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

[Katie_Kitty]

I would love for them to do more of those types of mechanics. It's also rather easy to do while using a controller and legacy movement. All you need to do, is get to a corner, stop, turn camera, and repeat until you get across

Turning camera does nothing. It sounds like we're talking about two completely different things.

[Avatre]

I use controller, with legacy movement, and I rotate the camera to point in the direction I want to go, then push forward on the joystick to go that direction.

[Skivvy]

By "priority" I don't mean that you rez the RDM before your co-healer (or a tank if you need one just then), but that if you have multiple DPS down, the RDM or SMN should probably get priority, since they may be able to save you a bit of mana

Sorry if it looked like I was singling you out...I was just mad that someone would actually get someone killed and leave them dead like that.

--Erim

I really wasn't trying to start a debate on this either, I was just trying to give an alternate side that maybe they weren't doing it intentionally.

The other day I got into World of Darkness with my friend - we were the two healers (I'm a WHM main, he used to main AST). On the very first boss (Angra Mainyu -the giant eye) we ended up with about 5 deaths throughout the fight due to various things. At one point we did have to leave someone on the ground for a little bit. The most memorable raise was the tank as he ran right back up to the boss and reclaimed before we could even cure him, and promptly died again. He did make a comment like "oohhh, maybe I should have waited for a cure", so that's fine - we all do silly things now and then. But then one of the DPS decided to say we were just sleepy healers.

I don't even know how it was so bad, honestly it shouldn't have been seeing it's just WoD, but it was. And we got insulted to boot.

[HyoMinPark]

That's an idiotic mechanic anyway. I play on controller with legacy movement control and have never once made it across on time. It's at the point where I don't expect to. Square should not ever do anything like this again.

Well, it’s an annoying gimmick when you’re repeatedly doing the dungeon, but I also play on controller with Legacy controls and have zero issues getting across. Try rotating your camera along with the pathway so that it’s always behind your character.

[JadeAshden]

I have to add myself to this thread ;_; I apologize to the group I just had in Sunken City of Skalla. I just hit 70 Dancer and clicked to do my first roulette of the day. Since there was a queue I figured I would go on Botanist and try to level that up as well. Apparently I did not save my level 70 gear when I switched so when it came to change jobs when the queue popped I was still in my leveling gear I think from Castrum which I did not notice until I was out and went to do my next roulette yikes. I don't know how I was able to queue since it's well below the required level, but I am guessing that when I queued initially it was on the correct ilevel so it still let me do that dungeon? I imagine the RDM carried us through that dungeon I feel so dumb =/ I didn't think to double check because I use the same glamour whenever I get a new piece of gear so it all looks the same to me uggh. Well damn I just double checked and I didn't have the gear glamoured so I am not sure how I missed this but I feel like a moron still.

[thrashette]

That's an idiotic mechanic anyway. I play on controller with legacy movement control and have never once made it across on time. It's at the point where I don't expect to. Square should not ever do anything like this again.

I play on KB+M with legacy control, and I feel like it's even more annoying. I have to tap my keys very carefully to get my character faced in the right direction. But I'm usually the first one to cross because I use the "slow and steady" approach.

[Erim-Nelhah]

What is it with people insta-bailing on the new trials (Innocence and the level 80 trial for sure, haven't seen this with Titania just yet)?

Incident #1: Yesterday, get a 3-min in-prog of Innocence, only one healer, party otherwise full. We discuss it for a moment and then decide to pull while down a healer. One joins just after the checkpoint (iirc), and we end up one-shotting him.

Incident #2: Today, Level 80 trial, 0m in-prog, again short a healer. We consider starting short, and one of the DPS goes to jumping around...and jumps a touch too close to the boss (oops). We decide to run with it, but don't make it through P1. Healer joins just after the wipe. Start again, get to P2, wipe, restart P2, win.

Neither of these were horribad. Mistakes were made, but we still won both times...and much more quickly than the 30m those leavers had to wait.

--Erim

[tinythinker]

I'm a fairly new tank. After six years of playing a variety of ranged DPS (I now main MCH and DNC --newly acquired and love it), I decided to branch out and level up a tank. I'm loving GNB. This isn't a horror story but just to share my excitement of making it through two roulettes last night and doing fairly well. I handled moderate to large pulls. Maintained my aggro/hate and no one died an unnecessary death. While many people who have played tanks may find this as no big deal, you have to understand the fear I've had of branching into other roles. However, now that I have my GNB rotation down, I am following the simple mechanics, I am really enjoying it.

Did you jump right into level 60+ content or do a lot of practice first or lower level stuff to start?

Sometimes you have to just face your fears and try something new! Once I have GNB leveled to 80 along with my MCH and DNC, my goal is to level a healer next O_O. Another fear of mine, but one I now feel I am ready to conquer. Even better, when I asked a party member last night if things seemed okay, they said it felt like a run with any other tank...so at least it didn't seem too out of the norm.

Yeah, I unlocked all DPS and tanks and mostly that's it. I did get the job stones for Paladin and Warrior, but still haven't gotten beyond that. And while dps seem fun, I tend to see them like musical instruments that each have their own unique musical scores to play. Which of course means practice, practice, practice the notes then after that practice, practice, practice the score (spoiler: never managed to learn any actual music instruments ). So bravo to you for branching out. I'm supposed to get around that once the healers are all at 80...

[Mavrias]

Leveling WHM, got Sohm Al with a GNB and their dps buddy. GNB wearing i50 accessories, no neckpiece, and an i28 belt. My fiances on dragoon and they ask me if im gonna say anything. "Only if they do something even more stupid," is my reply. They start out doing baby pulls but no cooldowns and i think, "oh good, they know they are terribly geared." NOPE. WRONG. THEY PULL EVERYTHING TO THE WALL RIGHT BEFORE THE FIRST BOSS.

Literally spend everything i can to keep them up and we wipe because i didnt have a spare gcd to cleanse poison off of myself and i die to poison.

So as i return i say, "look, if youre not gonna come in adequately geared at the very least you could do me the favor of using your cooldowns and not doing large pulls."

The GNB's dps friend says, "no need to be so hostile..."

I was so tempted to say "oh, i'll show you hostile" and then kick them. Eeked it out to the end and when i mention to the GNB that he needs to get better gear the DPS friend says "i do what i want."

Look, i'm always down for people getting into tanking but REALLY think you should have to have a tank leveled to 70 to be able to pick GNB up.

[gtavaddict]

Just now we’re doing roulette, started Rabanastre, as soon as we enter both healers left, then both tanks left, then only one healer joined our alliance, we played the whole fight with just 4 dps and one healer, we actually did it till the end with not much deaths and I can say it went fairly smooth, all my respect to the whole team especially the healer, Mamba’ where ever you are you did great and you really deserved my comm.