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

[znushu]

Yesterday I was in Bozja just doing my normal when Castrum Lacus Litore popped.

I entered and joined a random group but the group was a tad unorganized. We first were told we were going top but then we were told we were going bot. On the prisoner phase, i'll admit that I forgot my East and West and went NE instead of NW but I rejoined the party and we saved 2 prisoners, the one NW and W, East didn't save their prisoner though which caused someone to ask in all caps "who screwed up". Things went relatively smoothly for the next boss encounter but it was at the final boss encounter where things hit the fan. Before we pulled the boss there was major confusion over who was going top since 2 groups were on the left and both were acting like they were going top, the lead for my group was on the left side along with 2 other people. It was ultimately decided that my group would go top and so the boss was pulled. When we were on top while we did the mechanics ok, the damage we were putting out wasn't enough and so we wiped it two times, I was just tanking the boss. On the second time we were going up top one of our party members d/ced due to pc issues but told the party to find a new party member before they d/ced, the lead never did and instead just left them in the party. They ended up reconnecting just a few seconds before we had to go uptop but their skills were still on c/d. After the second wipe the other party that wanted to go up top did so and our party lead and 2 other people joined them. They managed to kill it and the rest of the party (4 people) stayed bottom and had no real issue and castrum was beat. I later asked why we failed top so much since I was unsure and it was pointed out to me by the other remainders of that top party that it was due to failing the dps check.

overall I found this to be an interesting lesson in how one unorganized party can create a domino effect and cause more issues for all involved.

[Packetdancer]

In the case where I'm marked and rolling in as healer, I actually wish there's a role skill that works the opposite of [Rescue]: yeet player away from me

(Of course I'm just joking about the Yeet skill!)

I mean, there's the infamous joking "Yeet" skill already:



...but allow me to also suggest my own additions. First, another for healer mains such as myself, a useful skill with laying out a salt circle:



...and for general use...

[Morningstar1337]

If you're gonna prevent BLMs from returning to Ley Lines, then I suggests adding the following effect:

"Removes Ley Lines status from target, inflicts Artist's Block

Artist's Block: Grants Damage Down. If Between The Lines is used, Grants Doom.

Duration:15 seconds. Doom: 3 seconds"

:^)

[Ilenya]

2. I am marked and somebody decides that stacking with me is a good idea while I already made an attempt to isolate myself.

I may be the only person who actually just jumps off when marked. If he doesn't suck anyone up, he doesn't do the follow-up cone knockback, and if people are on top of the buttons, you get back up faster than if you let yourself sucked up.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

I may be the only person who actually just jumps off when marked. If he doesn't suck anyone up, he doesn't do the follow-up cone knockback, and if people are on top of the buttons, you get back up faster than if you let yourself sucked up.

Protip: Jumping off doesn't always work for the succ but standing directly under him when he does Shockwave ensures you will not be knocked off without wasting a Surecast or...True North for melee? Can't remember.

But yeah. Stand under the atomos for that and you'll be safe--just barely.

[Veis_Alveare]

Protip: Jumping off doesn't always work for the succ but standing directly under him when he does Shockwave ensures you will not be knocked off without wasting a Surecast or...True North for melee? Can't remember.

But yeah. Stand under the atomos for that and you'll be safe--just barely.

If you jump off and are over there edge before the attack "hits" it works 100% of the time. Just like tons of attacks in this game it's about understanding when the snapshot happens.

In that case it's very safe to just jump off early anyways, it's not as if it's so tight a dps check that you can't lose an extra GCD or two.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

If you jump off and are over there edge before the attack "hits" it works 100% of the time. Just like tons of attacks in this game it's about understanding when the snapshot happens.

In that case it's very safe to just jump off early anyways, it's not as if it's so tight a dps check that you can't lose an extra GCD or two.

You just have to be over the edge before the marker disappears. If you're not, he still does it and my experience has been that even among the people that know the trick, the timing is often missed due to positioning and the random targeting.

Same with Shockwave too but the cast is longer and thus slightly more forgiving to people who need to get into position. I usually just camp under him to make sure someone is up to activate the seals so people can get back up.

I've actually experienced a wipe to that mechanic. This Expac. Something I was amazed to witness. WoD is always an adventure. Lol.

[Seddrinth]

It's amazing to me how many people have ZERO situational awareness for the Atomos fight in WoD.

Most players in this game have zero situational awareness to be honest.

[Enla]

I've been trying to level MNK recently because I need a melee at 80 and only just now remembered why I dropped the class like a hot potato back in ARR. It's not even the Greased Lightning issues or how bad of a spot the class is in right now. No, it's the ADHD tanks who can't. stay. STILL. Please I'm begging you, you don't need to jump around like a drop of water of a scalding skillet. Just stay in the same general area when dodging mechanics before moving back into your former place. Why is this so difficult? Why? I'm popping True North like it's candy every time it's coming off cooldown these days because 1/3 tanks doesn't understand the basic concept of melee positionals and is often spinning the boss in the middle of my combos.

To all the other melee players out there I want to sincerely apologize for the times I've been this tank, because now I understand your pain and this is karma coming back to bite me.

[Nekaru_Infitima]

So having mained Summoner since I started the game and only training other classes at endgame in order to level them all to 80.
I finally took my first steps into that free Scholar they give us.... Because every time I run maps people always assume "You can heal right" >.> Like summoner means we're automatically trained as scholar.

After doing hall of novice and class quests, and a some overworld. I finally decided to take it into a dungeon to practice. Did leveling roulette thinking it'd give me a nice low dungeon as I always seem to get stuck with.

...Nah it threw me into Holminster Switch

I felt sooo bad for my party. I explained to them I was new at the class but they wanted to keep going, and they did small pulls but even then there were so many deaths and the last boss I and one DPS died and the tank and other DPS had to deal with it alone...

I don't know how many times I apologized, but they were cool with it X_X

And before you say it. YES I did read guides and looked up vids on the class. But that doesn't mean I can memorize everything I read and practiced in the heat of battle the first few dungeons.