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

[LalaRu]

Last night I ran a guildheist with my low level Conjurer, at the start I typed "Hey, no Protect spell yet, low level sorry".
The Tank responded "make it happen"
We all stood there for a bit then the DPS started the pulls.

I wasn't sure what to say...or what exactly I was supposed to 'make happen'.

At low level it is almost impossible to die.

The tank ignored that Healers can get protect only at lv16 and ignored how protect is useless at that levels.

Ignored a lot of things, 'tho. Acting "pro" with words but.. ho well, that tank wasn't the first on my list of that kind, and will not be the last.

You are supposed to ignore that tank, imo.

[Yenyen]

Met a pair of AST in new ex trial who almost got me triggered since they would eat all Balance, Arrow, Spear and Ewer all to themselves. If you want parsing party, make your own and don't involve DF please...

In a slight defence (though it's probably true they're parsing) for a good while I didn't realise the little icon in the top right of the cards tell me what gives what effect, for example TP and Mana give Aoe.
I also didn't know what cards benefited what class so I just threw most on highest "Enmity" dps.

I still to this day don't understand why "apparently" Arrow isn't good for Ninjas, shouldn't this help them get Ninki faster?
On related note to the quote, I kind of don't give anybody anything until I get an Aoe, in a light party settings sometimes I'll use the stored and the drawn card on the 2 dps

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

I still to this day don't understand why "apparently" Arrow isn't good for Ninjas, shouldn't this help them get Ninki faster?

Arrow is technically a benefit for NIN, but some NIN have their rotations heavily memorized with their timers and whatnot, so being 1-2 steps ahead of a combo where they normally may be in a fight could be slightly jarring, like needing to clip their dot by a lot more than right as it falls off, for example. Some NIN don't play like that though, and they'd happily take an arrow. It's really a case-by-case scenario.

While arrow also does make auto attacks faster, unless you stacked a ton of arrows on them throughout the course of the fight, it won't make too much of a dent in NIN ninki generation, since they require 80 to use any of their abilities anyway. Potentially worse, some NIN plan for certain ninki abilities t be used during Trick Attack, thus if they generate any extra ninki than what they're expecting, it could go to waste as they'd still plan for that ability during trick.

[KageTokage]

I think they need to make it more clear that despite being around the same item level, Shire tanking gear is not a good substitute for SB leveling gear due to the fact that the defensive stats on it are far lower.

I didn't understand why healing Bardam's Mettle and Doma Castle randomly seemed so hellish at times until only recently.

[Karl0217]

I think they need to make it more clear that despite being around the same item level, Shire tanking gear is not a good substitute for SB leveling gear due to the fact that the defensive stats on it are far lower.

I didn't understand why healing Bardam's Mettle and Doma Castle randomly seemed so hellish at times until only recently.

Second this. With Shire you could potentially skip the lvl 62 gear but once you are able to equip lvl 64 gear it needs to be replaced. And to top that the jump in defensive stats between 64 and 66 gear is massive.

[Sylvina]

I once was healer in Castrum abania with a tank who was almost all shire gear. Fun times.

[Mesarthim]

I just can't win. I stopped playing AST in 8 man content to get away from ASTs who will potentially overwrite your cards so I went SCH for normal raid roulette.

...Co-healer AST went Noct.

One day later it happens again in trial roulette. Bismark. We wipe once because the tanks refused to separate the serpents. But the trial starts off with me telling the AST to not go noct (he did initially). He initially complies till we wipe due to the tanks. Then asks me:

"still dont want me to use noct?
it accounts for human error
such as failing to separate"

Then uses noct the next run. Why do I even. I might as well just roll WHM for 8 man content now.

[Moonfish]

Running the new dungeon as casters to get that sweet gear. Latest group consisted of a WAR, AST, SAM and myself as SMN.

I watched their MP and used Mana Shift on cooldown. I started fights with diversion active when able, I used my AoEs like it was going out of style. I strategically used our LBs on a big trash pull and during the add phase on last boss.

AST continually fed cards to the SAM. The only time I got a card was when they AOE’d an ewer (??).

Meanwhile, the SAM couldn’t dodge a thing for peanuts and died once in first and second boss and twice on the last. I even picked him up the second time since the AST Swift was on CD. She still fed him a balance after he got up with brink of death.

I’m not saying I’m perfect, I can’t even say for sure I was doing more DPS (tho I think I was as SAM didn’t even keep his buffs up when he wasn’t on the floor) and I’m definitely not saying cards are the end all be all. But I do think that AST could’ve thrown me a bone.

[ko_]

Meanwhile, the SAM couldn’t dodge a thing for peanuts and died once in first and second boss and twice on the last. I even picked him up the second time since the AST Swift was on CD. She still fed him a balance after he got up with brink of death.

I’m not saying I’m perfect, I can’t even say for sure I was doing more DPS (tho I think I was as SAM didn’t even keep his buffs up when he wasn’t on the floor) and I’m definitely not saying cards are the end all be all. But I do think that AST could’ve thrown me a bone.

I legit HATE that. Nothing grinds me more then when you KNOW, you just know you're doing more and doing everything right. And some Asts give you nothing while the DPS doing nothing is being babied balances up their butt. I hate it so much. T.T

[Mesarthim]

I legit HATE that. Nothing grinds me more then when you KNOW, you just know you're doing more and doing everything right. And some Asts give you nothing while the DPS doing nothing is being babied balances up their butt. I hate it so much. T.T

Some weeks back when leveling a dps (and doing very well I might add) I kept getting these AST who fed all cards to the tank. The tank stance tank.