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

[ChaoticCrimson]

Has anyone having a lot of trouble at Castrum Abania? I don't see that dungeon that hard, but the only reasons I never get into it are either I'm undergeared, or some teammates are new and/or undergeared. Nothing much to say at the first boss; the second boss is kinda struggling when you explain how the element circles work but your teammates still don't understand, and the final boss is noctorious when the healer doesn't know what they should be doing when time goes on.

Yikes

I will say that doing that last boss as a new/inexperienced healer can be pretty rough, especially when you have DPS that repeatedly stand in stupid. I now dread trying to use my WHM for Leveling Roulette bonuses because there's usually a 90% chance I end up at this dungeon. It's not super hard, but man do some people make you work. Having the ilvl synced down doesn't help either. Granted, I'll admit I'm not all that confident as a healer yet, so that's just me.

[TheMightyMollusk]

My newest pet peeve: People who pull enemies out of ground AoEs. Whether I'm on ninja or summoner, at least 7 out of 10 times, nobody remembers the things they should stand in. And no, it's not because they're dodging something else. Even after being told that that's mine, people keep moving out of it. Then I stop bothering and someone else complains that I'm not using it!

Sigh.

[Mixt]

Weekly O11s.

Delta Cannon happens.

And the healers do nothing, the party gets petrified from not being healed up to full. Wipe.

Everyone is like "Wut?"

Facedesk.

Why is this a thing that happens?

[Heliantheae]

Got World of Darkness today. The other tanks were both DRK and one had Grit on, so I figured he was tanking. We got to Angra Mainyu and he just stood there for a minute. No countdown or anything. Guess he didn't want to tank, I popped Shield and pulled and he was a couple of steps behind me and then he started grabbing hate. Aggro wars is my second biggest pet peeve in this game, so I let him have it. Next set of adds went smooth. Five-headed Dragon, again he just stood around. This time, someone else pulled. Another pet peeve of mine, but I can't blame them. So again I put on Shield and pulled. Again he was trying to grab hate. Again I let him have it, but the dragon was going all over the place. So I kept on Shield and provoked held the five headed Dragon the entire fight. He seemed to have got the hint, because he pulled Cerberus and Cloud of Darkness without standing around.

[Aosha]

Stormblood BRD is absolute perfection. Hoping it stays just as it is going into ShB. It doesn't need much in terms of tweaks.

My static's Bard has mostly been hoping for a way to be self-sufficient with the piercing resist debuff. Something to put in place of a Heavy Shot when there's a need to reapply it. This would keep the Dragoon synergy going (since with a 'goon the Bard can just skip applying the piercing debuff and get more Heavy Shots in), but would stop Bard from being as DRG-reliant.
But yeah, as bad as I am at playing Bard myself, I can tell it's a very nicely built job.

[Aosha]

Went into a Susanoo ex group for Wondrous Tails. Main tank was a Paladin in Shield Oath. Off-tank was ...A Dark Knight in Grit? Just Grit? But no Darkside?
After having it pointed out for them a few times, we finally got one tank out of tank stance after sword dropper phase.
The Paladin, not the Dark Knight.
The Paladin swapped to Sword Oath and kept tanking. The Dark Knight stayed in pure Grit. Didn't do anything to try to take aggro, even during tank busters. Just Soul Eatering away in Grit.
Left me a bit confused, that.

[kupokage]

Protip for healers in Arboretum HM:

If I'm (a DPS) clearly heading towards the lever in the last room, don't sprint just to pass me in order to pull it and we both end up interacting at the same time. You do realize the tank is dragging two rooms worth of mobs behind him/her yea? Maybe you should heal instead of pulling the lever. That's BList worthy. Soo annoying.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Weekly O11s.

Delta Cannon happens.

And the healers do nothing, the party gets petrified from not being healed up to full. Wipe.

Everyone is like "Wut?"

Facedesk.

Why is this a thing that happens?

Oh so THAT'S why I keep seeing the Gradual Petrification status disappear right there.

I was wondering what that was about.

[Seddrinth]

Weekly normal alphascape. DPS dies 6 times, probably did less damage than the healers and tanks. Rolls 98 and wins the loot.

[Mesarthim]

Protip for healers in Arboretum HM:

If I'm (a DPS) clearly heading towards the lever in the last room, don't sprint just to pass me in order to pull it and we both end up interacting at the same time. You do realize the tank is dragging two rooms worth of mobs behind him/her yea? Maybe you should heal instead of pulling the lever. That's BList worthy. Soo annoying.

If that's all it takes for you to BL someone then clearly something else is afoot. I could argue that the healer should be the one to pull the lever (spoiler, I've tanked and healed the dungeon a lot) and the dps should do what they do best, dps. If one of the dps was lousy that'd be another thing. Technically if the tank is still alive the healer hasn't failed at their job.

The mobs aren't even that painful.