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

[Callinon]

The DRK, 3rd on aggro, is in Grit. The WAR, 6th or 7th on aggro, has Inner Beast active so they either are in Defiance now, or have been in the last 5 seconds.

Situations like these actually have me worried about the tank changes in Shadowbringers. Chances are, that either the enmity from the tank stance will be so ridiculous you can hold aggro for 2 minutes with one Tomahawk/Shield Lob/Unmend, or good DPS will be stealing bosses off of the worst tanks and won't have Diversion or anything to help with that.

I'd imagine good dps will continue to steal aggro from the worst tanks. No amount of enmity buffing is ever going to change that.

That being said, tanks have to improve too. What's their cue to do that?

[DumdogsWorld]

Just got yelled at for using lb3 against Rathalos.

After the fight, same person says "Always wait until he's down for lbs".

The down gauge had filled up and went away, and Rathalos was wiggling around on the ground. If that doesn't count as "down", then I dunno....

EDIT: For clarification, his tail was already destroyed.

[Noitems]

You know, I kinda wish more enrages were like that. Make the boss use tankbusters at ever increasing frequency (and possibly damage). Instead of the usual "(optional spam cast of roomwides ending in) one big cast that just kills everyone".

Ultima Weapon in UWU does something similar where when he enrages he captures you in these balls that rise to the top and gradually explode killing you one by one. It picks up one person at a time so everyone has some extra time to get some damage in. Then on the final one he clamps his arms around you and you go poof.

[Erim-Nelhah]

The Royal Menagerie



Can anybody spot what's wrong with this picture, considering that my diversion was on cooldown?

Looks like a lot of wrong going around here.

WAR looks badly undergeared, and both tanks seem to be absolute garbage to judge by their enmity, and to top it off it looks like you're carrying some undergeared DPS as well.

--Erim

[HarryTipper]

WAR looks badly undergeared, and both tanks seem to be absolute garbage to judge by their enmity, and to top it off it looks like you're carrying some undergeared DPS as well.

More like most of the party is vastly overgeared. We are talking about Royal Menagerie after all.

Those "undergeared" people are most likely fresh Lvl 70s. WAR would most likely have trouble holding aggro even if they were spamming aggro combos, given the difference in ILvls.

That DRK on the other hand...

[TheMightyMollusk]

The DRK looks adequately geared, but given that they're out of MP, they just don't know how to handle their resources. And those two stacks of vuln up probably aren't helping matters.

So, a Duty Finder DRK.

[SenorPatty]

The Royal Menagerie



Can anybody spot what's wrong with this picture, considering that my diversion was on cooldown?

I'm actually more interested in how long this situation was going on.

Less than 10 seconds of it means it's a eff-up. 10-20 secs is a lack of awareness. 30+ seconds is all that was aforementioned plus laziness.

[DumdogsWorld]

I'm actually more interested in how long this situation was going on.

Less than 10 seconds of it means it's a eff-up. 10-20 secs is a lack of awareness. 30+ seconds is all that was aforementioned plus laziness.

30+. I ate a tank-buster and died too.

[Nononu]

So with the moogle thing happening, of course I'm queuing as a healer (WHM) for all the irregular tomestone dungeons. YES, I know, I could get the stuff easier doing NOT moogle tomestones, but honestly I don't want to do the Diadem for the pegasus mount, since no one seems to actually do it, and honestly, I have fun doing dungeons. Plus, I can spam Praetorium, read this thread during cutscenes, pop Medica II and then DPS on auto-pilot for 3 moogle tomestones and 200 allagan tomestones for Shire gear. Still, I hadn't played WHM in a bit, so I thought before bouncing right into Prae, I'd do a few dungeons first to get back in the swing of things.

Qarn NM. No problemo.

Level 39 arcanist.

No, not summoner. Arcanist.

Okay... well. Whatever, it doesn't matter to me much.

The arcanist proceeds to run forward and pull, and kill the heads before we can get them placed on the blocks. Multiple times. I walk over to the tank who is standing still and we watch (and I laugh heartily, because comeuppance is sweet). The arcanist summons topaz and physics himself and manages to not die, thanks in part to the dragoon helping him. A shame. But the fight ends and we kick him for harassment. I point out he had no job stone and the tank replies, "No real sprout would summon topaz to save himself."

Which I found just a MITE insulting? FF14 wasn't my first MMO, true, but as a sprout my first time, I read tooltips, I read guides, I watched videos before I stepped into ANY dungeons (and I still do to refresh my memory, and I've played almost every class to at LEAST 50 by now; not saying I'm good, but yeah). I mean, the tank was PROBABLY right in that the guy was probably trolling, but ehn.

The DPS was amazing after that. We downed the golem soulstone/construct in 2 turns, which never happens for me. It's always 3 or... -shudder- Some times 4.

[SenorPatty]

30+. I ate a tank-buster and died too.

Dayum. All I can say is, to quote TheMightyMollusk,

So, a Duty Finder DRK.