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

[Fluestergras]

Satasha (Story Mode):

Tank: me (as DRK)

Healer: CNJ spamming Cure and Medica all time

DPS 1: ACN using tank carbuncle

DPS 2: LNC pulling every mob

A typical Sastasha run ^^
I once tanked Sastasha NM on my dark knight and got an archer who pulled stuff or attacked a pulled mob before I could use Unleash. I asked her nicely to stop that, thinking she was new to the game. Her reply was "I can try, hehe" which made me curious, why this "hehe"? I looked up her profile and found out that this lady is a lv60 paladin ._.

[Coldheart]

Oh, it's pretty normal for that kind of stuff to happen at Sastasha, don't judge them. It's their first dungeon and probably their first time in a normal composition party. It may even take them a few more dungeons to figure out some stuff. We've all been there in some way or another.

I've done Satasha countless times and this was the first time I had this combination (spam heal, tank carbuncle and DPS pulling) at same time. Fortunately, Satasha is so easy

[Artemiz]

This is more of a vent than anything but sums up why we have so few tanks.

I'm leveling my tanks (all 3) and even though my PLD is lvl 50 that was back in 2.0, I've not done any tanking in 3.0. So I get to level 51 on WAR and I try Dusk Vigil for the first time, and anounce that at the start. My item level is 118 with full Ironworks gear and a HQ axe off the MB. I'm using 2-3 CD's per fight and dodging all telegraphs, I even manage to time Mercy Stroke to regain a little HP a couple of times and I'm using Storm's Path and Eye when I can but the DPS was good so enmity was my main concern. I won't claim to be great at WAR as I'm still learning it obviously but nobody died or took hate and the run went pretty quickly. Despite this the healer, starting at the first trash pack didn't stop complaining. Even when the DRG suggested LoS pulling some elementals to avoid Frostbite (which I eventually did) he moaned about that too.

I can't change the fact that I'm a level 51 tank in a 51-53 dungeon but I guess he didn't care about that. I also refrained from pointing out that I've healed through it with a proper squishy first timer and I gave him a comm for trying hard, not bitch at him about it.

Anyway rant over, I've got tanks to level so I'd better get back to it.

[Bebekurenai]

A battle on the big bridge story:

I was a whm and he usually targets bards with confusion so I was being attacked by the same bard like three times.

I ask them: 'What did I ever do to you? o-o'

And they go: "You stole my wife, you bastard!'

And then after the fight was over:

Bard: "Just because I don't have a tail...'

(they were on Hyur and I on my Au Ra)

You can get rid of confu if you /slap the player. Like the /comfort for the gremlin debuff in Library and Lost City.

[KaitlanKela]

You can get rid of confu if you /slap the player. Like the /comfort for the gremlin debuff in Library and Lost City.

Does this really work though? I've done it for misery in LCoA and GGL and it either doesn't do anything or it gets reapplied instantly because I never see the debuff drop off.

I even had a tank tell me to stop emoting so much in LCoA, and I was like..."Comfort purifies misery?" But honesly I have no clue. I don't think I can get it to work consistently.

[AlphaFox]

Does this really work though? I've done it for misery in LCoA and GGL and it either doesn't do anything or it gets reapplied instantly because I never see the debuff drop off.

I even had a tank tell me to stop emoting so much in LCoA, and I was like..."Comfort purifies misery?" But honesly I have no clue. I don't think I can get it to work consistently.

You have to be right next to the person for the /comfort to work, otherwise it does nothing. Not sure on /slap and confuse though.

[Bebekurenai]

Yeah you do have to be close :/

[SpiritMuse]

A battle on the big bridge story:

I was a whm and he usually targets bards with confusion so I was being attacked by the same bard like three times.

I ask them: 'What did I ever do to you? o-o'

And they go: "You stole my wife, you bastard!'

And then after the fight was over:

Bard: "Just because I don't have a tail...'

(they were on Hyur and I on my Au Ra)

That reminds me of the time I was in there as a BLM and got confuse'd. My character started running around hitting everyone over the head with his staff. XD

Did two Vault runs for my Anima weapons the past few days (BLM and DRK) and they both went off perfectly. Except for when I accidentally used the tank limit break on a random trash pack. XD Well, at least I learned it has no cast time.

[Stupiduglytaru]

This is from yesterday, late last night I decided to do one more cutter's cry on drg. I hadn't touched this job since 2.5? after getting blood for blood, I spent the day toying around getting used to it again.

After a 45minute wait (average q shows 8mins lol) I get a pop appear, to my disgust time elapsed 60mins. I enter in to find a lonely blm and a offline member in group at the final boss, I take a little look at the blm and find this is his highest level.

I ask do you have cure equipped? he promptly adds it to his hotbar and off we go, he explains they been trying to beat this boos but just can't do it. I explain mechanics and he says he knows them already, I love this boss always fun to tank had to do it on nearly everyjob XD

We get to around 70% before my son wakes up, promptly making us wipe. The blm was handling the mechanics ez so sure im sticking around for another shot!

We get back at it, around 40% the blm makes a mistake and promptly dies! he was doing great till then lets give it another go!

The final attempt gets off to a bad start, I animation lock myself into an aoe. we recover just fine and I continue to derp my way through my rotation while tanking.

AT LAST HE'S DOWN

Was so much fun and wish that person the best of luck in future battles!

https://youtu.be/M9UbDfWIoTI

[KaitlanKela]

Just wanted to say thanks about the emote purify for misery/confuse info. I will try again when I'm in melee range of the tank.

Carry on