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

[MoroMurasaki]

A guy who cleared UWU dying to easy mechanics?

I don't believe that for one moment.

Eh, it isn't too shocking to me. It seems like some people who clear more difficult content like Ultimate or even final raid tiers seem to think that they don't need to try at all in lower end things.

The example that sticks out in my head is a SCH who joined my weekly clear party for o6s. He was all orange through Godka but was flubbing things left and right in what is a much easier fight. He also basically didn't heal at all. We wound up kicking him because even though he apparently could play well he didn't think o6s was worth his full effort.

I wouldn't be surprised if that SAM did down UwU but at the end of the day your achievments don't mean anything if you're playing like trash at that moment.

[TSLsmokey]

Just a quick little shout out to the tank I got in Doma last night. Thanks for making that a fantastic run and putting up with my spotty connection! Was even better thanks to you even checking ahead of time what kind of pulls would be good instead of just trying wall to wall and dying.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I meant to post this a week or so ago. Nevertheless, allow me to regale you with the tall of a Tsukiyomi party that ultimately vote abandoned. Yes, it was that bad.

Starting off, nobody seemed to have even the slightest idea what they were doing save one or two. We have three party immediately die during to fans in phase one, but manage to pull through. One of the two MNKs though... oh boy. In four pulls, I'm all but certain he died to every single mechanic each time. What really stood out though was the AST who I swear had to be one of those "netflix" meme healers because she literally did nothing. Her damage was abysmal and she healed less than a quarter as much as the WHM, who, herself proved very... scatterbrained. Maybe she was panicking due to having to heal the whole fight basically on her own, but suffice it to say things didn't go very well. We never made it passed 40%, if even that.

The real icing on the cake is when the AST tried to blame lag. Sweetheart, no. You'd have to running on 5 FPS to play that poorly. You weren't even overhealing, you just straight up weren't pressing buttons.

[Pyroxene]

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.

To that I say "And yet, you the only one in group that's smeared along the floor?"

[Vidu]

A guy who cleared UWU dying to easy mechanics?

I don't believe that for one moment.

I dont see how those are mutualy exclusive - Moro already mentioned a very good reason with people starting to think that "easy" content is beneath them and that they dont have to care anymore, but while I personally also always wonder "How did that guy clear Savage/UwU" when some really sucks, I do realise that people can have bad days (both personal and connection-wise) or have cleared said content on a different class they're on right now.
I've cleared O8S on my paladin and if you'd see me playing ninja you probably wouldnt believe that I managed to log in by myself...

I'm not thinking to highly of people who think they can berate someone by waving their achievments in their face and I'd like to believe that nice and decent people dont feel the need to do that in the first place.
But at the same time I realise that there are several more or less legit reasons for someone not playing on UwU-level in Ridorona - may it be that they dont care, have a bad day, a bad connection or are on a class they're not familiar with.

...please note though that I'm not trying to excuse that samurais behaviour, I'm just trying to show that having cleared a certain content doesnt mean you're not allowed to make mistakes anymore.
I do agree with Moro on the point of "if you cant show that you've got skill right now, it doesnt matter if you've shown that before" though.

[HyoMinPark]

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.

Foe's has an active time of ~21 seconds (7 ticks) without Refresh being paired with it, and ~30 seconds (10 ticks) with Refresh. You should try to use it as often as possible whenever your MP is full (it takes roughly 2 minutes for your MP to refill again while in combat). 3% may not seem like a lot, but Foe's is another core utility for BRD that makes them invaluable to any party. It costs a GCD to cast, but the party gain more than outweighs your one Heavy Shot. You only cast during that initial GCD; while Foe's is active, you can still move freely. You aren't casting for its entire duration, just for 2.5 seconds.

Battle Voice should be used immediately off cooldown. It's extra direct hit rate for your party that costs you nothing. And BRD, at its core, is all about supporting and buffing the party.

[bustamanteverde]

My first vote abandon primal Bismarck hard mode happened. Tanks refused to tank the two snakes away from each other and we wipe, 2 DPS fall off, healer falls off, get Bismarck to 5% wipe due to healer dying, party vote abandons it passes. I have never mana shifted so much in my life! go RDM

Next gem in Stone Vigil: Kitty WAR tank uses no CDs, tanks mobs near healer for some reason, tanked the 2nd boss near the cannons, tanks the last boss facing the group nearly wiping us to due its breath attacks....healer and ranged had to actually run around the mob since tank refused to move, used tank LB both times when they hit one bar What in holy Cthulhu!...I at one point thought they were trolling with how bad they played. gah! I ran out of there as fast as my legs could take me.

[Saphri]

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.

Ok, just re-read For Requiem. I mis-understood. Casts fast, quick recast, but ends if you cast it again.....

[TheMightyMollusk]

Trying to level AST, had a terrible run in Shisui. Paladin using no CDs while trying to make huge pulls, samurai who doesn't AoE at all, and black mage who.....pretty much only cast Fire and Blizzard the entire run. She might've used Flare once or twice, but that was it. And kept using LB on single targets.

I'll freely admit I'm not great at AST, but we dragged on through somehow. I've never had a food buff run out in a dungeon before. Well, at least I got all the comms.....

[Saphri]

Ok, just re-read For Requiem. I mis-understood. Casts fast, quick recast, but ends if you cast it again.....

Ok, just briefly got in the game and tried some things; boy was I doing it wrong.....
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I cast Foe Requiem, my character briefly plays the harp. I thought *that* was the song duration. Outside of the "heat of battle", I could cast it and watch what was actually happening. It's like other's here have said. The MP slowly drains and I can do other things while that's going on except cast Foe Requiem again...because that makes it stop.
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Suffice to say, I have more work to do yet before going back into a dungeon again....