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

[Dreggit]

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that hat doe.

This is off topic. But your hat is growing on me. What hat is it? Hopefully I can put it on my crafters as glam

[Vidu]

. This is off topic. But your hat is growing on me. What hat is it? Hopefully I can put it on my crafters as glam

Its the Thavnairian Turban - at least on my server its really cheap now, so you can probably just buy one, no need to craft it yourself

[Kallistra]

Today Selli got a new PC. To celebrate we decided to go do a dungeon. Instead of undersizing something, I decided to queue us normally with two other FC mates.

Long story short, we ended up wiping because Selli got distracted by high quality grass texture. Apparently it looks really different than what she was used to and she wanted to go investigate it. It was super cute and we all had a good laugh about it.

[KDSilver]

Today on Sophia normal.

I was with another astrologian. He had an Ewer stocked.
He used it on me (i had no mp issue and it was the time my mp regen came back). Otherwise, he wasn't drawing cards.
The only time he did, it was to use a aoe spire on everyone... overwriting my balance (no one had tp issue).

I wanted to cry so much....

[floofuf]

I can't force ideas on anyone. I don't have this mystical power you are claiming I have...if I did I'd be rich and be too busy on my yacht in the south seas and not bothering to have a job and spend all my time swimming, fishing, and eating sushi.

So I don't see how I can "go too far" unless I was continuously non stop telling her to listen to me and not tanking the dungeon until she listened or verbally harassing her with insults...which I didn't do any of those things. I continued the dungeon and at fastest pace possible minus a few mins for cooldowns (which I really needed) and a few quick typing sentences.

I mentioned it once within 2-3 minutes while tanking mobs then kept going through the dungeon (albeit struggling) until 15 mins later where I mentioned it one more time to see if she could understand I was just trying to help.

Example:
It's like this...three people building a playset.

Person A: You seem to be having a bit of trouble. *insert brief explanation of why they are having trouble*
Person B: I know what I am doing.
Person A: But...the slide is installed upside down
Person C: Who cares if the slide is upside down. Drop it.
Person B: ^
Person A: OK fine. If you don't want help I won't help :/

15 mins later

Person A: Are you sure you don't want help to install the slide properly? It can't be used like this...and its dangerous.
Person B: No stop attacking me
Person C: No. Just drop it.
Person A: This is ridiculous.

That was the end of it. Didn't mention it again. If this is going too far...then everyone should just never chat in this game at all. Both of the exchanges didn't last very long either like 3 mins each but we were fighting mobs during some of it so it wasn't like I was stopped completely and not doing the dungeon.

My thoughts on an issue under the cut (I kind of wish there were PMs on the forums ;-;

To be honest, I don't really remember what the quote went with. I'm pretty sure it was a few pages back (I'll edit this after I check it). I may have read things wrongs, but from what I understand, you tried to tell the healer that they were healing in cleric and they said something along the lines of, "It's okay, just keep going, don't worry." And you responded with something like, "Okay, but it's not really how you're supposed to heal." Then after a bit you had kind of the same exchange and then the healer got defensive. Then you proceeded to contact them outside the dungeon. The issue I found with this was that you tried to contact them outside of a dungeon. Yes, you're being quite helpful, and if I was in that person's shoes I'd gladly thank you can carry on my merry way. But, this person may have been told that multiple times and have gotten tired of it. Yes, it's kind of dumb for them to continue on with their way of healing when they've been told otherwise, but there's really nothing you can do.

The mentioning in the dungeon was alright, I think that was really great and shows that you care. But if you did indeed try to find them after the dungeon to tell them they are wrong, that's not really right. There's no other way I can explain this. They've shown that they obviously didn't care, and you're probably not going to see them again anytime soon in DF anyways. You really can't fix stupid sometimes :/

Like I said, I may have my stories messed up and I'm honestly really sorry if I do. I'll delete the post if that's the case, but I'm just kind of sad that people actually go to this extreme because they feel like it's helping the person.

P.S. I take back what I said about forcing and idea on someone. I now see it as suggestion as you were trying to be nice and helpful about it.

Yup I was really, really wrong. Sorry Miste!! I'm going to keep this up so that you can see what I thought happened. Thank you for attempting to help the healer, though. I'm sorry they didn't take the advice, but some people are just really... interesting.

[Mysterysword]

grass

Seriously. There is grass in places I never knew there was supposed to be and it is beautiful. Stormblood's gonna be fun.

Now for the obligatory post to prove I can stay on-topic! Featuring: PotD - The Michael Bay Edition!

To kill time, I decided to run 51-100 of PotD. Because... nostalgia? But anyway. I believe it was on floor 71 that I loaded in to a new party, got greeted, saw a nice silver chest sitting off to the side, run up to open it, and... explosion. Nice welcome gift from PotD.

But it didn't end there, oh no. No, I ended up stepping on twenty billion landmines. I had more silver chests blow up in my face. Michael Bay himself would've been so proud. In one level, I saw a silver chest, was at low HP, and decided to throw some Physicks on myself before opening it (I'll miss you, you wonderful, beautiful spell). Of course it blew up.

On another level, the floor had auto-heals disabled, and two of my party members were low on HP after fighting a mob. Hey, guess what? The mob dropped a silver chest! Did I immediately run up to it and open it? Of course I did! Did it explode, killing two of my party members? Of course it did!

Somehow, I still got a comm for blowing myself up more times than a rubber doll.

[Rasylia]

Urgh, im not even going to get back at all the stuff i read in quotes on the last 5 pages...

Today Selli got a new PC. To celebrate we decided to go do a dungeon. Instead of undersizing something, I decided to queue us normally with two other FC mates.

Long story short, we ended up wiping because Selli got distracted by high quality grass texture. Apparently it looks really different than what she was used to and she wanted to go investigate it. It was super cute and we all had a good laugh about it.

I adjusted my settings last night - oh boy, how i could play the game on low settings before is not understandable to me I can very much relate to Selli's Situation.

And, to not only share the bad stories:

To get my Whm to Lvl 60 before the addon and to be able to buy the awesome Makai Gear i went into Low Lvl Dungeon Roulette a few hours ago. We had a firsttimer (the tank) who only had one class up (Pld lvl 31) and who was completely new to the game.
After a few groups i dropped a few tips here and there (use flash more often | if you loose hate and dont have Provoke ready, throw your shield | ...) which he gladly accepted and tried to do. Even one of the dps starting handing out some advice every now and then.
Comparing the tank from the start to the tank at the end, i can only say he got better a lot
It's nice to see people accept tips from other players and try to get better - even when its only inside a dungeon.

flashbacks to when i was tanking Stone Vigil as Gladiator.... my poor teammates >.<

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Someone's wrong on the internet.
....

You had to say it didn't you...



On topic.

Joined someone asking for help in novice on the Chrysilas run for story the other day.
I went as Astrologian, and the other player who joined up also went as Astrologian.

Some quick tips were posted when asked.
Save the limit break for the tear, alternate orb colors, etc...

Other ASt takes Nocturnal, I go Dinural.



It goes pretty well at the start.
First orb phase is a bit sloppy, we end up losing one of the dps, but get him back up after the unavoidable damage.


At one point I see a triple, and hit cleric stance to drop out and heal...
It activates... Oops!
But both of us were on point and my little slip up didn't cause a tank death. XD


ANother orb phase and I think two dps go down, but we get them back up shortly after.


Meteor phase...

I, as always, run away from the center before being taken in so the dot falls off before I get brought in. I also pop lumi aether and lightspeed.

Tanks aren't grabbing meteors well, or at all, I'm not quite sure...

I just recall big hits going out and all but one of the dps dropping on the floor.
Thankfully the monk survived and the limit break went off, the other AST is hammering away at the tear, I'm lightspeed spamming all I can to keep us up from the meteor damage and we make it through!

Some triage and damage control later and we've got a few up while the boss is taken out.

Sucessful clear!

[Rawrz]

Just had 3 people, one which was a scholar call me a troll and that it was worthless because i said losing Blizzard II as a scholar is going to hurt.

The world we live in. We don't deserve you Blizzard II.

[Cherub]

My party balance got overwritten by party ewer. Thanks, random astro.