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

[gumas]

for the past 2 years players from wow and eso have came up to ff14 and have ALL been complaining about the game not being what eso or wow was

what baffled me is that some of these wow player quit wow because they dont like things the way wow right now, but complain in FF14 because it didnt look/play like the very things they hate from, which is (current) wow, what?

no comment on eso though, never into elder scroll series even back in singleplayer era.

I'm not sure if positive runs are allowed here

hey positive tales is always good.

[Kyasunshine]

Who can say if i on "Duty finder settings" check point "Minimum IL" 390 ilvl player get 54 ilvl (dung descripion "avg. item lvl 54). Or ANY WAY he get 120 and kill all bosses solo?

[DonovanLifeweaver]

what baffled me is that some of these wow player quit wow because they dont like things the way wow right now, but complain in FF14 because it didnt look/play like the very things they hate from, which is (current) wow, what?

no comment on eso though, never into elder scroll series even back in singleplayer era.



hey positive tales is always good.

im totally behind you on this one and im the one being called toxic by most of the people .... i wonder whos more toxic? me standing up for a quality game and doing my best to knock some common sense into weak sauce from wow and eso...
or wow and eso weak sauce for complaining that ff14 is not like wow and eso....

[Cincierta]

Alright, so since the moogle event dropped, I've been running those handful of dungeons that give you those tomestones, and so far most parties I've had for said dungeons have either been easygoing or wall-to-wall pulls. Especially in Stone Vigil. *shakes fist* you're lucky I'm on sch for this.

Three dungeons I've had today have been fairly quick (between 15-20 min), between 20 min Quarns and Vigils, I rolled Deepcroft and get an instaqueue for my last run. I load in and see GLA, PUG, and BRD. The second the gate comes down the GLA is off, but gets protect just in time. I'm thinking this would be another 15 minute run.

Oh my god I was wrong. This GLA did the following throughout the dungeon:

Used single attacks against a single target.
Would occasionally use Shield Bash, but it seemed like a fat-finger skill.
Only used Rampart once. ONCE. When they had less hp than the PUG.
Wore mostly lvl 5-10 gear, with head and feet 15.
Never used Shield Lob. He favored face-pulling.
Never, EVER touched Flash, despite the brd and I begging him to. I can only assume he thought it was the plague.

Needless to say, mob hate was everywhere. The BRD, my fairy, and I became the second tank. As for the PUG, they were afk for about half the dungeon run. 35 minutes later, we finally get to the last boss, and while the PUG and BRD know what to do, the tank was just...ignoring the adds and trying to attack the boss while it was still tethered. You'd think that you should do something when you see this big purple line and a different sound plus large text that reads INVULNERABLE means you should go find the source its tethered to and get rid of it. Nope.

Our special GLA never bothered to do so, despite the brd pointing it out in party chat.

Almost 40 minutes later after the dungeon started, we finally down the boss, and I watched the GLA 'nope' out of there awful fast. I commed the brd because good god they were an amazingly good sport.

[DonovanLifeweaver]

I found healing very stressful in WoW, myself. It feels much more relaxed here. You even have downtime when you can DPS!

HOW?!?!? there are add ons in wow that shows you who to heal, what to cast, when the healbot doesnt mouse over heal for you.
you have down time to dps as a healer exactly because wow and eso weaksauce complained that the game was too hard compared to wow and eso. god ff14 went from challenging to wow and eso easy mode. and im being generous with my words.

[SturmChurro]

HOW?!?!? there are add ons in wow that shows you who to heal, what to cast, when the healbot doesnt mouse over heal for you.
you have down time to dps as a healer exactly because wow and eso weaksauce complained that the game was too hard compared to wow and eso. god ff14 went from challenging to wow and eso easy mode. and im being generous with my words.

At this point, you need to get over it and go complain in one of the WoW threads.

[Khorchi]

I know I'm probably preaching to the choir here...
But why are most tanks I run with in Stone Vigil either stupid or severely undergeared?

This moogle tome event has done a bit of good. Teaching healers how to heal stupid.

Just had a SV run with a Lvl 43 DRK who already had a Lvl 70 PLD... as I do at the start of every dungeon now. I check everyone's gear.
Everyone is at least item level alright until the DRK.
The stock standard lvl 30 weapon. Mainly Lvl 1 accessories with no bracelet. A mix of level 31-38 armour, I believe the armour with no headpiece and no feet.

Now I'm learning Black Mage. I'm no good at black mage and still getting the rotation down. But that didn't stop me from having Lucid and Diversion on cool down, constantly, for this run. The NIN died 3 times from ripping hate from the tank, including once during the final boss. If I didn't have CDs up, I would be on the floor instead.

The Astro from Siren deserves all the comms she could get for keeping that DRK alive ❤

Still DF is a cruel mistress.

Might stick with my FC to help tank it for a while.
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This isn't the first time I've had issues in Qarn or Stone Vigil since the moogles event started... But since I've become a mentor, its been pretty glaring of how much an explination goes unnoticed or flat out ignored by sprouts.
Might start a running tally of how many times people die to doom during the first boss in Qarn after explanation... should be a fun record to break each time you I run it. (In case you were wondering... record is currently 7 times with 2 rage quits)

[gumas]

just went alliance raid and got 10 MCH in total (the rest is BRD)

the thirst for MCH is real

[Cincierta]

just went alliance raid and got 10 MCH in total (the rest is BRD)

the thirst for MCH is real

Pew pew all the things?

[Barraind]

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.

If by boosting you mean "ran potd a billion times" I'd probably believe it.

PotD teaches you that instant cast skills are the best thing ever and dots, especially with cast times, are worthless.