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

[tinythinker]

Only Tiny knows for sure what they meant. If they meant Poetics for shire gear or if they meant current tomes for 70 stuff. With that said, 2 of the 3 you recommended would qualify for both. Alliance gives a good payout on all tomes, and 50/60 is a good payout on creation. Frontline also would have been a good mention. The other roulettes that pay out creation/mendacity all potentially include current content(which i guess alliance does too if you qualify for/have unlocked raba+, though the 50/60 raids seem to get run much more often from it).

I was thinking my level 70. Want to keep up with story. Now at ilvl 333 I think (got 100 eureka crystals for a 335 weapon and a few Rab tokens for some 340 pieces plus Mendacity for a 360 piece. Actually had some decent runs plus some ugh. I think it isn't just me or tank it also can be no-AOE dps.

[RokkuEkkusu]

I had a Kugane Castle run with me as WHM, a PLD, a BLM, and NIN. Tank was pulling big and using defensive cooldowns. I was healing the tank and doing Holies. The NIN did his single target rotations.

However, I noticed things were dying way to slowly despite everyone being overgeared for the run. The BLM was doing Fire IV and no aoe spells all the way up to the first boss. The PLD's tp has been totally depleted from Total Eclipse spam and I nearly ran out of mana, despite using "Thin Air" and "Lucid Dreaming". Seems like the rotations of the DPS were below average.

The dungeon run lasted over 10 minutes so far despite these big pulls (most runs take4-7 minutes at that point). I asked the BLM to use her AOE attacks, she said she's fine. The other's didn't talk. The pld also stood still at the boss room for a while. Needless to say, I left the dungeon and ate the penalty doing hunts, leveling up my chocobo, and other Overworld stuff.

[AxHell]

Something pleasant happened to me and my buds in both raid roulettes.

In normal we got Alexander "Forward and back and then forward and back and then..." First of all it's a really fun fight in itself but the icing on the cake were all the newbies who in chat were pretty excited and impressed by the boss in itself.
Seeing them having so much fun put on a smile on my face.

Then in Alliance we got Dun Scaith which is also an amazing raid (best one imo) and once again we got newbies and something amazing happened. Certain members in each alliance stopped at every boss fight to explain the most difficult mechanics to understand and before each boss, we would go over who goes MT, who catches adds, who goes through the door in Diabolos etc...


Honestly seeing this kind of stuff made me feel like it was release day for these raids which was amazing and made me nostalgic

[PerrinTaveren]

We had a blm in sirensong last night, who had lv50 weapon. Also he didn't use a single fire 4. We kicked him after first boss, which took 10 min to go to.

I am tired of players who go into dungeons extremely undergeared and lack of knowledge of their rotations...

[silverlunarfox]

Had an interesting leveling in a certain sirensong sea....our tank immediately died in the first pull after the ship hits the island...




Please don't do this....

[SilverObi]

When did Thornmarch HM get diluted so badly that every time I get it in roulette each group has a different method to ensure a win? Kill all moogles, kill only the tank moogles, don't kill the archer moogle, kill the tanks at the same time, etc. Honestly just weird that this fight in particular suffered so much from the telephone game.

Also love the Normal Raid roulette, so many fights I forgot how to do lol

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Problem is that was the kind of 99 that say "screw ALL the chest, let the peasants loot for us while we cut our way non stop until we reach the teleport", and even if i want exp, i dont want to get 0 upgrade because someone wants to save a few minutes from the run skipping everything

While on theory it might work it doesnt account for triggering mines while fighting mobs, luring traps or mimics munching the people because half of the team is 2 rooms away already, plus i dont see those kind of players complaining when we have 3 free floors due that we bothered to loot chests and got 3 summons, or when during a multipull some luring trap is triggered and chicken pomander saves the day just to mention a few situations

Best advice I can offer when you get people like that is simply peak into rooms and only go for silver coffers. You don't need pomenders on the early floors and this maximizes your chances of getting aetherpool increases without being screwed because some people make a beeline towards the exit.

[Rymm]

I've been having good runs lately, more or less, but this one 50/60 roulette I just got out of (Hullbreaker NM) left me more confused/incredulous than upset.

I was on MCH, everyone in the group was synced down and there was no first time bonus. We had gotten almost to the first boss when the tank (DRK) demanded that the healer keep regen up on him "at all times." Which, already, seemed like an odd request to me since pre-HoTing can lead to messy pulls as the healer will tend to peel mobs from the tank before he can grab them with an AoE. I didn't say anything about that, though I did feel the need to point out to him that the healer is an AST and doesn't have regen. To which the tank countered by insisting that all healers have regen. I scratched my head and asked him if he meant a heal over time, because regen is WHM-specific. He insisted again that he meant regen but at that point the AST swapped from Noct to Diurnal to humor him and everyone just let the matter drop. We finished the run without anyone else speaking.

Out of curiosity I inspected him and he had several lvl 70 jobs, including all three healers. Which kind of blew me away, seeing as he was apparently oblivious to what spells they actually have. Noct sect is perfectly fine in the type of content we were doing. And even if he meant HoTs, not regen specifically, SCH still doesn't have any (unless you count Whispering Dawn which is a faerie spell and has a cooldown that prevents it from being up 100% of the time.)

One healer job? Okay, maybe he boosted and doesn't know any better. But all three? How does that even happen??

[HowlOfTheDeparted]

Around a week ago, I was healing on my WHM alt in Qarn and it took an hour. We wiped to the first boss three times and trash a bunch more times, including to the same pack twice because someone put in the wrong stone when trying to get to one of the chest rooms. I tried to do a vote abandon after the third wipe to the first boss because I knew it would be especially dreadful after that, but it didn't end up going through.

[Ilenya]

One healer job? Okay, maybe he boosted and doesn't know any better. But all three? How does that even happen??

Maybe did the odd thing and leveled it via SMN? Best guess I have.