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

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Maybe it was a poor choice of wording, it's the ones that spawn in the air clustered together doing massive proximity damage.

Oh the hammers you probably meant

Those are different from the 3 submission towers at the end which by this point unless someone is new most people will not probably see it since Hashmal dies so fast nowadays...... that is assuming half of the alliances don't get cleaved by the halfroom firewing that is xD

[Aosha]

Heavy Shot archer in leveling roulette...
No Venomous Bite even when asked...
And some madman commended him...

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Heavy Shot archer in leveling roulette...
No Venomous Bite even when asked...
And some madman commended him...

which dungeon?

Those were common for me on Stone Vigil and Dzamael Darkhold when I was healing those dungeons

[Aosha]

which dungeon?

Those were common for me on Stone Vigil and Dzamael Darkhold when I was healing those dungeons

Toto-rak. That place goes slow enough already.
I know you don't have a lot of skills at that level, but Straight Shot and Venomous Bite should be the bare minimum to use, right?

[Aosha]

Another leveling roulette on alt, Brayflox.
Got to teach a beginner Dark Knight that he can use Grit and Darkside together. Super nice guy, really receptive to feedback, and was doing a fine job, once he learned that bit. That guy's gonna be a good DRK one day.

[Rosa_Frandlia]

Two runs in the last week like this. I qued as sch on my alt for leveling roullette to get leveled and reach the next level for msq. I got Stasha, which is likely good with what happened. The tank was one level below max level, okay there. HP below lvl 21 tham... problem there. While not able to hold aggro, the tank at least tried to hold aggro and would use overpower and the CD's. This made my job tolerable, but I still had to throw out a few phyisck. Where the problem is, tank gear drops that will upgrade the tank's ilvl... tank doesn't roll. We clear the dungeon and the tank had even left it before grabbing the final chest!

Why do so many low level tanks have an aversion to rolling for loot that will boost their ilvl?! I've had 2 this way in the last week, but did get one in Brayflox that was grabbing every chest in hope's he'd upgrade his gear and it helped a lot as we progressed.

[Enla]

Got the turtle guildhest for the roulette where you need to kill the fire sprite in order to get the core to put said turtle to sleep. No one was new. Everyone was in gear that was 60+ and the tank was a mentor. No one else bothered with the fire sprite until I had gotten it down to 5% health and was one move away from killing it. Which is whatever. Sometimes it's spawns in a weird spot near the back ruins which most people don't expect. That's fine. What wasn't fine was that once we lit the bag the tank proceeded to pull the turtle only half way through the smoke before DPSing it down to nothing. Failing the guildhest for everyone and forcing me to requeue and wait /again/ because guildhests don't reset like other instances. And it wasn't even them just auto attacking to victory. They were using the entirety of their low level rotation, even as the healer and the other DPS clearly stopped at 10% while I tried to get a message out in party but couldn't do it in time.

I get guildhests are easy and brainless content, but it literally tells you when you load in what to do and as a mentor you frankly should know these outdated instances fairly well at this point. Hell the other DPS and healer should have known to stop DPSing as well before it got low enough that the tank could solo it down. Or know enough to read the short blurb you're given at the start. Just because the roulette gives good, easy exp when combined with your weekly Challenge Log doesn't excuse that level of inattention.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Toto-rak. That place goes slow enough already.
I know you don't have a lot of skills at that level, but Straight Shot and Venomous Bite should be the bare minimum to use, right?

Eh it's not harmless at that level since Toto-rak is still a bit of an early dungeon

Besides Toto-rak is a level 24-27 dungeons which is 3 levels before getting a job crystal but I doubt that is the issue

At least it's not a lv 43 archer in Dzamael Darkhold who told me he is too lazy to equip his crystal or the level 43 lancer in Stone Vigil who was doing less damage than my freakin malefic spell on my AST

[Cincierta]

Last night I decided to level up an alt's ninja, and queued up for Cutter's Cry. Party comp was DRK, AST, SMN and me on NIN. The drk really liked playing the part apparently (him: The darkness feeds me! DARKNESS!! Rest of party: ...wat?).

The party went relatively well until the second ring room before the second boss. I was waiting for him to stop to pop a TA...to which the drk tank did not as they went for a full ring around the rosie. Queue random duck quack.



Everyone else had aggro except for me, and the second I realized things were gonna go south I ran over to the side. After that, everything went as expected, with the fire and death everywhere.

[Heliantheae]

Trials roulette, it was Sophia. One of the tanks was new and watching the cutscene. One of the DPS pipes up, "I don't remember this fight." The other three DPS and healer just bail. We filled back up instantly, but seriously. It's a normal mode trial. There was a slight hiccup and half the party was dead at the phase change, but we picked them back up and cleared first try. I gave the comm to the new tank. Cause that couldn't have been fun. Coming out of a cutscene and seeing half the party is gone.

And I had a really slow Arboretum HM. It was me on SCH, a BRD, DRG, and DRK. The DRK and BRD didn't AoE much. Like the DRK would throw down tainted soil and use his screaming spikey deathball like only once a pull. I like to think I'm decent at MP management. I usually have no trouble. I was constantly running out of MP. And the DRG was out of TP. We didn't get a single refresh or tactician the entire run. And the bosses were slow going too. I can't remember the last time I saw Mudpie three times.