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

[Mightion]

I'm still working through the MSQ, and tonight I did Solm Al. Halfway through the instance, one of the DPS apologized for his poor damage and his tendency to get one-shotted; apparently his gear was broken and he never noticed. We did finish the instance though.

[BroodingFicus]

I was helping a friend clear Castrum Fluminis on my WHM. We had one wipe just due to how many new people were involved but the second go was looking really promising. We had her down to about 10% hp, when more than half the group forgot to stack. The blast unfortunately killed me and the only two people who had also grouped up. Another went down a second after, followed by the off tank who stepped in the fans. At this point people start telling healer two to LB. Nothing. A few more people type in caps for them to LB. In the meantime the last dps of the people alive eats it. Now its the main tank and the scholar left standing and everyone dead is repeatedly telling them to LB. Eventually they res me instead and I hit it as soon as I think I'm safe but its a massive pain to ever stand still in that fight. I end up dead just as the cast closes because the Scholar doesn't heal me. They then die along with the main tank, leaving the rest of the now raised party with no healer. We wipe, naturally.

Of course people are confused why they didn't LB like they should have and someone just days '...so what the heck?' in chat. The scholars response was a simple 'I do not put LB on the bar'. We were all a bit confused. I've had people misplace it or forget to put it on for new classes but not a on a trial that far in and certainly not without ah apology. We let them know to do it now but they inform the whole group that 'they are not shit' and don't need to have it on their bar because 'LB is for DPS'. I've never seen a healer kicked so fast.

[Bhearil]

I was helping a friend clear Castrum Fluminis on my WHM. We had one wipe just due to how many new people were involved but the second go was looking really promising. We had her down to about 10% hp, when more than half the group forgot to stack. The blast unfortunately killed me and the only two people who had also grouped up. Another went down a second after, followed by the off tank who stepped in the fans. At this point people start telling healer two to LB. Nothing. A few more people type in caps for them to LB. In the meantime the last dps of the people alive eats it. Now its the main tank and the scholar left standing and everyone dead is repeatedly telling them to LB. Eventually they res me instead and I hit it as soon as I think I'm safe but its a massive pain to ever stand still in that fight. I end up dead just as the cast closes because the Scholar doesn't heal me. They then die along with the main tank, leaving the rest of the now raised party with no healer. We wipe, naturally.

Of course people are confused why they didn't LB like they should have and someone just days '...so what the heck?' in chat. The scholars response was a simple 'I do not put LB on the bar'. We were all a bit confused. I've had people misplace it or forget to put it on for new classes but not a on a trial that far in and certainly not without ah apology. We let them know to do it now but they inform the whole group that 'they are not shit' and don't need to have it on their bar because 'LB is for DPS'. I've never seen a healer kicked so fast.

Jesus, i personally have forgot to put the LB button when starting new classes sometimes, but if we die due to me not using it, at least i apologize for the wipe. Not having it for those reasons is beyond moronic, moreso when you are on relatively recent content which means you didnt gave a sh*t for 70 frigging levels plus 2 entire patches. I guess would be the kind of guy who would have claimed bloody murder when seeing Tanks use their LB3 on Alexander...

[Nestama]

Been noticing that a lot of tanks do not take Chaos to the corner during Cyclone phase any more (in Normal). Do they not realise melee DPS have positionals?

[valho]

Been noticing that a lot of tanks do not take Chaos to the corner during Cyclone phase any more (in Normal). Do they not realise melee DPS have positionals?

Don't really have to be corners but at least turn it. I got a tank that have 90% of Chaos inside the tornado

[Nestama]

They'll turn him for the knock-back, but then go straight back to keeping his rear in the tornado.

[SoleilAlphi]

this is not a grand story but… I cannot fathom why RDMs are allergic to Moulinet. So few I see using it. I just did Arboretum HM, with the tank pulling big and I've been mowing mobs with embolden + enchanted moulinet as much as I could. Build up 90 mana and it's an aoe machine. My co dps, another rdm, kept using the single target combo (enchanted riposte, zwerchau, redoublement). When I pointed out that moulinet was more effective he said "Tell me more" and proceeded with single enchanted combo. If you are going to be sassy, understand what aoe and single target are first! MOULINET EXISTS

[Yojimzo]

this is not a grand story but… I cannot fathom why RDMs are allergic to Moulinet. So few I see using it. I just did Arboretum HM, with the tank pulling big and I've been mowing mobs with embolden + enchanted moulinet as much as I could. Build up 90 mana and it's an aoe machine. My co dps, another rdm, kept using the single target combo (enchanted riposte, zwerchau, redoublement). When I pointed out that moulinet was more effective he said "Tell me more" and proceeded with single enchanted combo. If you are going to be sassy, understand what aoe and single target are first! MOULINET EXISTS

Gotta get that big deeps VerFlare/Holy tho.
/s

[ChaoticCrimson]

Gotta get that big deeps VerFlare/Holy tho.
/s

Hilarious given that E.Moulinet with enough enemies would actually improve the deeps. Hitting four mobs with four E.Moulinets (using Manafication) will have a fairly significant amount of total potency compared to a single-target Enchanted melee combo, even with Verflare/holy, over 800 more points of potency if my math isn't failing me. Even with three hits on all four mobs outdoes the single melee combo. Single-target only really benefits when you have one or two mobs with decent health pools or the bosses themselves.

edit: and before I forget, yes I know you're being sarcastic lol, just adding the facts

[Kuukyo]

I queued as an Astrologan to help my friend level up her Bard in Cutter's Cry, and we ran into two other players, a Warrior and a Dragoon from Famfrit, from which later I assume they also queued together as me and my friend. Everything went very smoothly until the first boss, when we got the first boss to 50% that she started to spawn a lot of minions, I started to notice the mobs targeting me and more mobs spawning afterwards also targeted me while Dragoon and Warrior were just attacking the Queen. My DPS friend are new to this game so she is learning and she did not talk in this game. Here's the link from our full conversation after the first boss.

Some parts are cut due to my inexperience of print-screening, and because of my term of no name-shaming, I decide to leave their world open, but names hidden (Green - Healer; Blue - Tank; Red - DPS; my friend did not contribute in this chat).

https://imgur.com/a/BLtwGHw

I was so mad that I just stopped talking in party chat and were unable to fully explain the Chimera's mechanic to my friend. It is so frustrating to play with this type of people.