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

[LalaRu]

Final steps of faith.

- Tank pulling
- Other tank sword oath and dps
- both healers dies
- adds phase started, dps tank start dancing manderville
- while people dying, party chat drama: omfg noob tank use shield oath / OMG NOOB / ascii art for the words "shield oath"
- at restart, votekick commenced for the manderville tank
- manderville tank reminds everyone the healers were both down before adds phase, votekick does not pass
- second try, one healer dies before adds, other healer doesn't keep up with healing, wipe
- the died healer votekicked and dismissed
- party disbands

[Mirch]

in baelsar's wall with a marauder that pulled the whole place whenever possible, pops blood for blood, spams overpower, uses invigorate and writes on chat -git gud-

one of the 2 dps wanted to kick him but i refused and the other dps too seemed to have decline

i was healing TT_____TT

we managed to clear the dung tho, was exciting

[Noscifer]

Not really a DF tale, but something really noobish that happened yesterday. I was talking with my wife while playing FF14 on my laptop. Lately I rerolled DPS from tanking and been leveling all the way to 50 in POTD. So I go into ishgard, buy the DRG vendor gear level 50, change weapon since I was warrior and queue. All's well until I realize I forgot to equip my DRG stone. I equip it and wait on the queue.... 20 minutes later "You cannot join the duty because you've switched class"

I felt.... noobish

[NaesakiAshwell]

Some people in this game genuinely confuse me, the sheer lack of patience some people have with this game is just mind boggling at times. (Though I am fully aware there has been many, many threads combating this issue with both sides of the argument getting into a never ending war. But with this one that happened below, this one just seems extremely selfish. Considering the fight lasts a couple minutes.)

Do Trial roulette, we get it in to Leviathan, there is a new sprout and they are watching the cutscene.

Seemingly very offended by this new sprout, one of the tanks instantly leaves.

A minute later a healer leaves also offended and starts saying. "omg such a waste of time, we dont need to wait another tank for 30 mins."

The moment she left, a new tank arrived a minute later along with a new healer.

So the Tank gave himself a penalty cause of a single new leaf and then the healer just left due to not wanting to wait 2 minutes for a new tank in a roulette you rarely wait long in, especially since its not long after reset so tons of people are currently doing it.

[Faliandra]

....and then the healer would also, rather take the 30 minute penalty then wait 2 minutes for a new tank in a roulette....

the healer didnt get a penalty. Only the first person to leave the party gets it. Everyone else can leave without penalty.
Sometimes it also really can take a while before a tank joins and healers usually get insta-queued into trial roulettes.

[NaesakiAshwell]

the healer didnt get a penalty. Only the first person to leave the party gets it. Everyone else can leave without penalty.
Sometimes it also really can take a while before a tank joins and healers usually get insta-queued into trial roulettes.

Ah yeah forgot the penalty only hits once x3 but either way her outburst was a bit much, it just felt really ironic that the second she left the replacements arrived. :c

A little patience doesn't kill anyone D: I understand completely after 5 minutes then yeah its fine, go ahead and leave. But before that will never not seem like a dick move to me.

It just seemed more unfair on the new leaf than anything :/

[Theplatter]

Today in Palace of the Dead on my alt Angry dish...

[Bourne_Endeavor]

So someone please tell me if I'm weird here or If I've missed some meta I'm not aware of but anyway.

Go into EX roulette with a friend, both of us dps, we end up in Sohm Al.

Anyway the run is going well no issues there but me being curious I like to look at other people's gear.

The White Mage's left side was mostly Piety V were it could fit and her entire right side was all Vitality IV to V materia <--- uhm.... why Vit?

And I honestly don't know if this is still a thing but the Dark Knights entire right side was all Strength V materia? <--- I thought this stopped being a thing?

.___. someone please do tell me if I'm wrong with thinking these a bit of out of the ordinary.

Was it crafted gear per chance? Many raiders meld VIT to their accessories regardless of job because the 250 gear set makes it difficult to survive certain mechanics. For instance, less then 22k HP means Mega Holy and Holy Bleed will almost certainly kill you. Even at 20k, you need serious mitigation. Since loot allotment in most statics typically goes DPS > Tanks > Healers so groups can push phases, healers need the extra VIT as they won't be gearing up much for a while. On the tank side of things, STR scales significantly higher than any secondary stat. As tanks benefit from both STR and VIT now, melding the former to your accessories is a bigger boost than crit or det would be.

[Faliandra]

Leveling roulette. Me (SCH) and my friend (MNK) end up in stone vigil.

Our matches are a BLM and a PLD.


My friend and me are basically carrying the dungeon (like almost always these days...) with us both doing most dps, vastly outdpsing the rest.
PLD keeps losing hate. I tell the PLD to use more Flash and to make sure he keeps aggro.

PLD still keeps losing aggro to either my friend, me or Eos. I repeatedly tell him to use more flash and to spam it. (yes Shield Oath was activated)

My MNK friend notices how the BLM is doing a completely wrong rotation and wants to help.
BLM replies "So what? its mine sub" (this is literally what he said).

We checked the BLM both and saw at least 2-3 more classes at 60 and another 2 at 50. We decide to dismiss the BLM
because we both hate the "its my sub i play how I want" crowd.

We were just before the second boss in Stone Vigil. Tank goes in, pulls the boss and then sits down doing nothing.
My MNK friend gets aggro and we end up duo'ing the boss while the tank sits down and laughs.
Midfight we get a DPS replacement for the BLM and tell him that we will have to kick the tank too as we explain why (doesnt hold hate, doesnt take advise, pulls boss and lets us duo it).

It becomes clear at this point that the tank and the BLM were friends. We finish off the boss, kick the tank out
and continue with our new formation as: MNK, SCH and BRD.

MNK turns on Fists of Earth and we work our way up to the third boss with him being the tank...I mean...might as well clear the way while waiting for a tank,right?

Right. We are on the last boss, still no tank in sight.
Alrighty, we duo'd the second boss,we can sure as hell do the last boss with 3 people.

So we did. And it actually was a way more fun run this way.

[Texa]

I q'd Dun Scaith as a SCH and got a party with another SCH in it.

The run went fine until the other SCH realized the forgot to pick up the quest for the Ultima plating and started yelling for a kick. I feel like if you need to leave a instance for a personal reason that's not "all of my gear is broken and my hp total is at 4k" you need to just use the leave button and take the penalty. They proceeded to leave me as the only person res-ing and healing for the next fight. Started whining for a kick again at Scathach and was ignored again. Cancelled over my crit adlo on the tank with a succor. At this point told the party "don't worry I'll still heal like normal : )" after they didn't heal at all on Ultima. Then for some bizarre reason in the middle of the fight told me "texa you need to use cleric stance to dps it does much more damage" when all that I'd been doing the past 2 fights was healing and casting DoTs because someone else wasn't pulling their weight.