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

[TheMightyMollusk]

I don't drop Grit in Trial Roulette because I don't trust the average PUG to manage their threat, and taking a little longer to kill the boss is still faster than wiping because some overeager DPS ripped threat and got the healers cleaved or something.

[Ruf]

This has nothing to do with parsers at all.
This was just an example of people just hear the DPS-Stance "meta" for tanks, but don't know how to perform it but try anyways without further researches because it has to be rigth if it is meta.
This is a matter of hearsay of a "meta/tactic/guide" and clinging to it without the full knowledge, gear and/or party composition you need to perform it and the mindset of lowest bar playing.

As you conclude the root of this is personal idiocy, but not a parser.


Sorry to say but in my opinion stances are mostly useless if they don't alter or impact the gameplay of the job like BRDs songs. Better no stances at all instead of MNK/PLD/DRK stances, which you rarely switch at all or just in niche situations.

Oh but you dont have to be sorry! I thought i was done posting for today but then i've seen what you posted.I fully agree, even if its to party disagree with the parser comment. 10/10 on that post Legion.Btw,

Baradaeg which means "naked warrior" and my last name is Ryssbhirsyn and means "son of giant bear" as a homage to my homeland Bavaria and one of my favorite drinks.

Nice name.

[MoroMurasaki]

I am fine with tanks in roulette wanting to stay in DPS stance, but if they're going to lose hate to a DPS Job, then they're going to have to do what they're designed for. Tank. ESPECIALLY if you're teamed with a newbie tank who doesn't know what Shirk does, and/or doesn't Provoke->Shirk.

Yeah, the difference between having an OT who does this and one who doesn't is amazing. I'm learning to play WAR slowly (kinda permanently on the backburner) but I've held off of a 6.3k SAM in o5n with a good OT and only one Diversion. Does wonders.

[xkazh]

I do not mind emergencies coming up in dungeons that people need to AFK for. I don't mind 5 min AFKs etc.

I do mind if you go AFK at the 2nd boss of Amdapor keep if you're in VC with someone else, don't mention anything to the PT (and not having the person you're in VC with say anything either) until someone points out afk and then having the party wait for 25 minutes for someone to get back

Especially since this person apparently told their friend VC they could kick him and... nope, couldn't until 25mins gone by. it's beyond ridiculous at that point.

[CainCrimson]

I have an occasional bad habit of running dungeons when sleepy at night. Catch myself waking up after standing motionless for who knows how long in a battle.

...Oddly enough I almost always notice 1 or 2 other group mates were doing the same thing. Are they annoyed and mocking me, trolling me, or also falling asleep?

Hmm...

[Avatre]

I do not mind emergencies coming up in dungeons that people need to AFK for. I don't mind 5 min AFKs etc.

I do mind if you go AFK at the 2nd boss of Amdapor keep if you're in VC with someone else, don't mention anything to the PT (and not having the person you're in VC with say anything either) until someone points out afk and then having the party wait for 25 minutes for someone to get back

Especially since this person apparently told their friend VC they could kick him and... nope, couldn't until 25mins gone by. it's beyond ridiculous at that point.

Were they on auto follow, since the dungeons automatically kick after 10min of inactivity. Even then...I'm not sure if that would bypass the 10min timer or not.

[Azper]

I was on the hunt for creation tomes to buy mats for the newest crafting/gathering gear, so figured I'd roll my 70 roulette for some (hopefully) easy tomes. I was on WHM and ended up in Skalla with a PLD, BRD, and DRG. The PLD started off by pulling the first group by itself, which isn't a crime in itself. However, things took roughly 84 years to die before moving onto the second pack which took another eternity. It was at this time I looked at the numbers...

...and found myself at 2800, the BRD at 2300, the PLD at 1600, and the DRG at 1300.



Needless to say, I made a beeline for the exit.

[Driskus]

Ouch, it doesn't even take parsing to know that those numbers are terrible when you see 4k+ being routinely mentioned in so many places. I probably would have left too.

On the healer topic, when you get killed by someone aiming the big cone AoE at you in Tsuku Normal, your co-WHM's Raise macro doesn't work (didn't even have a normal Raise button on hotbar apparently), and they try to heal one of the later Lunacy casts with Medica... That went about as well as you could imagine. Near-instant wipe, multiple times. Thankfully, I eventually managed to not die to someone else's mistake and was able to put out enough Cure III to heal through Lunacy without much help from the other healer.

[Zefiris]

Well, today I died 18x in Ridorana Lighthouse o.o' Generally is around 12 xD But I survived against the mathematics, first time \o/

[Nestama]

...and found myself at 2800, the BRD at 2300, the PLD at 1600, and the DRG at 1300.

Did... I don't... were they just doing their ARR rotation? Does the ARR rotation go that "high?" What were they doing to be that low?