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

[Banriikku]

I purposely wait to cast Regen until after the tank has picked up aggro, because it populates my Enemy List so I can easily apply DoTs as we run ahead. If I get any aggro from that, it's because the tank failed to tap a monster or two in the first place, but it's not a big deal. I just run along and bring the monsters to them at the end of the pull, so they can pick them up. I can take care of myself until then.

Hmmm... sure it can work but it is unnecessary without beeing arrogant thats how tanks are at the moment and you need a new player to generate more value out of this. This WHM was a Mentor and should be familar with the cabebilitys of a WAR. But hammered his/her healings (GCD not OGCD) like crazy. That is unexpected as unnecessary. In a Expert run no less and yes healing genrates still aggro this is the same for all healing aka regen but this was never the point. I hold my ground and aggro fine. Regen or no regen: I am on the no regen side because its gain negligible in a expert run. If the healer thinks it helps him, sure give me all your regen but in the of the day with the way the tankclass is designed this is more of a symbol. I will never tell sombody how to play but the combination of regen and heal spamm is absolut bonkers on a MENTOR not the regen alone. BTW we talk here PRE PULL and not when i stand and we start shredding mobs or the boss. I am not shredding on a small little planty, i talk here about a mentor with at least 200+ hours (he/she had HW relict and some nasty Leve quest title) so my cute little Lalaself had reason to salt.

[Carin-Eri]

Well, learnt a lesson regarding Party Finder last night.

Decided to check out the Party Finder and see if there were any practice runs of Abyssal Fracture Ex, focused particularly on descriptions that appeared a little more 'easy going' (rather than the usual "Hector, know what you're doing blah blah"). Found what I thought was one - description appeared friendly enough - something like "all welcome" with a reference to Meteors.
It was the meteor reference that caught me out though. I'll note, I'd never describe myself as being good at the game - ever - more, 'rubbish, but willing to try'. So, after a few minutes of 'should I or shouldn't I?' dithering, I joined the team. Did four (failed) runs of it, died a fair few times, although not entirely convinced I was that much worse than anyone else. Sadly then had someone the team chat ask what I was doing and if I'd read the description prior to joining. Replied that I had, although this was my first attempt at this. We tried again, and failed. Again, someone in team chat piped up with "did you even watch a guide?". Well - yeah, I did.... not that I could remember it overly well; have always struggled to recall what I watched, and even more so put that into practice. Noted that the pre-join description had said practice run, but it was pointed out to me that it'd also said "meteors".

Anyway, apologised for queueing for something I clearly wasn't ready for and told the team I'd leave if I was burden. Didn't receive any sort of response, therefore left the team.

Gave up on the idea of running it again, have vowed to be more careful when reading the descriptions pertaining to what is expected *if* I run it again.

[BRVV]

This thread is a sad piece of toxicity. You must all think very high of yourselves as you commentate on your fellow player's behavior in-game on a thread where they can't see you disrespecting them. Our beautiful community does not need people like you. There is nothing wrong with any style of play that a player may choose to pursue and the relentless aggressors on this thread ought to be ashamed of themselves.

The real toxicity is the bullying (especially in Japan), the YPYTers, the botters... i can't think of more right now. If you have a problem with a venting thread about Duty Finder of all things i recommend you get thicker skin.

[Frizze]

This thread is a sad piece of toxicity. You must all think very high of yourselves as you commentate on your fellow player's behavior in-game on a thread where they can't see you disrespecting them. Our beautiful community does not need people like you. There is nothing wrong with any style of play that a player may choose to pursue and the relentless aggressors on this thread ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Ok. Thats one way to tell us you missed the point. Take care.

[BRVV]

*snip*

Reminds me of the one or two times i accidentally hit Deployment Tactics. So sad (TnT). I love the skill so having to wait for it to get off CD again is making me sad.

I had my fair share of ice mages, Curebots and the like. Most don't respond to chat. I kind of want to know if people at least know they play far from optimal. Had a summoner about 2 weeks ago who was outdamaged by the redmage. Don't know how except maybe bad equipment. Didn't look as it wasn't really a problem.

[ChrysOCE]

Well, learnt a lesson regarding Party Finder last night.

Decided to check out the Party Finder and see if there were any practice runs of Abyssal Fracture Ex, focused particularly on descriptions that appeared a little more 'easy going' (rather than the usual "Hector, know what you're doing blah blah"). Found what I thought was one - description appeared friendly enough - something like "all welcome" with a reference to Meteors.
It was the meteor reference that caught me out though. I'll note, I'd never describe myself as being good at the game - ever - more, 'rubbish, but willing to try'. So, after a few minutes of 'should I or shouldn't I?' dithering, I joined the team. Did four (failed) runs of it, died a fair few times, although not entirely convinced I was that much worse than anyone else. Sadly then had someone the team chat ask what I was doing and if I'd read the description prior to joining. Replied that I had, although this was my first attempt at this. We tried again, and failed. Again, someone in team chat piped up with "did you even watch a guide?". Well - yeah, I did.... not that I could remember it overly well; have always struggled to recall what I watched, and even more so put that into practice. Noted that the pre-join description had said practice run, but it was pointed out to me that it'd also said "meteors".

Anyway, apologised for queueing for something I clearly wasn't ready for and told the team I'd leave if I was burden. Didn't receive any sort of response, therefore left the team.

Gave up on the idea of running it again, have vowed to be more careful when reading the descriptions pertaining to what is expected *if* I run it again.

It's a bit BS when PFs do that. If all are welcome, all are welcome, regardless. Otherwise, be clear on the PF description.
Also, I am in the same boat, in regards to guides. I can watch a guide 10 times. Doesn't help me that much in the fight. I need to actually do the fight to start putting context to what I see in a guide.

[Cilia]

Running Thaleia tonight, rolled a 98 on the minion! Yeah boyee, that's al-

Winner got 99. FML.

[Cincierta]

So discovered something interesting earlier.

Queued up into alliance roulette with friends, get Void Ark. We mow down the first boss and mobs and get to Sawtooth and his big plant friend in the middle. I see people get the big aoe around them that makes Sticky Wicket, and being right outside of the circle I thought I wasn't in it.

The game tethered me to another player, yet I could walk around. The game couldn't decide if I was supposed to be tethered or not.

I think I broke the game again.

[NekoMataMata]

Don't think I've ever seen an Eden's Eternity as bad as the one I was just in. Everyone's eating the mechanics, we've got a SAM that's attempting to call out mechanics that they themselves don't understand. For some reason after the first tank dies and gets res'd they turn off their tank stance, while the other tank never turns theirs on, and it stayed that way for the rest of the fight. WHM is basically afk, one SMN casually walks off the platform three times(no mechs, no ice). Dragged the whole group kicking and screaming through the entire second phase, while having aggro(assuming no one was dpsing enough so heals generated that much emnity), and even lived a TB with a zoed up shield and haima.

Wanted to take a break from the forums, but that was just awful and I needed to vent it.

[Noxster]

Aight, another one.

For the love of god, please kill the mobs that are aggroed on the tank before proceeding to disappear into the void in cutter's cry. I know they don't give you exp but did you know it's hard to click on the sand when everything is aggroed on you. I had a run in as a dps where the healer and another dps decided to abandon me and the tank. It took us, several tries to get through and guess what? They abandoned us again with a room full of mobs. It doesn't cut your time at all. It makes it longer and more frustrating to us who got abandoned. Guess who died the most to mech? The other dps and healer. A dungeon that's supposed to be 15 minutes become about 45 minutes because of this.