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

[DarkMasamune]

Is it just me or do people really NOT know how Castrum Meridianum works?
Even before the moogle event I've had constant streaks of people just pulling the whole schmeer instead of waiting 5 seconds for the searchlights to be turned off, AND pulling that huge phalanx of Colossi before Livia.
It's fine when I see they're new tanks, or doing it the first time but seeing 390+ geared people pulling just EVERYTHING? whadda fah?

And the cannons, nobody seems to realize if they tank up the road the cannons can't reach. Or maybe they just don't know what the cannons do?

Am i the crazy one?

Or people just running around, trying to attack Livia normally when it does close to zero dmg, destroying the canons because she shoots them/they ignore adds, tanks trying desperately to get the aggro even thought it dosen't work lol

Aw, good ol' Castrum c:

[gumas]

i dont understand, is there some sort of mechanic that i missed in bardam's mettle last boss?

5 run, 5 times, the moment the boss start casting that nonstop aoe circle on the edge of the arena (the time when you need to destroy his 2 wings), i always see 1 or 2 member start running on the edge of the arena along with the nonstop boss aoe, this always end up with that guy dead, or being "rescue" by kind healer... which the guy just start running circle on the edge of the arena again, until he die.

like... just stay in the middle maybe? and help hit the wings?

[Aosha]

i dont understand, is there some sort of mechanic that i missed in bardam's mettle last boss?

5 run, 5 times, the moment the boss start casting that nonstop aoe circle on the edge of the arena (the time when you need to destroy his 2 wings), i always see 1 or 2 member start running on the edge of the arena along with the nonstop boss aoe, this always end up with that guy dead, or being "rescue" by kind healer... which the guy just start running circle on the edge of the arena again, until he die.

like... just stay in the middle maybe? and help hit the wings?

I think there might be a single target knockback at some point during that, but that still doesn't explain it. Like, if you get pushed out just run back in. It's extra sad seeing people with gap closers doing the runaround.

[DarkMasamune]

i dont understand, is there some sort of mechanic that i missed in bardam's mettle last boss?

5 run, 5 times, the moment the boss start casting that nonstop aoe circle on the edge of the arena (the time when you need to destroy his 2 wings), i always see 1 or 2 member start running on the edge of the arena along with the nonstop boss aoe, this always end up with that guy dead, or being "rescue" by kind healer... which the guy just start running circle on the edge of the arena again, until he die.

like... just stay in the middle maybe? and help hit the wings?

To be honest, it took me several runs of Bardam's Mettle to figure out that there were a safe zone in the middle lmao

[DynnDiablos]

I had the unfortunate experience to be in a duty run last night of Praetorium, where two of the party members engaged in full-blown cybersex.

Let's just say it was like an elephant in the room, no one really knew what to say or how to interject. The fact that instance also takes like 45 minutes to an hour didn't help things either.

[ChaoticAvenger]

Queued up for Alliance Raids with a friend, I was playing DRG, We were fighting the eye boss on World of Darkness, and he hits me with lvl 150 death, which binds me. Being the idiot that I am, I reactively hit illusive jump when binded and held still because illusive jump normally negates the status effect. Well it sent me flying backwards into the whole C alliance and wiped them u.u

[Moonfish]

I had the unfortunate experience to be in a duty run last night of Praetorium, where two of the party members engaged in full-blown cybersex.

Let's just say it was like an elephant in the room, no one really knew what to say or how to interject. The fact that instance also takes like 45 minutes to an hour didn't help things either.

I hope you reported them. Why didn’t you guys kick them?

[Veis_Alveare]

I think there might be a single target knockback at some point during that, but that still doesn't explain it. Like, if you get pushed out just run back in. It's extra sad seeing people with gap closers doing the runaround.

There is, yeah. I'm not sure what it's called but I believe it has a marker over the targets head as well. After they get knocked back I've seen many players start running away from the AoEs coming behind them rather than going back to the middle. They usually die.

For my own story I had an interesting co-AST in Orbonne (which I got 0 mins in progress for mentor roulette, do people really just bail on it? That's dumb) who liked to overwrite my cards.

The first time they overwrote my AoE Balance with an AoE Spear and I didn't say anything. I wish they would have done it before I extended the buff but it is what it is and these things happen. Throughout Mustadio they did a lot of weird card things including putting a single target Bole on our tank (who was not tanking and hadn't tanked anything thus far) and spreading Boles, Spires and Arrows. I was trying to wait for them to play cards before playing my own, better for me to overwrite their bad cards with my useful ones right?

You'd think but then she wanted to call out in party chat for playing over her cards (mid boss, she died to overlapping AoE while complaining as people usually do - a tip to whiners in DF; you don't make your argument look any better when you can't even stay alive) and all was silent in party chat after that other than a SAM typing "LMAO" following her death.

As the boss ends I start saying "I wouldn't overwrite your cards if you played ones that had a point" but before I can literally every dps in our group chimes in with varying responses that all boiled down to telling her to shut up and play better cards or "just play WHM so she (me) can dps more" which was... not met well.

A vote kick apparently went up for me (because people started complaining about that in chat) before we pulled Agrias and the SAM managed to sass her pretty well while still doing mechanics. It was clear that the tank was with her at this point. I'm not sure why they wanted to kick me, I had kept the group up through her deaths and hadn't been the one leading the crusade against her. During the add phase I spread a balance and she went to overwrite it with an Arrow but her and the tank were at the wrong add and it only hit them. The SAM tanked our add with some Noct shields and despite being down a healer and a tank ours still died first by a mile. Makes sense, our dps seemed to at least understand what cards did so it stood to reason that they knew their jobs.

I tried to calm it down while in the crystal blocks but at this point both sides were getting rude. I offered to leave because I didn't want to contribute to it all but the dps wanted me to stay so I did. She died so many times on TGC it made more sense for me to heal than raise her so for the second time I solo healed for a while... until the add phase where the tank shirked me and I know he did because pulling enmity on AST is near impossible. I had Apocs and Pallisades coming at me as well as a Smokescreen and kept myself up with spamming shields... until I got hit by another groups lightning line AoE during a spicy auto attack. I went down, our add died and my cohealer didn't raise me.

I asked for raises in Alliance chat but my tank said not to raise me because I was trolling them. Amazingly no one raised me from another group and our only caster was a BLM. My group wiped to the next Cleansing Strike which spiraled down into a full group wipe soon after.

My group kicked that healer so fast I was shocked. The tank left on his own but not before the healer role had been filled. Enjoy your 30 min penalty there fam.

Everything was super smooth after that and I made some friends in the process. I'm going to call it a win.

One thing that I definitely won't miss during 5.0 with AST.

[DonovanLifeweaver]

Fake news lol. Turns out, people in general can just suck. This WoW refugee hate mongering is getting old. New material plz.

sorry, people who live in a delusion do tend to hate reality. for the past 2 years players from wow and eso have came up to ff14 and have ALL been complaining about the game not being what eso or wow was. and the more you complain the more you make bad things happen. the only fake new is the one spread by the cry babies who always comeplain that the game is not easy enough. if oyu weant to get pampered that badly i suggest you go play eso or maybe maplestory. you get fed gears easyly and the whoole game revolves on pressing the #1 key on your keyboard

[Veis_Alveare]

sorry, people who live in a delusion do tend to hate reality. for the past 2 years players from wow and eso have came up to ff14 and have ALL been complaining about the game not being what eso or wow was. and the more you complain the more you make bad things happen. the only fake new is the one spread by the cry babies who always comeplain that the game is not easy enough. if oyu weant to get pampered that badly i suggest you go play eso or maybe maplestory. you get fed gears easyly and the whoole game revolves on pressing the #1 key on your keyboard

I came here from ESO with my boyfriend and neither of us have ever done this. If anything my time spent in ESO makes me appreciate aspects of XIV that much more. During the time I played ESO as a vet trial healer I had one actual damage move mapped to my bars and that was only to add a weakness debuff to the enemies, coming from that to XIV where I can regularly be top dps in dungeons as a WHM is such a breath of fresh air.

Also healing in ESO was far from pressing 1 on a keyboard, I used all 12 of my skills regularly.

The hating on people from other MMOs is something that happens in every MMO but is particularly persistent in XIV.