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

[hydralus]

Phew, okay... I think a lot of people must have come back after a long break because the Orbonne monastery is once again tough as nails. It's like patch day all over again!

[tinythinker]

Fair enough. The chances of Holy are about 25%.

Huh. I'm an "aspiring to be a average" healer when I play and unless the DF group is really not good enough for me to, I always Holy spam for trash pulls.

Is it really that rare?

[Mesarthim]

Raid roulette gave me Arm of the Son, and it was bad. Seems 5 people were part of a premade party from one server and the damage output was about what you'd expect from gordias-tier or worse. It took 2 tries but I think the only thing I took annoyance to (since nothing was explained so I'll give them some slack on that ;p) was the offtank, all normal shire gear Dark Knight. He seemed absolutely insistent on spamming DARK ARTS POWER SLASH as the offtank. I gave up trying to maintain aggro as most of the fight I'd end up doing butchers block combos. So seriously if we're going into ShB with Dark Knight as "their expansion"

READ

YOUR

TOOLTIPS.

Enmity combos aren't your damage combo, unless you're a level 50 paladin. By spamming power slash you're not getting MP from syphon strike.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Today I tried healing a second time since my first attempt as a level 30 AST,but this time as a White Mage(boosted it to 60 a while ago and decided to start practicing it).

And that right there was my first mistake as I should've tried some old instances to warm up but instead I queued and got Sohm Al

Trying to manage thr HP for all party members(with one having internet connection issues) plus the tank plus dpsing mobs when needing to all at once was just too much and on bosses I caused the fight with the T-Rex to be slow since both DPS died and I couldn't get them up immediately till I got some mana back as I'm very much the definition of a rookie healer if not below that,we reach Tioman and this is where I pretty much paniced as so much happens once the wings come up.We wipe once on Tioman and try again this time I'm a little more composed and we get through it

I was lucky that I was queued with kind players as two of them offered me some advice,cuz otherwise I bet I'd get vote kicked as soon as we reach the plant boss and rightfully so.

To all pro-healer players out there,here is a gigantic salute from this little lalafell.

You guys keep up and manage through so much s*** going on and I can't even imagine how tense healing fights like Neo Exdeath,God Kefka and Omega o11s must be.

I'll probably keep up being a DPS player but I wanna try and practice healing to at least be more flexible on normal instances when it comes to roles.

Tho I'm not sure if I should use a controller for it since I'm using a Ps4 controller and from what I've seen it seems more comfortable to heal with a keyboard&mouse

[Mesarthim]

To all pro-healer players out there,here is a gigantic salute from this little lalafell.

You guys keep up and manage through so much s*** going on and I can't even imagine how tense healing fights like Neo Exdeath,God Kefka and Omega o11s must be.

Easy. Just get a stress ball and use it when the going gets tough and/or messy. Or put a coin in the swear jar.

Tho I'm not sure if I should use a controller for it since I'm using a Ps4 controller and from what I've seen it seems more comfortable to heal with a keyboard&mouse

That's all preference. Each input method has certain advantages over the other. I'm a controller user myself but that's mostly because the first day I started this game my mouse borked and either didn't input clicks or double clicked on one press. If one input method feels more comfortable than the other then use it.

[shiroxkatsuya]

So i am doing orbonne for weekly, and the run is going pretty well. First 2 bosses go down with no issues. TG rears his ugly head and unfortunately there is a wipe at 2nd 3 person stack mechanic. Someone prompts the abandon duty timer and.....it passes. Like i get it wipes suck, but after 1 is just a whole lotta why?!

[Barraind]

I gave up trying to maintain aggro as most of the fight I'd end up doing butchers block combos

Thats along the similar vein of being the off tank for someone who regularly squats in dps stance on unsynced lakshmi.

"Dear warrior/dark knight who really wanted to do this, please god give me a cushion so I dont move from 3rd to 1st with every button I press and 1st to 3rd in the following half second, I can only shirk so many times"

[AxHell]

Dear players, if you play a SMN and join an instance, please, oh dear god please, stop using Titan-Egi and learn how to raise healers when they are down!!!!

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Dear players, if you play a SMN and join an instance, please, oh dear god please, stop using Titan-Egi and learn how to raise healers when they are down!!!!

For some reason most SMN I met have their egos hurt when u ask them to rez

Either that or they don't put rez on their hotbar..period.

[Awful]

I decided to tank an expert after getting some ear meds into me (my ears been heavily infected all week so first time I'm able to play XIV), I que up get into the Ghymlyt Dark, we say our hellos and I began to chain pull everything but something's not right. I'm so medded up that I'm just hitting random buttons and I hit Overpower once I think...not sure, no one died but I stopped dead in my tracks and said some gibberish, then proceeded to get nauseous while running around in circles and I'm sure they're thinking I'm some kind of lunatic or drunk or something.

To the people who kicked me I am so SO friggen sorry I didn't realize those were that strong and made me so light headed to the point where I may as well been drunk I'll wait till I'm all better ;.; also thank you for kicking me too my friend who was on Discord said he'd step up to tank so I hope you got him.