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

[Aosha]

Never said I dont use LD and never said I constantly stay above 75% was doing mainly so for that run. But I dont touch LD until I am down too about 3k mana which only really happens with bad groups or fights that carry on to long. As for my ability as healer this video will answer that what you see in it is not much different from how I heal raids.
https://youtu.be/EmxpsDRTPqw

Apologies ahead of time if I sound harsh:
Now, I'm no Astro master, but I have to say there's a lot to improve. What I'm seeing here is pretty much bare bare minimum AST (which is still way better than some duty finder groups though).
What I can comment on with some confidence, is I got 3 minutes into the video and already got super frustrated by your cards XD
First, a card used out of combat, thus not getting a seal. Second, a card given to a tank when there's a melee in the group. Third, a ranged card (ewer, spire, bole) given to a melee (and again out of combat). Even after, the cards are going all over the place, with the same issues repeating over and over.
Cards drawn at weird timings, sitting on cards waiting for a Redraw instead of using Minor Arcana and just waiting for the next one, total lack of Sleeve Draw, running around not casting anything with Lightspeed active, no Neutral Sect to be seen, actions repeatedly on accidental wrong targets...
Still a very much passable AST, and one I would gladly take over some I find in duty finder, but not exactly anything past that.

As for using LD at 3k: that's just a waste of resources. Using it is free, with no downside unless you overcap. Having more MP in reserve never hurts, in case an "oh crap" moment occurs. I'm constantly going down in MP, just from following the basic ABC (Always Be Casting). That's not "worse MP management", that's "doing more things and thus actually needing to manage MP".

[AlphaFox]

The main thing is LD is only a minute long cooldown. Pop it at 8k even and you'll have it back before you get to low unless you go insane on healing right after.

[RobinMalvin]

I suspect the SCH was a SMN in disguise.

Mine's the other way around. Holminster with a SMN that
-use Ifrit for trash pulls,
-never use any dots let alone Bane,
-burn their Aetherflow for Fester and only Fester,
-spam Outburst even on single target,
-not a single summon Bahamut.

At least there's Tri Disaster on bosses, opener only, and they only refresh Bio III occasionally. The guy's likely SCH main turned SMN and as retired SMN main, it pissed me royally.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Who hard casts Rez anymore when you get Swiftcast at LEVEL 24.

Actually you get it at level 18. But maybe they just use it on CD to fire off something else. I have seen mages/healer using it in the needless way imaginable like on a simple 'Ruin' to make it instant so they can cast it while walking.

[Rilifane]

Never said I dont use LD and never said I constantly stay above 75% was doing mainly so for that run. But I dont touch LD until I am down too about 3k mana which only really happens with bad groups or fights that carry on to long. As for my ability as healer this video will answer that what you see in it is not much different from how I heal raids.
https://youtu.be/EmxpsDRTPqw

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I've only gotten into AST recently, so I'm by no means a master of that particular class. But I'm not impressed by this gameplay. With how boisterous you sounded to me in your earlier posts I admit I expected a little more.
You kept your party alive, which is good. You threw in some dps, which is also good. You at least used cards, which is also good. You used Earthly Star and aimed it nicely.
But unfortunately that's honestly the extend of things I can commend.

Throwing a melee card on a BLM of all classes while he's still on the run and out of combat is a glaring mistake and one you repeated throughout the run aswell as throwing ranged cards on the melee or tank. A lot. Cards were drawn irregulary and with a lot of time inbetween. You can hold them indefinitely so you can easily draw them right as you zone in and on the way to the boss/ pull and redraw as neccessary to fish for the right seals. No sleeve draw.
Also, you spent a lot of time just running around even when there was no aoe to dodge or other reason to adjust your position, wasting a good 2-3 GCDs doing nothing even with Light's Speed up and used Light's Speed at weird times like at the end of fights, wasting most of its duration. Also no oGCD heals aside from Earthly Star, no Neutral Sect of Synastry. Sometimes you hovered over Intersection but ended up not using it for whatever reason. No pre-shielded pulls, not even with Intersection. I get that not everyone feels comfortable or it feels like too much work to stance dance between pulls bit Intersection is just one click and it's free.

All in all I'm not surprised your MP rarely drop because you spent a lot of time doing nothing or fumbling with targeting. You also heal quite frequently with BeneI even if your target took significant dmg. You have a really high amount of Piety and with the frequent downtime it's obvious why you don't have to utilize LD more. Doing nothing or running around without good reason is not MP management, it's simply useless downtime.
With more dps spam and more expensive but GCD efficient heals I'm pretty sure you'd need LD more often even with your high amount of Piety.
If you spent more time casting than the other healer, it makes me wonder what he even did, though...

[MikuMitsuko]

Did leveling roulette on my WHM for the sweet, sweet tomestones and got an in-progress run of The Aery. Party hadn't even cleared the first boss yet. I wondered what could make a healer leave/get kicked so early? Well, after checking the tank's gear I got a big clue to point me towards the possible answer - they were wearing all level 1 accessories and no belt. Level 60 default GNB weapon and armor though, at least. Explains why they had 9k hp (I had 8k, to compare) and were made of paper lmao. They also stopped every few seconds and took forever before pulling bosses.
I didn't bother doing anything beyond asking them why (they said they didn't know, that they had just unlocked GNB and thought the game gave them accessories) because it's just The Aery and I really didn't feel like starting any drama. At least it seemed like it was just a one-off mistake, and that they probably fixed it afterwards :x

[Breezelyn]

People who "afk" during normal raids, alliance raids, and trials should not be allowed to que for them. It's rude when people are putting the work into get it done, but then we got leechers like these random afkers. If someone isn't actively attacking throughout the whole thing, they should be kicked immediately. Same with people who fake afk while being dead. If they don't accept a raise or two, should be kicked. It's ridiculous.

[Aosha]

GNB in Holminster. I kinda melted doing the usual big pull at the start, and even at the following pull that I limited to double. Checked Scholar's gear: Scaevan left side I think, but a 260 book. Yes, that's level 60.
Dungeon was done in single pulls after that, and during the four forced back-to-back pulls they bottomed out on MP multiple times, even having to resort to eating the fairy. But honestly, fairly impressive healing considering the handicap.
On last boss, our SCH died around the 60-40% left area (to the double knouts). I got kinda scared of how that would go, as my HP was already pretty low, but turns out Brutal Shell + Aurora is active healing when the boss is just doing mechanics and not tossing a tankbuster in my face. MCH died with a couple of % left, NIN survived with me to the end thanks to Bloodbath. Was an interesting leveling roulette, to say the least.

Ah, shoot, I should have offered the SCH to make him a new book... I hope he got one soon after.

[Bright-Flower]

GNB in Holminster. I kinda melted doing the usual big pull at the start, and even at the following pull that I limited to double. Checked Scholar's gear: Scaevan left side I think, but a 260 book. Yes, that's level 60.
Dungeon was done in single pulls after that, and during the four forced back-to-back pulls they bottomed out on MP multiple times, even having to resort to eating the fairy. But honestly, fairly impressive healing considering the handicap.
On last boss, our SCH died around the 60-40% left area (to the double knouts). I got kinda scared of how that would go, as my HP was already pretty low, but turns out Brutal Shell + Aurora is active healing when the boss is just doing mechanics and not tossing a tankbuster in my face. MCH died with a couple of % left, NIN survived with me to the end thanks to Bloodbath. Was an interesting leveling roulette, to say the least.

Ah, shoot, I should have offered the SCH to make him a new book... I hope he got one soon after.

Did you mention this to the scholar? They could have say, had a lower level book out for RP or something and forgot to swap back when the dungeon started.

[Aosha]

Well, not duty finder by any means, but had to share somewhere.
I was running around Lakeland, doing a few FATEs on Red Mage. I was on the werewolf one, had hit it with maybe 6 or 8 GCDs, when a Paladin showed up. I looked at his status bar briefly to figure out whether he'd start tanking the thing. Sure enough, he had Iron Will on.
But something was wrong, he was not able to take the boss off of me. And then I heard it.
Rage of Halone.
I started paying more attention, and didn't even see Goring Blade being applied. This guy had skipped all of his job quests past 50, maybe even sooner? But he was still a Paladin, not a Gladiator, so he knew how to do them. I was just so confused.
I inspected the guy and he was level 70, had all level 70 crafted gear
except an i110 weapon. No wonder he couldn't make the boss even budge.

I fear for the day this man queues for leveling roulette.
edit Oh yeah he had the <God of Magic> title so definitely not a new player. This was intentional.