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

[JohnSeal]

This reminded me of the Tamtara run I did a few days ago on my alt.
Just quickle glanced at the healer, saw the CNJ class and the Novice gear, "Ok, I go a bit slower, not a worry"
Pulling mobs a little slower than normal and notice my health dropping like the panties on a stonesthrow strumpet.
Muscle memory takes over as I watch the healer....

Cure..Cure..Cure..Cure..cure.... what is this? Constantly running low on MP so I look again at the healers gear... Weathered Cane equipped!!!

I link the item in party chat and say "Dude, you gotta replace that asap" my potions healed more HP than the healer.
Ended up going dog slow as the healer tried valiantly, but struggled on even small pulls. We eventually made it out and got an auto translate "I'm sorry" from the healer.
I can only hope they looked up how their weapon affects their healing potency for the future.

Had some pretty good DPS which really helped get us through

Lmao, I really hate players that refuse to gear up those class properly and it’s frustrating (: The other day I did Keeper of the lake and the healer (I was tanking, PLD ilvl 368) got a ilvl 42 weapon and I was shocked lol it took almost a half an hour pulling mobs 3/4 by time but we made with just one wipe

[Maeka]

Lmao, I really hate players that refuse to gear up those class properly and it’s frustrating (: The other day I did Keeper of the lake and the healer (I was tanking, PLD ilvl 368) got a ilvl 42 weapon and I was shocked lol it took almost a half an hour pulling mobs 3/4 by time but we made with just one wipe

Depends on what exactly we're talking about. Jewelry I can understand, esp <50. If I see a Lv45-49 player, or even a 50 sprout with Level 20-30 jewelry, I just shrug, because that stuff is annoying to get. Now, if it's not a sprout and they're Lv50+ then yeah I kinda expect to see jewelry because I know you can buy jewelry either with tomestones or even the NQ jewelry from Ishgard.

But a WEAPON? Heck no. That's ridiculous. They can at the very least get THAT.

[Frizze]

I wish people were good with rath. If I got a clear everytime I did it I'd have 3 mounts by now. Nonstop trying to get a clear and nothing. People leave after one wipe, or flat out troll and kill people. Maybe rath IS too freaking hard and needs a nerf. I'm broken man. Nonstop for this whole week and every party i try to start fails. I have gotten the worse luck in this ever. I had some progress parties but no clears. And before anyone says it. If I could solo the damn thing I would. I'd have the mount by now. Sorry. I'm triggered, beaten and just done. Extreme sad face.

So a little glue, to see if we can piece you back together. Its a different style of fight then most people are used to, and on top of that a lot of people arent good at adapting to changes. A tiny bit of PF luck and youd be done/almost done by now sure. But this fight will get easier. Even if player skill never catches up player gear will. Those attacks that are one shotting the DPS/healers will probly be survivable with another 30 ilvls - you know, the increase that we'll get with 4.4 later in september. And if you set your goal as 4.4 that also gives you the benefit of looking for specific friends to do this with who you can(hopefully) trust not to completely suck. But failing nonstop for a week or two would drag on anyone, so maybe take a day or two off and chill?

Steps of Faith today.

ugh.

Havent gotten steps recently in a trials roulette, but its happened plenty of times. Before the fight can start i typically ask "who wants cannons/dk? i can do whatever" to try to prompt the group into planing it out. If they seem clueless, ill make sure i take one of those roles and explain(short version) what to do. If its really bad and they dont seem like they can get it, ill offer to unsync the fight with em afterwards. Level 70 BLM firepower lets you skip a good number of mechanics.

[CodingSession]

Just want to apologize to everyone in Dun Scaith raid yesterday, especially my party. (I know the chance for anyone from that raid reading this is very low, but still)
It was the worst performance I've ever put on in this game. Constantly eating AoEs, failing mechanics, etc. I don't know what caused me to play that badly. Playing at 3 AM with lack of sleep was probably one of the factors.

Special mention goes to the healers. I died like, more than 15 times during that raid. And our healers keep ressing me without saying anything, no doubt straining their MP (and patience) because of it. Were I in their position, I'd probably stop ressing after the tenth death. Your patience was angelic, Mr./Ms. healers.
We cleared the raid, but it left me feeling so useless that I didn't touch the DF for the rest of the day.

[ko_]

So a little glue, to see if we can piece you back together. Its a different style of fight then most people are used to, and on top of that a lot of people arent good at adapting to changes. A tiny bit of PF luck and youd be done/almost done by now sure. But this fight will get easier. Even if player skill never catches up player gear will. Those attacks that are one shotting the DPS/healers will probly be survivable with another 30 ilvls - you know, the increase that we'll get with 4.4 later in september. And if you set your goal as 4.4 that also gives you the benefit of looking for specific friends to do this with who you can(hopefully) trust not to completely suck. But failing nonstop for a week or two would drag on anyone, so maybe take a day or two off and chill?

Thanks for that xD. I seriously am taking a break from the boss for a few days, as you're right. Broken to the extreme. So a break is needed, it's just I rarely go into extremes like this you know? And hearing about Rath and being the huge capcom fanboy I am. I was extra hyped and needed to jump on this event. I just want a few wins and almost killed myself on my PS4 to do it. But you're right, a tiny break will do. - Hug-

[JohnSeal]

Depends on what exactly we're talking about. Jewelry I can understand, esp <50. If I see a Lv45-49 player, or even a 50 sprout with Level 20-30 jewelry, I just shrug, because that stuff is annoying to get. Now, if it's not a sprout and they're Lv50+ then yeah I kinda expect to see jewelry because I know you can buy jewelry either with tomestones or even the NQ jewelry from Ishgard.

But a WEAPON? Heck no. That's ridiculous. They can at the very least get THAT.

Honestly some ppl are just lazy and other are just lazy lol
Personally when I level up a class to have the right gear is a priority, I update constantly all my classes tier by tier even if I don’t play them ( I play some alt in dangeoun and roulette by like I never play NiN or MCH still I have them geared up to 365 xD) like I farm Tsu and I got every single weapon. Probably some people don’t understand gear relevant or don’t care (:

[AxHell]

There are days where I'd rather deal with the roulette penalty than dealing with idiots. Today was one of these with my WAR in Dusk vigil.

So first of all, AST and MNK come from the same server and were apparently talking to one another.

We pass the first boss and I start to notice that the heals are kinda weak. I also notice that the AST hasn't used Aspected benefic at all.

When I asked him about it he said : "Sorry no speak english hablo espanol". A comedian huh...

He proceeds to use the skill only once in battle but then called the skill useless. Then I checked his gear and wouldn't you know it...he had 30 lvl gear.

Needless to say that I quit. Also he didn't throw any cards or anything.

I wished I could have kicked him but with his buddy, I'm not sure it would have worked.

Guess you see new kinds of stupid everyday.

[Aosha]

I'm starting to wonder if people even understand what a countdown is...
Every time now that I initiate one (10s usually), there's a RDM that casts Jolt at 6 seconds left, or something similar. One of these days I'll just let them eat the Tengu's tank buster...

[Starvi]

This game makes me hate ppl...every day I encounter someone who makes this a miserable experience. It's gotten pretty bad lately and I don't know why.

Just had Halatali normal mode in Duty Roulette. Tank and one DPS were a couple if I can judge by there last name. Both of them were above lv 30 and still had no job crystal. She an arcanist, he a gladiator.

I was in there as AST in the healer role cause yeah...I'm a healer. What happens? The mobs take their sweet time dying and after two groups I realize why. The arcanist mainly casts Physick on the tank. Like...WHY? Told her to be a DPS and leave healing to me as I got it covered being in the healer role and all....no reaction and I still see Physick being cast.

Decided to leave then cause I really don't like wasting my time in a low level dungeon because some ppl don't know what they are playing.

[Xion136]

It's always Brayflox.

Leveling Astrologian now. Hit Brayflox, first go. As I told my friend: The only thing that flashes more then this Paladin I had was a drunk man in Los Angeles. Constantly losing aggro, I'm having to try and keep alive a Bard whose currently getting her face smashed in by two adds as this Paladin focuses on ONE. It doesn't get better during first boss, we get past. Ok. Keep going, all good. And then the river. The one to the giant Salamander that Aiatar interrupts. It's always right here let me tell you. During my levelling of WHM the tank accidentally pulled one mob too many, got facerolled, and I barely managed to keep the DPS alive before they ran back.

This was a disaster. Unmitigated disaster (they didnt rampart either I think). Lost both DPS at this point, the tank, managed to rez one DPS, someone I lived and had a DPS alive. Finally one of my DPS told 'em "use flash. Liberally."

Why is it always goddamn Brayflox. If we get Dancer as a healer, please oh lord let it be gotten at level 60 so I don't have to suffer my Brayflox curse again.