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

[Dreamsoap]

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.

Lol. I just started playing Bard and RDM was my second class to 70. I feel both of these so hard. I'll never forget the SCH yelling at me on RDM to verraise him when I had already died much earlier trying to save the other healer who was struggling to keep everyone alive (unnecessarily) solo. I feel like having RDM in the party made bad healers feel like they had someone else to rely on and therefore don't need to pay attention anymore.

[MuseTraveller]

So confident healer me queues for V1. Easy peasy, love the fight. And behold - LAG SPIKE OF THE CENTURY!
long story short somehow while getting d/c symbol half the time I managed to not cause a wipe. I was so sorry to the party. It was a good run but I definitely made it harder on the co healer. ^^;;

Lag spike seems over, oooor so I thought. I decide not to risk it and queue as a bard for the rest. I think I ate every AoE in V4 and just wanted to hide in a hole lol I didn't want to say "lag spikes" the most cliche excuse to the world for taking hits like a wet napkin so I just stayed quiet and popped refresh whenever I could. I'm so, so sorry for those poor healers. ;_;

[AmemeAmeklin]

LAG SPIKE OF THE CENTURY!

Are you on CenturyLink? I was having those too. Past two days have been horrid lag or straight up disconnects. (PS sorry O12 group...I disconnected at a terrible time but fortunately M was already down so you got through F on your own since I logged into an empty platform and victory music some time later...)

[RokkuEkkusu]

As a healer, I'm starting to feel the pain of other healers while farming Suzaku EX for weapons. I've noticed quite a bit tanks NOT using their defensive cooldowns during the 'Phantom Flurry" tankbuster. It gets worse for the ones that are on DPS stance AND have a vuln stack or two. More often than not, they get knocked out before one of my heals are done casting to heal them.

[AxHell]

More Omega raid shenanigans with me as WAR :

-O8: First of all, there were no SMN or RDM in the DPS party so that meant no rez if the healers died. And guess what? They were borderline suicidal or something as they would run into AOEs or, for the attack where two balls drop on you that the tanks have to catch (with the tethers), they would always be chosen and be as close as possible to one another. Which meant death for them. After 2 wipes they were kicked. Apparently they were together as they came from the same server and were doing emotes at each other.

-O10: People forgetting what is a stack marker (again) and healers not healing the MT during the add phase with the nails. Fun times.

-O12: Had some first timers. There was a wipe but I didn't mind. When we all rezzed the SMN, and I dunno if he was new or not, called everyone "noobz". Oh boy the burns that ensued were majestic.

[HyoMinPark]

It really irritates me when DPS whine to the MT about ripping hate, and when the MT tells them to use Diversion they respond with “I am using Diversion”. This happened in a Byakko Ex farm that I joined to help a friend get the mount. I checked my “crystal ball”, and, lo-and-behold, zero uses of Diversion from the DPS that was complaining about aggro (a DRG btw—they also had only 1 cast of Elusive Jump right at the end of the pull where everyone was dead; 0 for both Diversion and Elusive on the one clear we managed).

:thinking:




EDIT because I don’t want to take up another post:

I just got into an argument with someone who claimed that he and all his friends in Elysium agree that Noct AST is better than Di AST.

I’m sorry, but I doubt that any AST main—in Elysium, no doubt—would say that Noct is better than Diurnal. It’s pretty much solidified that Di’s HoTs are far more worth your MP in terms of potency compared to Noct’s shields.

Person also claimed they had a 93 in both DPS and HPS on That Site That Must Not Be Named because “shields allowed me to DPS more”. But, strangely enough, I can’t seem to find anything but green apples on there for him. I wonder which site he’s actually looking at.


Late-night PFs sure are interesting, to say the least.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

It really irritates me when DPS whine to the MT about ripping hate, and when the MT tells them to use Diversion they respond with “I am using Diversion”. This happened in a Byakko Ex farm that I joined to help a friend get the mount. I checked my “crystal ball”, and, lo-and-behold, zero uses of Diversion from the DPS that was complaining about aggro (a DRG btw—they also had only 1 cast of Elusive Jump right at the end of the pull where everyone was dead; 0 for both Diversion and Elusive on the one clear we managed).

:thinking:

Adding to this wonderful tale. I love when a BLM pulls aggro and demands I use Butcher's Block combos. When I ask if they used Diversion/Lucid? "I shouldn't have to!!!" It gets better though. They proceeded to not only kick me from the party after their friend got the dog, but join a separate party HyoMin and I made just to clog up spots and make a PF of their own mocking me. All because I dared to tell them to use Lucid. It's comical the length some DPS players will go to be stubbornly obtuse when it comes to using their aggro management tools. Seriously, they are free.

[SturmChurro]

Adding to this wonderful tale. I love when a BLM pulls aggro and demands I use Butcher's Block combos. When I ask if they used Diversion/Lucid? "I shouldn't have to!!!" It gets better though. They proceeded to not only kick me from the party after their friend got the dog, but join a separate party HyoMin and I made just to clog up spots and make a PF of their own mocking me. All because I dared to tell them to use Lucid. It's comical the length some DPS players will go to be stubbornly obtuse when it comes to using their aggro management tools. Seriously, they are free.

If they have a buddy in there or like-minded idiots. You are pretty much guaranteed to be kicked, right or wrong.

[Metalwrath]

It really irritates me when DPS whine to the MT about ripping hate, and when the MT tells them to use Diversion they respond with “I am using Diversion”. This happened in a Byakko Ex farm that I joined to help a friend get the mount. I checked my “crystal ball”, and, lo-and-behold, zero uses of Diversion from the DPS that was complaining about aggro (a DRG btw—they also had only 1 cast of Elusive Jump right at the end of the pull where everyone was dead; 0 for both Diversion and Elusive on the one clear we managed).

:thinking:




EDIT because I don’t want to take up another post:

I just got into an argument with someone who claimed that he and all his friends in Elysium agree that Noct AST is better than Di AST.

I’m sorry, but I doubt that any AST main—in Elysium, no doubt—would say that Noct is better than Diurnal. It’s pretty much solidified that Di’s HoTs are far more worth your MP in terms of potency compared to Noct’s shields.

Person also claimed they had a 93 in both DPS and HPS on That Site That Must Not Be Named because “shields allowed me to DPS more”. But, strangely enough, I can’t seem to find anything but green apples on there for him. I wonder which site he’s actually looking at.


Late-night PFs sure are interesting, to say the least.

Honestly i've found even with diversion as monk still having the offtanks struggle to get hold agro for the second grab.The issue generally arises from the fact that diversion has a quite long cooldown and that the main tank isnt always far enough ahead with agro when he gets caught on the first grab.This results on the offtanks provoke being less effective because it only puts them right above the mt's agro.
Luckily as monk with a bit of vit you can survive the grab anyway but its not always the dps fault here.

[MariaArvana]

Adding to this wonderful tale. I love when a BLM pulls aggro and demands I use Butcher's Block combos. When I ask if they used Diversion/Lucid? "I shouldn't have to!!!" It gets better though. They proceeded to not only kick me from the party after their friend got the dog, but join a separate party HyoMin and I made just to clog up spots and make a PF of their own mocking me. All because I dared to tell them to use Lucid. It's comical the length some DPS players will go to be stubbornly obtuse when it comes to using their aggro management tools. Seriously, they are free.

I love these kinds of statements so much, since its easy to tun their own logic on them.

"I shouldn't have to use Diversion/Lucid!"
"I shouldn't have to use Butcher's if you're doing your job as a dps properly by controlling your aggro!"

The only excuse a dps has to not use Lucid/Diversion is that they're lazy; it's always amusing when they try to defend their behavior.