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

[Mitsuri]

My worst run is when I did the Library (before Stormblood era) and literally only one person was nice to me. The DPS kept dying from not dodging. I might be a WHM but that doesn't mean I can save you from 1-hit KO's and lack of knowledge of mechanics. The painful part was they were all nooblets on their first run of it. How was that my fault? I'd farm it for tomestones. I wasn't new. They were SO rude though. I dropped that. Hope they had fun with their 30 minute wait. I'm still salty. lol. If you yourself are new and have no idea what to do, DON'T BE A BUTT NUGGET. Especially to your healer. I took a break from playing for a month over that mess. The worst part was I only que'd because Healer was Adventurer in Need.

[MoroMurasaki]

When I have a couple of good runs in a row I know eventually a nuce story for this thread is coming.


Today I did some things with friends from the forums and then after they went to bed I wound up queueing with a few FC members for Rabanastre. Smoothest run I've seen so far, such strong dps from 2/3 groups. We actually wiped once on the third boss of all things because group A failed the DPS check on their add but the SMN from our FC went in with them next time to I'll their add for them, everything else went great.

Did an Expert after that, all FC members. Kugane Castle hardly lasted 13 minutes with no deaths or even almost deaths even on the full pull from the second to third boss.

Then I queued for Trial Roulette alone.

Ugh.

I get Shinryu which is always fun. Everyone but me and the tanks die to Tidal Wave. I raised 22 times in this run, I know because I recorded it and counted. We actually never wiped but everyone who was not me or a tank died to virtually everything that can kill you. Thank god for amazing WHM mp sustain and strong tank DPS.

I've had some real up and down DF luck lately, would be great if t would even out a bit.

[Rymm]

So today I had a super frustrating run. I was just trying to get the daily leveling roulette done on a dps job (SAM) and was already pretty annoyed because my game kept acting up and I got booted twice while nearly through with two 20ish minute dps queues. I finally got into one and it was Sastasha, which was weird because everyone in the group was synced down by at least 10 levels.

Red flags went up immediately when the other dps and tank (who apparently had queued together,) had barely zoned in and greeted the healer and I by telling us to leave. Apparently they weren't happy to get Sast, and wanted one of us to take the lockout so that they could leave without it and re-queue. Well there was no way I was going to eat the penalty after all the trouble I had to get into the instance in the first place, so I suggested we just get it over with. After stalling for another minute or two, obviously hoping one of us would bail, the tank pulled. Things went fine up until the room with the clams, when the tank suddenly took off and pulled everything between the first clam and the first boss. Needless to say, we wiped and this little exchange happened.

As you can see, I was kicked for simply pointing out the obvious. In hindsight though I'm pretty sure they just wanted to boot me immediately after the 5 minute timer was up so that they could bail without the penalty and re-queue. Supper frustrating behavior but nothing really to be done about it except vent a little and re-queue myself. (Dps queue timer is up to 27 minutes now, hurrah.)

[silverlunarfox]

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Man,usually my FC queues for leveling and stuff together, we can all be level 70, and still get sastasha..............

But this is....just....wow....I hope they got sastasha again. >.>

[SenorPatty]

Man,usually my FC queues for leveling and stuff together, we can all be level 70, and still get sastasha..............

But this is....just....wow....I hope they got sastasha again. >.>

Part of the reason why I hate how the leveling roulette works. For the longest time, I thought the reason I ended up in newbie dgns was because someone in the party matched the dgn lvl (and that I don't mind). Yesterday proved me wrong when I ended up in Brayflox and the lowest lvl out of us was 60something. I'll never tolerate what does guys did to Rymm but honestly, the current system doesn't help

[tinythinker]

I think from now on if I see Bardam's, I should immediately leave.

Why didn't I take my own advice? Advertised again at start for small pulls, got them (I still had some nervous moments but no wipes), until tank forgot, pulled big, and also left the blue safety bubble left by the Summoner. Back on track to last boss, then I got caught be the eye. Also got caught by it in the mechanics "boss" and in the previous dungeon. Yet I was turned at least 1.5-2 seconds before it went off. *sigh*

Anyway, tank dies to heavy damage, I rez but it kills me, Summoner casts rez on wrong person, wipe. DPS leaves, DPS joins, fairly smooth second boss fight and everyone bolts for exit.

Is DPS easier than healer? I don't care about comms or being a hero, but then again queue times are very long...

Again, apologies to my Bardam group.

[killstein]

have you ever been with a lvl68 rdm that only used jolt??

[tinythinker]

have you ever been with a lvl68 rdm that only used jolt??

Nooo...???

I mean usually can't comment on DPS jobs but I leveled RDM to 66 from the ridiculous Yo-Kai FATE grinds, and it's easy to learn Jolt->VerAero, Jolt->Verthunder, plus VerStone and VerFire when they proc plus that single target OGCD nuke and Scatter for AoE on mobs... You can get fancy with the sword stuff too if you really wanna show off.

[killstein]

Nooo...???

I mean usually can't comment on DPS jobs but I leveled RDM to 66 from the ridiculous Yo-Kai FATE grinds, and it's easy to learn Jolt->VerAero, Jolt->Verthunder, plus VerStone and VerFire when they proc plus that single target OGCD nuke and Scatter for AoE on mobs... You can get fancy with the sword stuff too if you really wanna show off.

ah i wasn't responding to your post, apologies. the rest of my entry mysteriously got deleted... but i agree. :/ there's no excuse to not know your rotation when you're practically at lvl70.

but yes! shisui run with a rdm that only used jolt, at lvl68....... kudos to that blm for pulling their dead weight. what really got me was their friend (the whm) basically enabled their poor performance.

[tinythinker]

ah i wasn't responding to your post, apologies. the rest of my entry mysteriously got deleted... but i agree. :/ there's no excuse to not know your rotation when you're practically at lvl70.

but yes! shisui run with a rdm that only used jolt, at lvl68....... kudos to that blm for pulling their dead weight. what really got me was their friend (the whm) basically enabled their poor performance.

Didn't think you were responding to me, just curious like, reeeeally?

I mean, I totally get that some DPS rotations are confusing, especially to new players. But, even if you just spammed Jolt->Veraero and the occasional Verstone proc you would do better damage. I've only done FATEs and didn't think the concept was especially out there. Summoner, Black Mage, etc. are much more difficult. Plus the melee DPS with their positionals.