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

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Have they ever added that many cards for a patch? I genuinely don't know since I began in Stormblood, but it seems like they only add five at a time from what I've seen.

I'm surprised all of the ARR monsters don't have cards yet, though. Still no Gigantoad card. Then again, Gigantoads gross me out, so I'm okay with that.

[Dreggit]

Have they ever added that many cards for a patch? I genuinely don't know since I began in Stormblood, but it seems like they only add five at a time from what I've seen.

I'm surprised all of the ARR monsters don't have cards yet, though. Still no Gigantoad card. Then again, Gigantoads gross me out, so I'm okay with that.

The are actually pretty inconsistent, however, the numbers below are taken over an entire patch cycle

4.4 (10)
4.3 (10)
4.2 (10)
4.1 (8)
3.5 (14)
3.4 (14)
3.3 (13)
3.2 (20)
3.1 (20)

[Metalwrath]

Not a Duty Finder Story, but:

Killed Byakko-Ex as SAM today for the first time and immediately started farming for doggy. And after three straight kills in a row I've gotten confident: I knew what I need to do, I knew what Byakko is doing, so I was looking to max out my DPS. Everything was going smoothly after the freefall-phase, the party was healthy and LB3 was ready, so I hit the button for some extra-dmg and.. we wiped. OF COURSE we did, because we needed the TANK LB3. I was mortified and everyone was "dude, why do you hate our lives?" and I was sinking deeper and deeper into my chair while apologising to everyone. We killed him again after the failed attempt but my face was still red of shame for like an hour.

You dont need the tank lb to beat the boss.It was the cheese strat when it first came out because people couldnt make the dps check on tiger.But now with the higher ilvls people shouldnt need to use tank lb to clear the boss.
So dont feel ashamed.Its not your fault the dps was bad

[Dreamsoap]

You ever been in a trial where the healer only wants to heal/rez themselves and their friends, and no one else in your party?

[MetalSnakeXI1]

I'd be down to try to help. I still need an O8S clear.

Thanks ^_^

Sometime today I'll be putting a pf for O8S so feel free to come in...hopefully we'll find a good party and get the clear this time ^_^

[TheMightyMollusk]

You ever been in a trial where the healer only wants to heal/rez themselves and their friends, and no one else in your party?

Leaving the poor red mage to work their Verraise button to death trying to keep people alive, only to then get no comms for all the hard work?

Because I've been that red mage.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Sooo... I kind-of forgot Ridorana was in Alliance Roulette and I qued as healer. And got Ridorana. While I don't main heal I do heal fairly often (cause que times) and I've done the raid enough for it not to be a pants-crapping moment... At least until the final boss where our other healer DC'd and even though I called it out they pulled anyway (it was early pulls the whole time). Turns out our tank was really really good with their CD's (I assumed my co-heals had been prioritizing them but they were just that good) and the other alliances were good about raising me when I called out that I was down. With the dps as low as it was I was really expecting a wipe but we got through it. The hardest I've had to work for that coin in a while tho.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

I hate the Party Finder with every fiber of my being

I put a PF for O8S clearly stating (IT'S A CLEAR PARTY NOT A LEARNING PARTY) and what do I get?A trap party where people claim they made it to God Kefka yet keep screwing base mechanics of base form Kefka heck PEOPLE KEPT DYING BEFORE TOWER 1 EVEN SHOWED UP

Somehow,someway,90% of the DPS output came(and I'm an average Dragoon not even a pro raider) from me as the other 3 kept dying

And after so many wipes at the same dumb graven image 1 mechs,I had enough and disbanded

I hate myself so much right now,90% of my PF experience either involves A/People lying straight to my face or B/People blaming me for their mistakes when they mess up mechanics.

........Today was a reminder why I avoided online games for so long,I love FF14 I really do but ughh today was depressing in more ways than one.

I dunno if I can ever clear this,literally the moment I got the fight down and everything starts to fall apart

Tho I wanna thank at least the three that legit tried:A Warrior,a Red mage and a Bard,I'm so sorry we had this disaster of a party

[HyoMinPark]

You ever been in a trial where the healer only wants to heal/rez themselves and their friends, and no one else in your party?

Leaving the poor red mage to work their Verraise button to death trying to keep people alive, only to then get no comms for all the hard work?

Because I've been that red mage.

It’s even better when the BRD/MCH on the floor is like “I have Refresh”, and the healers use their 3,600 MP on the SAM instead. And then cry that they have no MP to do any more raising.

[MisterMKay]

This thread gives me so much life. Here's my story for today:

So I've been leveling BLM to go through SB with since I have leveled SMN up to 68-69 already. Anyway, got Aurum Vale. Great. We wipe a few times in the first room, which is understandably frustrating. The healer was struggling and was called out for being undergeared. Some snarky comments and the healer left. Wait a few minutes and an awesome healer joins and we plow through.

It had been a hot minute since I last played through Aurum Vale and I kept messing up like I had just started the game today. I die no less than 3 times throughout the dungeon, one on each boss if I remember correctly. My brain became overloaded on managing mechanics and keeping track of my MP. A few times I kept Transposing instead of B3 > F3 or vice versa. I was effing up all over the place in that dungeon.

To anyone in that party, especially the healer, thanks for getting me through that hell and thanks for putting up with me all of a sudden not knowing how to play BLM. You guys rock.