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

[FedoraTheExplorer]

Imagine thinking "doing AV 20 times in a week" is a brag. Clearly didn't read my post because what I experienced was chaos in its purest form. Too busy defending lazy people.

[Rita1989]

Imagine thinking "doing AV 20 times in a week" is a brag. Clearly didn't read my post because what I experienced was chaos in its purest form. Too busy defending lazy people.

Who is bragging?

I just think your a toxic player though and all your response have validated that.

[FedoraTheExplorer]

I'm toxic for not wanting a tank to show up in level 1 accessories. Was it also toxic of me when I asked him to put tank stance on. Was I being toxic when I left for valuing my sanity.

[SturmChurro]

I'm toxic for not wanting a tank to show up in level 1 accessories. Was it also toxic of me when I asked him to put tank stance on. Was I being toxic when I left for valuing my sanity.

Heck to the no. Sometimes you just get too old for that poop. I left multiple AVs under very similar circumstances yesterday. It's annoying, and consistent. No sane person got the time to explain the fight(s) over and over and over. Not worth the effort. Rather eat the 30 minute penalty than spending 36 minutes in some dungeon nowadays.

Who have all approached each encounter with some common sense, instead of willy nillying everywhere and aggroing the entire room, you got lucky, and you know it lol.

LMAO one of the AVs I left yesterday had a tank with no tank stance aggroeing every mob in the room ONE BY ONE, AND MAKING ME HEAL THE WHOLE PARTY BECAUSE HE COULDN'T HOLD AGGRO. I was like yeah nah... LOL!

[Kallistra]

Admittedly, I haven't been spending very much time in XIV. Quarantine has put me in a bit of a funk and I've been finding it difficult to enjoy games right now. That being said, my wife finally convinced me to do some mount farming with her and it was probably the most fun I've had in a while.

We joined a Lakshami EX party and we got everyone their dogs and we even got a few of the tanks their tank mounts (including myself, I apparently was quite close to the first GNB mount). Everyone was friendly and chatty in the times we were waiting for the party to fill up. It was a really good time, I'm glad I decided to go. If anyone in those runs sees this, thank you guys for the good time.

[Limonia]

I'm currently leveling some DPS classes, so we did a leveling roulette as DRG and WHM. We got into Sohm Al.

The tank pulled the first two enemies. The NIN quickly used Doton, and, as the tank proceeded to pull more, he used Katon. And then, this:

And he was gone. So weird. I mean, he DID use his AoE ninjutsu, I saw them. So why would anyone who has ONLY a DPS class leveled refuse to do more than single pulls? He must have left so many dungeons by now.

[Vyrerus]

The actual boost from the rings is so negligible you might as well wear them up to 50 and the MSQ gives you 0 accessories anyways so not even SE thought they worthwhile enough to include them as rewards.

This is blatant misinformation. It'd be like saying you shouldn't wear boots because they give less of a boost than your leg gear. Accessories do make an impact. Not at every tier of accessory upgrade, but you will notice a difference between level 1 accessories and level 40 ones. That's an entire body piece worth of main stat and VIT, which is big for the pre-50 level range.

While the MSQ offers you no accessories, they are supposed to incentivize you to do sidequests. You can buy them relatively cheap at NPCs too, in any city state ever since they updated vendors in the city states to have up to level 49 NQ gear of all types for all slots.

And another reason they aren't given to you as a main reward is the game's lowkey way of teaching you what is most important gear wise. Notice most early quests in he MSQ and your class quests reward weapons first, then body, then leg, then extremities? The quests try to help you out as a guideline, but they ultimately can't play the game for you or make you make the right decisions play wise.

Just cause they ain't a necessity doesn't mean we should accept laziness or endorse carelessness with gearing as you go. It's fine if you're experienced and rolling an alt, but if you're new, you should be trying to gear up as best you can as you go so you can give it your most earnest effort.

[Kuroka]

Just cause they ain't a necessity doesn't mean we should accept laziness or endorse carelessness with gearing as you go. It's fine if you're experienced and rolling an alt, but if you're new, you should be trying to gear up as best you can as you go so you can give it your most earnest effort.

And we vets on alts should still be the good example and try to gear up, or else you end up with ppl having barely the min ilvl for stuff which makes things sometimes so painfully slow... And im rly gettin sick of lv 70+ chars on 60 stuff lol

[Rita1989]

This is blatant misinformation. It'd be like saying you shouldn't wear boots because they give less of a boost than your leg gear. Accessories do make an impact. Not at every tier of accessory upgrade, but you will notice a difference between level 1 accessories and level 40 ones. That's an entire body piece worth of main stat and VIT, which is big for the pre-50 level range.

While the MSQ offers you no accessories, they are supposed to incentivize you to do sidequests. You can buy them relatively cheap at NPCs too, in any city state ever since they updated vendors in the city states to have up to level 49 NQ gear of all types for all slots.

And another reason they aren't given to you as a main reward is the game's lowkey way of teaching you what is most important gear wise. Notice most early quests in he MSQ and your class quests reward weapons first, then body, then leg, then extremities? The quests try to help you out as a guideline, but they ultimately can't play the game for you or make you make the right decisions play wise.

Just cause they ain't a necessity doesn't mean we should accept laziness or endorse carelessness with gearing as you go. It's fine if you're experienced and rolling an alt, but if you're new, you should be trying to gear up as best you can as you go so you can give it your most earnest effort.

Maybe a long time ago you did sidequest but the current structure for the MSQ gives enough xp that doing that while doing roulettes is more then enough to reach level 50 in fact most of the time you out level MSQ quest themselves most newer players wont have a need to do side quests and the ARR side quest are not on the level of HW onwards in term of story.


I just checked the city vendor and they still offer only up to 29 which gives you a whole 1 extra vitality and the difference from going from level 1 to level 39 in terms of vitality is about 29 hp per ring so about 145 hp for all slots and cost approximately 40k on the auction house, about 40k to not even take 1 extra auto attack from a mob in AV I checked and they auto attack from 200-300. I get you want don't want new players to be lazy but they should 100% be focusing on the left side pre 50 and only equipping right side when they drop.

[Flay_wind]

So, i had i an interesting run in Dohn Mheg yesterday. I am on PLD, other team members are MCH, SAM and WHM the Star (with the capital S) of our (shit)show.
At first i forgot to turn on the tank stance, and we wiped, i apologized, turned it on and then pulled 2 starter packs as usual.
Then i noticed, that despite me using my CDs i am getting really low and i am not sure why. Then i hear Cure sound. And pretty much nothing but it. I expect Holy. Not a single one through out the whole run. No Asylum, no Assize. Occasional Afflatus Solace. Also Benediction when i am at 60%. The run continued at a snail's pace due to Cure spam and almost no damage whatsoever. I think i saw Dia used twice and rarely a glare. Oh, and Afflatus misery a couple times as well.
For the second boss they kept putting Regen on everyone, but me. There were several wipes, because sometimes i'd pull an extra group hoping we'd manage it, but no. Also our MCH was using AoE rather sparingly, like when there were only 7+ enemies, which happened only on that big bee pack. And that was kinda rare because i had to pull really small just to stay alive with our Cure spam WHM.
Overall it took 37 minutes, and Trusts would have been faster.