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

[Annoynymoose]

> Pulled big in Hell's Lid, things were going smooth; both DPS were melting the mobs really fast and WHM was doing an amazing job healing and dpsing.
> Pulled big on the last pack of mobs before the first boss, went smooth for a bit till I noticed my HP was depleting super fast even after I busted out defensive CDs.
> Turns out the healer disconnected. Cue internal panicking.
> Thank the Lord and every holy deities out there that I'm on PLD and I have Clemency to keep myself alive.

[Aerori]

Farming o5-o8n today. Final run of clown went rather poorly (for me). And I'm really sorry if I dragged the fight on longer than it should have been.

Loaded in, to immediately see one of the tanks drop out. Newbie was still in cutscene. Everyone starts twiddling their thumbs and busting out dance moves waiting for a replacement tank. They appear as shortly after a healer goes. Thankfully they were just being a good samaritan, and had planned on rejoining the party as a tank, since we had waited a while. They came back in their original class soon after replacement tank joined. The party seemed eager to get to the action, and things were off to a solid start.

And then I lagged. And lagged. Death by lag. Then the dreaded black screen of death. I DC'd. I tried my best to log back in, but my connection was shot. Tried to run a speedtest, and it choked. By the time I managed to reconnect, the fight was long since over. I wouldn't normally make a post about this but I just felt so bad for this one party, since they had to wait so long to start, only to lose a DPS like a minute into the fight.

To anyone in that party with me, if you see this, I apologize for disappearing, and I swear it wasn't intentional. I hope the rest of the fight went smoothly :/

[Aeducan]

What's up with healers going into melee range to squeeze in auto attack these days? This week I had 3 dungeon runs with healer doing this and 2/3 got themselves killed. The one who survived was in Toto-Rak, so arguably easier not to die. When I questioned one of them, the answer I got was "damage is damage". Well... yeah, if you don't die. I tested this on lv 60 dummy with i340 weapon and the damage is so benign, I don't think it's worth the risk; probably 2-3% of healer DPS at best. But hey! If card slapping, book bashing, and staff whacking are hot these days... Luckily I was on BLM and SAM so if we wipe, we wipe. Still, I hope this is not becoming a thing and this is coming from a healer main who loves to DPS.

[Ilenya]

I can't say much about healers, but I recall back in 2.0-ish it was actually a DPS boost for SMN to be in melee range and auto-attack between...I think it was Ruin II casts. May be something like this.

Granted, the SMN were still supposed to *dodge*...

[MoroMurasaki]

I stay in melee on WHM mostly out of habit, auto attacks are just a happy accident. I enjoy my Holy button so it makes sense to stick close and despite the big range on Assize I wouldn't want to miss anything with it.

I don't understand how you then die, though. Like...walk out of the orange circle. It isn't rocket science.

[Cyreil]

Stop stunning the mutation.

[Driskus]

Gotta get relatively close for Holy spam anyway, so might as well squeeze in the occasional extra damage here and there. They probably just don't know how to dodge, or might have had the screen so covered in Holy animations that they couldn't see the bad. I've done that a few times.

[Fresky]

Went into a 22min in-progress cutter's cry. They just cleared it. I got 2 commendations as I walked out. Thank you I guess XD

[Bonbori]

What's up with healers going into melee range to squeeze in auto attack these days? This week I had 3 dungeon runs with healer doing this and 2/3 got themselves killed. The one who survived was in Toto-Rak, so arguably easier not to die. When I questioned one of them, the answer I got was "damage is damage". Well... yeah, if you don't die. I tested this on lv 60 dummy with i340 weapon and the damage is so benign, I don't think it's worth the risk; probably 2-3% of healer DPS at best. But hey! If card slapping, book bashing, and staff whacking are hot these days... Luckily I was on BLM and SAM so if we wipe, we wipe. Still, I hope this is not becoming a thing and this is coming from a healer main who loves to DPS.

Some people do it for the dips...

I just derive infinite enjoyment out of smacking things with my book.

[Paladinleeds]

Some people do it for the dips...

I just derive infinite enjoyment out of smacking things with my book.

Now we need a ranged physical attack for Summoners and Scholars. So we can literally throw the book at them. *badum-tish*