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

[Twilite]

Yeah what is welfare gear? lol..neverreap gear?

High grade Gear that isn't gained through tomes. Example.. CT gear was sometimes called that.

It's a little skewed, but the i210 drops from diadem aren't exactly "welfare".

[Moonleg]

High grade Gear that isn't gained through tomes. Example.. CT gear was sometimes called that.

Because tomes are somehow really, really hard to get. Or something. <.<

I -kinda- understood the term in WoW, but not here.

[Twilite]

Considering there is that annoying cap, you can't spam them forever.

Eso that is.

[UnstablePersonality]

Ah I see...well if I get stuff like void ark gear for example..it's for alt classes/glamour if I like the item lol

[Galaktica]

TFW the tank and dps don't dodge anything on the last two bosses of Fractal (seriously, the MNK literally hit every mine on the last boss...) but you still manage to keep them alive, but you ain't get no commendations...

[Selli]

Hey guys, I'm going to totally combo break this thread and post about the GOOD dungeons I had today!

Doing Diadem, I already got Pegasus so I'm now doing it once a day to stock up on tokens for the V Materia. As well as, you know, getting any of that sweet, sweet 210 with crazy stats that drop.

So I get a party, say hello to everyone. We go to collect our currents and it goes very smoothly. We get up in the air and head to Dino Island. We get credit on literally every mob that we encounter (that's a first for me, personally). I'm rolling 70+ on everything, my inventory is filling up fast. We kill our first Star.

i210 healer pants. Vit, mind, crit, spell speed, and det. I roll a 94. Dear god yes. The glorious pants are mine.

The farm is smooth, the people are friendly. We die sometimes, but it's okay. My co-healer is amazing, our tank is amazing, our casters are amazing. Everything is amazing.

At 10 minutes left on the clock, the tank and one of the melee want to do the objectives for their achievement. So we all stack on the tank and mass suicide to our spawn. Finish off the objectives in less than 3 minutes and head back to Dino Island and collect more loot before the timer hits 0.

Everyone says good bye and good luck and that everything was amazing. I couldn't agree more.

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Boyfriend and I were doing Expert (as we do everyday), he pulls big and I heal big. The DPS had their heads spinning, watching us pull as big as we could on dungeons that are less than a week old.

But despite our insanity, they AoE good. The Bard is working his little butt off switching between Foe's for my Aero III, Holy spam, and Assize combo, and MP/TP song for my boyfriend/myself and himself/the monk, respectively, between trash pulls.

The dungeon goes smooth, no wipes, DPS is on point and even killing adds is going well (except when I got a little cheeky and stood a little bit too close to that diving kobold boss that stuns. I had to bene myself, LOL).

Dungeon ends, I thank the DPS for the amazing run, especially the Bard who got my commendation for his extraordinary effort. My boyfriend commended the Monk to make sure everyone got at least one.

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And here is where we end the cycle of awesomeness

Queue up for High Level roulette with my boyfriend. He's leveling Ninja at the moment and I am leveling Monk. We get Snowcloak.

Tank is new. Healer is new. Ohboy.

Tank is full slaying, every once in a while they seem to dip really low or flat out die, but my boyfriend and I are burning through trash so quickly we don't really notice or pause to consider why. Healer doesn't seem to be raising them except out of combat with slow cast, pretty unusual, but we don't really look into it. We just wanna smack things.

We get to the 2nd boss and my boyfriend explains the mechanics, it's a little rocky at first, but it goes down quicker and smoother than it did the first day Snowcloak came out (20 minute Yeti fights, anyone remember those? XD).

Tank gets really excited when we get to the last two trash packs. Pulls all 3 dragons and the 2 transformation guys. Too much to handle and they transform. 5 dragons AoEing, erryone ded. Tank apologizes and pulls them separately, we get to the final boss.

Boyfriend once again explains the mechanics. We start the fight.

I'm a little cheeky with my positionals and decide to eat a couple of AoEs to the face. I see the healer is casting on me as more come out, know I can eat one more so I do after the heal comes out, since an i110 Cure II is about 1000ish (maybe a little less, but I only needed about 500 HP to live) and I know that'll be more than enough for me.

HE HEALED ME FOR LESS THAN 300 WITH A CURE II IN SNOWCLOAK.

I died.

I check this guy's gear. i90 and i110 left side, well, that's kind of weak, but his right side is all Poetics.

THIS

HEALER

IS

WEARING

FULL

CASTING

ACCESSORIES

Check his search info. 50 WHM, 15 ACN. No Swiftcast. No raise for me. This literally explains everything in the dungeon we were too lazy to acknowledge earlier.

Without my help DPSing, the boss is dying slow. Healer can't keep up as the fight drags on 2-3 minutes and the tank dies. Healer starts casting slow raise, my boyfriend dies from lack of heals while tanking. The healer and tank take 10 minutes to solo the boss.

Healer demands commendations for "healing so amazingly". Boyfriend throughly chews out healer for not wearing proper gear and I just left as soon as the fight was over. I didn't even want the crafting loot after that.

[Evangela]

I was in Copperbell (Hard) today. When a bomb self-destructs itself, the dragoon in my party can't dodge it and he died.

[DisFlavored]

I'm back again. Got Stone Vigil NM for my leveling roulette on my healer (lvl 54). First pull, I'm waiting to cast a cure so I can gauge how healing this tank will be and if I can cleric. Gets hit for 200 its, no big I'm not gonna cast a cure for that. Then all of a sudden he drops 1000+ pts on a 2300 HP gauge, dropping him down to 700 HP. I immediately cast Cure 2 and he dies before I get the cast off. 10 seconds into the pull. No one else dies and he comes back and it's fine. Check class, it's his first tank and GLD is only lvl 15. Check his gear, all jewelry but an earring is lvl 29 STR...

Next pull is fine. Still squishy but more manageable. Get to the first aevis room and he pulls the whole damn thing. No cool downs. I heal as fast as I can, but of course he died. I usually don't have any issues with this room, even if an aevis is pulled, but there is literally nothing I could've done with that situation.
He wtfs and a DPS leaves and I tell the tank that he is literally taking everything to the face and I can't heal him fast enough. He lols me and tells me to l2p... The tank that doesn't use cool downs or have appropriate gear is telling me to l2p. Yea, I left that crap. Thank you random DPS for taking that hit.

[Beskar]

Think I'll add mine after having one today in Saint Mocianne's Arboretum in the EX Roulette. It's two people. One a Warrior, the other a Black Mage both in around ilvl180 - 200 gear.

First problem we've seen is that the Warrior cant hold aggro well. I was on a Bard and popped down my AoE fire. I got aggro instantly after the tank had already started hitting the mobs so there was no use of an overpower. We noticed that the mobs were dying really slowly, even with Foes Requiem Up.

This then caused the other issue of the Black Mage. There was no use of Ley Lines, Enochain, Fire 4 or Blizzard 4. Just your standard of Fire, Fire Fire, Blizzard, Fire, Fire, Fire. As you can expect DPS was stupidly low. So me being the Bard, was popping Foes on every pull so the healer could help out who was getting increasingly frustrated.

First boss tank calls out the healer for being rude as they didn't have Stoneskin on. Boss fight took around 3 or so minutes, maybe longer due to the low DPS again.

We make our way through the dungeon and get to the honey section. The wall before the boss is where myself and the healer go enraged. The Black Mage was still doing awful, there was no AoE's with just the odd flare now and again. He somehow learned what Ley Lines was, but then promptly forgot it.

I'm playing Foes my MP getting lower and lower with all the adds spawning as the other two were attacking the 'wrong' mobs. We got through it but the tank had pretty much hit less than 1k HP multiple times. Tank then decides to call me a shitty bard for not playing the TP song. Well I'm sorry but I had Foes up trying to help the mobs die quicker. Not my problem this time you decided to spam overpower. Healer calls out the tank for doing a shit job and the tank was going on about how good they were as they used 'cooldowns'.

So we get to the 2nd boss, everyone in the group is annoyed, apart from the Black Mage who never spoke. Healer called both of them out with the BLM getting most of it for doing poor damage. BLM then promptly died, ressed and left the group. Tank then threatened us that when we wipe, they'd leave too. We weren't bothered as the healer did a good job at keeping the rest of us and we killed the boss with just three of us. Warrior then left without saying a word.

We wait and another Black Mage comes in the group. We groan and the tank arrives. Much to our surprise, this BLM and Tank knew what they were doing. The BLM was in 170 gear and already doing far my DPS then the previous one and we finished the instance in no time at all.

Probably the worst run I've had in a long long while within this game.

[Naliee]

Healer demands commendations for "healing so amazingly".

Healer who is wearing full casting accessories deserves smack on the face. HARD.

Or anyone who has the nerve to even ask/demand for commendations.