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

[Paladinleeds]

Ill just leave this:
https://youtu.be/eC8PuW58I-M

So glad I didn't have pop in my mouth at the end, else my keyboard would have got a non-telegraphed Soda Spray to the face. Which would have issued the Paralysis effect sometimes stopping keys from being pressed.

"Sloppy. Sloppy. Sloppy. Sloppy."

[Meimi_chan]

I try to give the benefit of the doubt when I see stupid game play, but the fact that this character was moving off before the monsters death animations all the time had me suspect it was a bot.

If the gld was running before the monster died, it was probably a legit player. You'll be surprised how many do that, I met some that even used sprint so... PoD influence?
On the other hand, if they were teleporting from mob to mob, yeah probably bot. But even then, I've only seen bots in the wild and they tend to destroy everything, I have no idea of their behavior in dungeons.

[Paladinleeds]

So, decided to do a full premade run for Expert roulette (Expert is DF so...). Setup was DRK (friend), AST (me), BRD (tank's guildie), and BLM (another friend). Get through trash as normal. Then we get to the 1st boss and this is where it gets interesting.
Card: Balance. Royal Road Bonus: Enhanced (150% potency).
BRD plays Foe Requiem + uses Battle Voice. I throw the supercharged Balance on the BLM. She doesn't use quelling. She then proceeds to throw out a ton of damage. Tank feels they can drop Grit after 1 enmity combo. BLM steals aggro, DRK has no mana for Grit. BLM dies. Resulted in a wipe (I went RIP too)... With the BLM the last one standing and boss at 1%.
2ns boss. Wholly uninteresting.
3rd boss. I mess up, DRK dies, I then proceed to die. BLM been busting out 20-22k crits. BRD used Battle Voice without a song by accident. Boss died with only BRD+BLM up.

[SenorPatty]

Ok it happened...IT FREAKING HAPPENED OMG!!!

So i was in an Expert, everyones in 260+ gear, we all say hello, We pull and right off the bat the Drk doesn't use Unleash, nope. What do they use....can you guess? It's not Dark Passenger nope nope, it's FLASH. This isn't like a level 30 dungeon this is max level, albeit not taxing, but it's max level content and they can't use Unleash a move you get at level 8....holy s*it.... You have Unleash you don't ever EVER need Flash in any kind of scenario as a Drk.

I asked them can you please use Unleash over and over in translation, they said hi so they understand english, nothing not a word at all. Monk pulls threat on first boss and dies because the tank hit sprint and is using Delirium. I ask them why are you using Flash, their response and i'll never EVER get over it was "it costs less mana :P", I left the group and said to myself that's it for FFXIV for the day.

*sucks in breath*

[Xx-ReiN-xX]

Have any of you noticed a decline of player skill in df this month? Went from 10-15 min lvl 60/ex roulettes to 30+ with wiped fest in dunscaith and weeping city (no bonus in my alliance and we still wipe with me a BRD always last standing)?

[Legion88]

Have any of you noticed a decline of player skill in df this month? Went from 10-15 min lvl 60/ex roulettes to 30+ with wiped fest in dunscaith and weeping city (no bonus in my alliance and we still wipe with me a BRD always last standing)?

#preexpansionlull

[KisaiTenshi]

If the gld was running before the monster died, it was probably a legit player. You'll be surprised how many do that, I met some that even used sprint so... PoD influence?
On the other hand, if they were teleporting from mob to mob, yeah probably bot. But even then, I've only seen bots in the wild and they tend to destroy everything, I have no idea of their behavior in dungeons.

Not teleporting, speed-hacking maybe. That would explain it except for the part that they failed to pick up the keys.

I'm not gonna share the "raiders" that decided to play keeper of the lake and ignored the mechanics for everything. Instead I'll share screenshots as it's at least worth a laugh. The entire run can be described as stupid.



Everyone tries to trigger the shield generator, the tank brings the dragon over to it, this will not end well.


Everyone gets hit, so nobody activates the shield generator, and now the tank is right on top of the shield generator so nobody can click it


And the result.

[Zentsa]

Have any of you noticed a decline of player skill in df this month? Went from 10-15 min lvl 60/ex roulettes to 30+ with wiped fest in dunscaith and weeping city (no bonus in my alliance and we still wipe with me a BRD always last standing)?

Addon comes in eleven days, people have nothing much to do at the moment.
I found myself just gathering a bit.

[Gamer3427]

A good example for a change. Got in with a farm party for making progress on the relic. Three straight hours of A1S with a bonus, and we got lucky in that it had the bonus for two windows in a row. Prior to the start of that party I had just got my relic to that stage, so the timing was perfect. Had a great group and it was probably the friendliest I've seen a farm party in the PF.....

[Faliandra]

Have any of you noticed a decline of player skill in df this month? Went from 10-15 min lvl 60/ex roulettes to 30+ with wiped fest in dunscaith and weeping city (no bonus in my alliance and we still wipe with me a BRD always last standing)?

i noticed getting a loooooooot of people with really low gear around il 200 or 230 at max, maybe even some pieces below lvl 60. naturally,their damage output was beyond abysmal as well. sometimes i just eat penalty because I cba to do a 30 min run that should last 15 at best (say whatever you will,but it isnt fun to do that...)