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

[SannaR]

The minimum item level is i90 though, they would have been fine.
That's the equivalent of someone having i290 gear in Kugane Castle or i330 gear in Swallow's Compass or Ridorana, they can't perform as well as someone with better gear obviously but you can't say clearing with them is impossible, or at least you can't say it's due to their gear.

They also had 115 HQ left side with maybe a caster item. So, either A they had enough money to buy those from the MB or they've done some Heavensward. Most people that did when it was new weren't that low ilv. Heck people geared up just to do normal Amdapor because making it past the 1st boss at min ilv was a struggle. I mean sure they could have had a person make their left side for them, but then why not give them a full upgrade. In this case I feel that if he had better gear the group could have carried him as I would have just pulled smaller.

[ko_]

I've been getting the new primal, normal mode, SO MUCH this past week for trial roulette I'm just going to stop queuing for trial roulette. There's always at least one wipe and I queue as tank and half the party stands ON TOP OF ME, the main tank, evwn when I say "get away from me" or "stack behind her now." Cue 3-4 people dying, including at least one healer, leading into aforementioned wipe.

Since when has it ever been safe for the general party to stack on the main tank? Why do they think it's fine now?

It's cause they like you and want a hug. -hug-

[alimdia]

I've been getting the new primal, normal mode, SO MUCH this past week for trial roulette I'm just going to stop queuing for trial roulette. There's always at least one wipe and I queue as tank and half the party stands ON TOP OF ME, the main tank, evwn when I say "get away from me" or "stack behind her now." Cue 3-4 people dying, including at least one healer, leading into aforementioned wipe.

Since when has it ever been safe for the general party to stack on the main tank? Why do they think it's fine now?

Make your item level lower than 335 when you queue, you can re-equip your gear after you queue, it will exclude that primal from your roulette.

[Skivvy]

Make your item level lower than 335 when you queue, you can re-equip your gear after you queue, it will exclude that primal from your roulette.

This is what I do for all the non-level specific things (alliance roulettes, trials, raids, etc). Kudos to those that take everything as it's given, but most days I just don't want to deal with the newer fights when trying to run my roulettes chores. :X

[Mirakumi]

We had a monk disconnect during AV we gave him a few minutes to come back. He said he came back because he had to subscribe to the game. He finally felt the game get hard with mechanics in AV and felt the need to keep playing to see where it goes. I thought that was hilarious so I gave him the comm. People hate AV because of the challenge it brings but I love it because it is a slap in the face to those who tend to face roll things. Besides 1.0 coin counter still brings good memories.

[Amariel34]

I never understood why AV is so hard. As long as you are careful it's not that bad. *shrugs*

[bustamanteverde]

Duty finder as a tank in Soh Al which happened to have a trigger happy Bard who just needed to pull mobs for the tank. Since starting FFXIV I have really enjoyed tanking and the only thing that irks me is dps/heals running off on their own to pull mobs.

The rule is if you pull mobs on purpose you tank them. I let the bard enjoy a few nibbles from the mobs till he almost died, noticed the healer let him die twice for being a derp and grabbing another group while the party had a group already. Good thing is that he stopped doing that once he realized I was not going to play his game.

Luckily these players are few and far between.

[bustamanteverde]

AV is great! I enjoy the extra challenge and how it owns dps who refused to move from Coincounters 360 aoe swipe. You think if the tank runs as if his behind is on fire they would follow.

[Maeka]

Stacking on the tank or near the tank is done in some fights, such as Continuum (Hard) because the enemy does a lot of arena-wide AoE with a safezone right next to it, but yeah, nobody should be standing in front of the enemy. But then again, the enemy in Fluminis is difficult to see which is her front end if you're up close..... and hardly anybody marks the MT. Marking would help a Lot with visual aid, esp when you're dodging AoEs in that fight.

[Iscah]

I never understood why AV is so hard. As long as you are careful it's not that bad. *shrugs*

From the few times I’ve gotten it as tank, on top of the difficult first room, there are the patrolling enemies that seem to hit quite hard or just tip the balance to ‘too many enemies for the party to handle’. (But perhaps that’s dependent on how well people are using AoE attacks too.) It took me a bit of trial and error to understand which enemies I could draw first without attracting the whole room.

Also, for the Coincounter, I tend to lead him rather wildly across the room because he has a lot of attacks that need to be dodged or run away from. Is that normal or am I tanking him wrong?