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

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Just a friendly reminder that we don't get verraise until level 64. Up until that point only healers and SMN can raise ;-;

Depending on what Ravana syncs to we might not even have Vercure, that's at 54. I think we have it there because I'm pretty sure I've more or less healed a Ravana as RDM but I could be thinking of ex.

Yeah, I got Shiva (Hard) in Mentor Roulette. While no one died, people were all "Well, we have two Red Mages, so we would've been fine anyway." I had to correct them on that.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

I know I said I won't be on forums for a while but this happened today and I wanna share it.

But before I start I wanna thank Zane,Khriella and Cele,if you guys read this you guys are awesome and thank you again for the party.....sorry again that the session ended the way it did as mentioned bellow

During a farm session for Suzaku EX,someone joined the PF we put up.We discussed the strategy,IC and CW....etc the usual Suzaku stuff.

He or she dies to the third simon says....he/she then accuses us for not knowing the fight when we did well for 4 farms in a row before that person joined.

Moral of the story:Be careful when throwing accusations on farm parties especially when dying to something the rest of the party doesn't

I can and will tolerate mistakes as long as people aren't tossing blames on people for their own mistakes or act high and mighty without respect to the rest of the raid.

In any case I got my weapon from Suzaku so I probably won't be farming for a while and will end up working on clearing some savage raids

[RokkuEkkusu]

Here's another story on why leveling dungeons from Heavensward and on should have a reasonable item level requirement.

I queued for a Mentor Roulette as my Ekkusu character as tank. An elapsed time of 56 minutes show up. I thought I'd be getting an EX primal, The Burn, Rabanastre, or something. I ended up in The Aery on the last boss.

When I loaded in, I noticed the Ninja having less HP than the other 2 party members (SCH and BRD). As I went up to the final boss circle, I examined the Ninja to confirm my suspicions on why the final boss took so long and/or why the party had trouble with the fight. The ninja had 5 Level ilevel 90 stuff (body, hands, belt, legs, and feet), with the i120 head piece from Dusk Vigil. I also saw the level 30 Brand New Ring. I think I saw the ilevel 18 Dawn Wristguards too. The real problem is the weapon. It was the item level 55 crafted ninja weapon (the one used for the ARR Ninja Base Relic weapon I might add.)

I saw enough, told the ninja player to get better gear, told the party to take care of the rest, and I left the dungeon immediately.

[Turnipsi]

Here's another story on why leveling dungeons from Heavensward and on should have a reasonable item level requirement.

Sometimes it doesn't even help. I had WHM in Alexander with level 58 vendor weapon. They had couple augmented shire accessories and otherwise some class quest gear.. But yes please, least some form of ilvl requirement

[Crysten]

I had some absolute gems in the roulettes and doing my weekly Omega clears yesterday.

> Darkhold with a PLD in full CP accessories.
> Chewed out for suggesting a vote abandon in an O11 where both healers died to the first Starboard/Larboard combo five goddamn times in a row. Bear in mind there was no first time bonus.
> A Tam Tara RP party where they all wanted to play reverse roles - LNC tank, GLA DPS, ARC healer.

The last one was the strangest. Playing SCH, I was screamed at by an ARC with a major case of the Sylphies. Like saw my fairy as an affront to their playstyle.

Demanded I desummon Selene and let them heal, because ARC is a terrible DPS.

Normally I'd just keep dpsing and ignore her but she refused to do literally anything but heal. In the end I just left slightly flabbergasted - I wasn't enabling any of that.

[BillyKaplan]

Queued for leveling on my PLD because that armored lion isn't going to find itself. Got a WHM, SAM, and a BLM in Sirensong. I think ok, this is going to be a smooth, painless run. How wrong I was. SAM was alright and ran out of TP as much as I did, but the WHM wasn't using Holy, let me almost die a couple of times before bothering to Bene me - and no they weren't dpsing either, they just stood there, and the BLM was spamming Fire III.
Fire III. On a multi-add pull.
I stopped just so I can explain the basics of the BLM rotation and they still just went Fire III.
I took the penalty.

[Cincierta]

Here's another story on why leveling dungeons from Heavensward and on should have a reasonable item level requirement.

I queued for a Mentor Roulette as my Ekkusu character as tank. An elapsed time of 56 minutes show up. I thought I'd be getting an EX primal, The Burn, Rabanastre, or something. I ended up in The Aery on the last boss.

When I loaded in, I noticed the Ninja having less HP than the other 2 party members (SCH and BRD). As I went up to the final boss circle, I examined the Ninja to confirm my suspicions on why the final boss took so long and/or why the party had trouble with the fight. The ninja had 5 Level ilevel 90 stuff (body, hands, belt, legs, and feet), with the i120 head piece from Dusk Vigil. I also saw the level 30 Brand New Ring. I think I saw the ilevel 18 Dawn Wristguards too. The real problem is the weapon. It was the item level 55 crafted ninja weapon (the one used for the ARR Ninja Base Relic weapon I might add.)

I saw enough, told the ninja player to get better gear, told the party to take care of the rest, and I left the dungeon immediately.

Did that nin happen to be a lalafell? If so I think I might have partied with them before in the Vault. I wish I could forget that time too.

[RokkuEkkusu]

Did that nin happen to be a lalafell? If so I think I might have partied with them before in the Vault. I wish I could forget that time too.

Nope. By the misfortunes of Nhaama, it's a female Aura. Not sure if it's a Raen or Xaela.

[TyrTry]

I have had a day off in which I could simply sit down and play FFXIV. Thankfully, I came up with nothing short of stories.

The first issue I had came in the form of a Normal Raid roulette in which I get Heart of the Creator. I hate this fight so dang much because of a.) Forward and back and b.) people still can't seem to get the fight down with Propeller Wind. But the biggest issue was that we kept wiping to the same mechanic over and over and over again. Finally, I put up a Vote Abandon (this is after the 5th wipe mind you). However, it kept getting denied. Someone in the party asked for people to, "please say yes." But the abandon kept getting denied and people kept dying. I bit the penalty and left.

The next was an Alliance roulette in which the same thing was happening (I think it was World of Darkness). This time with my FC mates. No mechanics being followed, and the same boss with the same wipes over and over. Vote Abandon goes up! Denied. I leave. My penalty was dropped by the time my FC mates left. In fact, it had been done for 15 minutes.

Duty Finder!

Please....for the love of all that is good, check your gear. You should not have lv43 gear in the Vault. Three times I healed through this situation. I finally noped out of one when I saw both DPS and the Tank wearing gear that was either lv43-lv50 gear.

I mean, that wasn't nearly as bad as a dungeon I just had in which the tank was new (jump potion) and the ninja decided to pull EVERYTHING, and then get mad at me when I don't heal them. Yes, I know that tanks should have some idea of their job when they reach the Aery, but as long as they listen to advice, I'm good. This tank really listened to advice. However, the tank asked us to wait. Other dps and I say sure, but ninja runs off, dies and finally complains. Sorry. Tank asked us to wait. Real life happens you know? :P

[cain8602]

Speaking of gear, I got a story. Running an alt, I got Ala Mhigo for 70 Roulette. Noticed during the first boss that healer was almost out of mana. Sure enough, they were in mostly 65 gear, with a few higher-level pieces to barely edge them into the proper ilvl.

None of those pieces were from their lvl 70 Job Quest.

Okay. I can forgive nervous or struggling healers. I've never been the best healer myself. But there is NO EXCUSE not not do your final Job Quests. None whatsoever. But I decided to bite the bullet for the sake of the other guys. We cleared it, but I made my disgust known and left.

Saddest part is, they actually seemed pretty nice. But like I said, no excuse. I hope that if they see this post that they learn from this and take care to prepare themselves properly before running dungeons in the future.