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

[Infindox]

I need to get into higher content but i feel like it's too late to start looking for people to join me. But the normal dungeons and raids bore the crap out of me. I'm either thinking about moving servers to find raiders or start my own... it's either that or taking a stupid long break. But expert and the rouls aren't doing it for me anymore. I need something more. Like I used to hate healing because I was scared.. now it's my first go too. ( my poor sam main ) anyone got any advice on what it sounds like or am I'm just tapped out? This might be a stupid question and sorry if it is .. but I didn't want to make a new topic just for this so I'm writing it here. :c

What data center are you on? Some data centers have a lesser pool of people raiding then others. If you're looking to do extremes, you can just pug those, but remember that most groups expect you to know at least a bit of the fight from watching a video on it beforehand, unless they specify "practice group" or say they will help. You can even start your own PF on things you want to try.
Savage may be hit or miss for you depending on where you are at. It IS possible to just join groups, watch videos, and pug with others, but this can lead to frustration if you get people who just don't understand or shouldn't be there to begin with. I also dont know if you are in an fc, but consider looking for an fc that is active and does content including raiding. You could also find a Discord server and look for content.
If you are actually burnt out though, it's okay to take a break. I haven't been playing lately much myself and catching up on other things during this lull of content.

[Lynesse]

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I went BLU because of this, actually.

I had a static, and almost everyone burned out really early into our prog, so I was left with the choice to either rebuild or play another Ys game on Nightmare/Inferno.

But what I really wanted was to grow as an FFXIV player and appreciate the game more. The "appreciating the game more" part is really important.

I feel like there's so much to love and explore in this game, but someone wants to lock me in a room instead and force me to run on a treadmill.

That's what made BLU interesting: I can do all of this other content with a full rotation, on my own, and no treadmill (since the gear we get right away is extremely powerful).

BLU can solo a lot of content right now, and it's been way more challenging than anything else I've done. It really has made me a better player too. Suzaku normal is nothing, until you're soloing her at 20% echo for her skill, which is 30 minutes of perfect play.

It's also made me realize how much I get away with in other content.

[Genbe197]

Recently I keep getting tanks in sastasha who are completely naked, who don't listen to anything and who spam provoke.

[Avatre]

Had a WAR in WoD the other day that claimed to hate tanking the place...yet when one of the two GNB in the other alliances would provoke off of them they would provoke right back within a half second. Why, when you can EASILY see that the other two tanks are willing to tank it, would you bother doing that if you hate being the MT there? We also wiped on Cerberus because only myself and 3 others went into the stomach, and ended up dying due to not enough damage to the walls. After the wipe, the WAR - who was in alliance B with me - said they didn't go into the stomach because they were MT.

[Maerwen]

Oh I had this one run in Praetorium. I que'd as a SCH. I was paired with a whm. We have 4 dragoons, a new tank, and a returner tank.

It was weird. The dragoons weren't bad, except getting cleaved by the first boss quite a lot. But none of them died.

The whm, however, died on thrash pulls, on areas where we sprint and sacrifice a tank or both.

Anyways, put it this way. WHM used Stone the entire run. No medica, no heal. No Holy.
Just Stone, stone, stone, dead, stone, dead, stone....
Needless to say, after my 4th time raising her, I left her dead.
She got mad at me, in which she accused me of DPSing only. Not gonna lie, I threw in my dots, but thats only when I dont have to heal the tank or the DPS. I told her if she wants to DPS, at least keep herself alive.

[Mirhd]

... Don't you just love it when tanks don't pick up adds on Cerberus, and just whack them instead, no provoke or stance, watching your healer butt getting eaten alive? Yeah... me too... >_>

Edit: Oh, and, ya know, tanks keeping Shiva facing the party so she cleaves us, resulting in a near wipe, but say nothing. That one was amusing, at least, but the Cerberus thing gets my goat.

[Cincierta]

Yesterday I decided to get more spells on an alt for BLU, and got into a PF setup looking for help getting primal spells since I needed some of them.

Woo boy I didn't realize this would end up being a hell of a farming run for all of the blus involved and those that stayed after. I had an amazing time.

First we got several primal spells, well, all those trials I had unlocked on my alt, then once the party broke down some we ended up taking those that remained to Ahm Areng and got those that weren't 70 blu to 70. A couple that ended up remaining I took to get some of their 60 and 70 spells, and then one remained and my fc mate and I took them to get more of their dungeon spells they needed until they themselves were being summoned to be their fc's pocket healer.

We started the train at 4 pm, we went on till almost 1 am. Congrats to those BLUs that got their spells and got to 70!

[Ilenya]

Had a WAR in WoD the other day that claimed to hate tanking the place...yet when one of the two GNB in the other alliances would provoke off of them they would provoke right back within a half second. Why, when you can EASILY see that the other two tanks are willing to tank it, would you bother doing that if you hate being the MT there? We also wiped on Cerberus because only myself and 3 others went into the stomach, and ended up dying due to not enough damage to the walls. After the wipe, the WAR - who was in alliance B with me - said they didn't go into the stomach because they were MT.

I would not trust tanks just provoking off of me as a tank in WoD, because 90% of the time they are just trying to troll or fail at it anyways. Now, if they said they were doing it, I could see this being silly, but I don't really trust random provoking tanks in 24-man myself.

[Avatre]

I would not trust tanks just provoking off of me as a tank in WoD, because 90% of the time they are just trying to troll or fail at it anyways. Now, if they said they were doing it, I could see this being silly, but I don't really trust random provoking tanks in 24-man myself.

Considering the one who was provoking was literally standing in the same spot as the WAR, and only moving to dodge mechanics...I would have dropped stance and given it to the GNB, and then voked if they ended up dead for whatever reason.

[Ilenya]

Considering the one who was provoking was literally standing in the same spot as the WAR, and only moving to dodge mechanics...I would have dropped stance and given it to the GNB, and then voked if they ended up dead for whatever reason.

Which is fair...But I still don't trust random provoking silent tanks in 24-man raids.