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

[Skyward]

Just died 5 times in my weekly run of Sigma V4 because my connection decided to be garbage. Never felt this sting of embarrassment before and I feel like sleeping under a rock for being probably the most garbage SAM to date.

[AzazelCaine]

Just died 5 times in my weekly run of Sigma V4 because my connection decided to be garbage. Never felt this sting of embarrassment before and I feel like sleeping under a rock for being probably the most garbage SAM to date.

I PROMISE you friend, I have seen WAY worse. Hopefully that is some consolation to you.

[Saphri]

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.

Ok, set up those 5 role skills and did some re-thinking of how my Bard "helper actions" are organized. In the past, I'd cast Foe Requiem a lot but, looking at it again, I'm not sure it's as helpful as I thought it was. If I understand it right, it's only active for a short duration and I'm unable to attack or dodge during. My other "go to" was Battle Voice, that one still seems like a good one to use.

[Saphri]

BTW - thanks to everyone for letting me "pick your brains" as it were. This has all been very helpful

[Paladinleeds]

In the past, I'd cast Foe Requiem a lot but, looking at it again, I'm not sure it's as helpful as I thought it was. If I understand it right, it's only active for a short duration and I'm unable to attack or dodge during.

It drains mana aye, but you can attack, dodge, etc, while using it, so don't worry about that.

[MoroMurasaki]

Ok, set up those 5 role skills and did some re-thinking of how my Bard "helper actions" are organized. In the past, I'd cast Foe Requiem a lot but, looking at it again, I'm not sure it's as helpful as I thought it was. If I understand it right, it's only active for a short duration and I'm unable to attack or dodge during. My other "go to" was Battle Voice, that one still seems like a good one to use.

For now you can basically use Battle Voice on cooldown as long as you'll be in battle for it's duration and cast Foes whenever your MP is full. Foes has a short cast time but then it lasts for however long your MP lasts, around 20 seconds or so I think. Using Foes while Refresh is active will extend the duration of Foes since Refresh will be restoring your MP as Foes is spending it.

It might help you to hover over each action and fully read the description that it gives you, the game does a good job of explaining the basics.

[Kinazu]

Me and two other friends were pretty bored last evening and we didn't know what to do. So because one of us still needed his weekly loot from the 24-man raid, we decided to give it a shot. It was 1 AM and none of us knew what to play (the horror of having everything at level 70 ; - ; ) Anyroad, I wanted to try something different without troubling people with it and giving myself a challenge, so did one of my friends. We decided to play Conjurer instead of White Mage in the lighthouse instead. We expected some backlash though so we were prepared.

We queued up, it popped instantly. When we spawned we thought we'd get called out for it, but no one said anything yet. First boss, everything went nice and smooth. We used our simple Conjurer kits to the fullest, including the 10 role abilities. No one said anything until our Samurai died because of being into the stream of waves. He claimed he died because of "lack of healing", however you can't always react fast enough to save people form that mechanic even if you have an instant heal ability ready. So me and my friend shrugged it off and let it slide. The rest of the first boss was a breeze. Minimal deaths and definitely not a lack of healing.

On our way to the adds the Samurai complained that we didn't get kicked. Again, we ignored him because we thought it was for the better. He kept claiming that there wasn't enough healing even though we got through the exploding adds without any deaths, which was somewhat challenging without abilities.

Moving on to the 2nd boss, the Samurai in question complained to the alliance that we were trolling and griefing, even though we were doing the role we signed up for - Healing. During the second boss he kept complaing about the same thing over and over again, dying to one-shot mechanics (the dashes, not dodging the bombs or AoEs) and called it a "lack of healing" again.

Going to the 2nd corridor of adds he, as they usually do, kept complaining. Even though he pulled a card that rubbed me wrong: He said he cleared UWU, that he knew better than us and that we were casuals. He also was a better player because he cleared it and that we should listen to him. Him saying that got me annoyed, as someone who cleared UWU he should easily see that there wasn't a lack of healing. When people did drop, they dropped from 100 to 0. And last time I checked it's impossible to heal through one-shot mechanics.

Moving on to the 3rd boss, my friend and I had a blast besides the complaining from that one guy. The rest of our party seemed to be rather fine with it, or at least stayed silent. The Samurai kept complaining and pulling his UWU card throughout the fight. Kept dying to dodgeable AoEs. After he dropped a second time in that fight, he blamed lag. He also said he couldn't accept a raise because of lag, this again rubbed me the wrong way. Anyroad, we decided to not raise him for the time being because he said he couldn't accept it for wahtever reason. That's sort of fine, I guess. After a short moment he complained in the Alliance chat that he didn't get a raise from his healers (not including the Red Mage, obviously) even though he told us he couldn't accept it due to lag. So I sighed and cast raise on him. He had to buff on him for 10 seconds, before it vanished and he did another cryout in the Alliance chat. After the fight I called him out on it and he said it was lag. Someone backed him up by saying that due to lag a raise wouldn't hit sometimes. Which is total BS imo because you need to hold down Decline at least 3 seconds in order for it to be declined.
Anyroad, no healing struggles during that fight either.

Moving on to the last boss. The usual complaining happened and we managed to get through it quite easily. No one died because of lack of healing, more of a lack of machanics.

All in all me and my friend got what we wanted: A small challenge. I also don't believe that we were troubling people, trolling or griefing. I mean, if we really were doing that, why did we try our best to heal through everything, raise people and help the other Alliances out. Sure, we may have been a bit weaker in comparison to the White Mage next door, we didn't have all the fancy abilities. But it didn't matter as we easily made it through. So, I partly feel that the assault that we received wasn't justified, of course that's my view and we just wanted to try something different. It was really refreshing in the end and we actually felt some accomplishment for clearing it as Conjurers.

Anyway, that's my side of the story.

[MuseTraveller]

I hopped on leveling roulette on my healer alt, behold it's SASTASHA. Groans and grunts followed but oh well.
It's okay, it will be a snooze fest. Then I notice the thaumaturge is doing nothing. I pay little mind to them, maybe they lag. It was a returning player. The other DPS calls on them asking why they don't cast sells. Their answer "My damage is little so it doesn't make difference." Tank, dps and I all kind of stop for a moment to process it, we note it's still something, dungeons are group effort, we're all low level here. They proceed to say they just want a quick run for the exp and continue to only follow along.

I encountered a DPS, a returning player, who asked for a carry in Sastasha. SASTASHA.

I don't think DF will ever sink this low ever again for me.
Vote kick and we got a bard to finish the dungeon with. This is probably the 2nd time I've ever used a vote kick for my 3 years of gameplay.

[Vidu]

All in all me and my friend got what we wanted: A small challenge. I also don't believe that we were troubling people, trolling or griefing. I mean, if we really were doing that, why did we try our best to heal through everything, raise people and help the other Alliances out. Sure, we may have been a bit weaker in comparison to the White Mage next door, we didn't have all the fancy abilities. But it didn't matter as we easily made it through. So, I partly feel that the assault that we received wasn't justified, of course that's my view and we just wanted to try something different. It was really refreshing in the end and we actually felt some accomplishment for clearing it as Conjurers.

While that samurai was clearly not in the right to complain about a lack of healing when it was his lack of dodging/doing mechanics that killed him, I cant fully agree with you on the assumption that you werent troubling people.
You were missing all spells from the past 3 years, aswell as some rather important ones from ARR - but I guess you know that... Its not only "a bit weaker"

If you want to challenge yourself by running content without job-stones, by all means, do that! ...but keep it within a group of people who know and agree to that. (You can also pick content thats more challenging, healing-wise, than Ridorona. My fairy or my RDM can and have healed that)
Those sort of challenges can be fun, but you should make sure that everyone is onboard with it!

[Mixt]

A guy who cleared UWU dying to easy mechanics?

I don't believe that for one moment.

He must be one of those clear buyers.
The ones who pay other people to take control of their accounts and clear hard content for them so they can use that clear to E-peen wave about how much better than everyone else they are, even if they actually suck.

I have encountered a few people like that myself, who suck so bad they can't manage even the most simple mechanic, then go on about how great and infallible they are because they cleared Ultimate, while lying dead on the floor due to a mechanic that everyone else dodged easily.
Then they go on about how everyone else is at fault, it has to be because their Ultimate clear means they can do no wrong so it absolutely cannot be their fault they died.
Then they flame everyone for being bad while lying there face-down in the dirt.


Alternately he's a troll who was killing himself on purpose just so he could have an excuse to yell at people.