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

[Aosha]

Honest question why do people use those soundeffect commands in their macros. Most likely a person issue on my part but I do find them extremely annoying.

I can see something like a Dark Knight using one to remind healers of a Walking Dead buff running out, but yeah they can get a bit irritating.
Also here's a blast from the past:

/p Berserk active, Pacified in 20 <se.7>
/wait 15
/p Pacified in 5 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p 4 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p 3 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p 2 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p 1 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p Pacified, please cleanse! <se.1>

[HyoMinPark]

Honest question why do people use those soundeffect commands in their macros. Most likely a person issue on my part but I do find them extremely annoying.

I put one in my Raise macro to try and alert healers in 8-mans and 24-mans who I am currently Raising.
Sadly, it still gets ignored. Just less so than when I didn't have it in.

[linay]

When I used to play RDM/SMN, I would have a res macro, although the sound annoys me so I end up just not having the sound and instead use auto translate function to give color to the chatbox so hopefully people will notice.

[Paladinleeds]

Honest question why do people use those soundeffect commands in their macros. Most likely a person issue on my part but I do find them extremely annoying.

I use them for the most important (IMO) skill callouts. These are:
Raise, and its variants (speaks for itself, want people to know who I'm raising so they don't waste mana, especially if it's a Swiftraise or Dualcasted Verraise)
Hallowed Ground (this basically gives the healer 10 seconds to go HAM, why wouldn't I want to make sure they knew)
Provoke (ok, this one I can turn off, and will adjust my macro to do so, I can see this one getting problematic)
Divine Veil (see Provoke, will turn this one off too)

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

I got told to "stop attacking" in expert roulette today because I kept ripping aggro off the Warrior on bosses.

Who was in Deliverance 99% of the time. (and pretty sure used no or minimal aggro combos)
After I used Diversion on the opener. (and on CD every time it was back up.)
AND used Lucid every time I was about to/ or rippred aggro again and still caught back up.

You'd think some tanks were allergic to the concept of aggro. Thankfully he didn't roll on the alliance ring of fending so I finally completed the fending set from there. mob packs were okay but I still stole the occasional one, since Overpower spam still nets good aggro even in Deliverance.

This when I pop Manaward and turn up the juice. If the tank doesn't want aggro then I will fight the healer and my fellow dps to take it all. >:]

[SeriousxSarcasm]

This when I pop Manaward and turn up the juice. If the tank doesn't want aggro then I will fight the healer and my fellow dps to take it all. >:]

Ahh same. Only when it's really bad, mind you. I try to keep things off the healer at least. Or summon Titan-egi, then usually they turn on tank stance to establish dominance.

[InkstainedGwyn]

I put one in my Raise macro to try and alert healers in 8-mans and 24-mans who I am currently Raising.
Sadly, it still gets ignored. Just less so than when I didn't have it in.

This (and sometimes, even if it's not ignored, it really is that two people pressed their macros at the same time, or in close enough succession not to have time to stop it - esp if it's a tank or healer down.)

But yeah. Sound effects should really only be used for times you actually need to alert people - raises, maybe living dead or divine veil (to alert the healer). I use one in a macro for learning parties (or dense parties) that's a general Do the thing! <se.2> macro because I'll have told people "there's x to watch out for, I'll use a macro" (or: yeah buddy you keep pushing Ramuh, we'll all just sit back here and wipe to the Arbiters.) That macro only comes out once in a great while, though.

Somebody needs to show that tank where the countdown button is...

[Anselmet]

Also here's a blast from the past:

/p Berserk active, Pacified in 20 <se.7>
/wait 15
/p Pacified in 5 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p 4 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p 3 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p 2 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p 1 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p Pacified, please cleanse! <se.1>

The fact I can read that and still hear it in real time upsets me.

[HyoMinPark]

I can see something like a Dark Knight using one to remind healers of a Walking Dead buff running out, but yeah they can get a bit irritating.
Also here's a blast from the past:

/p Berserk active, Pacified in 20 <se.7>
/wait 15
/p Pacified in 5 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p 4 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p 3 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p 2 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p 1 <se.7> <wait.1>
/p Pacified, please cleanse! <se.1>

When I met WARs like that back in HW, I made it a point NOT to Esuna/Leeches/Exalted Detriment/Warden’s Paeon them. :3
I can be annoying, too.



Been doing random roulettes for funnsies today while I clear out the rest of the SB sidequests that I’ve been neglecting (Begone, tiny quest markers!), and I decided to do Mentor Roulette for the first time since it came out in HW. I got Dusk Vigil, and it was like... a party sent from God himself.

Tank used cooldowns. DPS AOE’d. They stood close for AOE heals. THEY STOOD IN MY ASYLUM WHEN I WOULD DROP IT FOR AOE HEALS. I wish I could have commended all of them. I commended the returner BRD... because of their Foe’s/Refresh usage throughout the dungeon.

[Awha]

Just a minor funny story, but I was in a leveling roulette doing cutters cry the RDM was flexing their damage making fun of the ninja. Both of them kept going back and forth throughout the entire dungeon. On the last boss they both died to mechanic's. Healer did not rez them. Not a 100% sure why watching them both die on the final boss made me laugh, but it did so figured I would share the story.