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

[NanaWiloh]

Dun saith run tank in my group had two goals. Eat vun and do ittle as possible, they were rewarded with quality floor time during the second phase of diablos.

Note: Tank did not die to lack of heals, but to his own laziness and ignorance.

[Tehmon]

The amount of time I need to tell sprouts & veteran players alike in that trial to -only- let tank soak the meteor alone is baffling. Even then sometimes there are still *good willed* dps that attempts to assist in the endeavor... only to learn (or not) it the hard way...

For some reason those tower marker registers as "soak the damage together!!"-marker to a good number of players.

Honestly, I've done The Chrysalis probably handful (if not less) of times my entire time playing the game, I've NEVER gotten it in trial roulette and often forget it even exists, so I have no idea about the mechanics. I'd probably go in and soak those meteors as well as a DPS lol.

[Skivvy]

Just finished up a raid roulette and my co-heal had a rather colorful raise macro. lol



People be bold. @.@

[Packetdancer]

Remember, a healer's job isn't to keep everyone topped up, it's to keep everyone alive. Learning the difference is what makes a good healer into a great healer.

This.

I've actually pointed this out before to sprout healers: because of how healing works in this game, it is often less stressful to let the tank's health get lower rather than healing them up constantly.

The white mage who hits Cure II every time the tank drops to 80% health eventually runs out of MP, and then things can go bad. The white mage who burns a lily or Tetra every time the tank is at 90% is going to find themselves lacking in healing resources to use when that tankbuster hits (or the tank slips up and doesn't mitigate something). But the white mage who holds off and lets the tank drop to 30% health (or something) and then hits Benediction on them, however, has still healed them back to 100% health and has all those other resources still available to keep healing. It lets you actually keep control of the situation as a healer way more effectively—and easily—because you're using the right tool for the job rather than just burning through all your tools indiscriminately to keep the tank topped off constantly.

Plus, being in better control—and still having resources to handle whatever unplanned healing turns up—also makes healing a lot less stressful than it might otherwise be.

[Sigma5]

Just finished up a raid roulette and my co-heal had a rather colorful raise macro. lol



People be bold. @.@

It's the Inspire line from payday 2 hah dude knows his lore that's pretty funny.

[Skivvy]

It's the Inspire line from payday 2 hah dude knows his lore that's pretty funny.

Oh, lol. I had to look that one up. Would be amusing seeing that out in the wild knowing the reference, but stiiiiill, dude's playing with fire. @.@

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

One day after commenting that Chrysalis run, today I got one myself from the roulette as I queued with my friend as double healer. Three DPSes were first timer sprouts. I wrote in our linkshell: "Get ready to yoink whoever tried to LB3 anything but the tear. I'll go first."

The GNB starts out by greeting and telling the DPSes to save LB3 for the tear. Surely that means everybody will get it right?

Wrong.

Fast forward to the moment LB3 became available, SAM bumrush to perform LB3. As planned, I yoinked to cancel their cast. Only for them to get close again to start another attempt. This time my friend yoinked them. Once again they made another attempt, although thankfully Nabriales became untargetable as we enter the meteor phase. Surely things should be okay by now, right?

Wrong, again.

I wrote a quick "only tanks soak meteor". RDM probably didn't read fast enough, drops dead. Tear spawns, we ham down the tear except the SAM who was running in circle seemingly confused not attacking anything.

"LB3 the tear, quick!" said GNB frantically. None of the DPS performed their LB3. Not even the non-first timer NIN. At some point the tank missed 1-2 meteors, killed 3 of the DPSes. Somehow we managed to scrape by the meteor phase just before the giant meteor on the middle descends completely.

At the end of the duty SAM wrote "TTnTT" in party chat.

:deep_breath:

[TheMightyMollusk]

Wait, was I there? That sounds exactly like the run I was just in.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Wait, was I there? That sounds exactly like the run I was just in.

Maybe?? Couldn’t remember names properly. I did remember seeing 3 “Viewing CS” so I just assumed those 3 were sprouts first timer after reading the notification.

Party compo was GNB, WHM, SCH, NIN, SAM, RDM, plus two other that I couldn’t recall. Tried looking up the contact list but I already ran enough subsequent duties to erase the history sadly.

EDIT: I also used the LB3 right before bolting out if you also recall this detail, perhaps?

[TheMightyMollusk]

Checked the list, and yeah, I was there. I was the WAR. Eighth person was a bard.