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

[Maeka]

Gosh after reading the description of this run it almost sounded like my daily roulette from last night. Having watched the video now I know it wasn't. In my version of this I was the unfortunate WHM and to make the run extra fun, the 2nd dps (a BRD) kept running into the side rooms to pull extra mobs to the GLA tank who already couldn't do his job. At the end of the run I was just mentally screaming "DRG please take all my comms for being the only player that tried to make this run not a complete disaster".

Huh. how uncanny that we'd both have a group with a drg, brd, gla, whm under very similar circumstances.

[CerusSerenade]

Had to praetorium, so I went ahead and decided to act the part of an amusement park tour guide/movie host.

I ended up with 5 commendations at the end. We have to make these runs fun somehow.

[SenorPatty]

Had to praetorium, so I went ahead and decided to act the part of an amusement park tour guide/movie host.

I ended up with 5 commendations at the end. We have to make these runs fun somehow.

"And on your right, you can see the giant death machines heading towards my way. Any moment now, the tanks will swoop in...aaaaaaand the tanks are gone. Twelve have mercy upon us all."

[Keddera_StormMoon]

I just can't even sometimes like when you get a new ability read it or test it out or something! I have a similar story but in Kugane Castle I had a RDM/SCH (me)/ DRK/ DRG, we all say hello and we begin the pull and I notice the DRGs AoEing, DRKs doing big pulls, I'm DPSing healing etc then I noticed the RDM is doing some...questionable things. They're rotation (if I could call it that) was Tether, Tether, Jolt II, Jolt II, hardcasting Veraero etc I'm just like uhhh I'm gonna ask em if they understand their abilities.

So I ask em if you use Scatter you'll AoE and do more dmg and get more mana for each color, *crickets* the DRK says "yeah you should be using Scatter do you want us to give you a moment to give some advice or?", again nothing. So the DRG makes a joke saying beep boop must be a bot and I'm like I don't think it is and finally the RDM speaks and says "I'm using spells and abilities so i'm doing fine can we complete the dungeon please". We all just go well we can but the dungeon can be completed later all that we wanna do is make sure you understand how to use your basic abilities, the RDM just says "Why can't you people just leave me alone? I wanna do this dungeon I love Kugane", we wait a bit at first boss and then vote dismiss her.

I don't really feel bad anymore about kicking people who had 20 levels to figure out how to use RDM as well as doing all the quests but there's no excuse why you can't even do a simple Veraero/Verthunder after a Jolt, I do appreciate everyone trying to help the sprout so if you're reading this thanks you guys were great.

I can be pretty thick at realizing how things can go together, but even I stopped hard-casting Veraero/Verthunder after 2 dungeons because something just didn't feel right about it all. Did 15 seconds of research, immediately spotted what I was doing wrong - (felt like an idiot for approximately 30 seconds and got over it), practiced the rotation on the FC practice dummy for 5 minutes to train the muscle memory - now I've got it down and am properly leading with the faster-casting spells. (AE rotation is boring though, hope that changes soon)

I recognize everybody has their own learning style or might be slower at grasping things and that's perfectly okay. But to refuse to learn at all is un-excusable!

[Aosha]

To be honest, I've come across way too many level 70 BRD who didn't use Foes, Songs, or Straight Shot, to think that it's anything special. It's quite surprising how many high-leveled BRD don't use their skills. Same goes for Dragoons that never uses Heavy Thrust, even at level 70...

Well, at least there won't be Heavy Thrust to miss by Shadowbringers :P

RDM AoE rotation is boring though, hope that changes soon

Job Action trailer seems to indicate Veraero II/Verthunder II (or whatever they decide to call them) as AoE spells in ShB. And apparently they're aiming to make all jobs have at least 2 buttons to press in AoE situations.

[DarkMasamune]

Well, at least there won't be Heavy Thrust to miss by Shadowbringers :P

Lmao, to be honest I actually thought about that when they mentioned Heavy Thrust going away. :P

[tinythinker]

I can be pretty thick at realizing how things can go together, but even I stopped hard-casting Veraero/Verthunder after 2 dungeons because something just didn't feel right about it all. Did 15 seconds of research, immediately spotted what I was doing wrong - (felt like an idiot for approximately 30 seconds and got over it), practiced the rotation on the FC practice dummy for 5 minutes to train the muscle memory - now I've got it down and am properly leading with the faster-casting spells. (AE rotation is boring though, hope that changes soon)

I recognize everybody has their own learning style or might be slower at grasping things and that's perfectly okay. But to refuse to learn at all is un-excusable!

I unlocked RDM a long while back and recall Jolt is great for proccing that faster cast thing, is there another non-AoE that is fast as well in the mid-60s?

[AxHell]

"And on your right, you can see the giant death machines heading towards my way. Any moment now, the tanks will swoop in...aaaaaaand the tanks are gone. Twelve have mercy upon us all."

"Ladies and gentlemen we are going to board this elevator that will take us to the Ultima Weapon please watch your step. Well would you look at that, Gaius van Baelsar came to grace us with his presence aaaaand he's already dead....that was anticlimactic."

[CerusSerenade]

"Ladies and gentlemen we are going to board this elevator that will take us to the Ultima Weapon please watch your step. Well would you look at that, Gaius van Baelsar came to grace us with his presence aaaaand he's already dead....that was anticlimactic."

Don't you mean unplugging Toaster-Fan man?

[Alusan_Ilossa]

Had the three tanks in a pissing contest in wipehouse last night that i felt like DPSing. Final boss, they had had enough of each other, argued over who was doing what wrong and in our party, our WAR was saying that the other two were "f--king morons" and should "off themselves." Granted, no one was doing great as a tank. One was a PLD who was tanking against the back wall exclusively, our WAR who instead of mitigating would try to dodge moves (like the tank busters and autos) and keep moving the boss, and a DRK who just had no awareness of the party (would stand in AoEs, turn/drag boss into majority of raid, etc.). But here's the kicker: instead of just backing up and saying "hey, I'll let someone else MT this" each of them spammed provoke, talked smack to each other and pretty much everyone else who spoke up to say a healer needed a res or something that had nothing to do with them. Aggro went everywhere, three full raid wipes, lots of smack talk, and I just left them with "please don't have a pissing contest when you're all equally trash, thanks." And people wonder why I insist on MT'ing for raids.