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

[Anienai]

Dear co-tanks,

When you get a tankbuster marker, please do your entire party a favor and DO NOT run around with it like a child running with scissors. You will ultimately smash someone that lacks situational awareness and probably wipe the party.

Sincerely,
The paladin running an alt through 6.4's Golbez trial that had you as their co-tank, and watched you kill 3 people with the TB.

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[Cincierta]

So apparently it is not ok to wall2wall pull in Prae, according to a battle mentor sage I just dealt with on my alt drk. They didn't like I went full on wall2wall with a brd and smn, they wanted me to just park at the second pack, and then doubled-down on the nitpick for 'optimization' and 'I should optimize more for the sake of casters and ninjas'. Even though going to the wall is standard, smns have some instants from Titan and Garuda, and nins get Death Blossom as they go at that level. Brd can just Quick Nock/RoA all day.

But why would you do that? Parking yourself at the literal wall to get to the next set faster was something I found was much better than having to make the trip over once things were dead. Explosions from the wall where you take no damage to the face are the best, amirite?

Also apparently asking if they needed a hug since it sounded like they were hurt made them double-down even more on their oddball nitpick. It's...Praetorium. There's only a handful of packs and a Walking Simulator(tm) in there.

[Thurmnmurmn]

Taking an alt through World of Darkness for the first time. A tank from another party starts giving me crap about being undergeared as a fresh 50. Guess who died three times to Angry Meatball's Mortal Gaze and twice to Cerberus's devour attack? And guess who had to pick up the slack because the third tank was taking a nap?

TL;DR, don't talk trash unless you're gonna back it up.

Wait. . . Someone tried to gear shame you in world of darkness XD

[Kuroka]

So, did you know the fight with Althyk and Nymeia has an enrage timer? If you don't KO at least one of them within eight minutes, they joint cast a black hole that wipes the raid.

Guess how I learned that. It involves at least two ice mages, a summoner without a summon, and a no-damage healer, just in my party.

Ive never managed to see that, despite at least 60+ runs...

[Silverquick]

i'll argue for that being a solid option during dungeon trash. mostly because i'm ahead of the tank half the time and just eating hits on radiant aegis when playing summoner

Well that's fair, I don't think it makes much difference in an Expert Roulette unless its a newbie tank, but it would be worthwhile, though there is a chance you miss some DPS in switching.

That said this is coming from someone who generally uses Adle on the boss mobs when a tank buster is coming.

[DiaDeem]

Regular Ultima

Orange stack marker on of Healer!

But nobody came.



Me: "Guys??"

Bard: "I don't have res"

???

[TheMightyMollusk]

Wait. . . Someone tried to gear shame you in world of darkness XD

To be fair, I had barely more HP than the healers. I'd had no gear drops in Syrcus (and Labyrinth gear is actually a lower item level than the second level 50 artifact set given for completing the job quest), and only enough Poetics to buy an axe. And I didn't want to just grind trial roulettes for tomes, since I'm already three levels over. Suppose I could just go unlock samurai or red mage for it....

[BRVV]

Regular Ultima

Orange stack marker on of Healer!

But nobody came.



Me: "Guys??"

Bard: "I don't have res"

???

Does not compute

[VictorSpoils]

Ive never managed to see that, despite at least 60+ runs...

We did an all-healer run when it was new and narrowly beat the cast bar. That's the closest it ever got.

[AnotherPerson]

To be fair, I had barely more HP than the healers. I'd had no gear drops in Syrcus (and Labyrinth gear is actually a lower item level than the second level 50 artifact set given for completing the job quest), and only enough Poetics to buy an axe. And I didn't want to just grind trial roulettes for tomes, since I'm already three levels over. Suppose I could just go unlock samurai or red mage for it....

Have you tried looking at PvP Gear? IIRC At lv 50, you can get ~ILV 110 gear with wolf marks. You can trade excess crystals from series malmstones at Commendation Quartermaster NPC for wolf collars, which can then be used to purchase Wolf marks from Collar Quartermaster.
It's not as good as Augmented Tomestone, but it's better than Sycrus gear for ILVL. It's many times more easier to obtain (and you can easily accumulate wolf marks from just doing daily Frontlines instead of actively farming for specific pieces in Alliance Roulette). That's my go-to method in the past when I was leveling up alt jobs and lacked tomestones to continue gearing my jobs. Works for ~lv 50 and ~lv 60 as a decent stopgap measure.