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

[UnstablePersonality]

Yeah Nidhogg trial is why I avoid trial roulette now, people just cannot do it.

[Mysterysword]

(not sure if Blood for Blood and Trick Attack affect limit break damage, but just in case...)

It doesn't. The only things that affect limit break damage are the average ilvl of the party's weapons, and whatever shields the boss has up. The caster's buffs don't affect it at all.

In other news, I queued for Leveling Roulette as BLM today. Insta-queue too, which was surprising. Then when I load in, I immediately see why.

It's the Vault. New WAR, new DRG, SCH not new but at level 58 unsynced.

It's not that their attitudes were bad. They were rather nice, all things considered. But still... We made it to Charibert with no wipes, though the tank and DRG died to Grinnaux, and then Charibert kicks our asses 4 times, mainly because this SCH just... kept forgetting when he had Cleric Stance on and when he didn't, and seemed to have no idea when to AoE heal and when to single-target heal, and horribly misused both Eos and Selene. I tried to give suggestions of skill combinations to use, but I'm not sure how much was really taken to heart and how much was taken as a personal attack. I don't think I even saw him use Eye for an Eye once, and only used Virus when I said to... once.

The most frustrating thing in this game is having your life in the hands of someone else who isn't very good at their job, and not being able to do anything about it. I did everything I could to help as a BLM, short of abandoning DPS entirely and spamming Physick on the tank. I used up both Manaward and Manawall when I could, used Eye for an Eye on the tank, threw out Virus when I saw the SCH wasn't going to. I should have used Apocatastasis on the tank but I didn't realise how many of Charibert's attacks were magical. I even started spamming X-Potions on myself.

And yet, none of that could make up for poor healing.

I know complaining about inadequate healing being the cause of wipes in the Vault is like complaining about the inability to breathe being the cause of drowning, but still.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

It doesn't. The only things that affect limit break damage are the average ilvl of the party's weapons, and whatever shields the boss has up. The caster's buffs don't affect it at all.

....

I was under the impression that I'd read that vulnerability up/down affected limit break damage?

[Acantha]

Yeah Nidhogg trial is why I avoid trial roulette now, people just cannot do it.

Applies for so many trials >.< been running Garuda EX cause my bf wants the mount, I keep saying to him i'm happy to do it, it's whether the people we get into the trial with can do it... So many people attack the spiny even when it's marked with "ignore" (i'm guessing it's usually accidental AoE damage but I stop any AoE at that point unless the spiny feather is on like the other side of the area, bf even puts his garuda away just in case...) and it's been said multiple times in chat to not attack spiny until Garuda jumps up... sigh.

[MeiUshu]

Applies for so many trials >.< been running Garuda EX cause my bf wants the mount, I keep saying to him i'm happy to do it, it's whether the people we get into the trial with can do it... So many people attack the spiny even when it's marked with "ignore" (i'm guessing it's usually accidental AoE damage but I stop any AoE at that point, bf even puts his garuda away just in case...) and it's been said multiple times in chat to not attack spiny until Garuda jumps up... sigh.

they can but they believe that since they are so powerfuly geared that is a joke and they dont need to pay attention to détails/mechanics and what not. Want a better exemple, ? cristal tower-Labyrinth 1 boss...sooooo many death in there because people do not take away skeletons...is just unbelievable.

[Acantha]

they can but they believe that since they are so powerfuly geared that is a joke and they dont need to pay attention to détails/mechanics and what not. Want a better exemple, ? cristal tower-Labyrinth 1 boss...sooooo many death in there because people do not take away skeletons...is just unbelievable.

So frustrating there's definitely some times where you can completely ignore mechanics now but the EX trials and the Raids are not part of that >.<

[Mysterysword]

So let's just say that after today's run of Wiping Shit, especially as a healer, I can fully understand people who just leave after they get their loot. I don't remember any occasions when I sincerely wished my entire team, and some members of other alliances, would just die in a fire before, but now I do and I have.

Because apparently the word "left" is some strange and new foreign language, as is the phrase "don't move and don't attack".

For once, I sure wish I could be the one getting carried and causing problems for everyone else, instead of constantly getting shat on for people dying when they let their bombs go off, or stand in 2-3 Megiddo Flames at once, or don't stand in green pools, or DROP METEORS TO THE RIGHT. TWICE.

I can't even be happy about getting my healer boots. If the other healer had gotten those boots, I would've just jumped off the edge and never looked back.

And as for healers who think they're being helpful by ressing people from other alliances when the healers in that alliance are alive and well, you are not. You are not being helpful by making me waste my MP and Swiftcast cooldown, you are not being helpful by teleporting people to the wrong spot and confusing them when they revive. And you are most definitely not being helpful by being condescending shitheads about it, and acting like I should lick your bloody boots for your "help".

[Watachy]

So let's just say that after today's run of Wiping Shit, especially as a healer, I can fully understand people who just leave after they get their loot. I don't remember actually wishing my entire team would just die in a fire before, but now I do.

For once, I sure wish I could be the one getting carried and causing problems for everyone else!

That's my weekly struggle as a main healer......

[lvlagmarink]

Applies for so many trials >.< been running Garuda EX cause my bf wants the mount, I keep saying to him i'm happy to do it, it's whether the people we get into the trial with can do it... So many people attack the spiny even when it's marked with "ignore" (i'm guessing it's usually accidental AoE damage but I stop any AoE at that point unless the spiny feather is on like the other side of the area, bf even puts his garuda away just in case...) and it's been said multiple times in chat to not attack spiny until Garuda jumps up... sigh.

This reminds me of a run where the DPS thought that ignore #1 mark means the 1st target to die, therefore spiny always the first one to die up until all the DPS couldnt handle the frustration and left one by one with only tanks and healers+ 1 BLM stayed on the fight.. We almost cleared that fight but somehow we can't manage to kill spiny fast enough so we wiped with garuda at 5% or so.. Despite the healer told them not to kill spiny, they didn't seem to understand and just repeat the whole process..

[MeiUshu]

[QUOTE=Mysterysword;3829228] v[QUOTE]

I am not going to defend those but understand that there are people that do mix up left and right as well as...the *DO NOT MOVE* is something that I personally had to translate as * when the pyramid appears stop doing anything until pyramid is gone* why ? because I do not see if I am being targeted, it just doesnt appear or not always, and if I see it is too late,as it happens with a delay....so yeah..there are people out there that have real problems and technical problems. I have less patience with people that complain about being hit by a bubble when it would have been easy for them to just step aside for a second....