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

[Vidu]

I know this sounds crazy...but i kinda wish they had some kind of minimum requirements on dungeons from 50-59

With the MQ (and some sidequests) handing out HQ-gear sets for all classes and the ARR-storyquests towards the end throwing ironworks at you, I dont think that sounds crazy at all...

[Powe]

That blows my mind when someone doesnt know their rotation by lvl 60....how did they get to lvl 60?

Dragoon's rotation isnt that bad or hard at all to figure out. Did he even use Blood of the dragon?

I had a DRG ( Tam Tara Hm) who musta been a role player from Balmung( Joking, was on primal servers) he would only use and attacks that was jump related <.< then he faked being his father and said we made him cry when we tried to tell him the proper rotations.

[Bebekurenai]

On that subject, about people playing as if they either bought the account or had a 5-year-old playing it...
Did PotD again, this time with bf, and on two of the floor sets we had the same matched party, a mnk with his whm. I'm not sure if the whm was 50 or 60, didn't look at her enough to see if she had WoD gear or WC. But let's just say she was at least 50. Never spoke, her mnk did all the talking (he said he was glad that we got matched with him again since their last party killed them) and he played normal. But her... she constantly was running recklessy into the rooms, face aggroing everything and died like 4 times when we couldn't take all the mobs off her. And she just kept running. Then for heals, she would medica (not even medica2), no esuna for debuffs, no cleric stance, and ruin...(ruin???) sometimes aero. That's all she casted, medica, aero, ruin. And never cleric.
Last time she died I asked the mnk why she was always running into the rooms like that and she stopped doing it. Bought account? Idk, the mnk's 8 year-old playing? Maybe.
Oh yeah, I highly doubt their party killed them, imo that whm killed them all >_> Once we cleared (not thanks to her I will say), and before we continued, bf and I had a ciggy in hopes to give them time to match with another party rather than us

[ZhaneX]

That blows my mind when someone doesnt know their rotation by lvl 60....how did they get to lvl 60?

Dragoon's rotation isnt that bad or hard at all to figure out. Did he even use Blood of the dragon?

Nope, never. Even after I and the others in the party told them, the only adjustment they made by the end of the dungeon was occasionally using Heavy Thrust.

[Deceptistar]

Signed up for a lv 50 dungeon on roulette.
I think there are some POTD babies out there... One which i kinda grouped up with
They run to the (real) dungeon elevator while watching the tank and 1 DD hack at the mobs
Just run ahead, ... and watching, like bumps on a log. (like how you wait for pple in potd)
Waiting for us to finish and kill it.

It seemed they expected me to do a speed run, which, ok i indulged them, figured they must know it to want it.
wrong.
Died horribly to the first boss.
The ones who wanted the speed run, did not know anything.
Since ffxiv started, ive left instances less than 10x before finishing, unless i DC.
I left this PT >.> too scary for me.

That blows my mind when someone doesnt know their rotation by lvl 60....how did they get to lvl 60?
Dragoon's rotation isnt that bad or hard at all to figure out. Did he even use Blood of the dragon?

its quite easy to not know much at lv 60 nowadays. Compared to before when we did not have any roulette, and now POTD, leveling is a wizz
Sometimes i wish they would tone down the exp in roulette.

[RenAshdoll]

Having a lot of fun reading this thread, thought it's time to share mine:
- I've been getting paired with this tank from another server for Expert DF and occasionally the lvl 60 DF. After a while, I noted that he wasn't too good at keeping group aggro while having equivalent ilevel gear; he always loses aggro on 1-2 mobs (mostly small groups) when we were AOE-ing stuff down (have to pop Quelling Strike when I was maging or aggro transfer when I NIN); no big issue for me since normally no one dies. But the one time I got paired with him in Anti-tower and I was in smn mode.... he decided to do laps around the last boss for some weird reason and kept attacking the boss from everywhere but the front during braces..... can't remember how we eventually clear that boss but I have to repositioning my Garuda during braces to ensure she is dealing damage and for contagion to go through.

- Low level roulette as a healer. Silent GLD/PLD that pop sprint as long as it is up, even the sprout Rouge gave up goading him. At the slime boss, he ignore bomb so I decided to aoe heal to gain heal aggro and pull the bomb to the slime. He got hit by the bomb too.

- For the good stuff, during Gordian era and when I was still raiding, me and 3 of my raid team mates (2x blm and 1xwhm combo) enter expert df (neverreap iirc) and got paired with a Gordian-cleared WAR. He informed us that he will be mass-pulling and did so in dps stance. He kept aggro all the way, the 3 mages went nuts with aoe while keeping our aggro in check and finished it in record time. The war even compliment us with the auto-translate equivalent "High Quality Party". Have never encountered such a crazy df-run before and again lol

[Lmcgyver]

Just had a run through Lost City of Amdapor HM as a BLM. The WAR had 34k hp, so I figured they probably knew what they were doing, and quelling strikes wouldn't be needed. Things were going smoothly for the first two bosses (due to me holding my opener because of mechanics, I guess). There was an incident with that first dragon before the second boss, where I pulled aggro (and the tank called me stupid), but I passed that off as him not having established hate yet, so I pop quelling and let him get it back.

So, then we get to Kuribu. He pulls early whilst I am still entering the arena (as he's done for all the bosses). I immediately begin to set up for my opener (because Kuribu has no mechanics that interrupt it)... and suddenly I find that Kuribu's flying over to me after doing Cure IV. Tank then proceeds to sit there doing nothing for half the fight (other than saying "really stupid" and "use brain") leaving me to tank it until the final phase (I guess he was hoping I would die), where he finally provoked, and at which point I switch to blizzard mid-rotation and pop quelling at full MP to minimize aggro; I'm still just below him in enmity for the rest of the fight.
How was I supposed to know a WAR with 34k HP needed help with aggro? Party agreed with me afterwards, but the WAR had already left...

Kudos to the WHM who kept me alive through that. Earned my comm.

[DamianFatale]

I just ran Sohr Khai, and I got dismissed for accidentally messing up one mechanic. I'm still learning my new job.. it also didn't help that the warrior kept yelling at me, and calling me names. This was the second warrior with a nasty attitude in a row. What is it with warriors these days? I'm not saying all of you are bad, but just because you're good at your job, or you can survive well by yourself for periods of time, doesn't mean you can treat other people like dirt.

[Acantha]

And she just kept running. Then for heals, she would medica (not even medica2), no esuna for debuffs, no cleric stance, and ruin...(ruin???)

I'm gonna guess she usually plays SMN - only because it confused the hell outta me the first time my bf was playing CNJ and healing for me and also used ruin :P he mains SMN and it was the first thing he cross-classed. Still not entirely sure why :s

before we continued, bf and I had a ciggy in hopes to give them time to match with another party rather than us

Sometimes you just gotta get away from the screen and have a cig, happened to me over the weekend, levelling my DRK using PoTD and got kicked out twice due to the internet failing, when I managed to get back in it told me I had to start floors 41 - 50 all over again... :'( safe to say after 3 attempts and getting to edda once then like floor 46 each time I gave up for the day... stupid internet, day before maintenance too! >.<

[Pells]

I'm gonna guess she usually plays SMN - only because it confused the hell outta me the first time my bf was playing CNJ and healing for me and also used ruin :P he mains SMN and it was the first thing he cross-classed. Still not entirely sure why :s

I've been tempted to do this. Mostly because it's instant cast, and can be used while moving/running. If you're used to it, having to stand still for Stone is a real chore.

Ruin has a cast time too. Arcanist's instant cast is Ruin II, but this one can't be crossclassed.

... yes. I don't know then?