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

[glitteringcosmos]

The Burn, Me (BRD) with a PLD, WHM, and SAM. Tank died in the mob pull right after the first boss, I had aggro on 5 or 6 mobs. I hit troubadour, nature's mine, and second wind, manage to stay on my feet. Tank and healer struggling with debuffs on the last pull before last boss, so I'm throwing out more minnes and warden's paean as much as I can, second winding myself when I need. Last boss tank dies, healer is down to like 0.5% health, I slap another minne on them and they survive, and I still have aggro on boss.

I was basically tank, healer, AND dps in that run. It was fun LOL but ofc not a single comm....

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Been spamming Frontline Roulette for those delicious moogle tomes and of course racking up wolf marks for glams and other spoils. The moogle tome event surely made the queue went by faster. Sometimes even outside the server's peak hour. But it definitely attracted more freeloaders in process. I'm specifically talking about those who hang in the spawn point and only move once in a while to avoid getting kicked by the game's 'afk timer'. Normally I just let this slide but just now, I met one freeloader 3 times in a row by some sheer luck (maybe I should buy a lottery lol) and this behavior started to irritate me.

At 2nd encounter I wasn't in the same party, so I decided to I ask 'innocently': "Why there are few players staying in spawn point from beginning?" in the alliance chat, trying to get other's attention. Sadly all I got was: "Because people thinks afk in pvp is faster than afking in prae for moogle tome." & I wasn't even in the same party to initiate a kick.

Okay, well whatever. Next round the queue pops, I meet the same player again -in the same party-. Once again they tried to pull off the same stunt. At 3 minutes mark I stop a bit to type in alliance again: "How long do you think it takes for the game to kick you out from frontlines by afking?", which this time somebody responded in kind. I saw this as an 'ok' and proceed on to vote dismiss said freeloader. It didn't take long for my party to comply and we got a replacement real quick.

EDIT: another flag that made me convinced they're purely freeloader is because by the end of 2nd encounter, I look up for their nonexistent damage dealt/taken/hp restored. Yeah, no. I'm not gonna give them a 2nd opportunity.

[Avatre]

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PVP should honestly reward you based on actual participation...not sure how they would code it, but there should be a way to make it so that anyone who just AFKs at the spawn gets 0 EXP and tomestones.

[Infindox]

pvp issues

I don't get people who do this. I'd rather try and die a lot then just stand there.

[Theodric]

A pleasant surprise. I ran three rounds of Seal Rock back to back today and won each time. One match looked set to be a loss but my team managed to turn things around very quickly.

I'm also only a few wins away from getting the fancy coat from there, too which is nice.

[MonsterHugger]

Just a small gripe, but why won't people use LB?

Fought Titania today- we had her at 10%, we had LB3. The melees didn't go for it. I tried to use mine (I was on DNC) but I stood in a bad spot and died before it went off. Oops.

[Zeich]

Ohgeez, did I have a fun Paglth'an. Went in as WHM for fast queue, trying to get the dang card to drop. D:<

Party was GNB, WHM, SMN, SAM. The SMN and GNB were pretty decent, with big pulls and the SMN outputting good damage. The SAM? Oh boy, the SAM. Didn't keep up Shifu/Jinpu, letting both drop off and stay off for 10-15 seconds even in the middle of a pack or a boss. Didn't use AoEs - only used single-target combos, and clearly not using their combos properly given the lack of buffs. I saw a Midare once in a while... once in a while. Stood in every bad, died at least twice to each boss, literally just stood idle in one set of bad. Liked Hissatsu: Yaten a lot, but I'd literally watch the Enpi buff just sit there and fall off, and I couldn't see anything they were dodging with it. Unsurprisingly, far down on the aggro list with death and... some kind of wonky rotation? I dunno man, but it was painful.

Unfortunately, at the time I couldn't think of a polite way to say "hey, you might want to evaluate your rotation and keep your buffs up as much as possible, because you are being terrible at SAM right now" so I just kept my mouth shut and focused on making up for the gap in damage. :T

[Mesarthim]

Decided to dust off WHM since I haven't really mained it since I started the game in 3.2 and swapped to AST when they overbuffed it in 3.4. I went half of an E3N before I remembered lilies were a thing. I got a Misery off at least! The muscle memory just was not there.

Then on E4N the MT (was the cohealer I had in the leviathan run) turns around and cleaves the party. I lived because my benison was accidentally self targeted. I survived a cleave that should never have happened because I fumbled on targeting and it was to my benefit. Life is weird like that.

Edit: Just to clarify, every other stonecrusher I'd notice my cohealer and I would instinctively back away every time. It only takes one to condition us.

[MrPresident]

Had to just carry four AFK leechers for the entirety of a Praetorium run. They literally didn’t move or from the entrance until teleported from boss to boss then finally came to life to finish off Lahabrea at the end. And because you’re classed as being in combat, due to skipping the first set of mobs, you don’t even really have a good opportunity to vote kick for AFK.

This really needs a fix of some issue. I know they can’t remove the vote kick while in battle rule altogether because it will definitely be abused. But I’m tired of carrying lazy people every single mog tome event who just queue up and go AFK immediately. If all 8 people did that nothing would get done.

[Mirhd]

Had to just carry four AFK leechers for the entirety of a Praetorium run. They literally didn’t move or from the entrance until teleported from boss to boss then finally came to life to finish off Lahabrea at the end. And because you’re classed as being in combat, due to skipping the first set of mobs, you don’t even really have a good opportunity to vote kick for AFK.

This really needs a fix of some issue. I know they can’t remove the vote kick while in battle rule altogether because it will definitely be abused. But I’m tired of carrying lazy people every single mog tome event who just queue up and go AFK immediately. If all 8 people did that nothing would get done.

... Those afkers are probably the same people who think MSQ roulette should be axed, and the rewards redistributed among the other roulettes. Ahahaha, no. Rewards were increased after the cutscenes were made unskippable to incentivize people to queue. They didn't want to do the (small!) amount of work required? Bam, they deserve nothing.

You might be better off just doing Orbonne Monastery, honestly. Six less tomes, but it goes fairly quick and really isn't difficult to do... even considering TGS. I haven't had a wipe there in a pretty long time, personally.