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

[Denji]

If you can't keep pull without provoke then stop spamming provoke.

Sincerely,

every tank that knows how to count to 3.

[Tiramu]

I was the bad in Aurum Vale.

I work at a computer and I've been getting wrist pains for about a week, nothing severe but I figured I should probably find a way to rest my wrists a bit while playing. Cut the mouse where possible. So, I decided to try going controller while playing and while DPS has been fun and in many ways easier, healing and tanking less so.

I rolled Aurum Vale on Warrior, the healer was a sprout, I believe first time in. I warned the group I might go slow because I was learning how to play the job on a controller. But, I've ran it many times so what could possibly go wrong? Everything on a knife edge, it seems. While nobody died we had quite a few near misses.

One time I managed to turn tank stance off, don't know how because that button is buried on my sub hotbar. Didn't notice, aggro flew everywhere. Then with the Diremites, I managed to switch my main hotbar out and was stood staring at my hotbars wondering where my buttons had gone whilst the poor sprout healer was having their face eaten by a pack of diremites and I was trying to figure out how to get my cross hotbar back. It was rough and sorry if the healer gets PTSD for AV in future. lol

[Cincierta]

I did not realize the second boss in Lapis Manalis dungeon insults you if you fail/eat mechanics after beating her until the other night.

[RobynDaBank]

First time in any game I've PvPed willingly - heck, my only shot at a PvP game ever was HotS when a friend dragged me into it - and it's such a rollercoaster. This probably isn't a big deal, but man I love this simply for the "demon Lalafell summoning Bahamut on you and thrusting rocks in your face" memes.

[NanaWiloh]

Last night in Eup my groups tank was eating Vun stacks like hot cakes. He no doubt was thinking "MMMM TASTY!!!"

[BRVV]

Last night in Eup my groups tank was eating Vun stacks like hot cakes. He no doubt was thinking "MMMM TASTY!!!"

Tiger Cookies are a philosophical conundrum: To get many makes you bad but to get a lot and survive kinda makes you good
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[Tehmon]

Had a slightly weird Lapis Manalis this morning. The healer was pulling all mobs ahead of the tank and the tank would not rotate the bosses away from the rest of the team. I suppose in terms of weird duty finder experiences this is not that severe, but it was so early in the morning I kind of had to take a minute to realize what was happening, because something felt off.

[Avatre]

I did not realize the second boss in Lapis Manalis dungeon insults you if you fail/eat mechanics after beating her until the other night.

Wait, what? I need to run that more. I've never noticed that, even when I did eat mechanics in my first few runs of it....experimentation time!

Last night in Eup my groups tank was eating Vun stacks like hot cakes. He no doubt was thinking "MMMM TASTY!!!"

Sometimes it's easier to eat the vuln stacks(especially during the frogs/treemen fight after first boss) and keep everything grouped together nicely. Last night I got up to 7 or 8 stacks on that, on WAR, without a problem

[NanaWiloh]

Wait, what? I need to run that more. I've never noticed that, even when I did eat mechanics in my first few runs of it....experimentation time!



Sometimes it's easier to eat the vuln stacks(especially during the frogs/treemen fight after first boss) and keep everything grouped together nicely. Last night I got up to 7 or 8 stacks on that, on WAR, without a problem

Fine if you know to dodge things after a certain point this tank just kept taking everyting to the face. Said tank was not even the MT and eating vun stacks on the bosses..

[VictorSpoils]

Had a slightly weird Lapis Manalis this morning. The healer was pulling all mobs ahead of the tank and the tank would not rotate the bosses away from the rest of the team. I suppose in terms of weird duty finder experiences this is not that severe, but it was so early in the morning I kind of had to take a minute to realize what was happening, because something felt off.

Here's the 6:30 AM mentor roulette experience:

>instant meridianum
>tanking because the worst tanks and healers seem to play between midnight and noon
>pre-pull Regen messes up pull
>stops healing entirely for the last 30% of the first boss
>die right as the boss does
>raise macro
>meridianum pops again two roulettes later

Only 230 more runs to to go.