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

[Aramina]

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?

This made me laugh probably far more than it should have.

[Berret_Snow]

Some random things while leveling this guy;

Zone into POD, there's a silver chest near by and it's a trap then there's a landmine nearby and we wipe a few seconds after loading in. I just stared at the screen and laughed.

Kept getting asked to use Esuna before I learned the spell, they didn't listen when I said that I didn't learn it yet. I had to go into my abilites to make 100% sure because they were very stubborn that I had it.

Had a really squish tank in Satasha, it was my first time healing a dungeon (Yay anxiety) during the last boss no one was clicking to stop the adds from spawning, I couldn't since I literally could not take my finger of the cure cast since his health was going down that fast and since the dps was on the low side a lot of them spawned! Somehow managed to keep the tank alive do to elixers. Got no commendations
The group was really friendly, so I wasn't too bothered, just had to take a break for a while to catch my breath.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Take a guess which EX primal did I get yesterday on mentor roullette?

Not the usual ARR primals like titan,ultima or garuda,not even ravanna or bismarck from HW.........FREAKIN NIDHOGG EX

Needless to say the timer ran out and we couldn't kill it in the middle of burger kings leaving at the first sight of the dragon and the many....many wipes.


Btw I wanna ask about the tethers for this fight cuz something happened to me on this that never occured in all my prior Nidhogg EX runs

......is it possible that if someone tethered to Red/Blue pillars to swap their tether with u if u die?Cuz I got tethered to the red pillar at first but then a few seconds later I got tethered to the blue one in the middle of the stack marker and my red tether dissapeared before the red pillar even got killed

[Lilseph]

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.

They were pulling everything without Grit?

[Elyssia]

They were pulling everything without Grit?

Sadly, yes, never turned grit on. I do main tank with my other account, i do raid with, but i still do use tank stance for trashs mobs, only taking it off usually with warrior after having the aggro for i can decimate for exemple. But telling me that i dont know how to play because i dont have " the legend " title, from someone that doesnt turn on tank stance on a level 32 dungeon, i just dont get it. Only good thing is that he left after some pulls.

[Lilseph]

Sadly, yes, never turned grit on. I do main tank with my other account, i do raid with, but i still do use tank stance for trashs mobs, only taking it off usually with warrior after having the aggro for i can decimate for exemple. But telling me that i dont know how to play because i dont have " the legend " title, from someone that doesnt turn on tank stance on a level 32 dungeon, i just dont get it. Only good thing is that he left after some pulls.

Oh, yes, I main tank as well, and I have never pulled a pack of trash without tank stance either. My impression is that they just wanted to shut you down with that comment, which was incredibly silly of them. So according to them, only a very small minority of the game can tell you "hey, turn tank stance on", when it's basically common sense? It baffles me. But I'm getting used to meet crazy and immature people throwing tantrums every now and then in this game.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Oh, yes, I main tank as well, and I have never pulled a pack of trash without tank stance either. My impression is that they just wanted to shut you down with that comment, which was incredibly silly of them. So according to them, only a very small minority of the game can tell you "hey, turn tank stance on", when it's basically common sense? It baffles me. But I'm getting used to meet crazy and immature people throwing tantrums every now and then in this game.

Either that or he's appeasing to the parse-gods above thinking someone would care about their dungeon damage output rather than actually doing their job as a tank

[Khorchi]

A few pages ago I posted up that I got my SCH to 60 and was loving it. Today I was brought back down to Earth...
Or down to Eorzea…
Which ever way you wanna look at it anyway.

I've been doing Sirensong non-stop since getting my SCH to 61. Since doing the roulettes and 60 dungeons drops a tonne of tomes, I managed to complete my set of iLvl 260 gear (minus the Codex and a ring, themselves being iLvl 255) and I queue up for Sirensong once more.

Load in and its a WAR, NIN and BRD. No new message pops up so I'm thinking that this will be a quick and easy Sirensong run.
Boy was I wrong.
To note, everyone has a mix of classes to 70, so we are all experienced.

The tank almost dies to the first set of mobs that spawn when you're still on the ship. Now I'm not a great SCH, I would definitely say that I am still learning the class entirely. However, I know if I am hitting you with 2 Lustrates and your health barely moves, something is wrong.
After getting through those two waves, we get the 2 sets of mobs that you burn through before the first boss. The tank pulls everything and I continually cast my healing spells. After getting them to full health, I run in and use Miasma II on the mobs and the tank's health DROPS like a stone and they die. We're pretty close to the spawn point, so I just call it a wipe and we can start again.

The tank apologizes in the chat. The only thing they'll say for the entire run.
We get to the first set of mobs again and just as I start healing the tank, my controller dies. *panic stations*
Luckily I have 2 extra controllers on hand but they die before I can get the 2nd controller turned on and get a Lustrate out on them. I heal the NIN and BRD until the WAR respawns and I say what happened in the chat and say sorry also.

We get through each individual set of mobs and make our way through the boss room and onto the second stage of mobs. It's only at this stage that I notice that the tank's full HP is only at around 28k. About 9-14k less than the tanks that I've been healing all night in Sirensong.
Its between pulls of the mobs and the 2nd boss that I take a look at the tank's gear.
Now this is someone who has DRK and PLD to 70, their WAR was 62. This was their gear. (Numbers are the iLvl of each piece)



Putting this sort of level gear on my DRK gives them an iLvl of 192. IN SIRENSONG. This means that this tank would not have been able to queue for Sohr Khai, Xelphatol or Baelsar's Wall because of their average item level.
I don't want to get into the debate of item level restrictions in casual content. In fact, I am more in favour of against iLvl restrictions in casual content... but this just made my little healer heart cry a little.
Admittedly, they did get a piece of gear during the dungeon (a bracelet) and equipped it during the run. But that meant that their iLvl for that piece went from 255 to 260.
There was another wipe just after the 2nd boss where the tank and everyone else charged up ahead and attacked the mobs when my MP wasn't even 1/3rd regained from the previous fight. That pull was always going to be a wipe.
The final boss was a bit of a laugh out loud moment when the tank got almost instantly destroyed by the auto attack from the boss. The one time I didn't throw an Adlo onto the tank after the boss cast virgin tears, their health went down to 3k and then 0.
I have no idea if they were using cooldowns because I was trying so hard to focus on my MP and their health that I couldn't look at anything else besides mechanics.

Just a part of the Sirensong journey...
*cries in healer*

--edit: Just noticed as well... the rings are Slaying rings, not Fending. That further grinds my gears >.<

[AleXwern]

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.

Tanks like this are the reason why forums are filled with "tank without tank stance should get 10000% damage penalty"-threads these days. Sub-lv56 DRK has so incredibly bad AoE damage unlike WAR and mitigation unlike PLD it's just plain stupid to pull everything without Grit just because. Even PLD has better AoE for a while after they get Total Eclipse. Only thing DRK excels at in ARR content is single target damage because DRK's damage became pretty frontloaded after SB changes but that barely warms during trash pulls.

Pog 50 potency AoE! Big damage!

[Heliantheae]

But unless you have The Legend title he ain't listening. Because the Legend title holders are the only people worth listening to.