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

[Sapphic]

As an aside, this guy is using Fluid Aura on CD and dpsing all the time, but never in Cleric.

Well tbh, pre level 50 caster shares int and MND at equal levels, so the difference between clerics and non clerics DPSing isnt as big as when using full MND gear.

[Yhoiryo]

Running EX daily on DRK, get 2 drgs in the party, ones decked out in ilvl200-190 gear, the other one is still fresh in ilvl160-170.

After the first pull I notice the dps is pitifully bad because it's taking us ages to kill monsters. We get to the first boss and I think it took us 7-10 minutes or so to kill it and I notice during the fight that the drg with the decked out gear, his tp bar isn't really budging so I call him out. After a few more pulls I call him out again and he says "I'm only doing 1 rotation, chill lol"



I wanted to make a comment that he'd dps the floor better at this point.

[ReddAxel]

I don't need to explain

No Swiftcast for that WHM or Provoke for that DRK? Lord help this player

[Ashelia_Ferron]

No Swiftcast for that WHM or Provoke for that DRK? Lord help this player

I remember when you kept pestering me to get Swiftcast for my WHM lolz

[Ashelia_Ferron]

Well tbh, pre level 50 caster shares int and MND at equal levels, so the difference between clerics and non clerics DPSing isnt as big as when using full MND gear.

Cleric Stance also provides a 10% bonus to damage spells when you are in it, so there is still a decent difference.

[ReddAxel]

I remember when you kept pestering me to get Swiftcast for my WHM lolz

It makes life as a healer so much easier, that and its pretty much required for anything at level 50+ lol

[Sapphic]

Cleric Stance also provides a 10% bonus to damage spells when you are in it, so there is still a decent difference.

But below level 30, 10% of little is even less XD Just saying below 50 if someone dots without cleric it doesnt make a huge difference.

[Frostei]

No Swiftcast for that WHM or Provoke for that DRK? Lord help this player

They didn't unlock DRG despite having lancer at 56 as well

[ReddAxel]

They didn't unlock DRG despite having lancer at 56 as well

Oh I know, that one was obvious. Was just pointing out those missing but much needed cross skills for the other two classes they have leveled :P

[Erim-Nelhah]

I loathe it when tanks play spin the bottle on the eyeball boss.

I used to run WoD as PLD back in 2.55 a lot...my solution to this? Sword oath (ie I don't play aggro ping-pong).

A minute later I was vote kicked. I wasn't even angry anymore...just disappointed in that healer and DPS.

I'm just gonna say this: Friend/FC Mate or not, I wouldn't have stuck up for that tank. I might not have vote-kicked him, but I wouldn't have sided with him to vote-kick you either. I guarantee that after that performance I'd do my best to never run with him/her again, tho.

Mwaha, well I doubt you're alone with that - BLM changed a lot and it seems you need pretty high stats to get part of that fluidity back. These cases though, it's basically been 4-6 targets and the BLM does 300-400 DPS - much less than you would do with the old 2.5 rotation at i120. I do that much with my SCH by putting up a few DoTs and Baning it.

I didn't even bother leveling mine past 50 when HW hit. Saw the new abilities "Ley Lines" and "Enochian", along with the Blizz 4 part, and said "nope". Besides which - I was having too much fun tanking.

--Erim Nelhah