does... touching the wall no longer cause instant death after you’re zombified in Argath’s fight? O.o People didn’t get the meteors, which exploded, and 5/8 of my alliance got chickenized... and then didn’t die after the zombie effect wore off. Did they seriously take this mechanic out? I feel like I need to go back in and actually test this... >.>

[sciondar]

So Lakshmi normal with my DRK.

Other tank is a WAR and has his DPS stance when I come in. We hesitate a bit to see who's going to be MT...So I decided to MT.

Except...no healing. Well there was but not that much. Despite all my CDs and Soul Eater combo I die.

WAR goes MT and oh surprise he gets all the heals.

At the end of the boss fight he and the healers and some DPS instantly left...If you wanted to be MT why didn't you pull the boss after the adds in the first place you butt ?!

I had something similar happen the other night. I'm building up my warrior and decided to run one of the duty roulette 24 man raids and the other 2 tanks were both PLDs. They started debating who should be the MT and just kept going back and forth. I got tired of the exchange and switched on tank mode then started the first engagement and continued being MT for the rest of the raid. lol