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

[Ilan]

Nice attempt smarta-- ......

Can you discuss or comment without trying to insult people? No? Thought so.
Its good that someone like you leaves duties that he doesn't like because it seems that have a very short fuse.

[Paladinleeds]

Ranting

Well, I think we found Moaning Myrtle's new best friend.

For real though, you take the penalty on the spot, for a roulette that could put you in. It's people like you that make me wish leaving roulettes had much stricter penalties... say a 168 hour penalty so you're locked from duty all week. Also, if you queue for a roulette and you get kicked for any reason, you also get the penalty (to avoid DC/"Kick me" type shenanigans to avoid the penalty). Maybe then you'd start just doing the duty.

Simply put, you join roulettes to fill queues. Don't like it? Don't queue for the roulette. Now if they've had a couple of attempts and it doesn't work out that's one thing (especially for the more obvious stuff), but leaving on sight because "Oh no Aurum Vale." - it can frustrate me as much as the next person, but I'll at least give it a valiant shot. After all, the roulette put me there to fill a queue, let's give it my all. And yes, I've had duties I absolutely despise being pulled up in roulettes but since the roulette can put me in them, I just swallow my pride and give it my best shot.

[Ceridwenae]

I'm probably not the pro DRG you were hoping for, but here's at least the math:
Full Thrust combo does 810 potency over 3 GCDs, Doom Spike has 420 (140*3) in the same time, per enemy. Thus, you only need 2 enemies to do more damage with DS spam (840). However, as DRG has other things it can do with its GCDs, and the TP cost is kinda heavy, it may not be the best choice to go straight AoE ham on 2 enemies. I'd wait to at least 3 (1260 pot). But that's one question where an actual DRG expert might come in handy.
(Also, the Chaos Thrust combo, gotten at 50, has a full potency of 1070 with the DoT included + has Disembowel, so at that point it's definitely worth it to Chaos Thrust enemy pairs, if they're going to live for that full 30 seconds. Probably trios as well.)
Don't knock Dragoon AoE, it's real strong, if not very sustainable.

And as far as I've been able to tell, Doom Spike should hit in a 10 yalm by 10 yalm "square" starting from you, in the direction of the enemy you are targeting. So no need to target the furthest one.

This is useful info, and you're likely much more pro than me (I trust your maths because when I look at numbers they can sort of go a bit blurry)! So I wish I could test it now for the "feels", but I've had to reinstall Windows today and now am reinstalling FFXIV, which I'm unable to get to until tomorrow. Bleh. XD Sometimes I really hate technology.

[Dornob]

Maybe I'm a bit in the minority on this, but even if I got Aurum Vale or Bardam's Mettle or any of those sorts of obnoxious dungeons from leveling roulette, I would consider it really rude to just up and leave when there are 3 others there who probably don't want to be there either. I don't like doing them too, but I'd rather suck it up and just get it done as fast as we can rather than eat the timer and also force the 3 randoms to have to sit for someone else who hopefully doesn't leave either.

Like, I signed up knowing those are probably what I'm going to get (and it happens way more than I'd prefer but hey what can you do), and I don't think it's courteous to just bail and waste everyone's time just because one of the annoying dungeons got picked.

[Oraros]

You don't pay my sub.






/2 cents

She was just giving advice dude...no need to be salty...

Things like that usually start a forum-fight.

[MistakeNot]

Nice attempt smarta-- but you don't need knowledge to know when to DODGE VISIBLE orange circles or cones on the ground, especially ones like Bad Breath, which anyone who has played a FF game would know what happens if you get hit by it. Dodging doesn't take knowledge, nor skill...it's COMMON SENSE.

Knowing to dodge it is one thing. Having quick enough reflexes to actually get out of the AOE in time is another.

[Namallama]

Ahhh Day 1 patch shenanigans, such as getting vote kicked out of expert for a dungeon that a lot of people are still figuring out. Forget that the RDM's equipment broke while trying to clear the last boss of the Burn, sending them from 30k HP to 14k, but *I'm* clearly the problem here lol

Keep staying in those frozen puddle AoEs, I'm sure eventually you'll live through them. At least it's the first time I've ever been vote kicked.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

You know you're going to hate getting the new Trial in Roulette when your first attempt involves the party wiping to the same attack seven times and then disbanding.

Also had an O9 run where someone stacked their stack marker on the other stack marker. Who even does that?

[Moonfish]

Ahhh Day 1 patch shenanigans, such as getting vote kicked out of expert for a dungeon that a lot of people are still figuring out. Forget that the RDM's equipment broke while trying to clear the last boss of the Burn, sending them from 30k HP to 14k, but *I'm* clearly the problem here lol

Keep staying in those frozen puddle AoEs, I'm sure eventually you'll live through them. At least it's the first time I've ever been vote kicked.

This s the first patch I’ve had a bad experience with. Queued up for o11 as DRK, the WAR was in their dps stance so I took the lead. This was my first time (obviously, it’s the first day) but the SCH called me a shitter and a useless monkey anyways. Someone put up a vote kick on him but it failed, then a vote kick went up for the AST - who accidentally use nocturnal and immediately switched to diurnal after the wipe - and it went through. I left before a replacement healer joined, requeued right away to one-shot him without anyone calling anyone names.

[Anarnee]

I'm had a mostly great day today learning the new stuff.

The biggest embarrassment for me has been falling through the hole in Suzaku.

I'm still mad about it...