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

[TabrisOmbrelame]

Another thing I wish tanks did...is run THROUGH the second pack of enemies so that they are all gathered on one side of the tank, rather than completely circling them making it a LOT harder for the DPS with AoEs that don't reach very far to be able to hit everything. So many tanks I get stop right in front of the second pack, making it so half the pull is behind them and half in front.

This.

To be more precise, this will affect AoE that are mostly targeted (For exemple, RDM, SMN, BLM have mostly AoE Spell that are Targeted). Some classe like DRG will always struggle, because the line is kinda small, SAM/MNK/NIN/RPR don't suffer that much, except for Targeted AoE, like Katon/Goka Mekyaku or Communio for exemple.

Please tank, pack them correctly IF POSSIBLE (Some pack with "huge" monster are impossible to place correctly, but that's just because of the monster collision)

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

This is from three days ago on my female middie alt: Malikah's Hell Well, as a RDM. Paired with GNB, WHM, and 1st timer RPR.

First pull right off the bat, and WHM already failed to upkeep the tank despite seeing Rampart+Camo+Rep being used by the GNB.

"Ok well... Dualcast-Sleep it is..." I said in my mind. Thankfully first few pulls do not resist Sleep status & the RPR was... freestyling + single targeting. Hey, we made it without wiping so it should alright, yes?

"Haha sorry I just like green dps :smiley:" says the WHM in party.
Also WHM:*Freecuring several times throughout the run*

My inner healer heart was flabbergasted.

And apparently having a RDM in party (me) probably made them think they could leverage all the raise duty to me. No. I ain't doing that if their Swift was available & I could've sworn the RPR died at least 3-4 times every boss fight and WHM only raised a total of 3 times the entire run, all of which happened in 3rd boss where players have literally all the time they need to raise a neighborhood. I simply refused to hit that Verraise at that point.

"No, do your job, sweetie." I grumbled in my mind.

Why, oh why... /playdead

GNB also made a wise decision to not do wall pull the 2nd pack after first boss... my comm goes to her. Thank you for sticking till the end.

[Cincierta]

So have you ever seen a bard so bad in expert roulette that they only use a single dot on mobs the entire run? Like just strictly one kind of dot and almost never touch the other? Along with never touching Apex Arrow, Emperyal Arrow, Barrage, Raging Strikes, and Iron Jaws? So much so that the RDM makes up an excuse and leaves after the second boss after seeing said bard be dead weight?

I bore witness to that today in the Aetherfont dungeon and I want to curl up and hide under the covers with s'mores so I can console myself that that's how bard is not supposed to be played.

[Chie_M]

Paid legends...

[NekoMataMata]

Paid legends...

Just witnessed a full crown mentor legend in a level 80 msq trial try to join for stack marker while having a spread marker. Two of the other three people that had spread markers were sprouts and they knew perfectly well what to do. If it wasn't for the fact that said trial isn't sync'd, I'm pretty sure they would have killed half the party.

[Mosha]

Just witnessed a full crown mentor legend in a level 80 msq trial try to join for stack marker while having a spread marker. Two of the other three people that had spread markers were sprouts and they knew perfectly well what to do. If it wasn't for the fact that said trial isn't sync'd, I'm pretty sure they would have killed half the party.

I don't see the issue if it was unsynced? oh, its hades.

[NekoMataMata]

I don't see the issue if it was unsynced? oh, its hades.

Should've been more specific. It's level sync'd, not item sync'd. Everyone on the stack lived with like 1-2k hp aside from the tank. Yes, it's Hades.

Anyways, of course there's an issue.

[Mosha]

Should've been more specific. It's level sync'd, not item sync'd. Everyone on the stack lived with like 1-2k hp aside from the tank. Yes, it's Hades.

Anyways, of course there's an issue.

lmaaaaaaaao oh well at least the healers had to heal

[Silver-Strider]

So, I needed tombstones for crafting and was burnt out on Hunt Trains so decided to do 50/60/etc roulette to break the monotony a little. Friend tagged along to level his NIN a bit.
The party is myself (SCH), NIN friend, GNB and MNK.

Absolute worst players I have ever seen in 10 years of playing and it's not even close. 1st pull, GNB decides to not pull wall to wall. Ok, so one of those runs, whatever. The MNK is doing their single target rotation the entire time, despite the 1st group having about 6 enemies. We kill half the enemies before the GNB just decides to drag the half dead enemies to the next group and I notice that the Tank has a few too many mitigations hit (4 were all going simultaneously) and I started to get worried. 2nd pull the Tank does a normal wall to wall and he and the MNK proceed to just eat AoEs left and right. Again, MNK isn't using AoEs and the GNB is playing a bit weird. Like, I see them fire off 1 attack, wait a few seconds extra and then the 2nd attack goes off, almost like he has the rotation macro'd or something, which I'm honestly convinced was the case.

1st boss, the Tank face tanks EVERYTHING. Dodging is a foreign concept and he was collecting Vuln stacks like they were trophies. The MNK was running around like a headless chicken whenever he got a circle AoE on him and it was just an overall painful fight but we pull thru. Garden area and I legit believe the Tank is trolling at this point. 1st pull is again, 1 pack, half killed before going to the next group. He gets aggro, NIN puts down a Dotom and for the 1st few seconds it's normal, then the Tank just decides to run into the wall out of the Dotom for whatever reason. Bombs cast their AoE and Tank doesn't dodge, still running into the wall and eats both the AoEs, I heal him and he pops Superbolide.......and it gets worse because after this, Mr. Tank decides to wall to wall pull. He and the MNK both get hit with a poison cleave, Tank is somehow not able to hold aggro on everything so MNK and NIN are getting hit as well. I used everything, Sacred Soil, Recit+Excog, Seraph, literally spammed Addlo/Succor until I was completely out of MP and we wiped. I honestly wanted to leave at this point but pushed on against my better judgement. 2nd boss the MNK and GNB didn't really do any mechanics for the fight at all, GNB continued eating mechanics, etc. Nothing really noteworthy happened on the way to the last boss, apart from the Tank running up the stairs with the Dragon add and stopping just before the next group of enemies could aggro so, the Tank's standard of pulling. Final Boss, MNK dies to the fire AoE mechanic before the Blue Flame mechanic. I fully expected the Tank to die but to his credit he did do it right....the 1st time. When the mechanic came up again, both the MNK and GNB decided to eat the floor together and die to the blue flame. My friend gets aggro and I rez the tank, who immediately Superbolides after getting rezzed.......He didn't even get aggro back from the NIN before a Tank buster killed him and even after that, I had Aggro for a little while before he got it back.

After the run, I just signed off for the night. I was too mentally exhausted after all that to even think to continue anymore.

For clarification, yes, we did offer advice, explained mechanics, etc. GNB was in full HQ level 86 gear and wasn't a maxed level GNB but did have WAR at 90 as well as a handful of jobs in the 60-70 range so not completely new, MNK was in a similar situation. I honestly should've taken the penalty and just gone back to hunt trains. It wasn't worth the mental anguish.

[Chie_M]

Just witnessed a full crown mentor legend in a level 80 msq trial try to join for stack marker while having a spread marker. Two of the other three people that had spread markers were sprouts and they knew perfectly well what to do. If it wasn't for the fact that said trial isn't sync'd, I'm pretty sure they would have killed half the party.

I'm a full crown. I'm a (TEA only) legend.

These paid legend morons ruin a perfectly good crown symbol / entire category of titles. It's at the point that I'm hesitant around anybody actually using a legend title at all - and I have one!