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

[Driavna]

My SCH went from 70-80 without a SINGLE weapon drop for him from a dungeon at all. I grinded my MNK, WHM, AST AND SCH all to 80 without a single, solitary SCH weapon dropping at all. Never underestimate how bad RNG can truly be.

Despite what people said the weapon (ILvL 400), compared to an NQ version from a regular vendor last way longer than armour. Personally, It's not something I really mind. However, I have to ask, no crafter friend? With the addition of treasure map dungeons all basic materials are super cheap and HQ a LvL 76 weapon is extremely easy.

[Cemil]

The last 3 Days Roulette i got Sastasha with me as DRG.
Tanks makes Mass pull and the lancer+me have only single Target Skills.
Is this effectively with the level 6 Tank AoE skill?

[Barraind]

My SCH went from 70-80 without a SINGLE weapon drop for him from a dungeon at all. I grinded my MNK, WHM, AST AND SCH all to 80 without a single, solitary SCH weapon dropping at all. Never underestimate how bad RNG can truly be.

Plus side, you really dont have to upgrade them as early this expansion. I didnt upgrade my tank stuff until 77/78, just because the gains weren't good enough to warrant going back to town.

Unlike Stormblood, we didnt get MASSIVE armor and vit boosts on gear, it stuck strictly to the projected ilvl gains, so the jump from aug scaeven to malikahs well is roughly the jump from scaeven to augmented scaeven.

[Driavna]

The last 3 Days Roulette i got Sastasha with me as DRG.
Tanks makes Mass pull and the lancer+me have only single Target Skills.
Is this effectively with the level 6 Tank AoE skill?

Yes, it is.

[Dogempire]

I really hate The Dying Gasp, not so much because it's a difficult trial, it's actually pretty amazing and I find it fun, but, pug players and the situations they seem to create in this trial just find a lot of new ways to irritate me when I get these trials.

I queued for trial roulette earlier and got a few new people, I don't really want to take super long with this trial but alright, just gonna have to let them go through the learning process, whatever.

Usual pug shenanigans were happening, healers eating vuln stacks, dying to the initial falling circles thinking they had to catch them, I'm just kind of autopiloting the trial and not screwing anything up.

A few attempts later we get to the final phase, this is good because we can just start over from phase 2. I'm not making mistakes at all but at some point the tank dies and I'm just eating 36k autoattacks to the face and die being 2nd on the emnity list and all. It happens I guess.

Well a minute or so later I finally get raised, but just my luck he starts the entire knockback attack just as I'm raising, and the cast is longer than the initial raise invincibility, so I pop arm's length and hope for the best, nope, the damage kills me. Oh well, bad luck.

After about 3 minutes or so of me being on the ground the newbie MCH dies and gets raised before me, now I'm kind of irritated at this point considering I haven't even made any mistakes since the trial started minus being second on the aggro list I guess. Finally I get a raise that comes my way and I pop it because things seem safe, but just my luck he starts the knockback mechanic again just as I'm raising, so I pop second wind and arm's length immediately after getting up but still die.

I get another raise pretty quickly at this point but honestly I'm really annoyed both at my luck and the fact that this could have been avoided if I don't know, they threw a raise my way even 10 seconds sooner?

Anyways, I have a lot of stories like this about The Dying Gasp and honestly I feel like the trial is just on the roulette to irritate me everytime I get it. Especially since for some reason the healers almost instantly threw a raise at the newbie MCH but ignored the guy in full pentamelded i450 gear with extreme trial items and savage accessories long enough for me to recharge another arm's length.

/rant

[Kobalos]

I caused a wipe on Ifrit normal. I visited my BF in Norway and unlocked WHM on my alt on his PS4. When I returned to the UK of course my hot bar on my console was all messed up so when I got Ifrit in a roulette my hot bars were all blank and the sprouts I was with died before I could get my skills up >.<

[Alteriius]

This has happened to me twice in roulettes: I keep running into tanks that toggle their stance on and off every single pull. Both times, I thought it was accidental at first, but they did it every pull. So weird.

[Moonfish]

I get another raise pretty quickly at this point but honestly I'm really annoyed both at my luck and the fact that this could have been avoided if I don't know, they threw a raise my way even 10 seconds sooner?

I would take some personal responsibility too, in this case with your bad timing at accepting raises. It sucks, yeah, but also could’ve been avoided if you timed it differently.

[SturmChurro]

I would take some personal responsibility too, in this case with your bad timing at accepting raises. It sucks, yeah, but also could’ve been avoided if you timed it differently.

I would have raised the machinist over him too.

[Rivxkobe]

Especially since for some reason the healers almost instantly threw a raise at the newbie MCH but ignored the guy in full pentamelded i450 gear with extreme trial items and savage accessories long enough for me to recharge another arm's length.

/rant

Your "rant" kind of proves that one's equipment doesn't really mean anything. You have Savage equipment so you should know better than to just accept the raise without paying attention to what mechanics are happening and if it is safe to do so. Also, your equipment doesn't mean you deserve a raise more.

Honestly, the whole raise thing was more your fault than the healers. It honestly doesn't matter when they get around to raising you, it's on you to time your rezz correctly. Also, sometimes healers can't afford to be throwing MP at someone who keeps dying immediately after raising.

I caused a wipe on Ifrit normal.

They must have been pretty squishy for them to die before you could set Cure. lmao

I've wiped on Ifrit Normal before. It's embarrassing, to say the least.