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

[HoodRat]

My friend was called a jerky elitist and snobby for simply asking a tank why he was wearing level 60 tome gear in a level 70 dungeon.

And then the tank rage quit after being asked why he didn't just do his level 70 class quest. lol

[Imragarn]

Leveling my AST... CopperBell Mines... Again...

Level 18 Gladiator. Pugilist 18. Arcanist 17.

Tank pull EVERYTHING after the first elevator. When he stop i keep him alive for... like 20 secs. And we all die. Ok, happen. I tell him that we have no AOE and it's useless to pull so much. Only have a "mimimi you'r the one useless"
And then, he leave.

[KeiranOlive]

A little while ago when the ddos attacks were at their worst, I was running Rabanastre. Everything was going well until the last boss. In the middle of the fight the entire alliance froze and everyone had a dc symbol. Then a couple seconds later...24 chickens!

That was obviously a wipe, but it had everyone laughing at least.

[Kohdo]

It's a minor gripe but whatever.

RDM. Ran Emanation to help a friend work through the MSQ. It's not the easiest of trials but it certainly isn't difficult. Somehow we landed a legitimately retarded party. Not knowing mechanics is one thing, stacking the cross AOEs on top of other players is a whole other kind of special.

Spamming Raise and Lucid Dreaming I ended up raising people seven times, including both healers, one of whom I raised twice, and the same tank three times - who would thereafter sit idle for 10 seconds before he realized he was up and got back into the fight, at which point he didn't use any CDs or bother to move away from AOEs. Whatever. I did this while maintaining a respectable amount of DPS and keeping my MP up.

Didn't get a single comm.

Edit: It happened again. What is peoples' problem with the cross AOE mechanic? Just don't stack it on other people, and don't run around with it like a retard making everyone else interrupt their rotations to try and avoid it.

[Awful]

Got Bardams Mettle today on my Drg for leveling roulette before getting off as it was the last one I needed, I noticed that the Mch had some reaaaally low HP I look over and he's got Weathered Gloam Accessories (ilvl 100) and an ilvl 180 weapon and the rest of his gear is 2 pieces of lvl 60 Shire gear and some Neverreap/Fractal gear. I just logged off that was enough of FFXIV for one day.

[KaivaC]

Was running an experiment with a brand new alt Marauder (just doing normal sprout stuff, hoping to learn how other FCs recruit players) and queued into Satasha with a WHM, a THM, and a LNC. What bothered me a lot about the run was the THM constantly casting blizzard, then a thunder, then back to blizzard – occasionally he would throw out a fire. But given that this was Satasha and he was a sprout, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Just as I was about to pipe up and try to help him, the WHM, who is also a regular player in sprout disguise, asks the THM if he had lucid dreaming.

I’m pretty sure I’m not crazy, but even though I barely have a THM leveled, I am pretty sure that they don’t need lucid dreaming for MP purposes unless the player doesn’t know the job. I could be wrong, but you throw out your fire spells, then go into umbral ice mode to restore MP, then switch back.

Right? Because if not, me and that WHM got into that spat for nothing.

[Steel_Arrow]

Just as I was about to pipe up and try to help him, the WHM, who is also a regular player in sprout disguise, asks the THM if he had lucid dreaming.

I’m pretty sure I’m not crazy, but even though I barely have a THM leveled, I am pretty sure that they don’t need lucid dreaming for MP purposes unless the player doesn’t know the job. I could be wrong, but you throw out your fir`e spells, then go into umbral ice mode to restore MP, then switch back.

Right? Because if not, me and that WHM got into that spat for nothing.

Correct, blm does not need lucid dreaming unless they completely botch their rotation and somehow land below the mp for blizzard with no effect up. It can happen, but you have to be really bad to the point of almost trying. It doesn't give enough MP regen to amount to another attack during the fire stance. Umbral ice is basically intended to be a rapid refill, so Blm should actually be able to transfer MP to the healer every time mana shift is off cooldown.

But usually it's never worth the spat. Too many people derping in roulettes to ever make a difference.

[Amirya]

Unless I just went full on stupid-mode, Lucid Dreaming also reduces Emnity. I doubt the THM was pulling aggro on anything, but...?

[KaivaC]

Correct, blm does not need lucid dreaming unless they completely botch their rotation and somehow land below the mp for blizzard with no effect up. It can happen, but you have to be really bad to the point of almost trying. It doesn't give enough MP regen to amount to another attack during the fire stance. Umbral ice is basically intended to be a rapid refill, so Blm should actually be able to transfer MP to the healer every time mana shift is off cooldown.

But usually it's never worth the spat. Too many people derping in roulettes to ever make a difference.

Ok, thanks. I wasn't entirely sure because it's been forever since I touched that class. The spat maybe lasted at most, 8 sentences. I stopped because I didn't want the other sprouts to think that this is how the community is over something so simple. That and he was new...unfortunately, I forgot to tell him his ideal rotation.

[Steel_Arrow]

Unless I just went full on stupid-mode, Lucid Dreaming also reduces Emnity. I doubt the THM was pulling aggro on anything, but...?

Prior to 70 you're not putting out that much burst. At 70, if you lead in with a pair of fouls and then triplecast flares, you can pull aggro, but not much outside of that. If you need both at any level, your tank is bad and is probably using single target crap on an aoe pull.

You mixed up their enmity effects. Also, if a BLM drops below the required MP for Blizzard, which is impossible unless they're in Astral Fire, they can use the level 4 skill of Transpose to get an Umbral Ice stack, then wait 3 seconds for MP regen.

Source: Am an actual BLM main.

Also, a BLM who starts a boss fight with triplecast Flares should be slapped upside the head.

I didn't say anything about triplecasting flares on a boss fight.
And it is possible to land below the MP for blizzard with no effect - although hard to do, as I said in the post.
It's almost as if you're intentionally misreading what I said, just so you can find fault with it.

And Source??? Give me a break. This isn't Yahoo Answers.

If we've proven anything here it's that the best way to get your question answered is not to ask one question, but to give a different answer.
People wouldn't take the time to answer it themselves will jump all over the chance to correct someone who did.

The focus of the thread isn't about looking the smartest, so let's not derail it by being petty.
Like they say in Frozen, snowflake, it's time to Let It Go.