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

[VanilleFang]

Also, another specific note, why don't WHMs use Cure III?

I notice a lot of WHMs use Medica II during stacks which is... fine? I always use Cure III when I need to stack, but sometimes I'm a little too fast for the precast and I heal myself before the damage comes out. @_@

[MoroMurasaki]

How can you possibly judge my skill your toxic person reminds me of Lindsay Lohan your everything that's wrong with this thread.

Thanks, I see myself as more of a Regina George though.

[COLOR="magenta"]i gotta go.[/COL OR]

That seems like the expected response, yeah.

I honestly find it pretty easy to heal stacks in 8 and 24 man instances with Cure III - I wasn't aware that it was something people had trouble with. If ut helps anyone I only Cure III when I can precast it to time it properly, I don't cast it as the damage goes out.

[Inaa]

Had a weird run of Qarn normal a while ago. Was leveling my paladin, and it was the highest dungeon I could sign up for. Got into the dungeon, 2 RDM healer is a…WHM, I think…? I think the healer was new? Can’t remember…

Noticed quite soon that DPS was kind of low, so I checked the gear of one of the RDMs. Gear from unlocking RDM. So maybe they’re new to the job. That’s fine, I can deal with it. Everyone is new at their job at some point. I didn’t check the gear of the other RDM, though…. I really should have….

First boss. One wipe because DPS didn’t kill the bees. No worries, it happens. Try again, dps is low but we make it. I still think it’s because one of the RDMs are new and might not know their rotation yet.

Second boss. Two wipes, I think? Healer was constantly running out of MP from healing the other RDM (I still didn’t bother to check their gear…). Asked (nicely) the RDMs to mana shift the healer when the healer's MP was about half full, or to slot mana shift if they didn’t have it slotted. One of them said they didn’t have it slotted, but they would slot it now (the RDM that seemed new to the job) and after that they gave mana to the healer whenever the healer needed MP. Nice RDM!

We somehow cleared the second boss, but it was a close call. Why didn’t I check the gear of the second RDM at this point…? I have no idea…

Last boss. I think we wiped 3 times before I finally checked the gear of the other RDM. It had ilvl 1 gear… The stuff you get from veteran rewards (cloud gear, I think?) No wonder DPS was horrible I was way too nice and asked if they could change gear to something better. They put on an i120 chestpiece, nothing else changed… We did beat the boss, though.

Should’ve checked the gear of both RDM earlier. Should’ve kicked the troll/bot/whatever. Now they got a carry….
Why, WHY do you go into a lv 35 dungeon with ilvl 1 gear? Just….why?!

[NephthysVasudan]

i gotta go.

Gets challenged....runs away....cute. Total coward.

[Mesarthim]

So even though I was in a squadron mission the highlight of this will be my "chat" as a result of something I said.

So on a whim I decided to do Pharos Sirius with my squadron and it was awful because the AI sucks. I went as Dark Knight and there were... complications. Towards the end of Symond the Unsinkable I was nearly dead due to lack of white mage AI heals and was forced to pop living dead (a horrible skill in squadron missions as they cannot and will not heal you out of walking dead). As walking dead ended Symond also apparently died so at least the boss battle ended as a success.

You might be wondering, aside from the awful AI just what's so odd about this? Well I talked about this in chat and I was met with "spoilers". Spoilers? Talking about Pharos Sirius on dark knight squadron missions is a spoiler? Well apparently they had forgotten or don't know what dark knight skills are because this is effectively what I drew in my head:

The first boss of Pharos Sirius, "Symond", died in the dark knight debuff "Walking dead". I don't watch a certain TV show but yeah this happened. We need to go on a mission to spread the word of the dark knight for it has been forgotten in the minds of the people. I'm also batman apparently.

[Metalwrath]

Hmm thats strange.I ran Pharos sirius on my warrior with gc squadron and found it quite easy.
Maybe you werent useing commands with the AI because its really not hard with them.

[Mesarthim]

I used engage and whatnot but the problem wasn't them attacking but rather the healer ended just not healing me until it was too late some of the time. I almost found it easier to simply just not tank the adds. I haven't done squadron missions for a good patch or so.

[Iscah]

I’ve never been sure how to use Cure III. I’ll keep it in mind for stack markers from now on.

[Urthdigger]

Also, another specific note, why don't WHMs use Cure III? It is the best stack marker heal in the game and yet I feel like when I'm not on WHM I never see it casted. I get that it's clunky but it's basically perfect for any time the group is stacking to share damage.

Blame the people I tend to get in parties. After any stack mechanic all the people scatter to the four winds and out of range of Cure III. I love when I can use it, but most of the time it's a waste to try it.

[Kallistra]

why don't WHMs use Cure III?

I don't generally play healer, and since I'm not a very experienced healer, my timing for my AoE heals isn't that great. I have most of my experiences on melee and tanks, so pre-casting is not something I can execute consistently. So I find whenever I use Cure III, it either goes off early or by the time it goes off the melee or the MT has already moved out of the stack and missed my heal on them. So I'd rather just Medica or Medica II and actually hit them all than have my Cure III miss people. And I think that's where a lot of healers you run into in the DF will stand as well.