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

[Maeka]

I didn't even think of the fact that AST means they got to Ishgard at least once, lol. Good catch on that. They very likely had Ironworks gear at that, which is easy to get nowadays.

EDIT: Yay, I got another story that happened just now.

Q'd up as my Lv55 DRK for Trials.

Got Titan (Hard). Yaaay, awesome (/sarcasm). Just did this yesterday.

We pull, and as per usual, I let the other guy tank first because I'm not the best at tanking this guy, never did like it because I always get nervous about being so close to the edge of the cliff.

I open with two Souleater combos to make sure I don't pull threat and I look up at threat meter and I notice that the WHM Healer is pulling almost as much threat as I am! Then I look at the WAR's Stance, and he's got Defiance up. I look at my own and...... whoops. I forgot Grit. My bad. Turn Grit on, and the WHM pulls threat. I'm at 90% threat myself WITHOUT GRIT after doing two Syphon Strike->Souleater Combos. I'm like "whaaaaat!?"

He had about as much HP as me and he's losing threat to the healer WITH Tank stance on.

Well, it's obvious this guy can't tank a wet paper bag, so I Provoked Titan and switched to Power Slash, to MT it myself.

The whole fight, the WAR never got past 50% threat.

And he kept Tank stance up the whole fight.

[LalaRu]

Venting here about make up a "Learning party" in PF, half hour to fill, and some people leaving after the first wipe. Rinse and repeat.

I wonder what those guys are thinking when they enter a learning party.

[Erim-Nelhah]

@MoroMusaki FYI, Provoke only causes the user to become top threat, and only by one point. This means that if you're already top threat, it does absolutely nothing, so save it for if/when you lose threat or, in 8-mans (only), to solidify your co-tank's threat by following up with Shirk.

--Erim Nelhah

[Mixt]

Leviathan and Shiva also come before Chrysalis.

Chrysalis is the second to last trial in ARR, followed only by the steps of faith/The big fatty dragon on the bridge

EDIT: Oops, someone else already made the correction.


Anyway, had a rather unfortunate incident with a healer "Rescue"ing me into every bad thing imaginable in Ridorana.
Yeah sure, pull me into the AOE's every time it comes off CD, then call me a bad player for standing in the bad, real nice of you.

[CathariM]

Need to vent a little bit about a lighthouse run last night. So I enter as warrior with a few friends, and we sit at the first boss for a solid 60 seconds, no one wanting to pull. So even though I’d never MTed it before (although I had OTed several times), I activated Defiance, put on my game face, and threw up a countdown. What resulted was a VERY smooth run, we got all the way to the last boss with very little difficulty (even one shotted math man, hooray!) And then we wiped on the last boss. A couple ppl told me to tank him in the middle during the first attempt, which I obliged, I was a little slow as he he was locked in attack animations, but I didn’t really think much of it. We ended up wiping on the dps check (not due to any positioning/tanking issues). Cue the second attempt, and a warrior tank from one of the other grps decided I must have been the problem. She switches to Defiance, and keeps voking and generally fighting me tooth and nail for hate. After whipping him around several times trying to take hate from me, I just ended up letting her have it, I shirked and switched to Deliverance. I did say something to the effect of, “if you wanted to MT you could have just said so before the pull” and left it at that. We did end up killing him on the second attempt, due mostly to dps being much quicker during the burn phase. Maybe its just my ego taking a hit, I’ve certainly been in worse runs, but I felt kind of deflated after the whole thing, despite how well the run as a whole went.

When you’re running current 24 man content, its ok to communicate with your fellow tanks! If I’m doing something wrong, either educate, or just ask if you want to MT instead.

Anyway, I did voke back when the boss was at about 5% just to be a pain :P

[Cirgellon]

I recently came back to the game and leveled my Bard from 60-70. When I got to Royal Managerie, I ended up with a group who did pretty well. We wiped once after a healer got those 4 arrows pointing at them, telling us to stack up. Everyone near the healer just ran away, and I tried stacking as the healer then tried to run off the other way. After we both die to this, the rest of the group died to another mechanic right after that. So I say in chat, "watch for the attack where we need to stack, everyone ran away lol". Man, was that a mistake. Three from that group just started going off about being new, not knowing what to look for, etc... with an attitude while attacking me over that line. The only other thing that I typed was "it's np, I was just letting you know to watch for it". And that was followed by a lot more complaining about it being their first time. It was also my first time in that dungeon though, but I didn't want to argue, so I just didn't type anything else. They also were going on about not knowing the mechanic, even though it's the same thing from the previous 10 dungeons before it. I didn't explain this part for obvious reasons

So we go for run two, and both healers decided to just not heal me. So I die after a few of the bosses aoe's, and just go grab something to drink. The group finished that run though, so that part didn't really bother me.

The lesson was just to never type in chat during group content. Calling out a mechanic that everyone missed seems to be unacceptable here.

[Mixt]

People are remarkable unintelligent like that.

They fail to recognize a mechanic that has been used dozens of times before then, showing non-existent pattern recognition and learning ability, and then they go off on anyone who comments on it, as if trying to save their fragile egos by putting someone else down, and the first person who demonstrates any kind of knowledge about the subject in question has a target painted on their back.

Kind of how like bullies in school often hone in on kids with better grades than themselves.
They are doing poorly, so they have to make themselves feel better by beating others within an inch of their lives

[MoroMurasaki]

@MoroMusaki FYI, Provoke only causes the user to become top threat, and only by one point. This means that if you're already top threat, it does absolutely nothing, so save it for if/when you lose threat or, in 8-mans (only), to solidify your co-tank's threat by following up with Shirk.

--Erim Nelhah

I understand how Provoke works - and if you die by far the fastest way to regain an enmity lead is Provoke + an enmity generator (so in my case Shield Lob on PLD) which is what I did.

I'm confused why you think I don't know what Provoke does? I specifically state that I could have swapped Provoke out for Conva as my third Cross-Role but then I would have had a much harder time getting the boss back when I died. Maybe you misunderstood something?

Either way - yes, that is what Provoke does xD

[Erim-Nelhah]

I understand how Provoke works - and if you die by far the fastest way to regain an enmity lead is Provoke + an enmity generator (so in my case Shield Lob on PLD) which is what I did.

I'm confused why you think I don't know what Provoke does? I specifically state that I could have swapped Provoke out for Conva as my third Cross-Role but then I would have had a much harder time getting the boss back when I died. Maybe you misunderstood something?

Either way - yes, that is what Provoke does xD

Sorry Moro, I misread your post (read used instead of swapped somehow). I'd delete my other one but that's not an option on mobile and my PC is unavailable atm.

--Erim Nelhah

[jcfoster11]

I open with two Souleater combos to make sure I don't pull threat and I look up at threat meter and I notice that the WHM Healer is pulling almost as much threat as I am! Then I look at the WAR's Stance, and he's got Defiance up. I look at my own and...... whoops. I forgot Grit.

In this case, your "forgetting" was actually a good (or, at least, the normally-proper) thing as you're not supposed to have Grit on as OT (aside from adds, of course, or a couple other edge cases). That WAR, though ... I don't think I have words for that.