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

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

5678 roulette as a PLD ytd, got Pagl'than.

Fast forward to last boss AST warms the floor after eating Khan Rai without moving out. Then two other follows leaving me to solo last boss from 40% because they kept eating vuln stacks: It wasn't a pleasant one despite being 'fulfilling'. Having to break optimal rotation sometimes just to use more Riot Blade for more Clememecy was a fun choice to made at least.

AST:"It's nice to see that not only WAR can pull this off!"

Dear AST... No... not it's not. But you do you. ---Sincerely, some jaded healer main.

The entire run took about 29m

[Cincierta]

So I didn't realize it was actually possible to wipe to the first boss of the 89 dungeon. Our AST ate too much vuln stack along with my co-dps DRG about 45% into the fight. Sadly there's only so much a BLM and a DRK can do.

AST never touched Macrocosmos, Horoscope, Neutral Sect, Celestial Intersection, Exalation, or the dome the entire run though. Just...spamga Helios, Aspected Helios and Benefic 1 and 2.

[DiaDeem]

Not really a Duty Finder story, but...

Last week (I think??) I was in Southern Front, and it was night time in-game. Suddenly, someone shouts for help, saying that their friend had been one shot by a mob, and that they were afraid to move. Both of them were in an area where a story quest takes you, and where super strong mobs spawn at night. I figured I'd go and try to help. When I arrived, there were like 5 or 6 other people there also to help. Someone made mention that we can get pass the mobs if we walked instead of running, which surprised the person that did the original shout. So this little group of six or seven people all of us go into the area, which is kind of a small labyrinth to look for their friend, so they'd feel more safe and so their friend didn't have to release. Someone in the party accidentally ran and got one-shot, but because there we were in a group, we were able to just rez him. We split a bit, and someone finally found the friend and got him up, and the same way we came in, the escort walked out of the labyrinth.

It was a really weird and fun experience that would never have happened if not for the unique circumstances that Bozja provided, and we need more stuff like this in FFXIV.

[nukemind]

Trying to learn Sage. I *hate* jobs starting at such a high level, especially ith how horrid (20-30 minutes just for the "good" levels) PotD is.

Try to tell the team. Before I can finish typing tank has already started pulling wall to wall. One of two BRDs kept standing in AoE.

Wipe on trash before first boss.

Try it again. Start typing again. No check to see what caused a problem already pulling wall to wall.

I was a tank first. I DPS now. I still tank sometimes. I'm not a bad SCH healer at all. But man people need to slow down sometimes. It was one of the few times I just left a dungeon, just logged off after.

Double checked to make sure no one was a sprout or doing the dungeon for the first time of course. But man I couldn't even get in a word to say I was new to the class, had no experience with it, I would appreciate taking it slow (and I had watched guides). Heck by the time I looked up from typing first two packs were already eating the tank.

[Asari5]

well, why dont you start with a low lvl dungeon with only the first few skills in your bar and work yourself up? nobody says you have to go for a lvl 70 duty right after getting your job stone with three bars full of unkown skills

[nukemind]

well, why dont you start with a low lvl dungeon with only the first few skills in your bar and work yourself up? nobody says you have to go for a lvl 70 duty right after getting your job stone with three bars full of unkown skills

Oh I’ve done practice. I do get annoyed at the level 50 as two key skills are disabled and it becomes a basic healer (specifically: no AOE heal just a degen, and the shielding is down).

I can *absolutely* heal 60-70s. I’m just a bit slow. I may just ratchet it up staring at, say, 57 or so and ending at my current level.

I prefer SCH so much as Eos saves my bacon and I love the toolkit far more… it’s just Sage has funnels and I need to be able to say “Fly my fangs!”

[Cincierta]

Oh I’ve done practice. I do get annoyed at the level 50 as two key skills are disabled and it becomes a basic healer (specifically: no AOE heal just a degen, and the shielding is down).

I can *absolutely* heal 60-70s. I’m just a bit slow. I may just ratchet it up staring at, say, 57 or so and ending at my current level.

I prefer SCH so much as Eos saves my bacon and I love the toolkit far more… it’s just Sage has funnels and I need to be able to say “Fly my fangs!”

It is possible to try it out and get used to it via fates at 70+ or go into a dungeon with trusts. If you're doing the trust route, you can pull as you please. However going in with actual players is normally the best teacher. Gotta learn your kit somehow when the tank goes balls-to-the-walls on pulls.

[Cincierta]

I can't help but be grinning from ear to ear as I write this.

So a while ago I posted about a garbage SCH that was spamming Physick on me in Bardam's Mettle while I was on an alt leveling their DRK and was incredibly rude to me. Well earlier I finally got sick of constantly getting CT so I force-queued the Nier raids, and I get Breach to pop. I'm on SGE, and my co-heal ends up being a WHM. Cool, assuming people can do mechanics, we should be fine with my E X T R A T H I C C shields.

As we're waiting for the gate to drop, comments about people rarely getting Breach or those hoping for Nier but not something this difficult. We move onto the first boss, and eventually he gets to Light Leap. For those not in the know, this attack has two proximity markers that, the closer you are to it, the more damage you take to the point of being a OHKO, and the further away you are from it the less damage you take.

I see an extremely familiar name not make the mechanic and immediately eat dirt. Oh my god I realized, it's the nitwit I had a few months prior in Bardam's on the same exact bloody alt. What were the chances? And they made it to not only 90 on each healer, but they were on WHM to boot, the easiest healer you can't screw up on.

For a good chunk of the raid said garbage healer was failing a decent amount of mechanics, and dying several times. Their co-healer was unfortunately resigned to carrying their party, as I could see the nitwit really not doing much at all. No Raising, maybe some damage/dots, and running about. Their group also had three near wipes on Red Girl: one to the first Recreate Meteor, second was to failing their hacking minigame section, and third was to the infamous Double Recreate Meteor. Honorable mentions were the double tankbusters that came after her clones.

Due to my shielding, my party barely took any damage for a good chunk of the raid. It at least helped that most of my party followed me for safety. If that bunboy complained, I couldn't hear them at all in alliance chat due to good ol' blacklisting them a while back.

Karma's a b*tch, and it feels great to see someone like them not learn anything at all and suffer for their poor attitude and unwillingness to learn.

[DiaDeem]

So a while ago I posted about a garbage SCH that was spamming Physick on me in Bardam's Mettle while I was on an alt leveling their DRK

Oh boy!
I just got out of Temple of the Fist, and... while I may make a case for Physick as a desperate last resort if you've literally burned everything else, the SCH I got was using only three abilities. Aldo (sometimes), Succor, and an INSANE amount of Physicks. No Sacred Soil, no Excog, no Aetherpact and no Lustrate. I saw Two stacks of Aetherflow on their bar just... there, staring into eternity. I tried to tell them, but they didn't answer so.. egh. Thank Hydaelyn for Clemency.

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On a funnier note, I was half asleep the other night and I got Lapis. 2nd boss hits tank and one DPS with Doom.

3 seconds pass and in my mind I'm like "Does this healer not know they can Esuna that Doom??.."

3 seconds pass...

......... I AM THE HEALER


I saved the tank but the DPS died. I felt so stupid and really apologized to the DPS after.

[Merrigan]

I saved the tank but the DPS died. I felt so stupid and really apologized to the DPS after.

Please, tell me you actually admitted you forgot you were the healer

Made me laugh.

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I'm playing with my partner at the moment. An old MMORPG regular, but hasn't set foot in FFXIV for a long time. It's... refreshing, playing with someone who's rediscovering things. It's also a reminder that, sometimes, we're so used to certain things that we forget they're not as intuitive for newcomers (/ or, as here, those who've taken very long breaks).

In short, I'm trying to find dungeons that I've really enjoyed, or that have impressed me by their visual design (The vault) to get him used to the game again in a fun way. Problem: certain mechanics, which already don't do much damage for a highly-stuffed group, don't even appear any more because the groups do too much damage. The fact that bosses melt away very quickly is also a concern, as the perceived threat is inevitably lower. We were chatting about this with the other members of the dungeon... And they kindly suggested making some autoattacks phases, so that the length of the bosses would be closer to what they should be with a group of young sprouts.

Okay, it's artificial, but it's still a crutch to reproduce the real "feel" of the dungeon. But the intention was really nice, and it actually allowed him to enjoy the fight more without feeling rushed. Thank you, kind strangers.