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

[Avatre]

I'll look for that auto-skip setting next time I'm on. Thanks

You will find it by going to:

Character Configuration->Control Settings->General->Cutscene Skipping

[TheMightyMollusk]

Welp, I'm in Kugane area and have done all the side-quests. No choice but to drop into a dungeon now. Either for my next step as a Bard or Main Storyline quest. I'm nervous about it since, lately, I've been getting crapped on for not being able to keep up with the veterans. I'm going to try using Party Finder this time though and see if that works out better. "Lord of the Revel" is the next storyline quest. I did look for videos of it. I guess there's something one party member needs to do to stop a gigantic sword from wiping the entire party.

The sword mechanic is entirely on the tanks.

[MoroMurasaki]

Welp, I'm in Kugane area and have done all the side-quests. No choice but to drop into a dungeon now. Either for my next step as a Bard or Main Storyline quest. I'm nervous about it since, lately, I've been getting crapped on for not being able to keep up with the veterans. I'm going to try using Party Finder this time though and see if that works out better. "Lord of the Revel" is the next storyline quest. I did look for videos of it. I guess there's something one party member needs to do to stop a gigantic sword from wiping the entire party.

Mighty is right, a tank will hold the sword and all you have to do as a dps is hit it. It will fall 2 times, after the second time move out of the middle.

If you'd like a good BRD guide I enjoyed this one when I was learning it. It's lengthy but might clear some things up for you if people are complaining. It's based around level 70 play but I'm sure you can adapt it to your level.

Good luck!

https://www.mooglemedia.com/brd-guide/

[Driskus]

Got Ala Mhigo in 70 roulette today, and had an interesting BLM. He/she had no real rotation at all, and was just pushing random buttons. No ley lines, nothing. The first tank called the BLM out as we walked up to the first boss area and then left. We got another tank within a couple minutes and managed to clear, but stuff was dying super slow even with me going ham on DPS and almost letting the tank die a couple times. We nearly wiped to the add phase on the final boss because of the other DPS losing connection combined with the BLM being terrible. On top of that, he/she died in that part of the fight, and got a damage down after being raised. RIP all the DPS. That was honestly probably worse than an ice mage.

On the topic above, I wish I would get tanks that do the sword mechanic. 9 times out of 10 I end up doing the orbs as WHM because tanks either don't know (after being told), or just go ham on the sword and ignore them.

[Mocita]

Queue'd up for Mentor Roulette, and got one for a run 28 minutes in-progress of Castrum Abania. I said my standard 'hello' and ran to rejoin the group. They were at the 2nd boss and I set up Protect, got cards ready, and shielded the tank. Through the fight, the MCH was doing good with their rotations, but the BLM was not even using Enocian or Ley Lines and just using Fire to attack. They did not dodge any of the AoE's and did not get in any of the towers to mitigate damage. I did my best to keep the group healed and we dropped the boss. We proceed to killing mobs and get to the final boss of the dungeon. HO, BOY! The BLM did not use any standard rotations and stood in all the attacks and died. I revived them only for them to die again 2 minutes later. After that point, I refused to Raise them again. I buffed up the MCH with cards when I could and healed/shield the tank so they wouldn't die. I used Lucid Dreaming to try to keep my mp up, but kept running out since the boss was buffed to max. I luckily kept up with healing enough that the MCH used the limit break, but was in an AoE so I shielded them so they wouldn't die. Crit shield and 0 damage, and they killed the boss. The minion dropped and I rolled high to get it. After the boss died, the BLM had this to say, "so what is it about blm's none of you healers seem to like enough to heal them". So I say to them, "You weren't dodging. No point in healing you if you refused to dodge." Of course, they make an unoriginal lalafell punt joke right before they leave.

I honestly never thought I would get anyone as bad as that BLM.

[Odstarva]

Gosh, another adventure with another tank. So, last time we had the full diamond tank that spammed 1,2,3 aggro skills.

This time we had a Dark Knight in standard 340 gear, in fractal continuum hard. So far so good he's pulling groups and holding them well enough. I have to pop diversion here and there, but it's not too bad. And then we get to the bosses...
(I'd like to note before going any further that I was playing monk, and on his search comment he claimed to main monk - it's relevant)

He kept rotating the bosses around and around, making it very annoying for me to keep up with the positionals - and yet somehow on both the first and last boss I managed to pull hate. I had to used fists of stone, I even used diversion but it all seemed to be doing nothing and in both of these situations I ended up dying due to overwhelming damage. Looking back now, I don't know how I could be getting aggro. Was he not attacking? Was he shirking me?


Either way, in the end of the run I told him he should try to keep an eye out on his enmity, and to try and be thoughtful of the dps and make their jobs a bit easier. His response? "I'm a better monk than you are" - leaves dungeon.


Wowza.

[TruebladeNuke]

Wowza.

/soothe

MNKs may be able to hit hard enough to rip hate off of Tanks if they're really trying, but to still have aggro even while using Diversion and Fist of Earth all while the Tank is rotating the boss? Part of me wants to say that the Tank you had was trolling you on purpose.

And I'm willing to believe that too, because my own DPS and Healer jobs have had the rather rare, but all too annoying trollish Tank players as well. (Back before I basically just started pleading my FC friend to always be my co-tank/co-healer buddy in any run I decide to run as a Tank or Healer)

[Frizze]

I guess there's something one party member needs to do to stop a gigantic sword from wiping the entire party.

Its 2 mechanics. First, a tank catches the sword to stop it from destroying the battlefield(mechanic 1). While they hold the sword up, the DPS try to break it. Meanwhile(mechanic 2) there are orbs that float around the arena that hurt and can interupt(maybe damage down?) the DPS trying to break the sword. Either the other tank or a healer should be trying to pick these off so that no one dies. He swings the sword again, you do this all again. Then he gives up on breaking the battlefield and instead just uses his ultimate(dont stand in the middle). Afterwards he pops back up, and you go into the 2nd phase. Mostly the same as the first, but a little faster on everything and maybe one or two extra attacks he didnt use in the beginning. It can be hectic towards the end, but its very doable. Good luck!

After the boss died, the BLM had this to say, "so what is it about blm's none of you healers seem to like enough to heal them". So I say to them, "You weren't dodging. No point in healing you if you refused to dodge." Of course, they make an unoriginal lalafell punt joke right before they leave.

I honestly never thought I would get anyone as bad as that BLM.

While i am pro-lala punting it hurts me whenever i see/hear about someone playing my class so poorly. The basics of our rotation is SO easy to learn. And the basics alone are enough to put you over most of the lower DPS classes. And we get such a bad reputation as it is because of the design elements of the class, so why would people go out of there way not to do easy mechanics and end up making us look even worse? Pitiful. So on behalf of myself, Shantoto, and all the conscientious BLMs out there: Im sorry you had to put up with that. You too Driskus.

[Saphri]

Mighty is right, a tank will hold the sword and all you have to do as a dps is hit it. It will fall 2 times, after the second time move out of the middle.

If you'd like a good BRD guide I enjoyed this one when I was learning it. It's lengthy but might clear some things up for you if people are complaining. It's based around level 70 play but I'm sure you can adapt it to your level.

Good luck!

https://www.mooglemedia.com/brd-guide/

Tactician and Refresh cuts emnity......that's useful info....... Ok, I'll pull Peloton for now...

[HyoMinPark]

Tactician and Refresh cuts emnity......that's useful info....... Ok, I'll pull Peloton for now...

Yes, they do. They are also invaluable support tools to your party, and must have skills for every BRD/MCH. your role actions should be Refresh, Tactician, Palisade, Second Wind, and Invigorate - the first three are all support tools core to your role as a support-requests DPS, Second Wind is a self-heal that you can't really go wrong with if you accidentally eat and AOE, and Invigorate is needed for AOE in dungeons (alternate with Tactician to keep your TP levels high enough to AOE each pack of mobs).

Come 4.4 you'll be able to take more than 5 role skills, but those are generally the 5 I advocate for.