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

[Cincierta]

I didn't even know it was possible to run out of MP on normal dungeon stuff.

I didn't even know it was possible at that level until that random sage showed me. I mean, you've got other skills that help recover mp if you use them, including Lucid. There's no reason for a sage to be that drained on mp unless they're spamming something non-stop.

Like their rotation consisted of: Eukrasian Diagnosis > Diagnosis x9 > Eukrasian Dosis x3 > Dosis x4 > Diagnosis x13 for the first normal pull. I've honestly no idea why people think spamming the single weakest heal will do the job in higher-level content when you've got a good amount of other ogcds that can actually help out so you don't have to spam and actually make things so much smoother for the party.

[Boblawblah]

Phlegma balls

*giggles* .

[SannaR]

Yesterday on my one alt I ran them through all of CT. Watched almost all of the Cutscenes. Not one wait at all and I wasn't even the sole new person in these runs. Anyway my main what the heck was during WoD where I was the only person out of 11 who used their dots. I still didn't get a response from the guy in my group who said they never died on the 1st boss as to what got them killed this time. I'm surprised we didn't wipe as neither of the other tanks picked up the adds and I think they exploded on a good chunk of the group on top of doom. My tank who had ran it 8 times stated that they had never ever looked at their bar. Or that that mechanic was ever a factor. It became a factor late in the fight due to the MT at the time had it positioned so that most of one color filled the room up. There was even a bit of time one of the bosses were using a few DPS as punching bags cause the MT died and the other two tanks didn't have their stances on.

[Ovenmitts]

I was surprised upon logging in after taking the first year of Endwalker off, I had story, raids and 24 man content to catch up on. Each instance, without saying anything, someone would chime in the chat to wait for people to finish watching their cutscenes before pulling. And wait they did!

I always intended on watching the scenes regardless if they waited for me or not but them waiting of their own volition made me feel good inside. My cold, dark heart thawed a bit each time.

[Renalt]

In CT yeah everyone zergs...but any of the later raids I've not had one moment where people pull without making sure no had cutscenes to watch. Most the time it's just one and they are like "go ahead I'll catch up".

[Kolaina]

In CT yeah everyone zergs...but any of the later raids I've not had one moment where people pull without making sure no had cutscenes to watch. Most the time it's just one and they are like "go ahead I'll catch up".

That’s cause I ilvl cheese, else I’d be pulling during later raids cutscenes

[Chie_M]

It's not cute to /yoldance at the boss because the SMN pulled before you did. It's annoying, and it's reportable.

[Cincierta]

I wait for the day they bring mob hp in the entirety of CT up-to-par so people are forced to do mechanics.

Until then, my group decided to try the first Criterion dungeon blind. I wanted to watch a guide but they insisted we do it blind first. Tether mechanic's become our hard wall because people aren't paying attention as to where it actually rotates.

36 wipes and 2 near-timeouts later, we had to call it a night.

[Cincierta]

To the random sch I had earlier in Ultima normal, there's no reason to be just standing there afking and picking your nose while poor Eos does the job for you in a 50 duty and caused a wipe. The Nymeian Marines called. They want their SCH soulstone back from you.

[NekoMataMata]

I'm just saying, if you're in a pre-made with a handful of randoms, please respect the randoms. You can run around trying to kill each other with mechanics when you're in your own full groups, but don't drag randoms into it.

Had an alliance raid where 5 members of the group were a pre-made. Noticed some things like them telling each other to get on VC and what not, but they weren't too chatty. Midway through the run the tank is starts running into the alliance, the whole alliance trying to hit his pre-mades with the TBs for laughs. The pre-mades are trying to drag the stack marker on top of other party stack markers, they're trying to stack their spread markers on each others, the healers are rescue yoinking.

I get it, over half of you are pre-made but 3 of us are not, and 2 parties of the alliance are not. Can you please, just not?