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

[Vahlnir]

It finally happened to me. The legendary purple marker stacking on the stack marker in Alpha 4.0 normal. DRG wiped the party. Second run succeeded without issue though the DRG also proceeded to smack Omega-M when he was supposed to be smacking Omega-F. This was eventually corrected after 2 reminders. No insults were flying around but I think he was being judged silently.

Oh and a DPS instantly ditched the run before the barrier went down. Duty finder is great.

As long as people either respond and/or react to what is good advice I typically won't judge. It's the silent types that never even bother to read the chat that I judge silently. Mostly. When they respond with "who cares?" or "you don't pay my sub" that's when it's no longer silently.

[Dreggit]

Did a lighthouse run before bed. Oh my. What a run that was.

First boss took 14 minutes to kills.
During the math session the healers did not aoe heal the alliance and so when dumped into the add phase we wiped due to raid damage prior to the phase transition. Then it happened again during the next math session. Like really? I don't know, I've not healed in a long time but the alliance struggled due to people dying and not because mechanics were done wrong either.

Both healers left at Yiazamat and with replacement healers we had no issues after. Sure, I could heal one or two people via clemency but that can only help so much.

I've now completed over 120 runs of o11 and o12 and still do not have the card. I've also never seen eScape drop. Losing hope on that one.

Did 3 Void Arcs and I still don't have that card either. Jeez do I wish drop rates for duty cards were higher ;-;

[Bourne_Endeavor]

and was told at LB2 that no. They will not Limit Break because it would negatively effect their DPS.

If this were in a dungeon or even an EX Primal. They would be getting a Shirk because I couldn't give a damn about the three GCDs they lose on content no one cares about. At least not for FFlogs. What people don't seem to realize is faster kill times mean better parses. If you kill Chaos at 7:56, your parse will be better than the same DPS who killed it at 9:00 even if the former DPS LB'd. Why? There's a full minute between your respective kill times. Furthermore, it's a minimal loss on your parse regardless. LB will rarely be the difference between you going from blue to purple or purple to orange. And even in the event you are off by just a slight amount, only an idiot will look at a 94 and think "OMG that isn't orange. You must suck."

To... adjust a common saying, "Never attribute to elitism that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

[Driskus]

Well that was crappy. Ended up leaving Tam-Tara on the 2nd pull. MRD tank thought running off mid pull and going out of sight is a good idea. Its not. MRD is in pretty low gear, even by level 16 standards. Weapon is level 10, armor is all less than 10, and has nothing on the right side whatsoever. Can't hold hate on anything to top it off because not a single Overpower or Tomahawk was used.

We kill the 1st set of mobs, and the tank runs off to grab the 2nd pack just before the last mob dies. We get one mob almost dead, then he suddenly sprints and darts off around the corner, out of sight, at almost half HP, to grab a bunch more mobs. He dies just as I get a Swiftcast Cure off (regular cast cancelled before that because he went out of sight, so I tried to Swiftcast it once I got sight again). I tell him that stop-go tanking and running out of sight are a bad idea. He tells me I should learn to keep up. I left right there. Some people seem to just think we know exactly what they're going to do before they do it every time. We don't.

EDIT: Even checked on Lodestone. That MRD also has PLD at 70. Should know better by that point that its a bad idea to run out of sight unexpectedly in the middle of a Cure cast.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Byakko normal in roulette yesterday. Got to the falling phase, and my playlist came up with Megadeth's "High Speed Dirt". So I started "singing" it in party chat ("See the earth below/Soon to make a crater/Blue sky, black death/I'm off to meet my maker!").

Both tanks stopped dodging things because they broke out laughing and couldn't focus.

Luckily the healers were on point and got them back up, but hey.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Welcome to the Elitist mindset. Where people only care about their personal numbers and where your color on FFlogs determines your worth. And I'm not just jumping on a bandwagon. I have friends with this kind of mindset. While doing an Expert dungeon with said friends, I was (playfully) belittled for not trying to rip agro from our tank during a distance pull (I never do this--especially with randoms but also just in general because it's freaking RUDE) and was told at LB2 that no. They will not Limit Break because it would negatively effect their DPS. (*facepalm*). Your WHMs attitude wouldn't have made it past the run of Alpha 4 where I was RDM and basically off-heals because one of the healers kept going down. My numbers, if I cared to look, for that battle were likely terrible but WE DIDN'T WIPE. I feel like so many people are missing the point. You are a good friend for supporting your roommate. Just let them know that for every healer who only cares about themselves there are others like your friend who can see the bigger picture. Raiders will want a healer that can DPS without losing sight of what really matters, which is the overall health of the team and not just their own personal score.

I remember wiping on Suzaku EX once because the Samurai in the party refused to Limit Break to avoid messing up their parse. I guess wiping is a better alternative.

[SenorPatty]

I remember wiping on Suzaku EX once because the Samurai in the party refused to Limit Break to avoid messing up their parse. I guess wiping is a better alternative.

Having done "hardcore" raiding in the past in other games, you tend to run in local raiding circles and every once in a awhile you can run into a highly competitive raider who loses perspective. Ultimately, every raider should know the final end goal of any raid is to clear. You can discuss (loudly or reasonably depending on personalities) how it was cleared but good raiders should know that-outside of specific agreed upon goals-the clear matters before anything else.
Unfortunately you do run into people who intensely focus so much on the how that they damn not just themselves but others in the process.

[Ilan]

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but: I'd really like to see an addition to the ilvl-check that doesnt only check the average ilvl but also specifically that of the weapon. Its always quite annoying to have people push their ilvl by buying the highste ilvl necklace, ring and belt to make up for their 290-weapon before entering an expert-dungeon.
Yeah, cool, you made the check... in theory. Grats on that. Except that your most important part of gear is 50 ilvls below the required one...

Thats exactly what i mean and not only for the weapon, we need this for every part of the gear.

[Paladinleeds]

Thats exactly what i mean and not only for the weapon, we need this for every part of the gear.

How about changing the minimum ilvl required to mean every single piece has to be that itemlevel minimum. So let's take the current expert dungeons which require i350 to get in. Make it so to queue, every single piece of equipment (left, right side, and weapon, including shield for paladin) must be i350 or higher. Would that solve the issue?

[Vidu]

How about changing the minimum ilvl required to mean every single piece has to be that itemlevel minimum. So let's take the current expert dungeons which require i350 to get in. Make it so to queue, every single piece of equipment (left, right side, and weapon, including shield for paladin) must be i350 or higher. Would that solve the issue?

Personally, I'd be okay with some leeway here - in the sense off: your average ilvl has to be 350 (or higher), but every individual piece of gear must have an ilvl of 320 (or higher).

That way someone could still adjust for the odd piece thats below the ilvl with a different item thats above it. As long as the items below the ilvl dont drop to far below, I dont see a huge problem.

...unlike now where people can have gear thats 50 ilvls or more below whats required...