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

[Noitems]

Ran Malikah's Well multiple times last night to level my RDM. Had a SCH in mainly 77/75 gear spamming physick and adlo at every moment they could during big mob pulls. Only set up bio on bosses and didn't actively use broil until the last boss.

Only thing nice about that entire run was working on my aoe rotation. :/

[Ghishlain]

Between all the new fights and Titania EX throwing out terrorize mechanics, I've been using Rescue a lot more often then I have in the past.

Not that I mind, it's fun to save those one individuals and keep the party going, especially with how expensive Raise has become this expansion.

[Moonfish]

I got a good dose of reality last night in expert roulette. The tank right away let the group know they have a condition that causes violent spasms, so if they do anything weird it was that. They did do some weird stuff, too. Knowing they were having spasms when they ran into walls or turned around reminded me that there are others with conditions that keep them from playing “normally” (for lack of a better word) and to be less judgmental because I don’t know anyone’s story. They were great though, there was a hiccup at the start where we wiped on trash (honestly I think the WHM just couldn’t keep up since they had trouble keeping us alive on bosses, too) but the tank adjusted to smaller pulls and we cleared in a good time.

I’ve been running GNB through 50-70 and leveling roulettes casually to level. It’s been a very long time since I ran tank through roulettes. DPS constantly running ahead of me makes me feel like I’m not going fast enough, even though I’m pulling wall to wall and I start moving to the gate when the last mob is nearly dead to try and stay ahead. None have actually pulled for me, anyway. I will try to keep this feeling of being rushed in mind when I’m doing things as healer or DPS because I tend to do the same thing and stop right before the monsters aggro to wait. It won’t kill me to stay behind the tank if it means they won’t get that same feeling.

Sorry for this sounding like a blog entry!

Also this isn’t duty finder relate but could be considered PVP. I recently managed to upgrade my small house to a medium in the Lavender Beds after plot 60 got demolished. Another soul showed up just as I relocated - better luck next time!

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Edit: Just had this experience in stone vigil as GNB.

I’m doing double pulls until the first hall with 3 sprites and an aevis. Healer is doing fine so I keep going to the room right before the second boss and pull that group too. Wipe. All right, next time I just pull the sprites and aevis but healer pulls the next group. I ask them not to pull for me, citing we wiped once already. The rest of the run is a back and forth with me asking them to respect their fellows when they ask and them saying things like “big ol tank need the healer to hold his hand?” Being inflammatory because they take offense to asking them to stay in their lane? They died in last boss because they were typing some garbage, probably the only justice that’ll be served today.

[Lynesse]

mini update.. so my tanking is getting abit better. I hope for anyone who randomly groups with me isn't mad. So far tho I'm getting a better feel for breako, and runs are going abit more smooth.. even was top dps in one of my runs.I do have a question tho... is it just me or are breakos abit softer then the other 3 tanks? cause I sure do feel it at times. And yes I've learned to use my CDs better. That was a lesson I learned the VERY hard way T.T

I've noticed this too. I main SCH and have played a little GNB, so I've been on both ends of this. My GNB felt squishier than my PLD, but I think this has more to do with PLD having Clemency. In most cases, as PLD, I can completely erase mistakes made by either myself or the healer. On GNB, I was very much at the mercy of my team.

Leaving out Sentinel and its equivalents, PLD has Clemency, Sheltron, and Hallowed Ground.

DRK has Abyssal Drain and TBN. But with TBN being at 70, DRK struggles in a similar level range GNB does, and certain pulls, like the big one in Doma Castle, are much easier to do on PLD and WAR.

WAR has Thrill of Battle, a 250 potency heal on their combo, Raw Intuition, Equilibrium, Holmgang.

GNB has Aurora and Brutal Shell. They do a lot of damage, granted, but I imagine before level 68 (when they get Heart of Stone), they're going feel a bit more helpless. Those one or two additional abilities might seem small, but they can really add up. I don't think the dev team understood this as well as they should have.

We're on the same data center. If you want advice on tanking fundamentals or a healer to queue with, look me up. c:

[Kanitezz]

Was in a Shisui run trying to level my BLM. The DRK and the WHM were a pair. At the very start of the dungeon... The DRK pops EVERY BLEEDIN defensive CD he has. Even Living Dead! Waits 4 seconds and then proceeds to do the multiple pack pull. Doesn't have Grit on at all. The DNC we had told him to put it on. He didn't. We wiped. Then he blames us DPS for "Standing in the middle while pulling" or some crap like that, and both of us DPS just stood at the beginning for a few seconds like... "Huh?" Second go round he puts it on in the middle of the pull, on top of that he won't use his AoE ability to hold aggro and I die again. I point out to him "I'm getting auto attacked. Please hold aggro spam Unleash if you have to."

So we limp to the first boss and the DRK tells us that the WHM had to go AFK. Ok fine. We beat the boss, beat the two packs directly after that all while the DRK is still popping every frickin defensive CD before the pulls even start, and still refusing to use his AoE ability and losing aggro to me and the DNC. So. We beat them and we're about to get to the pack before the second boss. Then the DRK and the WHM stop moving. The WHM apparently went AFK again but this time the DRK didn't say anything and was just standing there. He WAS still there though because he was doing slight movements.

So at this point, we've spent 25 minutes in the dungeon, we haven't even reached the second boss yet, and we were still waiting for this WHM to get back for another 4 minutes. I had enough at that point. I felt like a fair amount of my time had been wasted, and even more was going to get wasted If I stayed any longer. I gave my fellow DPS, the DNC, a /hug and a /goodbye. Then I left.

It was also kinda obvious both of them, or at least the DRK, used a jump item. I just refuse to believe he leveled his DRK that far by playing the way he was.

[SummonerSenah]

If any of the people in my party in Sohm Al (Hard) read this, I'm so sorry for 90king twice during the first boss fight. It's storming where I live so the internet is all messed up. I decided not to log back in after the second kick since it's still storming. Hopefully you got another healer pretty quickly! I totally blame myself, shouldn't have tried to tempt fate by entering a dungeon when I heard thunder outside.

[DuskLikeDawn]

Last week, leveling dancer, in the last stormblood dungeon, something strange happened and i lost control of my camera. Everytime i moved my mouse my bunny spun in circles, i couldnt see what was going on let alone fight! Later i discovered it was my mouse macro for another game. I hadn't changed the profile. They were great. I died, scholar raised me. I told them i had no clue what happened. They laughed and said it was fine. The rest of the run went perfectly, i even got a comm at the end!

Sadly, after it was over I noticed i had a level 12 belt on and level 35 ring, entire right side were caster/healer pieces... i had purchased the level 70 scaeven gear but forgot to save my set after equipping them. Who knows how long i had been running around that way... sorry to the healers/tanks/dps i put through that.

Another dungeon i saw this random red thing link another player and i, and freaked and started running lol it was a tether. I usually heal (yup another healer turned dancer) so tether was totally new to me. Every time it appeared i ran away. Felt silly after.

[Erim-Nelhah]

Does it have to be at point blank though? Genuine question because I do not have it leveled. I am aware DNC are more mid-ranged similar to whm Holy I guess.

DNC has a total of 9 aoe abilities. The first 2 comprise a directly spammable 5y pbaoe combo. The next 2 proc off of these and are also 5y pbaoes. Then our fan Danes effectively chain off of the second set and are either a ranged single target attack or a pbaoe that chains into a ranged aoe (both ogcd). Our final 3 are a ranged aoe that is gauge based (gauge fills based on procs), and our finishers (step dances), which are 15y pbaoes that have 30s (standard step/finish) and 2m (technical step/finish) CDs. (edited for clarity now that I'm home)

So yes, in aoe situations, we really do need to be in melee.

--Erim

[Awful]

DRK has Abyssal Drain and TBN. But with TBN being at 70, DRK struggles in a similar level range GNB does, and certain pulls, like the big one in Doma Castle, are much easier to do on PLD and WAR

They should honestly make TBN obtainable for lvl 60 at least, change Delirium to the lvl 70 ability it sucks that WAR gets Raw Intuition, PLD gets Sheltron all at lower levels while DRK and GNB get theirs at 68 and 70 it's my only small minor complaint about those two.

On topic though I just healed a tank in Holminster Switch that was a DRK that never once used TBN, Rampart, or Shadow Wall the only ability he used was Dark Mind which is magic damage only, thanks SE, I was on SCH and he of course went big popped no CDs, if it wasn't for Shield Samba from the DNC we woulda died. I told em can you use tank CDs? Silence.

Sigh it's gonna be one of those runs, I also notice as being a DRK main that he isn't using Flood or Edge of Shadow so he's also not getting the 10% dmg increase just using Unleash and Stalwart Soul and sometimes Quietus when they'd remember they had it. The kicker of all this was he had Omega Savage gloves/boots and accessories so he's raided before so I don't understand how a person could be so clueless, we ended up clearing it and it was a struggle bus if it wasn't for the DNC/BLM the dungeon woulda been so terrible so thank you to those 2 DPS i'd comm you both if I could.

[Cincierta]

What was the Black Mage doing, I hear you ask?
Scathe spam.
And ONLY Scathe spam.

No Blizzard. No Fire 3. No thunder. No AoEs.

I play blm and I genuinely forgot that skill still exists.