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

[Jimmymagic]

Ego and pride dominate gaming these days when it comes to MMO. Tanking has such simplistic role and people just will not pay attention to mechanics of a job. I love tanking but I'm not the best at it. There's always room for improvement. I make it a habit to take all criticism(good, bad, and indifferent) to improve play experience for myself and everyone participating. Definitely should be using tank stances that s what they are there for.

BTW legendary status and level have nothing to do with correct mechanics.

[Kurando]

But unless you have The Legend title he ain't listening. Because the Legend title holders are the only people worth listening to.

Perhaps the player should have asked them how much they paid for the ultimate clear to get The Legend title to being with. Still, goes to show regardless of what someone has done in-game some players clearly have ego problems.

[van_arn]

I do hope I meet those people if I end up in Sastasha. Hopefully I can goad them into kicking me out of that hellhole so I can re-queue for something more enjoyable.



Like Copperbell. Everyone knows that's the best instance in da world.

You're not thinking next level enough. Think of a way to kick THEM so you can then drop without penalty, and then queue for something else.

[Keddera_StormMoon]

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Putting this sort of level gear on my DRK gives them an iLvl of 192. IN SIRENSONG. This means that this tank would not have been able to queue for Sohr Khai, Xelphatol or Baelsar's Wall because of their average item level.
I don't want to get into the debate of item level restrictions in casual content. In fact, I am more in favour of against iLvl restrictions in casual content... but this just made my little healer heart cry a little.
Admittedly, they did get a piece of gear during the dungeon (a bracelet) and equipped it during the run. But that meant that their iLvl for that piece went from 255 to 260.
There was another wipe just after the 2nd boss where the tank and everyone else charged up ahead and attacked the mobs when my MP wasn't even 1/3rd regained from the previous fight. That pull was always going to be a wipe.
The final boss was a bit of a laugh out loud moment when the tank got almost instantly destroyed by the auto attack from the boss. The one time I didn't throw an Adlo onto the tank after the boss cast virgin tears, their health went down to 3k and then 0.
I have no idea if they were using cooldowns because I was trying so hard to focus on my MP and their health that I couldn't look at anything else besides mechanics.

Just a part of the Sirensong journey...
*cries in healer*

--edit: Just noticed as well... the rings are Slaying rings, not Fending. That further grinds my gears >.<

What I don't understand is how somebody has 3 tanks to 62+ and doesn't have a full set of augmented Shire gear sitting around with the amount of poetics this game drowns you in.

[Aosha]

......is it possible that if someone tethered to Red/Blue pillars to swap their tether with u if u die?Cuz I got tethered to the red pillar at first but then a few seconds later I got tethered to the blue one in the middle of the stack marker and my red tether dissapeared before the red pillar even got killed

I think the towers always make everyone (or only some people?) change tether colours after a bit. Haven't done that fight in ages, but I vaguely remember my raid leader calling out "check your tethers" twice per run during that.

[Khorchi]

What I don't understand is how somebody has 3 tanks to 62+ and doesn't have a full set of augmented Shire gear sitting around with the amount of poetics this game drowns you in.

I KNOW, RIGHT?!
Personally, I didn't even realise that I got rid of my shire gear from my WHM. So when I went to find it as my SCH was 59, I bought my left side and ended up getting the entire right side in about 2 hours of dungeons.
It's not hard at all.

[AxHell]

So I healed Doma Castle as a WHM with teammates with..."questionable" performance.

First lemme ask you a question: Imagine this. You pull a pack of 6 mobs and you have a full lvl 65 gear. You get hit hard but your healer does a good job. In order to help him what do you do?
A) Don't drop Tank Stance
B) Use CDs
C) Don't stand in every aoe
D) Do the contrary of A, B and C
If you've answered D congratulations, you're the tank I just healed tonight. Add to that that both DPS also loved to stand in aoe and ignore stack markers and towers.

To say that I was internally screaming is an understatement

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Now this is someone who has DRK and PLD to 70, their WAR was 62. This was their gear. (Numbers are the iLvl of each piece)

I'm especially interested in how this warrior is able to wear a bow as an axe. Isn't this the anima weapon for the BRD?

[TheMightyMollusk]

Any weapon is an axe if you swing it hard enough.

[Avatre]

I'm especially interested in how this warrior is able to wear a bow as an axe. Isn't this the anima weapon for the BRD?

Lodestone tends to do that from time to time. It will say you're on a certain class, but show a different classes gear. Heck, it took almost a week once to update the gear I was wearing on my RDM when I was leveling it.