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

[Cincierta]

Horrible GNB tank in Bardam's Mettle

*hugs* it's okay, have some tea and cookies. Just remember, when he gets to the SHB dungeons, and he pulls that sort of stunt again there, there will be that one healer that will not heal him, just to watch that tank burn.


Speaking of stories, I went whm on a roulette and was thrown into deepcroft normal. Our tank was still obviously getting used to the changes, we had a lancer in the party that quit the game mid-dungeon but didn't leave the party; and an eureka blm that thought they could mass-pull and have me deal with it as the healer. I only get 2 healing spells at that level bro.

Said blm decided to run around the corner while I was trying to heal them with at least 7 mobs on them, and his hp got nuked fast. While I got him up, tank dies, then I die, then the blm that just got back up died.

Tank: well sh*t
Me: (scrapes blm off earth's crust with res)
BLM: sry
Tank: oh boy (dies, then I die at this point)
Me: ...............
Blm: (gets back up and immediately eats it) I got destroyed

Well duh you got destroyed, you're a squishy blm that has no other defensive cooldowns at this level sync. Protect IS GONZO! We get a replacement for the lancer that I was finally able to boot, and the blm continues to mass-pull for the tank that is still trying to grasp his role at the changes. We get to the final boss, down him, I comm the replacement dps that came in, passed on loot and left.

I walked out of there with two comms, but good god people read the patch notes before jumping in and expecting to do the same things you did pre-patch. IT WILL NOT WORK.

[Kuurei]

"They ignored my strategies, so I ignored their screams..." Sounds like the rallying cry of Scholars atm.

Also, I went ahead and did Trusts for the Temple at 75, since I can't pass up a chance to use Y'shtola as a party member. Was pretty nice, tbh. Batsquach was interesting, and the final boss's mechanics did plenty of damage to the whole team. I've also solidified my stance that Solace/Rapture > Cure/Medica for handing emergency situations. Especially since it leaves room for Tetra/Assize. There's no way you're clearing Batsquach at-level with average gear unless you know how to weave AoE healing properly.

[Vidu]

After hitting a little road block at level 77, with the next mainquest requiring 78, my boyfriend and I decided to just queue up for the last three dungeons and see where fate takes us.
It takes us back into the well - together with a samurai and a scholar.
A scholar who is to our surprise still a sprout - not really sure how that can happen, story skip and jump potion, I guess, but hey, its alright.
What isnt alright is their gear. Most noteably their weapon. A drop from the very first level 70 dungeon - yep, thats right: the very first "endgame" dungeon in Stormblood, meaning it has an ilvl of 300. And here I was, feeling bad about still having an ilvl400 belt equipped (btw: their belt was 300 aswell, the rest of the gear a wild mix of "not even acceptable in SB-endgame" and "how in the world did they get drops from the new dungeons?!")
The answer to that last question revealed itself when the samurai and I asked the scholar to put on better gear - with them only speaking german communication got even more annoying. I'm german myself, but I hate having to speak it for the sake of people who didnt bother to get at least a grasp of english. Turns out: they're leveling a "twink" (for anyone wondering: thats apparently old german-wow-lingo for "second character") and didnt expect to get thrown into such a high level duty via their leveling roulette. Who would have thought that you'd end up in one of the new dungeons as healer right now, right?!

We still reached the first boss and the very first thing the healer does is to die. Before that I was willing to grind my theet and just carry his lazy ass through the dungeon (its kinda late here right now and bed is calling), but now hes not only shown that he doesnt care about gear, he also doesnt care about mechanics. So we kick him, use the mean time to explain/translate for the samurai who didnt understand all the german that was flodding the chat and finally get another scholar in, whos actually properly geared!

[Khorchi]

BLM TANK IS BEST TANK! *Says the BLM who now has an interesting hobby being a permanent doormat*

I'm not sure if its ignorance, laziness or just the thrill of "the uncertainty" of the changes to the game, but i've had SO MANY PLAYERS who all basically say the same thing... "where's my [insert deleted ability here] and why did it get removed?"

There are patch notes people... I don't know how many times I will have to type "cries in protect" in chat over the next few weeks/months.

[CarnivalNights]

SPEAKING OF THIS EXACTLY...

Getting my WHM up quickly was a bit of a mistake....

You have the patience of a saint. People have no idea that 5.0 is a different beast and haven't adjusted. The healers are the most immediate ones to notice the adjustment. Hopefully everyone catches up by the end of the week.

[Hash_Browns]

Got the pleasure of being introduced to a nice WHM while trying to upgrade my armor via Malikah's Well. I've started to main WAR, so I try not to pull wall to wall, especially since I feel like people are adjusting to new skills, hot bar changes, and gear upgrades.

When I got in, the WHM started giving instructions to me immediately, and proceeded to pull. When I got a hold of the enemies, they started running to the next area, and once again as many as they could. I had to take them once again. During killing them all, I died, and was blamed by the WHM. I told the WHM not to pull for me, as people were new to the dungeon, and I was told to "learn to tank."

Once everyone respawned, we killed the few enemies left & got to the boss door. I was waiting for everyone to get to the boss door, and while I did, the WHM pulled the boss, and I told him "Welp, your problem now."

The DPS had the same idea, and left the boss room. Me & the WHM died, since I didn't tank the boss for them accepted fate, and the WHM then just.. well - left the dungeon.

[gumas]

i know what iam going to say next probably a bit sensitive (about En player) but i need to vent this out.

i play in tonberry, i always set my party to Jp language only because after many past pug with En player, i found that En player has more.... "questionable" playstyle compare to Jp player.

so after shb come out i try again to set my party to all language since this way would get me faster queue time, and indeed i got party in less than 10m. party up, got a group of En player (all of them chat without auto translate thing) and ready to go....

or not. i play as MNK so they saw me and goes "eh MNK? i though that class is nerf to hell now? why people still use it?" and the others say more or less the same thing, we keep going until first boss (lvl 71 dungeon btw), beat the boss and the tank finally say the word... "see MNK is bad now, sorry but you need to go"

i mean... what? seriously? they just vote kick me just like that? after putting "detail analysis" about current MNK, skill cd, ogcd, yadayada i dont know what are they talking about to be honest. then just kick me out and tell me not to use MNK....

set back to Jp, got party, went inside, the usual "hello" "lets do this" and everything went normal, no chat, a lot of emoticon, dungeon finish, everyone "thankyou", all done, nice and easy.

i dont mean everyone on En player is like that i know, but still like i said before, it seems the En side has more "questionable" playstyle compare to Jp side, which make me sad because as much as i enjoy playing with Jp, i dont know what are they talking about (i can use google translate but i cant join the conversation if you know what i mean), while the En side is muddled with this kind of "sensitive" people.

[Fluffernuff]

Perhaps this isnt truly in the spirit of the thread since I have no specific stories to tell (one comes to mind, but I dont want to bother)

But i've been forcing my way through ShB as Gunbreaker and I'm having a blast with it. And for the most part, runs have been really smooth, even when im wall-to-wall pulling with first time healers and such

[Kanitezz]

i dont mean everyone on En player is like that i know, but still like i said before, it seems the En side has more "questionable" playstyle compare to Jp side, which make me sad because as much as i enjoy playing with Jp, i dont know what are they talking about (i can use google translate but i cant join the conversation if you know what i mean), while the En side is muddled with this kind of "sensitive" people.

No. They're not sensitive. They're assholes. I'm sorry to hear you go through stuff like that.

[Raltar]

I...kind of screwed up today in a MSQ. I pulled a huge group of iron giants when I was supposed to run up some stairs and push buttons to avoid fighting the iron giants. One guy was like "why did you do that?" and I felt like such a piece of crap. We wiped and went back and did it the right way and whatever, but I still feel like a loser, 16 hours later.