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

[Aramina]

Has this forum post and subsequent comments taught you how NOT to play a class, and therefore, helped you out by already having the knowledge of what not to do?

Yes, I wouldn't say I am great at anything but healing (and arguably not even "great" at that, lol), but I have managed to avoid making a complete fool of myself so far.

[ChaoticCrimson]

Not strictly Duty Finder, but I joined a farm party for Susano Ex as SMN last night in hopes of maybe finally getting a dog. While we did get in about a dozen kills and no wipes, we had some pretty nasty close calls. Now admittedly, I hadn't touched the fight in about half a year, so it took me a few runs to re-acclimate to the timings and such (and had one very ill-timed lightning lockdown, causing me to be stuck on the edge of the rift in the middle during the last phase and slowly sink to my death, Titanic style...). Despite that, it seemed like all but a couple people were just flat out ignoring mechanics and causing trouble. We had a bard that died numerous times to the first Rasen Kaikyo AoEs and the following dice mechanic afterwards. Maybe two or three people actually bothered to run to the opposite side of the rift during the non-locked lighting marker mechanic, which threw me off a bit. The other time I died, I somehow didn't get healed enough during the sword phase, despite being packed with the majority of the party and not eating orbs, causing me to not have enough health to live through the ult (I don't recall having any debuffs at this time, either). As an oddity, the second sword drop was always intercepted by the NIN for... reasons? I know current gear really trivializes the fight, but yikes was that whole thing messy. I did not get my dog, but for my troubles I at least got a couple of the crafting items.

[Aosha]

Alt Stone Vigil, encountered a DRK in some level 30-34 tank gear and some level 30-32 disciple of war, and even mage gear. Yes, mage gear.
So long as a full pack of mobs was alive, I needed either A) Largesse Cure spam B) Presence of Mind Cure spam or C) Cure II spam to keep this guy alive. Yeesh. Was playing decently though, CDs definitely happened.
And no Refreshes from the Bard either.

[Vanitas]

Can we get the page count to 2019 to make it current?

[Skivvy]

Can we get the page count to 2019 to make it current?

I'm only at 502. We've got a long way to go :3

[Makeda]

Has this forum post and subsequent comments taught you how NOT to play a class, and therefore, helped you out by already having the knowledge of what not to do?

Not really. I find this thread is more just for random anecdotes. Sometimes I read them and agree with the poster, sometimes I read them and agree with the people the poster is trying to call out. Most of the time I read them and just shrug the same way I do when seeing articles on a grocery store checkout stand magazine cover about some Celebrity being secretly married to Elvis' clone. A kind of 'meh' mixed with 'huh' mixed with 'that was an odd thing to get worked up about' and finally spiced with 'well, that was an entertaining yet pointless read I managed to amuse myself with'.

This thread is really the 'daytime TV talk show' of FFXIV than anything actually useful.

Oddly enough; it's more entertaining to see the things people get worked up about that I could care less over than to see the ones I actually do have a care over.

[Aramina]

could care less

Couldn't care less. Sorry, pet peeve.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Just got out of a Deltascape 1N with a healer who had Shire accessories. How.

Oh, and she died and then DC'd twice. Was she getting killed so hard it knocked her out of the game?

[Mesarthim]

Almost wiped to third boss of rabanastre during dark geas. Some reason 2 people stood on top of one geas and didnt activate it so like 3/4 of the raid died at least. I mention to next time to touch them and not stand on them and of course I get the snob response of "You ever hear of being bound?"

Well yeah I have heard of people being bound. I've also heard of not all 24 people being bound at the same time and by the time I realized something was wrong I couldn't find where it was. It blended in with people standing around. I hear learning from one's mistakes is more productive than giving people an attitude.

[Elyssia]

I dont know what to say else xD ( This is in Brayflox, level 32 dungeon )

Edit : The guy that told me that was a returner with not a single level 70 character.