Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[Tiramu]

I had to leave halfway through a dungeon to check whether the farm outside my house was in danger because a large fire nearby was approaching. Their reactions were "What???" before I left.

didn't see anything about that on reddit, so I'm sure you'd be fine

I hope the farm was OK.

I know it wouldnt, I was tongue in cheek implying it sounds like an excuse rather than believable. Dog ate my homework kinda thing.

[Jettinson]

I hope the farm was OK.

I know it wouldnt, I was tongue in cheek implying it sounds like an excuse rather than believable. Dog ate my homework kinda thing.

Eeh, world is big and many things happen, so should not be worried about these things.
I had to leave a dungeon long ago due to real life wedding that was happening in a hour and my friends gave me the wrong date. Luckily it was close at my home but damn, it was rough

[Sharkie]

I'd kill to have an option to switch the naming convention. Grown up playing previous FF series enough to get used to seeing -ara, -aga, -aja naming as opposed to I, II, III, IV (FF1 was an exception) etc.

It is possible to learn this power... but not from a Jedi - I mean within the game itself. It would break TOS-sama.

I had an unemployed MRD, level 47, in Stone Vigil, who said they were used to doing the duties with AI. I said they should get their job stone afterwards, and they said they were going to get SAM once they hit 50. I decided not to push the matter, but it did mean they were missing the second part of their AoE, they single pulled all of it and everything took an ungodly amount of time to kill even so. I looked on lodestone later, and they did indeed get SAM, and finished the ARR MSQ (no patches) without ever getting a job as WAR.

On the flip side, I caused multiple wipes in the first room of Aurum Vale as WHM by advocating for the sprint through tactic, which had worked in the past. After a few failed tries, we went the normal way and the rest of the dungeon went along smoothly. I still got two commendations at the end...

[Renalt]

OK I had a fun one last night.

I was in a healing mood and so I picked up my WHM and queued Alliance. For once it was not CT but Dun Scaith and I was thrilled. So from the start I noticed it was going to be a doozy because people kept getting insta-killed (Understandable since this one doesn't pop often and for newbies...this is the raid that takes the kiddie gloves off) So I do about 5 Raises on this one. We get to the Jester boss and that's when I noticed it was going to get really crazy. I also noticed the co-healer kept dying (might have been a newbie) so I kept picking them up but I also noticed that if multiple people were down that they weren't going to help with that. So at that point I pretty much figured I was dedicated Raiser.

Jester goes off easily enough with I think only 3 Raises. We get to the 3rd boss and now...It's getting spicy. I'm having half my group down, half of another alliance down with both healers down, etc...I Swiftcast the other alliance healer up and then focus my own alliance with hardcasts. We eventually wipe due to no one focused the add and it murders us hard. Luckily no one on any alliance is getting butthurt over the wipe and one guy just says "Hey focus adds even if the main boss is at 1HP...kill that add first.". After we start...less deaths so it goes WAY smoother...

Now...Final Boss. 1st half goes by with not a lot of issues. We do the DBZ beam clash thingy with no issues. After that though it gets crazy. I feel like literally half of every alliance gets put down hard. Ok. Time to get busy. I swiftcast my cohealer, I hard raise 2 DPS, and now healer is dead again even though I Benediction healers the moment they are up. Ok Hard raise you again...hard raise another, OK everyone I raised is dead again. I just used two AoE heals when you got moving but OK...I can get this going. I AM SUPER MOTIVATED to get EVERYONE up and going now.

I think for a solid 3 minutes straight I did nothing but heal those I just raised and raise another. I swear if it wasn't for Assize, Thin Air, Medica 2, Lucid Dreaming, and SwiftCast...I think we would have wiped on Final Boss. I mean I was even picking up other alliances just to ease things if I had the resources available.

[Conadrium]

Shirk. It does wonders.

[VictorSpoils]

All the regens in the world can't save AST's baby heals from the treacherous pulls of Holminster Switch.

[Cheremia]

All the regens in the world can't save AST's baby heals from the treacherous pulls of Holminster Switch.

Synastry+lightspeed-benefic II, Earthly Star, Collective Unconscious, Essential Dignity X2 + Celestial Opposition and A-Benfic however, can save AST with being really strong heals

Yes, Collective Unconcious can be used on big pulls that hurt, you just have to hit the tank with it.
Yes, you can hold it for literally a singular 0,5 seconds for it to be on the tank so you don't need to hold it

And the pulls needs tanks to use their CD's so if they don't, you can't do much on any healer sadly...
Arms length is a really good tank cooldown because of the slow, please Tanks... use Arms Length in pulls, please

[Windwalker]

A newbie tank asked me if i was AOEing as a Dragoon, they thought i was single targeting with the usual Doom Spike -> Sonic Thrust -> Coerthan Torment combo. Asked them if they ever played a dragoon before, they had not. really weird thing to complain about.


Understandable though, some dps refuse to aoe in big pulls, something noticed while tanking, mobs take longer to kill and could wipe the tank if they don't have CD's for protection.

[Conadrium]

This was a scaled down dungeon, I can’t heal myself thru it, and rather than heal the tank he was spamming glare. This happened three times.

[Cincierta]

Dear random tanks in DF:

Please, you have a plethora of cooldowns to use in large pulls. It keeps you from dying and it keeps the healers like me from running out of resources for a pull. They're there to keep you alive so we can finish the dungeon.

Especially the GNB I just had. You have cooldowns for DAYS. If I run out of resources and am forced to spam shields and the mobs are still alive while you're about to eat floor, the problem does not point itself at me. It points itself at you for not using the tools you were given.

'Heal more' is not a valid excuse when I've been watching your buff bar like a hawk and never saw a single Rampart.

Sincerely,

One angery sage.