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

[Frizze]

So, during my time in PF recently, I came to the realisation PF actually has a language entirely its own, separate from normal English. Now, since this may confuse newer people, I've decided to compile a handy translation guide of some of the more prominent aspects of the language:

I thought of one more off the top of my head that you forgot, im sure there are a few others too.

"Farm group, lootmaster is for _____ only."(usually _____ is a crafting mat, but not always)
Translation: You can trust me, honest.

[Aosha]

Expert Roulete Fractal down in under 15 minutes.
And what a pleasant bunch of people to run with too
It's a good day.

[HyoMinPark]

This weekend will be a weekend of alt adventures. Taking my BRD alt through 2.x right now (whoo, almost to 2.4); was doing roulettes, and I got Stone Vigil in Leveling. Alright, not that big of a deal... until I realized that I was in a party with a bot PLD and a baby CNJ healer that didn’t realize job stones don’t auto-equip. They had their stone, but it wasn’t equipped. Can’t fault them really, since they didn’t realize their CNJ gearset didn’t have it registered, and they had unlocked BTN, I believe they said, before queuing in.

In all fairness to the CNJ, they actually did really well for being a CNJ in a level 41 dungeon. Very receptive to advice and we even found a use for Repose, because the tank was a bot that would Flash one and then single target one mob while popping every cooldown he had (actually, he popped Rampart, Sentinel, FoF, Tempered Will, and Awareness before the barrier had even dropped in the beginning—that was my tell we had a bot on our hands). :v Had some wipes because extra things got pulled, but still managed to brute force our way through most of it. Was just annoyed at getting another bot tank in a dungeon this week. First was on my own CNJ alt, and now on my BRD alt. Even on Hyomin, I’ve only gotten 1 bot ever in a dungeon (healer bot... we aren’t counting Frontlines here), and that was back when I first started playing this game.

Bah. Oh well, onwards with 2.4!

[AxHell]

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Just a question though...we didn't you kick the bot ?

[Violyre]

Just a question though...we didn't you kick the bot ?

If I had to take a wild guess, the bot just kept grabbing mobs, and you can't kick in combat.

I guess I have a story where people thought I was bad but I wasn't because I couldn't do something?

Was in Rath normal, first ever attempt, I died. I laid there. Someone told me to just return. I was like "I don't have that option." Then they started to explain it to me like I never died before. I literally didn't have a message pop up, or a thing on the side that you would click to get that message pop up.

At then end, it finally came up for me and they're like "YOU JUST DID IT." I'm sorry that I found a bug, I guess?

I've been hesitant on doing Rath Ex because of that issue.

[MoroMurasaki]

If I had to take a wild guess, the bot just kept grabbing mobs, and you can't kick in combat.

Between that and loot timers a lot of the time there just is never a chance to kick someone.

[Aosha]

If I had to take a wild guess, the bot just kept grabbing mobs, and you can't kick in combat.

I guess I have a story where people thought I was bad but I wasn't because I couldn't do something?

Was in Rath normal, first ever attempt, I died. I laid there. Someone told me to just return. I was like "I don't have that option." Then they started to explain it to me like I never died before. I literally didn't have a message pop up, or a thing on the side that you would click to get that message pop up.

At then end, it finally came up for me and they're like "YOU JUST DID IT." I'm sorry that I found a bug, I guess?

I've been hesitant on doing Rath Ex because of that issue.

The thing is...
You really can't do it mid-fight in Rath normal. Only in Extreme. Normal mode is like any other trial, if you don't get rezzed you just lay there.
They were yelling at you to do a thing that you outright cannot do.

[Maeka]

Not really Duty Finder, but my new FC and I were trying to unlock & clear dungeons for a sprout we have in our FC.... when our leader accidentally Q'd us up for a dungeon without checking the Unsnych'd box:



Yes, we got to, and killed the last boss, with zero tank and zero heals while synch'd.

Now for an actual Duty Finder tale:

Got Stone Vigil (Hard) today, my first time. I was a SCH with 110 (not 120) gear on, and there was a tank wearing Ironworks. One of the DPS kept pressuring us to GOGOGOGO and on the pack of 3 Wyverns after the 2nd boss, we died twice because the DPS were AoEing when it was clear that the wyverns just plain hit too hard. I asked them after the first death if we could please focus the Wyverns, but nope. 2nd time we died, one Wyvern had 2% health, and the other had 10% health, each DPS was on their own Wyvern, and the last DPS standing didn't think to switch targets and take the one Wyvern out with him. Literally one or two hits would have killed it too.

They kept pressuring the tank to "PULL MOAR!" even though I was wearing less-than-capped gear and I was obviously still learning the job, because SCH is a job that is pitifully easy until Lv45+ then they throw everything at you at once, AND I was new to the dungeon as well.

[Violyre]

The thing is...
You really can't do it mid-fight in Rath normal. Only in Extreme. Normal mode is like any other trial, if you don't get rezzed you just lay there.
They were yelling at you to do a thing that you outright cannot do.

Oh good, I'm not crazy. I had recalled only seeing that part under the Extreme mode description in the notes. And literally anyone I've asked so far about it gave a hesitatant yes to it being in the normal mode.

[HyoMinPark]

Just a question though...we didn't you kick the bot ?

Between auto-instigating combat and not rolling on loot, there wasn't much of an opportunity to kick them until we were almost at the final boss. By then, there's not much point; we've done the entire dungeon. I'm guessing the bot was programmed to touch any and all treasure coffers, but never roll, because it also went for the ones in the side rooms that contain the crafting pieces. But it wouldn't roll on them, so we had to wait for things to time out.

I'm not sure if you can kick players when they're KO'd. The bot would never release but lie there waiting for a raise. And then barrel off the minute they were up.