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

[Drayce1]

I just wish jump and skip potions wasnt a thing. Would prevent alot of these fun times.

[HyoMinPark]

No, it does not. Well, bad tanks anyway. I never assume my whms will holy spam, I always assume they will just stone spam, from a distance, while healing at the last second. The good ones can holy spam while keeping me up without forcing me to clemency or even having to use my cooldowns, just my shelltron. But those are rare, oh so very rare.....

Sighs..... I dont even assume my DPS will use AoE either. I expect the absolute worst of every single player until proven otherwise, its why I prefer PLD when having to do 4 man content. Allows me to carry groups.

Uhm. You should always be using your cooldowns. Regardless of what your healer is doing, you should always be using them. Especially on trash, where they will see a larger benefit compared to a boss due to the amount of autos you are taking at a time. Honestly, if I were your healer, I’d be extremely irritated to see you not using them.

I just wish jump and skip potions wasnt a thing. Would prevent alot of these fun times.

Jump potions aren’t always to blame if you’re not pressing your cooldowns.

[Odstarva]

I had a very painful lvl 79 dungeon run yesterday. Scholar healer, only spammed physick, even when I was taking zero damage. Had aetherlflow stacked to 3, never used ANY of their abilities other than the sparce bubble.

I've come to accept some healers are just not keen on dpsing, fine, but at least use your whole toolkit!

How do you get to lvl 79 and still play like thar?


Thankfully, almost every other scholar I've had has been a saint.

[tinythinker]

I had a very painful lvl 79 dungeon run yesterday. Scholar healer, only spammed physick, even when I was taking zero damage. Had aetherlflow stacked to 3, never used ANY of their abilities other than the sparce bubble.

I've come to accept some healers are just not keen on dpsing, fine, but at least use your whole toolkit!

How do you get to lvl 79 and still play like thar?


Thankfully, almost every other scholar I've had has been a saint.

I wouldn't be that bad, but I only played SCH casually in 3.x so I bet I would not use my whole kit effectively even though I leveled that job to 70 quickly at the start of 4.0. But only Physik? Yeah, that sounds painful

But there is one flaw here - only WHM qualify for sainthood, not some dusty bookworm

[Erim-Nelhah]

I've only had one experience that qualifies for this thread since starting ShB: A run of the level 80 trial.

I had been meaning to run Trial Roulette after having cleared the story, but hadn't actually checked the box for Trial Roulette before joining the queue. Realized my mistake when the box popped up, but I'm not gonna ruin others' queues by withdrawing so I go in.

Got in, saw 6 people watching cutscenes. Quickly warn about the AoEs in the AoE phase being much larger than they appear at first, and we start.

Round 1: Wiped on P1 to something, but I forgot what it was. I think I was one of the last folks standing.

Round 2: We beat P1 relatively quickly, then wipe to P2 due to one of the tanks not knowing what to do with an Earthshaker marker. I ask if the tanks know what that is...he says "I didn't, sorry" - which I interpret to mean he wasn't expecting earthshakers. Pull again, and one of the earthshakers gets faced into the middle again and I die to that + arm (my bad). I mention to the tank that that white marker is an earthshaker and he needs to take it to right-front (other tank was already going left-front). We wipe a bit later to something else...and someone puts up a Vote Abandon. I vote no, and say in chat "no, we're improving" (the Vote failed, ofc).

Round 3: Still have problems, including the one tank not positioning his earthshaker correctly, but 4 party members including one healer make it to the ATE alive, so we win.

Always happy to help new players.

After that, I hop into Trial Roulette and get...you guessed it, the same trial. This time we nearly wipe on P1 (was down to 2 players alive, 1 being a SMN at one point), but manage to recover and push him to P2. I thought we'd wipe early in P2 and restart from there, but nope we recover fully and proceed to one-shot him.

Honestly, I had fun in both groups, so that's a win.

--Erim

[tinythinker]

Just got out of the level 80 dungeon with the giant head at the end with the shrinking platform (don't want to give spoilers so no name). The healer seemed to know the place, but had a hard time avoiding some of AoE from the bosses and ended up dying three times. Everyone was kind about it though, no blaming or vote kick. The tank actually nearly soloed one of the bosses after everyone else was down. Definitely not a speed run, and on the last boss everyone stayed alive the second attempt but we were very nearly out of space. I guess losing safe places to stand is kind of a soft enrage.

[kijukitten]

so i was in a duty roulette 50/60/70 and SE restricted my account for buying a reward earlier that day, then they 90kd me. my friend told them what was going on, i log back in then they kick me from the duty.

[Ilenya]

Just got out of the level 80 dungeon with the giant head at the end with the shrinking platform (don't want to give spoilers so no name). The healer seemed to know the place, but had a hard time avoiding some of AoE from the bosses and ended up dying three times. Everyone was kind about it though, no blaming or vote kick. The tank actually nearly soloed one of the bosses after everyone else was down. Definitely not a speed run, and on the last boss everyone stayed alive the second attempt but we were very nearly out of space. I guess losing safe places to stand is kind of a soft enrage.

Frankly, I still have no idea if you can tell which side the AoEs come from for that one mechanic first.

[Liam_Harper]

Reached the lv80 Trial today. The first round of blue circles wipes out the entire raid bar me and one healer.

That's perfectly fine in itself. Learning mistakes, all good. The healer asks in party chat if everyone understood what wiped the group (respect for that) and while I'm still typing myself, one tank wordlessly starts an immediate pull timer, another dps pulls 4 seconds into it and off they go. Zero communication.

That just annoys me. It doesn't speed the run, you learn nothing. I left and learned they were still in there half an hour later.

[kidalutz]

Reached the lv80 Trial today. The first round of blue circles wipes out the entire raid bar me and one healer.

That's perfectly fine in itself. Learning mistakes, all good. The healer asks in party chat if everyone understood what wiped the group (respect for that) and while I'm still typing myself, one tank wordlessly starts an immediate pull timer, another dps pulls 4 seconds into it and off they go. Zero communication.

That just annoys me. It doesn't speed the run, you learn nothing. I left and learned they were still in there half an hour later.

At least you didnt get the beloved did any of you all watch the video 2 days into actual game release like some other trial.