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

[DubiousDisk]

Just a quick complaint but...

SE should SERIOUSLY add a mandatory tutorial of sorts for anyone who purchases a level boost, that teaches them of their job, the basics of what certain skills do, and what their role is in a normal dungeon.

Ever since those boost went on sale, I have had consistently bad parties in ShB normal dungeons thanks to players who clearly do not know how to play their classes, I don't mind level boost, I am so neutral against them, but a tutorial should be enforced, especially for healers and tanks.

There's only so much explaining I can do after several wipes that at which point its just the players fault for not learning their job before entering a dungeon. Holminster being the worst offense thanks to being the first ShB dungeon and level jump players just going in blindly without atleast looking up what their job can do.

[Averax]

Just a quick complaint but...

SE should SERIOUSLY add a mandatory tutorial of sorts for anyone who purchases a level boost, that teaches them of their job, the basics of what certain skills do, and what their role is in a normal dungeon.

Ever since those boost went on sale, I have had consistently bad parties in ShB normal dungeons thanks to players who clearly do not know how to play their classes, I don't mind level boost, I am so neutral against them, but a tutorial should be enforced, especially for healers and tanks.

There's only so much explaining I can do after several wipes that at which point its just the players fault for not learning their job before entering a dungeon. Holminster being the worst offense thanks to being the first ShB dungeon and level jump players just going in blindly without atleast looking up what their job can do.

What's really wild is the amount of new players who just don't use the trusts.

[Lium]

During a Praetorium run.

DPS: Who's the elezen with the glasses and the jeans?

Healer: Oh, that's me.

DPS: You look like my mom.

Hilarity ensued for the rest of the run.

[Averax]

During a Praetorium run.

DPS: Who's the elezen with the glasses and the jeans?

Healer: Oh, that's me.

DPS: You look like my mom.

Hilarity ensued for the rest of the run.

When you need to take down an evil empire but your mom says you need a chaperone.

[einschwartz]

Pleasant times leveling my tank jobs (GNB/DRK) this week.
I've had several instances from Leveling Roulette (includes AV) where I taught sprout healers that Cure 3 is not a better single target heal. Don't be afraid to use Cure 2 if they need to heal more instead of just hoping for the free Cure 2 proc. They all warmly accepted the advises and became a better healer. As a healer main, this makes me feel warm inside.

Then Mt Gulg. I've been careful and did single pulls because most of my gear and weapons were still Lv77 from previous dungeon. Only had pitiful 3-4 pieces from the current one. On my 4th run, was paired with a leveling AST who encouraged me to pull more. So I started double pull. The AST did great not only keeping me topped off, but also throw cards and spam gravity (I miss playing AST...). Definitely the most safest I've felt while doing at-level dungeons as a tank.

For a not so pleasant story, in one of my Expert run (as dps) there was a healer who used Cure (!!!!) to heal during trash pulls. No Holy. They used all oGCD (tetra, lillies, bene..) to heal the tank then resort to Cure. Maybe Cure 2 when it procs. Thankfully we had PLD so the tank Clemency himself to stay alive. Tried to communicate with the healer but probably due to language barrier they didn't understand and still use Cure whenever they have no ogcd left. At least they know Medica 2 is a HoT Aoe though.

[Ammokkx]

Holy shit I just had a fever dream of a Sastasha run.

I'm levelling arcanist, so I was on 15. Level 60 Paladin in ironworks, level 47 white mage and level 25 rogue. The white mage had some DPS that I forgot at a decently high level while the rogue had a level 70 black mage.

You'd think, even though they had a sprout, that with people this highly levelled, the dungeon would go smooth.

Nah fam.

Tank was doing single mob pulls despite me and them having an AoE. Rogue was only throwing daggers and not using his extremely basic rotation. I go look at the scroll and type 'blue' so everyone knows what the correct color is.

Tank types "what?" and I don't think much of it, so I just explain I mean the corals. Once we get to clams, tank isn't using his AoE to pull all the glowy wisp things so some get on me and the healer. Speaking of the healer, they're asleep at the keyboard because the tank kept getting dangerously low all the way up until the first miniboss, and I was always the one who had to heal him. This trend continued all the way up to Madison. Rogue was still not using his combo. I notice that the healer doesn't apply Aero on madison, nor did they on the previous boss. We get to the central room. Tank blindly stumbles around and checks almost every room, I ask "what are you doing?" and get a reply of "I don't remember where the key is"

Sastasha is so straightforward so I'm baffled at this point and started looking at their levels, finding what I described above. I think "how is this happening" and try to jump in front of the captain'd quarters to hopefully get the tank to pull the two mobs. They run off. I get impatient, solo the mobs and open the door. Tank still clueless, so I pull the reaver all the way to them and end up dying from it. Finally they kill it as I get back to the room and figure out that waverider key on waverider door = progress, so we go on ahead to the second madison.

Tank dies on madison.

You think the white mage used res, by the by? Nah, fam, I had to wait the full 8 seconds on ascension since I didn't have swiftcast yet. Keep in mind I'm a DPS; if I'd been playing literally anything other than Arcanist we'd be so much more screwed. So I get the tank up and now everyone's low because the healer isn't healing, so I somehow manage to top everyone off while tank keeps aggro. I spam heal the tank for the rest of the fight since I stopped trusting our allegedly 47 white mage. The room before the boss the tank clears out every mob, but otherwise it goes smoothly and I'm finally done with that nightmare.

I wouldn't be this frustrated if they were like 20-something players and they just happened to have gotten to that part in the story... but they weren't. Each of them had a class higher than level 60, they should not have been nearly as clueless as they were.

[DubiousDisk]

What's really wild is the amount of new players who just don't use the trusts.

Well, in that party I mentioned, the tank and the healer were clearly together(same last name), so they couldn't for obvious reasons, but yea most new players should just stick to trust honestly.

[SturmChurro]

What's a trust again?

[Rymm]

most new players should just stick to trust honestly.

Oof. This hurts right down to my bones. The mentality that new players to a Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game should stick to solo content just makes me want to weep for the community.

[DubiousDisk]

Oof. This hurts right down to my bones. The mentality that new players to a Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game should stick to solo content just makes me want to weep for the community.

Trust are literally there for players who don't want to be a detriment to the party and want to learn mechanics at a decent pace, whilst progressing through the game. They literally auto walk and set up for mechanics on their own.

There is absolutely nothing toxic with what I suggested, SE put trust in for a reason, cry more.