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

[Iscah]

I've just done the pre-Heavensward quests (plus Crystal Tower and a few roulettes) with my summoner and I'm at Lv54, plus white mage at Lv55 from roulettes. Right now I'm actively trying to level multiple classes to spread out my EXP gain because I'm worried about hitting level 70 before I'm close to the end of Stormblood. (I also had black mage and bard at Lv50 going into Heavensward, and have gotten them both to 51 from the Lv50 quests and sidequests.)

(Would be nice if you could earn some kind of "EXP credit" after you hit the level cap - perhaps convert it into Rested bonus that you can make use of with your other classes?)

[duvvvv]

I'm doing only DR 50/60 and Alliance for poetics, and I've been noticing this 'attitude' from certain players. I don't know if it's what you call elitism or just overconfidence.
once in LotA, my co-healer kept on arguing with one of our DPS for 'poor performance'. I usually stay away from the drama, and ignored most of the argument, but I noticed up until Behemoth I'm pretty much solo-healing our party! and co-healer died because I presume they were too busy typing :P
then today, I was grouped with a DPS who thinks they're a better tank, so at one point they tried pulling a mob, told tank (who's a sprout btw) to 'pull big', and tanked the adds on their own during the last boss instead of telling the tank to switch targets. I don't tank so I'm not keen to which mistakes our tank made, but performance was obviously poor. needless to say, both tank and off-tank DPS died, but I decided to rez tank first :P besides, the other DPS was doing well. we managed to clear.

[Gemina]

I was tanking for an FC buddy who wanted to run Sohm Al. It wasn't the smoothest start. I blamed myself for wiping the group with a large-ish pull, and say I will pull less. Healer adds to the blame accusing me of eating all the AoEs, which I wasn't. My squishy DRK is only iLv139 atm, so I can see how an inexperienced healer would think I am taking unnecessary damage if they are used to over geared tanks. I proceed to tell the healer (WHM) to keep regen up and add Asylum if its up, which immediately changed the entire run once he started to do so.

All of this isn't why I am here though. The really funny thing is after this run, my friend and I decided to run Sohm Al one more time since we were both about to level up, and we got the same two players from the last run! I mean what are the odds? Even funnier than that though, was we wiped on the same pull as the last run. I mean other than everyone noticing we were the same group, the run was a mirror image of the previous run.

[HyoMinPark]

This is the reason why people think BRDs suck: ran into one in Expert Roulette. Only used songs during the bosses. Didn’t use them for any of their AOE potential. Barely kept up her Straight Shot buff. Used Raging Strikes WITHOUT A SONG UP. Best part? She has cleared v3s because she was in Savage gear.

She didn’t use songs on trash until I told her, “Please use your songs; multi-dotting targets during Mage’s Ballad gives you a lot of Rain of Death procs to use on AOE”. Well, she did that...once. Just... why. Why. WHY.

Please turn in your BRD soul stone; you’re making my job look bad. And note to other BRDs that choose to be lazy: we know when you aren’t using your songs thanks to the Crit buff they give. So, please use them.

[Aster_E]

This is the reason why people think BRDs suck: ran into one in Expert Roulette. Only used songs during the bosses. Didn’t use them for any of their AOE potential. Barely kept up her Straight Shot buff. Used Raging Strikes WITHOUT A SONG UP. Best part? She has cleared v3s because she was in Savage gear.

She didn’t use songs on trash until I told her, “Please use your songs; multi-dotting targets during Mage’s Ballad gives you a lot of Rain of Death procs to use on AOE”. Well, she did that...once. Just... why. Why. WHY.

Please turn in your BRD soul stone; you’re making my job look bad. And note to other BRDs that choose to be lazy: we know when you aren’t using your songs thanks to the Crit buff they give. So, please use them.

It always hurts to watch when people, especially alleged Savage raiders--play your main class so lazily or poorly. I often have the same feeling around Bards or White Mages (and on rare occasion Dark Knights).

[jcfoster11]

bard woes

I had a SAM in Ala Mhigo this morning who must have taken notes from that BRD. I was on RDM, with an FC mate on DRK and random WHM healer. Tank does the first pull up to the wall, and I notice it's taking a while to die (I'd used Contre Sixte twice and was close to a third). I inspect the SAM between pulls and her left side is all the 68 crafted gear, so I grit my teeth and resign myself to helping carry (the tank's streaming, so I decide it's not worth starting a scene). To the SAM's credit, she *was* doing mechanics on bosses, but trash saw no Tenka Goken, no AOE combos, and of course no Guren (good thing a WHM and RDM can pretty much carry AOE).

Props to that WHM for helping carry a SAM who needs to go back to the dojo.

[RenAshdoll]

Multiple tales from recent 2 weeks:
- Encountered a single target BLM while tanking in Fractal.... seriously made me think twice about pulling x2 grps or more when everything burns so slowly...
- Having to burn through x2 stacks of aetherflows as a smn in expert roulettes and the mobs are not even close to dying....
- An O4S run where a certain player died like at least 5 times in Neo-Exdeath; and he proceed to win the rolls for the coffer and armor.... God why??

My own oops:
- Didn't addle the 2nd Almagest as I was busy with swiftcasting and raising a tank in O4S.... we wiped to the dots
- Aetherflowing when DWT is primed and ready.... thankfully everyone was geared so we are no where close to enrage lol

[HyoMinPark]

- An O4S run where a certain player died like at least 5 times in Neo-Exdeath; and he proceed to win the rolls for the coffer and armor.... God why??

Didn't you know? That's the secret to getting all the loot!

[RenAshdoll]

Didn't you know? That's the secret to getting all the loot!

Then I met that same player wearing that armour (he was on a bard when he won, armour was for caster) after I accidentally queued for O4S when I was supposed to do O1S.... thankfully we did not made it through ExDeath....

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Guys. I'm so tired of wiping to Deathgaze. Was doing Alliance as SMN (I pretty much only take smn or healer now). Dps was decent and only a few were getting knocked off. Then Doom happened and it all went to shit. I continuously raised ppl and began calling it out in party chat. Both WHMs were like... 'We don't have Esuna.'

Now while this blew my mind once upon a time, one of my raiding friends explained why this is a thing (and of course there were no Bards in our group) and I was like... ok. They just need a sec to put it on.

They didn't. Doom kept happening and we kept dropping. Finally I realized that both WHMs were in Shire gear and were jumpers who had no idea what ROLE SKILLS ARE. This made the entirety of the raid HELL until one of them finally dropped and we got another WHM who in fact, had Esuna. Thank God.

Also, World of Darkness is a horrible place now. 3 wipes at King Floateye. Because of Doom mostly. FML