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

[Michieltjuhh]

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That was exactly my point.

having an addon that calls you a little girl and then blares an airhorn in your ear is not skill and for those who aren't aware i'm not exaggerating. one of the sounds it makes (or made, as even the dev for one of the most popular mods has bailed) is a voice telling you to run away like a little girl.

i was a catanoob - resto shammy tauren being my main - and got into the endgame content. when mists happened i swapped to tank (pali, draenei) and as i began getting into the endgame content for that i decided i just couldn't tolerate both the overall negative community and its reliance on addons. i was sick of being told that if i were to even attempt to heal (or tank) without DBM or Healium for even the most casual content that i would be kicked or at the very least told off.

Ah yes, the beautiful stigma that WoW supposedly runs on addons rather than a game engine. Yet I haven't required them for 99% of its content, and the times I did, it's because the content was - with the use of addons - still harder than anything any other MMORPG ever introduced. What in god's name even is a Healium? I haven't ran an addon for healing in WoW since 2005 and it's never been an issue for me, no matter the level of play.

in defense of my previous post, i'm concerned that there are a lot of (ex)wow players who upon hearing people complain about other wow players take it too personally. said (ex)wow players (and myself included) enjoy playing ffxiv game and many (and hopefully myself) are at the very least half-way decent at it so i can at least empathize with the feeling that i didn't really struggle as much as others with this game. there has however been a massive influx of people trying FFXIV for the first time and the fact that it coincides with its competitor not updating for a full year is not coincidental, nor should it be treated as such. while it's understandable that people are new and new people make mistakes, it would be a disservice to the community to ignore them or pretend they haven't picked up habits or skill that that - while useful in WoW - simply won't work in ffxiv and should be corrected.

it is statistically improbable, if not impossible, that over half of ffxiv's population did not try WoW at some point or another. it's also impolite to those who still enjoy warcraft or continue to play wow because you're minimizing its impact and history in the process, as well as the influence its had on every other game including this one (see: the transition from 1.0 to 2.0/ARR)

This doesn't make any sense to me. FF14 has been, in almost every single way, easier to get into, down to the fact that in WoW you have to please your fellow player with a decent performance while in FF14 you can be afk 90% of a run and people need to thank you for it. What 'habits' do people have in WoW that don't work in FF14, exactly? Except not being used to lag being an actual game mechanic (anymore, since it used to be), due to the game engine being from 1995?

[Pells]

*stares at post*

*turns to stare at current size of Earthly Star ground effect*

*turns back with bewildered expression and raises a hand*

Um, so, I've got questions...

Some tanks act like -any- circle on the ground has a detrimental affect.

[Rinhi]

quick one but it's so unbelievably stupid;
miss mentor bun, first of all, if you have a headache, don't play the game and don't queue up for dungeons
second, if me or my 2 friends pulling one additional set of mobs in toto-freaking-rak stress you out so much that you're losing your head, PLEASE don't play the game, because not only did it take way longer than it needed due to us waiting till you pulled, but you also pulled agonizingly slow and with single targets, allowing us to get hit and even keep the aggro on them, making the whole waiting for you thing moot

one day, I'll just start kicking those kind of people because I'm honest to god tired of it and how I keep enabling players like this, while also complaining about other people enabling these kind of players

[Chie_M]

one day, I'll just start kicking those kind of people because I'm honest to god tired of it and how I keep enabling players like this, while also complaining about other people enabling these kind of players

Make that day today.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Here we go again, it’s Freecure WHM’s little sister: Benefic I AST in Dead Ends Roulette. Rolled as a WAR into the roulette, the DPSes are MCH & SAM.

Straight up no other actions used beside poorly timed Lucid, 1 card every 3-5 minute, overwriting combusts, and their favorite button that they use 95% of time: Benefic I and its proc’ed Benefic II. My Bloodwhetting would’ve probably laughed how much the amount it outhealed those Benefic Is.

They’re also… very chatty especially with the MCH. Wat’s the consequences of being chatty? Yep, standing around doing nothing while typing all those words. I could’ve sworn the MCH was probably their friend, queueing together.

The AST dropped dead fairly early into 2nd boss AoEs. The MCH immediately ran into the bleeding wall and just wait till death’s grip pulled them to the ground. Y’know you could’ve at least try to persevere MCH :/ The SAM ate mechanic and also died. Boss still at 70% or so. Whatever. I didn’t want to deal with it alone so I committed suicide to retry together.

Second try. AGAIN the AST drops dead on very same mech. MCH? You’ve guessed it right. They ran to the bleedwall again.

”Eff this $h!t. I’m winging this.” said to myself.

SAM had the same idea apparently, and they did better this time. We cleared the 2nd boss.

AST:”Healing this is so hard “
MCH:”I know, right?”

/facepalm
/headache
/playdead

[Michieltjuhh]

AST:”Healing this is so hard “
MCH:”I know, right?”

You'd seriously think they were trolling with comments like that after laying dead on the ground for the majority of the fight. I seriously consider just leaving Dead Ends if I get it through expert roulette and see signs of 'special' in the people I'm with. Not worth the effort.

[SturmChurro]

I had to actually GCD heal in a Dead Ends last night, at one point I even had to esuna all three others at about the same time, but everyone was very nice, complimented me in chat, and gave me commendations, so I could forgive it.

[Chie_M]

I don't run Expert without at least one friend so that we know we have tank and healer covered because of Dead Ends.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

You'd seriously think they were trolling with comments like that after laying dead on the ground for the majority of the fight. I seriously consider just leaving Dead Ends if I get it through expert roulette and see signs of 'special' in the people I'm with. Not worth the effort.

They could be, but I'll never know. That was only on 2nd boss. Everything else was technically not a problem beside adding few minutes; it was slower than usual.

... With a really tight stretch, I'd say the AST is at least 'useful' in keeping the SAM healthy to help with the encounters. If any, the 2nd boss is just to further prove that their presence at that point was entirely optional. I hope they'll learn better in future.

[Skivvy]

Somewhat tempted to queue with my DNC for once to see if I can get some of these fabled healers. X: