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

[Heliantheae]

Scholar is truly the strongest Tank.

It's true. We've got this skill that blocks straight damage and we have our own pocket healer.

[OurMom]

PLD could have been a bot. They tend to do that - pop every cooldown in existence the moment an enemy is engaged if they're off-cooldown, and eat absolutely everything. If they were moving strangely and doing nothing but single-targeting a mob, they were more than likely a bot.

I've gotten bot PLDs quite a bit in ARR dungeons (usually Qarn... why is it always Qarn), but haven't seen one in a HW dungeon yet.

He actually spoke so I don't know if he was botting and just watching it or was really that bad.

[RenAshdoll]

Not a DF story but PF..... Went through 3 farm parties for weekly o12s.... and none of them were able to pass it, the closest being a sub 1% wipe due to 2 deaths.... The first 2 parties can't even pass Hello World 2 properly and felt more like practice parties...

[Bright-Flower]

As a monk, I once had a Dark Knight tell me to stop moving so much in battle, because his job mechanics required me to stand still.

I still have no idea what the hell he was thinking.

Hah, that's weird. Monks need to move a lot for positionals, the most of any job I've played, assuming single target.

I mean, if you're tanking or you're a caster you generally only want to move when you need to, so you can be always casting or so that you're keeping enemies still for the DPS, but as a monk I can't imagine why they would want you to hold still.

[Driskus]

The Burn, with WHM (me), WAR, BLM, NIN. WAR forgets stance on the first pull and both he and the BLM died. We managed to not wipe, barely. I remind him and he throws on Defiance. After that, he had huge issues with grabbing and holding trash, and he was moving around as much as a BRD making it hard for me to even get Holy spam going. Pulls were wall-to-wall of course. Bosses were a mess. Both DPS would pop Diversion on CD and the NIN even used Shadewalker. The BLM still pulled all 3 bosses within seconds. I have no clue what that WAR was doing to not even be able to hold a single target properly considering their enmity generation is insane.

[Iscah]

And this is why it forever annoys me Leveling dungeons have no ilvl restriction. It's absurd someone can queue into content basically naked and the game allows it. Only for Leveling dungeons though. Everything else has some sort of gate. So it boggles the mind why they didn't add one here.

I think it’s to stop people from deliberately undergearing while they queue so they only get easy dungeons (while the poor player needing to pass the Lv69 dungeon for MSQ waits forever).

[BillyKaplan]

I think it’s to stop people from deliberately undergearing while they queue so they only get easy dungeons (while the poor player needing to pass the Lv69 dungeon for MSQ waits forever).

1. That's still rampant in Trials.
2. hey that sounds like something SE can and should change.

[Ghishlain]

I'm so used to do Cyclones --> Knockback --> Damning Eddict in Savage that I mis-positioned myself entirely to dodge this series of attacks in O9N.

Bene'd myself to full, put a Divine Benison on myself, and just high tailed it to the corner to see if I could make it.

Didn't make it.

Survived with 169HP due to full VIT in accessories.

I giggled in maddening excitement at surviving that.

It's still my fault for messing it up though, lol.

[Elenyn]

What's up with those new Ninjas lately?
First the story in the Vault, now I had a Ninja in Shisui yesterday. All his accessoires being around level 5-15. I sighed and hoped for the best, got the worst. He did not know he had an AOE-Attack. Very bad in a Level 63 dungeon. But he also never, and I literally mean NEVER, used any kind of his Ninjutsus. Why?
And Mechanics? Are there to be ignored obviously. Ok, it is only Shisui, but if you always fail on the second boss and then die, don't be surprised the WHM (me) did not pick you up.
I just did not leave because the poor BLM gave his absolutely best.

[Dirwen]

What's up with those new Ninjas lately?
First the story in the Vault, now I had a Ninja in Shisui yesterday. All his accessoires being around level 5-15. I sighed and hoped for the best, got the worst. He did not know he had an AOE-Attack. Very bad in a Level 63 dungeon. But he also never, and I literally mean NEVER, used any kind of his Ninjutsus. Why?
And Mechanics? Are there to be ignored obviously. Ok, it is only Shisui, but if you always fail on the second boss and then die, don't be surprised the WHM (me) did not pick you up.
I just did not leave because the poor BLM gave his absolutely best.

I wanted to say it might be a boosted job until you mentioned the low level accessories. Roulette can be kind of weird in that it might give you nothing but low level dungeons nonstop and suddenly give you a high level one. Not advocating bad play but that might be one of the reasons is all.