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

[Zfz]

I'm guessing returning from Dungeon Finder duties directly into the island could also cause rare animal spawns to not spawn. Even leaving the island and coming back didn't fix it. Had to wait another full Eorzea day...

[Renalt]

If you stand on your chair in Island Sanctuary, queue and leave the duty, once you spawn back in, youll merge into the chair and ground :3 try it if you want to roleplay as a bot :3

Someone call The Tick! Chairface has made his return!

[Reclusegamer]

I too was on the moogletome hype train for a good two days over the holidays. It was also a good excuse to farm a few glam sets...

and the class of choice? Scholar! Primarily because my SMN cheated it to endgame. :P
Don't get me wrong. Scholar is fun and I prefer it over Sage because when I was working on Sage I felt as if I was clipping my aoe shields sometimes because I have to press an extra button first before I can get the shields out.

I gotta say, the amount of people who either don't esuna or don't esuna fast enough is SHOCKING.

but I suppose it's a good thing that I end up being the one that esunas while the co healer heals. So it works both ways.

I manually queued for a lot of Dun Scaith and a LOT of wiping city. Queue inevitable hilarity and hijinxs below:

1. It then came to light that I never remembered or even knew that around the time AFTER ozma shallows you and you pass that phase, there are blue orbs that are slowly moving around the platform and their aoe damage is INSANE.

one time I was pressured to use Fey illumination during one of those moments. One match had a Dragoon on my alliance not paying attention to meteor markers and dropped a meteor right on top us. TWICE. Thank the faes for Adloquium + Deployment Tactics. (because Adloquium's shield is better than Succor's. Better to duplicate that shield for something super serious instead.)

I usually don't use healing potency buffs because I don't see what the incentive is to use those when most heals and most shields usually get the job done well enough on their own.

2. The only other thing I saw that really ruins these runs is when after Calo's recharge phase...at some point after she casted penetration she ends up getting tanked with one half facing the WHOLE ARENA and then everyone will get cleaved. It's like the tanks forget she needs to be tanked north the whole time and then she ends up getting tanked sideways. At that point it's a coin toss if she completely misses everyone or cleaves everyone.

In Dun Scaith:

most of these runs are without incident.

Controlling the big black balls that fall down during Diabolos Hollow usually wouldn't be what does us in. It would always be those slow-moving gravity wells that send us all flying around in multiple knockbacks. Sometimes I notice they're there sometimes I'll randomly look behind me...

and then it's too late and we all go for a wild ride. We laugh it up, of course.

One run the tanks...well you know how it is. Diabolos has trouble determining who is main tank and since he repeatedly cleaves from multiple angles.

All and all, it was good training and I did manage to prevent and stop numerous catastrophes and bad plays.

can't wait to see what the Level 70 kit does but I'm gonna wait for the event to end. i've had my fill of Alliance Raids already.



The glams I was farming?....

The wiping city healer set made me look like Elvis.

The Dun Scaith set gave off Tim Burton vibes.

[Jettinson]

Issue is when people don't believe you and think you're trolling...

Before Sohm Al changes, i had a healer that was willing to report me for "trolling" in the 2nd boss fight... the one where the markers were all screwed up with red = stack and blu = away from marker.
Like i legit looked at him and forced him to notice the damage difference in stacking vs not (which basically if you only stacked with 2 people, you'd lose half health, not having any stacks you'd remain a quarter of health if you were not a tank and 3 or 4 you would take it well).

At same time i can't blame, even with EW, some markers and buffs can be confusing. The only tip you get for Hollow Diabolos' shield is pretty much being told by Caith Sith to keep hitting

[Reclusegamer]

At same time i can't blame, even with EW, some markers and buffs can be confusing. The only tip you get for Hollow Diabolos' shield is pretty much being told by Caith Sith to keep hitting

Heroes' Gauntlet's final boss springs to my mind. That's definitely a boss that needs updated markers, even though it's a lvl 80 dungeon. Although it could've been more of an oversight.

It uses the stackup marker for two different attacks. When the rubble falls from the sky that sequence of jumps he does uses stackup markers too and people get confused by this. They need to be changed to circle markers because when the boss jumps, it's an aoe for every person on the team so if we stack up everyone takes 4 aoes, instead of everyone taking one aoe, if we were out of aoe range for every one of his jump attacks.

[SlouchyBard]

Has anyone had problems with the duo only stack in the Aether-(can't remember rest of the name) dungeon towards the end of HW? Should be during the second boss.

[SannaR]

Has anyone had problems with the duo only stack in the Aether-(can't remember rest of the name) dungeon towards the end of HW? Should be during the second boss.

Aetherical Research Facility. And almost everyone has problems on that boss because so many people haven't done T8. It's two simple mechanics but either people don't listen and so they don't learn or they don't care and can end up killing half the party. 1st mechanic that locks a person in place just needs one other person to join the target. Then the other one is the follow up the tree boss from 8 does right after that also just needs one person to join the target.

[SannaR]

The one please don't run from me I hate is when the black and white rings happen during Sophia or in the dungeon that ends with the Atma Weapon from FF VI. The one where if during Sophia one set will give a nasty paralyze and the other will give a magick defense down. Which surprise is most of her attacks.

[NanaWiloh]

Was in lab on our way to the demons right before behemoth. Talking to the tank in our group about the previous boss. Well hit a key combination on my kb that screwed up my wasd. Could not move my character or type properly in chat to let my party know..so left the raid without a word to fix my kb.

[Cincierta]

Today I learned that Gaius' dps check goes through Cover.



Had the surviving BRD covered, but that meter said no.