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

[Zeich]

On the plus side, with him in your party, you know it wasn't lupus that killed you.

You're right, it was probably the Cancer FATE. :P

[SaitoHikari]

I ended up in a Ridorana Lighthouse run with 3 other Bards in my party.

You guys haven't seen chaos until you notice all four bards attempting to coordinate Foe Requiem/Refresh/Battle Voice with each other for maximum uptime. We didn't have enough time to talk to each other, but I think we were all staring at our status bars to figure out if someone was already singing/if Refresh and/or Battle Voice was up. We tripped over each other at the first boss and I think we got an order ironed out by the third boss. It looked like we managed something stupid like 80% Foe Requiem uptime at the last boss.

...I'm actually going to miss these hilarious spontaneous interactions once Shadowbringers is out.

[JunKriid]

I had a good day of DRs, it feels good when everyone either knew or picked it up quickly through common sense.

My last DR I queued on my leveling warrior, I got AV. Now if I am DPS and get AV I usually think: "Oh boy" but as a tank you have some control on the outcome.

Anyway, the other players were all sprouts and couldn't speak English which was perfectly fine. Judging by how they were heading towards the middle I could tell they were all probably new to AV. I started with marking myself and went "Translate: Left 1". As to suggest, stay to the left and keep near the 1 target.

And happily, they did. I also marked a fruit and jumped and said "Morbol 1-2" a few times. Now granted they might not know what the 1-2 is but I am hoping they see they debuff and connect the dots. I said "1-2" because the DPS output was decent and I knew we'd barely need a second fruit.

And they did.

So just using marks, translate, jumping up and down I got to communicate decently AV to three sprouts. I felt happy helping, happy they had common sense and I got 3 comms.

Now if only AVs were normally like this lol.

[Moonfish]

I got the burn in expert roulette. I was WHM paired with a BLM, DRG and honestly I can’t remember what tank. We absolutely decimated the place and finished in 11 minutes. I haven’t had a run that fast since the end of HW.

[SturmChurro]

Was falling asleep this morning queued for normal raid roullete, got 'Alphascape V4.0' with some new people/returner. People were going down left and right, DPS, tanks, the other healer a couple times, me once ( I didn't make it away from the person with the stack marker with my aoe and out of the big aoe, so I died..). Literally fighting for our lives and to save it from a wipe, I haven't healed that hard in a long time, not even on Orbonne. It really woke me up! We ended up completing it. Crazy fight.

Yes, we had some new people, but I hope in Shadowbringers fights can be just as healing intensive w/o, makes healing fun.

[van_arn]

Two days in a row I've gotten matched with straight up potato tier healers that refuse to do anything other than to spam physick/cure 1 because it's "more effecient." This is even after the tank dies multiple times, leading to multiple wipes.

Politely reminding players that the entire purpose of the less effecient options available to them are to keep pace with higher damage intake gets met with recitation of tangential maths they plainly don't comprehend themselves, or various tiers of "you don't pay my sub."

It's probably the worst case of missing the forest for the trees in this game (with them letting the tank die) and I don't know the source of this stupidity.

[Lynesse]

Two days in a row I've gotten matched with straight up potato tier healers that refuse to do anything other than to spam physick/cure 1 because it's "more effecient." This is even after the tank dies multiple times, leading to multiple wipes.

Politely reminding players that the entire purpose of the less effecient options available to them are to keep pace with higher damage intake gets met with recitation of tangential maths they plainly don't comprehend themselves, or various tiers of "you don't pay my sub."

It's probably the worst case of missing the forest for the trees in this game (with them letting the tank die) and I don't know the source of this stupidity.

It's odd. We're in the same data center, and someone I knew said this also. I think this is a thing suddenly because we have an influx of new healers.

You have nearly unlimited MP. You almost never need to worry about MP efficiency! Use what's more GCD efficient! c:

I say in the hope that someone spreads the word.

My problem lately is that I'm trying to practice using Sword Oath during trash pulls in EXRs. And I'm getting DPS that are doing everything in their power to keep me in Shield Oath. It'd discouraging! :c

[OrangeCrystarium]

At this point I'm not even surprised but I met a level 60 summoner in Cutter's Cry who didn't know how to use his dots. Constant Ruin spam throughout the entire dungeon up until the point where I had to ask for him to use his full kit. Checking his info revealed all jobs were at 60 or above, but they were probably boosted. Am I annoyed? Just a bit.

Boosting was a mistake.

[Callinon]

At this point I'm not even surprised but I met a level 60 summoner in Cutter's Cry who didn't know how to use his dots. Constant Ruin spam throughout the entire dungeon up until the point where I had to ask for him to use his full kit. Checking his info revealed all jobs were at 60 or above, but they were probably boosted. Am I annoyed? Just a bit.

Boosting was a mistake.

Back in ARR we had people who leveled exclusively in FATEs and never learned to use their full kit.

There's no difference. This one just costs more.

[Sanctify]

Two days in a row I've gotten matched with straight up potato tier healers that refuse to do anything other than to spam physick/cure 1 because it's "more effecient." This is even after the tank dies multiple times, leading to multiple wipes.

Politely reminding players that the entire purpose of the less effecient options available to them are to keep pace with higher damage intake gets met with recitation of tangential maths they plainly don't comprehend themselves, or various tiers of "you don't pay my sub."

It's probably the worst case of missing the forest for the trees in this game (with them letting the tank die) and I don't know the source of this stupidity.

I forget cure 1 is even on my bars unless mentor throws me into some lowbie ARR stuff or guild heists. If ur not spamming dps and only healing with regen/ogcds you're doing it wrong!

If course there's the occasional potato tier tank that requires cure 2 spam because I mean what are CDs? Or their gear is so trash you cant do anything else.