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

[Meillquei]

Just had a particularly bad run of Orbonne.

We had three new people, one of them was a healer.

So much death on the first boss. I as a RDM pretty much had to use Lucid Dreaming and Verraise on cooldown. Because there were so many deaths, the boss ended up using Analysis three times. Never seen that before.

The rest of the run I also had to use Lucid Dreaming on cooldown because both healers, our BRD (they had a name that poked fun at the fact that they died frequently, haha), and our SMN kept dying to almost every mechanic. My poor MP was struggling to keep up the whole run. The other alliances kept teasing my group because of it. Fortunately, the other groups were also pitching in to keep up with the rezzes on us.

Second boss was a struggle, but we managed to kill it without too much difficulty.

Thunder God was a mess. Healers didn't know about the one attack he does where he cuts your HP down to one and you have to heal everyone back to full (forget the name). So we lost people to that the first time. Constant vulnerability stacks on everyone. People not standing in the glowy circles. Ice add blew up because half our group wasn't attacking it. Fortunately we got it down though.

Last boss was surprisingly smooth for once. Once the last boss was down though, we of course had to wait for the full duration of the loot timer because someone didn't roll. Ugh.

Bolted out of there as fast as I could. Ended up with three commendations.

[AduroT]

It's that building Between Aleport and Sasstasia.

That’s explains the Limsa aesthetic. I had initially tended to do the trials via the smith in Limsa so didn’t thing much of it, but later when I did some thru Ul’dan thought it was slightly odd.

[Quintessa]

So, there is a realization that I have had a long time coming, but only recently fully acknowledged to myself: I am bad at high end Final Fantasy duties.

This isn't me fishing for pity, but me accepting this fact and getting these thoughts out here. What really caused this realization was me playing Eden. I didn't have the reflexes to keep up with the new mechanics, and I died a lot. One of the people in the party told the healer "Do not raise them, it's not worth the trouble".

And you know what? It's true. I don't want to be a dead weight to other people. But I do not have the skill right now to do the Eden raids. But this doesn't mean I'm going to stop playing FFXIV. I am still going to level other jobs, like WHM and DRK. So I'd still like to help people whenever possible!

Memorization. Memorize the fights, know what's coming before hand and you'll be able to think faster than the server.

[Tlamila]

Don't worry. If you were to encounter me in PoTD and you started going for chests I wouldn't say anything in chat. I'd just tab out at the exit.

shrug and if you encountered me while doing that I would just kick. See, it can go two ways.

[Lilyth]

So, there is a realization that I have had a long time coming, but only recently fully acknowledged to myself: I am bad at high end Final Fantasy duties.

Don't say that!
Anyone can be amazing at this game. All you need is just a little more practice, a little more insight on how some mechs work so you can see them coming.

I'd love to tag along with you on some Eden fights too, but unfortunately I'm not on Crystal. Bummer.

[Avidria]

Nit-picking, but that's actually an indicator of a crappy DPS in my opinion because all they had to do was use diversion and suddenly they had no aggro problems at all unless the tank was messing up. Even poor DPS players could rip hate off a tank if they weren't using diversion, you didn't need to be doing good DPS to rip hate. So yeah it was the bad DPS, not the good ones, who were ripping hate because they were not using their aggro management tools.

In most cases yeah but I did have at least one instance that comes to mind where I was using it pretty much on cooldown while even waiting a few seconds at the start of pulls and STILL ripping off the tank I had. Was waaay back in HW so I don't remember what dungeon it was, but it was definitely possible for it to still be a case of a tank doing god even knows what wrong. Looking back, he had to have been just single targeting or something. It was always aoe packs.

[SturmChurro]

shrug and if you encountered me while doing that I would just kick. See, it can go two ways.

Oh! I'm shaking in my boots! I'd gladly take your kick.. I'd find a new queue and finish it faster than staying and clearing every room for chests. What a waste of time. In fact I'd rather be kicked. Please if you are going to chest farm.. please get me out of there without a penalty.

Get your own premade and queue if you want to do some stupid achievement run. Force your playstyle on me with the threat of a kick. Get 'outta here.



In fact, I'm the type of person who would just leave if I got threatened to "help" or kick. I've done it before. So, don't worry you wouldn't even have to kick me. After I leave I can reevaluate my time and do something else. I've done it many times before. "Help" smh Farming chests? lol Imagine farming chests in PoTD.

[gumas]

just got party in malikah well and OH GOD tank, please dont do this kind of play style, at least when someone ask you nicely at least reply dont just stay quiet.

tank grab mob (1 mob) and start as usual, but the moment mob hp drop to 30%, tank just start sprint and grab next mob, repeat until boss.

please dont do this, especially when there is BLM in your party, that kind of grab and go is definitely not friendly toward casting class. either you pull 1 and finish the mob or go and grab all the way until boss or end of the road.

[Quintessa]

Oh! I'm shaking in my boots! I'd gladly take your kick.. I'd find a new queue and finish it faster than staying and clearing every room for chests. What a waste of time. In fact I'd rather be kicked. Please if you are going to chest farm.. please get me out of there without a penalty.

Get your own premade and queue if you want to do some stupid achievement run. Force your playstyle on me with the threat of a kick. Get 'outta here.



In fact, I'm the type of person who would just leave if I got threatened to "help" or kick. I've done it before. So, don't worry you wouldn't even have to kick me. After I leave I can reevaluate my time and do something else. I've done it many times before. "Help" smh Farming chests? lol Imagine farming chests in PoTD.

Don't they raise stats and also provide buffs for the floor boss though?

[Cincierta]

Don't worry. If you were to encounter me in PoTD and you started going for chests I wouldn't say anything in chat. I'd just tab out at the exit.

Actually it's kind of a bad idea to tab out at the exit in PoTD, especially if the party isn't there yet. I've seen mobs spawn on the exit and immediately just roflstomp the afker. It's actually kinda funny to watch if you ever happen upon it.