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

[Liam_Harper]

I don't know, I sometimes used "Raising <t>" without a sound effect but I noticed sometimes I'd start hardcasting Raise, pop the macro immediately but around 5-6 seconds in my co-healer will swift Raise and waste it. I don't think everyone reads chat during a hectic fight and the sound effect can probably get momentary attention.

The only Raise macros that really bother me are the directly rude ones. There are worse things out there than a bad joke or a single <se.6>

[Avatre]

I don't know, I sometimes used "Raising <t>" without a sound effect but I noticed sometimes I'd start hardcasting Raise, pop the macro immediately but around 5-6 seconds in my co-healer will swift Raise and waste it. I don't think everyone reads chat during a hectic fight and the sound effect can probably get momentary attention.

The only Raise macros that really bother me are the directly rude ones. There are worse things out there than a bad joke or a single <se.6>

I have the same thing set to my raise, where it just states "Raising <t>" as well. And there are definitely way too many times where I am half way - or even three quarters of the way, through casting and someone decides to swift cast raise/verraise.

Though, with the coming of Sage, I'm going to put a specific one for that...because well, why not?

[Bright-Flower]

Yeah I think just putting the name of who you're raising is more helpful. A quirky joke just puts in needless information to sift through when all that needs to be there is the name of who you're raising so other ressers can pick out the name without wasitng time on a gag.

[Awha]

I got kicked from the new nier raid yesterday after telling the other healer while playing a WHM, "You really don't need to add a sound effect to your raise macro, it's obnoxious". Someone decided to call me a B-word for telling the other healer that while our entire group was dead. While writing a quick report and sending it to the support desk, I got kicked after the first boss. It really reminded me the people who play this game are just as nasty as people who play any other game, but I'm happy SE takes reports seriously.

How dare you make any comment that the premade overlords do not approve of. Let this be a lesson to you that you are along for the ride and should be happy such a wonderful premade allowed you to witness all their glory.

Also you sound like a pleb. You need to alert your entire group that you are taking the time to cast raise. It is just the nature of being a supreme healer. You let people die so you can use your carefully crafted raise Marco.

[Frizze]

I don't know, I sometimes used "Raising <t>" without a sound effect but I noticed sometimes I'd start hardcasting Raise, pop the macro immediately but around 5-6 seconds in my co-healer will swift Raise and waste it. I don't think everyone reads chat during a hectic fight and the sound effect can probably get momentary attention.

The only Raise macros that really bother me are the directly rude ones. There are worse things out there than a bad joke or a single <se.6>

You arent wrong that there are worse things. I couldnt dispute that if i wanted to. I stand by my mini-rant though. As for the plain macro being ignored, some people just can not/will not pay attention regardless.

[Aldora]

I don't know, I sometimes used "Raising <t>" without a sound effect but I noticed sometimes I'd start hardcasting Raise, pop the macro immediately but around 5-6 seconds in my co-healer will swift Raise and waste it. I don't think everyone reads chat during a hectic fight and the sound effect can probably get momentary attention.

The only Raise macros that really bother me are the directly rude ones. There are worse things out there than a bad joke or a single <se.6>

I've been refraining from using sound effects in macro's, unless it was for a static / savage raiding group where party members requested a sound effect whenever i was doing something specific. Outside of that, when i'm running (alliance) raids on my healer, i react immediately with swiftcast + raise when i see someone tip over. Most of the time it works fine, but every once an a while both me and the other healer do the same and end up wasting one of our swiftcasts. In the case of hardcasting a raise, if a RDM or the other beats me to the punch, i basically have wasted a cast time where i could've casted other spells instead.

All of these examples are still minor inconveniences when running content and usually happen when you're not looking at the castbar of others / read the chat (like you said), but they can be annoying when you're in a new (alliance) raid were people are dropping like flies. Due to this, i'm considering creating a macro which i'll place next to my non-macroed raise. It will only contain the text "Raising <t>" and maybe add my current MP (percentage).

In my opinion, sounds effects are ok, as long as you don't overdo it. Like 3 different sound effects in sequence, use the same sound effect multiple times (to increase its volume) or use the "danger bongo's" effect (which is commonly used to alert people of incoming mechanics).

[Shibi]

I wish, when one votekicks a trolling tank, that either of the DPS could optionally flip into that job rather than needing to wait until a tank appears.
Mind you we did get a nice tank to replace the troll tank.

[Cincierta]

Well, last night I was helping a friend get their nin to 60, so I sign us up for leveling roulette, and we get Halitali.

I'm on SCH, one other fc mate that was helping came on SMN, and the friend in question on NIN. We get a GLA tank, and he asks me how I wanted this done. I replied with 'You pull, we slaughter.'

Oh lord have mercy. The boy had balls of steel and did full wall-to-wall pulls despite his yo-yoing hp, and we only had 1 death because our SMN stood in a self-destruct aoe. We were done in about 12 minutes.

To that GLA, you're gonna go far in 14. I can tell.

[Mesarthim]

and he asks me how I wanted this done. I replied with 'You pull, we slaughter.'

Reminds me about a day ago I do a big pull at the start of the new dungeon (it isn't difficult to do) but I'm still unsure to this moment if it was an accident or not. I was rescued just as I was pulling the final group. They said nothing, I said nothing, but I walked forward anyway for the last ones. Everything died quickly enough so I decided to chalk it up as a very specifically timed accident.

[Artemiz]

Well, last night I was helping a friend get their nin to 60, so I sign us up for leveling roulette, and we get Halitali.

I'm on SCH, one other fc mate that was helping came on SMN, and the friend in question on NIN. We get a GLA tank, and he asks me how I wanted this done. I replied with 'You pull, we slaughter.'

Oh lord have mercy. The boy had balls of steel and did full wall-to-wall pulls despite his yo-yoing hp, and we only had 1 death because our SMN stood in a self-destruct aoe. We were done in about 12 minutes.

To that GLA, you're gonna go far in 14. I can tell.

I started a new character when I returned to the game, before I reactivated my main. As a sprout gladiator I entered Sastasha, my first dungeon run in over 3 years. It went fine, it is Sastasha after all but then the healer decided to bolt for the last boss. I didn't even know there was about 47 packs of mobs between last mid and last boss but turns out this healer found them. I tried to live up to the hero I want to be and set off in chase to get agro but the healer died as we got to the gate to the last boss and a wipe followed. Nobody said a word, I think we were all stunned into WTF induced silence.