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

[BillyKaplan]

the nin had just gotten out of a PoTD run

But you can change gear while in-dungeon? What did they do with the rest of the gear of a class they were actively leveling?

[Alrin]

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Gosh... After reading that I just remembered that popular video with german boy screaming at the computer. It would be so fitting.

My friend came back to FF14 and hes leveling his tank jobs (hes maining tanks as I am maining healers since we know each other...11 years). I wanted to play SAM for that evening and I had some convincing to be done because he so used to me as his personal healer that he doesnt trust other healers much...until proven otherwise.

I convinced him to start leveling rulette with him as a DRK and me as a SAM....aaaand it was funny run for me...not so much for my friend

We had Aurum Vale and SCH as a "healer". My friend almost died on first trash pull and my warning bell ringed like hell because no Adlo and Sacred Soil...on himself. And that was happening whole run. Adlo was very rare and he NEVER casted SS on tank. I asked him why his casting Sacred Soil on himself and not on the tank and you wouldnt believe it... no answer and no change either. During second boss and his Eye of the beholder mechanic (I call it I SEEEE YOUUU mechanic heh) when SCH was standing still I was already laughing.

My friend told me after the run that he needs few minutes to calm down....and im stuck at healing now

[Aosha]

Greetings from an expert run with a White Mage, who'd
-cast at most one Holy per pull, when 0-2 mobs were alive,
-use Aero 3 but never Aero 2 on bosses,
-spam Cure on a max HP Warrior during their Inner Release Steel Cyclone time,
-and just stand around doing nothing for half the run.
Good times.

[HyoMinPark]

And this other BRD could not stand still. Everytime he got an orange marker, he ran over to show it to me like an excited puppy. And then for some reason, after Bowels of Agony the same Ninja from above wanted to show me his too. And I died. Both in the game and on the inside.

I’ve had DPS do this to me before. Makes me wonder if they’re trying to do some weird “HEAL MEEEEEE” sign language or mating dance or something. Calm down, my dude. I’ll heal you when you actually take damage.

And BRDs that run around like headless chickens drive me up the wall. I almost want to just let them die on purpose sometimes.

[Alrin]

And BRDs that run around like headless chickens drive me up the wall. I almost want to just let them die on purpose sometimes.

Sometimes we dont have a choice. I love when I am trying to position myself for AOE heals and shields to cover whole raid and that one dot on minimap on the edge of other side is our winner...Narnia BRD.

I had one BRD at Cutters Cry who was playing hide and seek with me on Chimera. I was unable to heal him because he was usually behind something and i had to constantly reposition myself to be able reach everybody with single heals and do Chimera mechanics. I even thought that hes trolling me.

[MoroMurasaki]

I haven't done Alphascape normals alone for a while so while I've seen some poor showings they're usually mitigated by the other people I'm playing with.

I did o12n last night on RDM because I didn't want to forget it for the week. In I go.

These healers just loved to die. I mean so did the other dps but the healers... wow. All I can say is wow. I was raising my butt off and my co-rdm was too when she was alive. Suppression sees only myself and the tanks alive and I get a healer up to LB3. She does....

... aaaaand you guessed it they both die again, this time to overlapping aoe. Despite my Vercuring/Apoc/Virus/Erase it isn't salvageable. Wipe, one healer complains about the other, disband.

Wouldn't you know I see the same healers again in my next try? What are the odds? The crowning jewel of this run is that as the stack marker shows up once with only myself, the tanks and a SAM alive the SAM has the good sense to not bring it to us as it surely would have killed me. A Cover still went out, thank you PLD-frend.

We make it by the skin of our teeth. Somehow both enemies die near the same time which is great because I don't have Ver-Medica and god knows the healers would have been dead

Naturally one of them rolled a 99 on the shaft. I'm sure glad I only wasn't drops from there for glam or I might actually be annoyed.

[Cincierta]

But you can change gear while in-dungeon? What did they do with the rest of the gear of a class they were actively leveling?

I honest to gods don't know what they did with the rest of their gear, as they came in at lvl 44. As for changing gear in dungeons, I'm fairly certain you can, but it'll be put under level sync if it applies. PoTD seems to toss that logic out the window with its aetherpool system, and I think the system tends to make people forget that.

You'd think some sense of basic competence would be ingrained into players when a lvl 5 or so main quest tells you to upgrade your gear, and they tell you to keep it updated 'lest you weigh down your comrades'. I still get such surprises every day in duty finder.

Speaking of, I did one last roulette last night before bed, and had a Dusk Vigil party. Ended up getting DRK, SMN, DRG, and me on SCH again. DRK and SMN were thankfully competent, but the DRG was an fairly obvious case of 'first time running this game and bought the level skip', as the smn who was a drg main was trying to give him better rotation and skill usage advice. The drg also seemed to like using Arm's Length, when only in a handful of situations is it a bit helpful. Dusk Vigil really isn't one of those places to be using said class skill.

The drg also was quite squishy, got caught flat-footed in aoes or always ran ahead of the tank, and on the final boss he always got caught in Gaol despite me telling the party to get behind a rock if you see the boss casting it. Overall he wasn't contributing much at all to the fight.

I think the smn got tired of having the drg being cringe-worthy and just said for me to leave him be when the drg was dead on the floor. We three-manned the boss for the remaining 45%.

[Iscah]

But you can change gear while in-dungeon? What did they do with the rest of the gear of a class they were actively leveling?

The only scenario I could picture is if they were a tank-only player (so not carrying any DPS equipment) who'd just picked up their first ever DPS class and leveled it straight to Lv44 in PotD....

More likely they just didn't realise you can change gear within the dungeon. But also still probably leveled all the way to Lv44 in PotD.

A pity you didn't notice earlier and could at least let them pick up whatever items drop during the dungeon.

(Out of interest, since I have an overleveled Lv33 rogue alt... with Lv30 daggers and the Thavnairian glamour set equipped (ilevel 5), he has 751 HP / 21 DEF / 45 MDEF. With scrappy mostly-lv15 armour equipped (ilevel 19), he has 951 HP / 114 DEF / 114 MDEF. Five times as much DEF! Any amount of armour is better than nothing.)

[Oraros]

To the Alphascape v.4 (Normal) group that I had the pleasure of running with:

Thank you! You all were great! Normally when I do that raid there are a few wipes and disbands are put into question, but ther were no wipes on that run!

I know there a lot of bad stories on this thread, but I wanted to say something good.

-Gan

[Dreggit]

Exciting news. I had a Alpha4 run that wiped 3 times in M/F phase due to cotank dying to tank buster after meteor. (He had 70k+ health so dedinately higher geared than myself)

Not sure if it was by some stroke of luck or not but holy crud was it exciting when the Omega card finally dropped!

In other news, I have also got the mist dragon card to drop. Woo