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

[Mhaeric]

Cause watching a level 80 Ast cast Lucid dream while at 90% mana is embrassing.

What's wrong with that? More embarrassing to watch half afk Ast or Ast not using their cards.

I will use it shortly after starting my gravity spam near the opening of a fight. Keeps me near full during the spam and makes the cooldown reset sooner than it would have if I used it after spending all the MP on gravity. Nothing wrong with using it at 90% if you're spending enough mana to keep you below 100% the entire time it's up.

[MikuMitsuko]

To those who level every battle class...PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL LALA'S. Learn the basics of a class before you drag into a raid or dungeon, Cause watching a level 80 Ast cast Lucid dream while at 90% mana is embrassing.

Uh... it's actually part of healer openers to cast LD early. And there's nothing wrong with casting LD at 90% if you know you're not going to overcap MP.

[Rilifane]

Uh... it's actually part of healer openers to cast LD early. And there's nothing wrong with casting LD at 90% if you know you're not going to overcap MP.

This. If I know that I have to hardcast a lot of BeneficII/ Helios/ Asp. Helios because shit hits the fan and oGCDs won't cut it anymore or I'm about to spam Gravity like, I'm going to use LD at 90%.
I'm constantly casting something and unless a coffee break-long cutscene is coming up (looking at you, Eden) MP only ever goes down, not up. Better make the most of the few CDs for MP management I have.

[NanaWiloh]

Uh... it's actually part of healer openers to cast LD early. And there's nothing wrong with casting LD at 90% if you know you're not going to overcap MP.

Funny I was casting more then the other healer and staying above 75% mana all without using LD. Only had to use LD once after a oops on a boss that killed me guess I am just better at managing mana

[Miracle_Diva]

Funny I was casting more then the other healer and staying above 75% mana all without using LD. Only had to use LD once after a oops on a boss that killed me guess I am just better at managing mana

Or you simply have way more piety than another healer.

[Jaelommiss]

Or you simply have way more piety than another healer.

Staying MP neutral through piety alone for basic Broil/Glare/Malefic spam with a 2.50 sec GCD would require 480 MP per tick. That requirement increases as soon as you use any spells that are more expensive.
Aetherflow averages out to 50 MP per tick. Assize is 33 MP per tick and Thin Air saves 50 MP per tick. Lily spells save an extra 53 MP per tick. Lightspeed is worth 40 MP per tick.

Base regen is 200 per tick, plus an extra 1 per tick for every 22 piety. A WHM would require a total of 3548 piety to remain MP neutral without using Lucid Dreaming. SCH and AST need even more.


Considering the ludicrous amount of piety required to remain MP neutral without Lucid Dreaming and his pride in failing to effectively manage CDs, I find it far more probable that he's suffering from a fundamental misunderstanding of ABC.

[MikuMitsuko]

Funny I was casting more then the other healer and staying above 75% mana all without using LD. Only had to use LD once after a oops on a boss that killed me guess I am just better at managing mana

That just makes it seem like you have too much Piety, honestly.

[NanaWiloh]

That just makes it seem like you have too much Piety, honestly.

1654 all from gear..

[TheMightyMollusk]

I have been reminded that Ozma in the Weeping City of Mhach is fought in the Gloriole, not the Glory Hole. Jokes about punching Diabolos in the ball are uncalled for.

[MisterMKay]

Leveling up DRK, enter Qarn with two DRGs and a SCH. Tell them I’m new to tanking Qarn and we go off. DRG 2 tries to pull extra mobs, but luckily I catch them. I keep aggrieved, manage my position for the DRGs, pop CDs as needed. First boss and DRG 2 dies. The SCH decides to keep casting Ruin instead of Rez. The wespes appear, there’s no DPS on them and I’m dead. The other DRG and the SCH finish the battle because luckily the boss was nearly dead. I had to lay there and wait for a hard cast rez from the SCH.

Things get better between bosses when we come to the doors with the statues. We open one door, thought we opened the other, but I didn’t notice that we/I apparently didn’t. I had already ran into the east room to get the flame thing for the scales. And I have no heal’s. I pop Rampart and the SCH decides to run outside and lead the statue to the other pad. And I die. The SCH decides to return, they defeat the mobs and then DECIDE TO KEEP GOING WITHOUT ME. No Rez or anything. I have to return and they pull mobs. DPS dying. Heals not doing their job. I sprint to catch up and reassert my role.

Like... if you’re not going to keep party members alive, then don’t heal. Nobody wants you to heal. Who hard casts Rez anymore when you get Swiftcast at LEVEL 24. I suspect the SCH was a SMN in disguise. I’m still salty about it.