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

[Morningstar1337]

Alright so I ran Mt Gulg thrice to cap NIN...

• The first trip was riddled with lag problems so severe I DC's as many times as I ran the dungeon, on all three bosses in the same run and thus missed out on most the drops and the mob EXP.
• The 2nd one, done much later, was a lot more smoothly and I managed to get a Forgiven's Coat of healing (unlike the metallic gear which suffered form ARR Matte Finish syndrome[except for the circlets], this coat is more of a lateral move form the other WOD-model-swap gear,missing out on only a gradient.
• 3rd one would up ran with a FC by pure chance, and we cleared with it being a little rought comapred to the last one, but still way better than the first run.

[Quintessa]

Something good to say for a change.

I suspect the 3 people in my group for the last story man dungeon really really hates that dungeon because this was some kind of mutant super team x_x. The first boss got deleted, the second boss didn't even spawn, or it felt like it didn't. Last boss was pretty smooth.

The big donkey kong pulls leading up to the last boss was something else for me however. My first time tanking it that place. I don't know what was up with the Mitochondria Eve wanna-be but she was way too freaking big. SE my screen isn't that big lol.

[Frizze]

Unlike the previous run, the tank only did single pull. Hmm, a tank with neo-ishgardian glamour/armor but still does single pull? Checked their info, just to see if it was their first tank job or something. Nope. All their tank classes at maxed including several other roles. WHM was Lv76 with appropriate gear so it wasn't the case undergeared healer. Speaking of the healer, they mostly stood there, waiting to cast Cure and sometimes throw stones and dot. Not a single Holy. I also had the feeling the BLM too, only used single target spells. Because again, the enemies took forever clear with a single one died faster than the rest. Since I am not familiar with BLM, I took note of the spells they cast so I could check after the dungeon was over.
Thunder, Blizzard, Fire.
...So yeah. Unless the Job Guide is wrong, the BLM only put dot then single target the entire time.

And this was Shisui? Level 63 Shisui? Unless you skipped some info, that BLM was not only using their single target they were using their single target from level 6-34. Single target at that level should include Bliz 3, Bliz 4, Fire 1, Fire 3, Fire 4, and Thunder 3. Bliz 1 should be used as little as possible(never being ideal), and Fire 1 should only be about every 3rd-5th fire spell. AoE for that level should include Thunder 2/4(depending on if they were level synced or not), Freeze, Fire 3, possibly Fire 2 and definitely Flare(double flare doesnt show up until level 68, so some filler F2s might not be wasted mana). Now as you can see, if you were only noting the first word of the spell cast and not its numeral then they could have been using the correct single target rotation(all those spells are either bliz fire or thunder). An AoE rotation without Freeze and Flare is wrong, but it still could have been aoe just using F2 and T2(hopefully they werent bad enough to try including bliz 2). Still, that hurts a bit. Youve had Flare and Freeze since 50 and 35, you should have learned about them well before Shisui. And Fire 4 is THE spell after 60. No excuse. Bad mage.

[Cheremia]

Can we please be able to call people out when they play absolutely awful? Without being the bad person? Of course in a nice way but please?

I didn't need a pharser to know how awful this samurai was. Level 80 samurai.

Using kenki on enpi. Spamming third eye, meditate on cooldown. All the off global skills were used off cooldown. Including buffs, arms, etc etc etc.

Not a single dot was used. Not a single Midare. An aoe every 20 attack at a trashpull, the poor tank(and me, the healer) pretty much almost ran out of cooldowns every pull because the samurai pulled... i don't know what.


I know enough about sam to know that THIS isn't it.

For people that know sams animation, here you go:
https://imgur.com/NTj6Vju
this is not it.

[AduroT]

Died tanking Nero. Didn’t get a single heal.

[Cincierta]

And this was Shisui? Level 63 Shisui? Unless you skipped some info, that BLM was not only using their single target they were using their single target from level 6-34. Single target at that level should include Bliz 3, Bliz 4, Fire 1, Fire 3, Fire 4, and Thunder 3. Bliz 1 should be used as little as possible(never being ideal), and Fire 1 should only be about every 3rd-5th fire spell. AoE for that level should include Thunder 2/4(depending on if they were level synced or not), Freeze, Fire 3, possibly Fire 2 and definitely Flare(double flare doesnt show up until level 68, so some filler F2s might not be wasted mana). Now as you can see, if you were only noting the first word of the spell cast and not its numeral then they could have been using the correct single target rotation(all those spells are either bliz fire or thunder). An AoE rotation without Freeze and Flare is wrong, but it still could have been aoe just using F2 and T2(hopefully they werent bad enough to try including bliz 2). Still, that hurts a bit. Youve had Flare and Freeze since 50 and 35, you should have learned about them well before Shisui. And Fire 4 is THE spell after 60. No excuse. Bad mage.

DX don't remind me of the 'oshi I forgot to do my job quests before this level' BLM I had in Shisui on my AST some time ago. I'm still traumatized by that.

[Quintessa]

Yeah so... seems to me in raids/trials other tanks wont let me main tank even if I vastly outgear them. They turn their stances on right after I situate the boss, and then proceed to build their coming ascension to the thrown. One guy didn't want to wait too long and just provoked the boss off me.

Sometimes I wanna main tank too you know, but I shan't be drawn in aggro wars. Make your mind up, don't wait for me to establish myself as main tank and then shat your pants real bad because you don't wanna be shown up or whatever reason there be for such aggro shenanigans.

Died tanking Nero. Didn’t get a single heal.

/comfort
It never feels good to die as a tank in an easy fight via no heals >_>

[HadesNight]

Died tanking Nero. Didn’t get a single heal.

Lol and to think, there is a post on front page that is asking about removing clemency and vercure... XD

[JohnSpawnVFX]

Lol and to think, there is a post on front page that is asking about removing clemency and vercure... XD

And to think there's 3 other tanks and 9 other DPS who go well without Clemency and Vercure XD

[HadesNight]

And to think there's 3 other tanks and 9 other DPS who go well without Clemency and Vercure XD

Lmao, woosh on the point, eh?

It's just if this tank was lucky to have Clemency at the moment or a RDM in the group at the time, they might have had a chance at saving themselves/living.