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

[Mhaeric]

Off-topic, but the quote in your sig. Wasn’t David Gaider the lead designer on Dragon Age?

Yes! It was from a response he made to a post on Bioware's Dragon Age 2 forum. The post was titled “Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic: The Straight Male Gamer” and included gems such as “it’s ridiculous that I even have to use a term like Straight Male Gamer, when in the past I would only have to say fans.” The Bioware forums no longer exist and the wayback machine doesn't work because it just recorded the language selection on that forum so it's not possible to link the original post, but someone documented it at the link below. I'm not sure if the bolding is theirs or if it was from the original posts. I suspect it was theirs, since I doubt Gaider would have bolded parts of his response like that.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/biowa...%20and%20male.

I've always been super proud of Bioware because I'm originally from Edmonton, was in University when they were starting their rise to fame with Baldur's Gate so know several people that worked on multiple major games in their franchises. E.g. the person who wrote a large part of Minsc and Boo's dialogue, a system's programmer for Baldur's Gate, a QA tester turned community manager, an intern on Baldur's Gate II, the face model for Yoshimo, etc. The company's willingness to be an advocate for diversity was a wonderful cherry on top. The only sour feelings I have about Bioware are that several of said friends were laid off during and after the EA acquisition. But that's an EA thing, not a Bioware thing in my book.

Edit: I googled the names of several of these friends, since I have lost touch with most of them and wanted to see what they were up to and take a trip down nostalgia lane. It turns out the fourth one on the list above was rather infamous in the Bioware blog/forum community. Knowing him personally made me laugh at all the stuff people posted about him. The dude is one of the most silliest, chill, happy-go-lucky guys I know with a crazy oddball sense of humour. Nothing what-so-ever like the persona he's given by the community.

[Morningstar1337]

On a more positive note, I've recently had an influx of sprouts in 567 roulette who are happy to hear advice on bosses or their jobs! ^v^

That's nice, though I usually refer to that roulette as "X0 Roulette" for future proofing reasons.

Also a reminder that you can edit your post to add more addendums

[Avatre]

Yesterday I got absolutely steamrolled in frontline. I was on adders, and before I knew it the score was:

650 flames
1080 maelstrom
80 adders

You can guess how well the rest went.

I've had the same happen a decent amount of times. I've also had it where it looks like we are going to lose(others are 600-800 points, and we are less than 200) but we turn it around for the win. Usually once people start saying to stick together, things get turned around.

[Lilyth]

Well I got a good one. This just shows how people can be jerks when they are accompanied by their friends.

MT Gulg leveling roulette as a SCH, was looking to get some free Materias. I look at the tank, Lvl.80 WAR with full 490 tome gear plus the Relic. Nice, it's gonna be a quick one right? Nope, tank proceeds to do single pulls. I sigh irl but say nothing else.
Since I got almost nothing to heal I'm literally full Art of War mode. Pack didn't die fast, I'm probably outdpsing the whole group, but nothing out of the ordinary since I'm fairly geared myself.

Second pull, one of them accidentally stepped too close to the breakable rocks and attracked three extra mobs. Maybe that will be enough to incentivize the tank, hopefully... who knows. But they go back to pulling single packs afterwards, and there are a lot of single packs on the first section of MT Gulg.

First boss, it's AoE eating festival. I had to rescue the Nin because they were eating literally every single explosion and even though they had 3 stacks I managed to keep them alive. Tank and the other DPS all had stacks too, but so far just your average pug group.

Next pull, small again. Instead of pulling those 4 wolves to the big wall head, tank stops. Literally nothing to heal again. At this point I'm just bored of pressing Art of War over and over again and I /sit on the side to take a screenshot. My fairy was literally enough to heal the tank at this point. Except that one time I stopped Art of War'ing the tank decided to man up and start talking. Here's how our little conversation went.



As you can see I asked the party to roll on loot so I could vote dismiss the harassing tank, I have zero tolerance for this sort of attitude. Except in this case they were all together and obviously refused to do so.
Anyway, I took my leave after one final, and much deserved, comment on the tank's proficiency with the job since they were so adamant to point out how I shouldn't have emoted during a trash pull. Even though no one was even close to dying, nor had died until that point, and I my DPS contribution wasn't bad either. Ignorance sure is blessing, but can also be a curse sometimes.

[Lium]

Er...you could have just asked the tank to pull more. I know it can be frustrating in a slow group like that, but sitting seems a little immature.

[Lilyth]

Er...you could have just asked the tank to pull more. I know it can be frustrating in a slow group like that, but sitting seems a little immature.

I didn't sit through the whole pull nor did I do it to be passive aggressive. I do take screenshots in DGs sometimes, and that seemed like a good spot since people clearly wanted to take things slow.

And to be honest, as soon as you start cursing at someone like that, you already lost all reason you had to begin with.

[Awha]

I didn't sit through the whole pull nor did I do it to be passive aggressive. I do take screenshots in DGs sometimes, and that seemed like a good spot since people clearly wanted to take things slow.

And to be honest, as soon as you start cursing at someone like that, you already lost all reason you had to begin with.

:P More patience then I. If that were me and they asked if I was good, I would have said nah, falling asleep over here. Though I am an ass.

[Quintessa]

I went in as a SuperTank in Haukke Manor and pulled the thing like it was Holminster Switch. I died 3 times before the healer finally spoke up LOL "Dude, I can't heal that fast." I didn't notice he was a conjurer still and level 29, so no cure 2. I responded with {Understood} and devolved from SuperTank mode.

[Mirhd]

Not a dungeon story, just in general.

While leveling SAM (no matter where I am), I keep forgetting the 10% increased damage role action ability (can't recall the old name, but DRG uses the old graphic now for Lance Charge) isn't a thing anymore, so I hit Bloodbath (because it's red... they were both red) and wondering why I'm not hitting slightly harder... then I remember... again. Pfffff... Thanks for nothing, brain. >_>

[SturmChurro]

Get back to me when you get a tank that not only does small pulls, singe targets, AND stand in every aoe known to man.