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

[Flay_wind]

So what happens when the BLU starts slowly dying? You get bad BLUs, who think they are awesome. Also brings back undergeared tanks flashbacks. I don't expect Angel Whisper from an averge BLU, but at least basic things like Ram's Voice, Song of Torment, Eruption?
Please learn some essential spells before doing BLU content, because honestly, i do not want to carry those BLUs.

[Mahoukenshi]

I had for the first time ever today a CM run where the whole party wiped during the first big trash pull before the first boss xD. Furthermore, it feels like at least 3 players where mentally afk and/or didn't know or bothered what they were doing. Maybe it's the post-holdiay letargy or whatever, but oof. The BLM who thought it was okay to attract yandere ladys attacks near the missle pod (or didn't bother with it), a SCH who let the fairy do the work for them and only casted ruin...

[Rhus]

So what happens when the BLU starts slowly dying? You get bad BLUs, who think they are awesome. Also brings back undergeared tanks flashbacks. I don't expect Angel Whisper from an averge BLU, but at least basic things like Ram's Voice, Song of Torment, Eruption?
Please learn some essential spells before doing BLU content, because honestly, i do not want to carry those BLUs.

Yoshi-P is probably framing this comment as we speak in Squenix HQ with a notice stating "They think we know not what we do but This is why they can't have nice things."

I guess that comment is ecactly why blu cannot do DF.

[Tlamila]

First expert roulette run, got Twinning, and it was only my second time there and we were happy to get a fast easy dungeon.
At the first boss, the healer keeps freeing the adds to the point we wipe. I tell him not to stand near the globes when targetted because that does it, thinking it was just some lack of knowledge, and we got back. He keeps doing it, and this time even pretty much doesn't heal at all. As RDM I try to keep things going with ressing and healing in the meantime, but of course I knew that was terribly wrong. So after another healer suicide, we just wiped and kicked the troll.
I wish i had reported him to be honest, because there's no way that wasn't on purpose.

[Kuro_Mao]

As soon as the wall drops tanks just run in mainly to 8 person boss only fights. no countdown, no preparation they just go. As a DNC main, with my characters across Primal Aether and crystal I have noticed it usually only a primal thing. Why is primal so backwards in its ways?

[Jimmymagic]

As soon as the wall drops tanks just run in mainly to 8 person boss only fights. no countdown, no preparation they just go. As a DNC main, with my characters across Primal Aether and crystal I have noticed it usually only a primal thing. Why is primal so backwards in its ways?

this happens on all servers and you have time to communicate before wall drops to let tank know you want a check and/or countdown if you don't say anything then tank should not wait imo. Not everybody has a lot of time dilly dally on others.

Now if someone asks tank to not pull right away and wants countdown and the tank pulls anyway that's a dick move on the tank.

[Alvor]

As soon as the wall drops tanks just run in mainly to 8 person boss only fights. no countdown, no preparation they just go. As a DNC main, with my characters across Primal Aether and crystal I have noticed it usually only a primal thing. Why is primal so backwards in its ways?

I play in Crystal and I can count on my fingers how many times people used countdowns on trials pulls. I've never deemed it necessary, though, especially in old content.

[tdb]

A funny thing happened in Labyrinth of the Ancients (alliance raids roulette). Everything went smoothly until the last boss, where we wiped on the second ancient flare. I threw a sarcastic "well done" in alliance chat and thought nothing much of it. On the next try I was inexplicably rescued towards A's side on the first ancient flare (I was in C). I instantly changed directions and helped A beat their adds, and we defeated the boss in short order. I have no idea if the A healers were trying to get back at me for my comment or if they just mistargeted while trying to rescue one of their own members.

[Bright-Flower]

I rarely do countdowns honestly unless it's in new content, or if the party has wiped and we're going at it again. At least for normal mode trials etc, if I was doing ex then yeah I'd give a countdown. I remember back in SB when farming O12 normal for shafts for a glamour, (this was in late 4.55) I was tanking and just pulled. The ninja was like 'no cooldown no shadewalker' and I was just like 'okay don't need it anyway.'

As someone said above though, if someone asks for a countdown I'll do one, or if someone's new and wants tips I'll stop to explain things, but if it's in older content and nobody's saying they're new and asking for tips etc I'll generally just pull to get it over with.

[Noitems]

I play in Crystal and I can count on my fingers how many times people used countdowns on trials pulls. I've never deemed it necessary, though, especially in old content.

I agree. As a tank in that type of content you really don't need one as most people will wing it. Same with dungeon bosses and normal raids.

The only time I ever see a countdown in normal content (where it makes sense to me) is really in new content mainly alliance raids. Since some of them can kill a whole alliance in in a couple of seconds if not handled right.