Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[TheMightyMollusk]

Checked the list, and yeah, I was there. I was the WAR. Eighth person was a bard.

[Skivvy]

What are the chances on sharing that run??! Lol Props on not having a wipe! What's TTnTT mean?

[Renalt]

What are the chances on sharing that run??! Lol Props on not having a wipe! What's TTnTT mean?

I believe it's a little character crying.

[Skivvy]

I believe it's a little character crying.

Ohhhh, fitting. Maybe tears of shame. lol. I know I've been on runs where I feel like I just keep doing all the bad and I'm about ready to go crawl into a hole.

:3 Get Chrysalis for trial roulette.
Everyone pops the bubbles with the sprites... Whatever, not a lot of people realize you can just ignore those.

And going back to this post real fast. Does it create a ton of extra spiky damage for the healers to take care of, or it kinda whatever at this point? That trial pops up so seldomly for me these days and I always just run around popping bubbles, but if I can just stand in place doing my thing, sweet!

[NekoMataMata]

Haven't really done any content in a while besides the new alliance raid a couple of times. Decided I wanted to help queues out on my home DC.



Never had one outside of alliance raids where I could sort of ignore it. This isn't a new player either. They have most of their jobs leveled up. They have other job stones that came from classes that start at level 1.

And for those curious, I genuinely gave it a try because I didn't want to just leave the dps hanging. They were single targeting on the pulls, no mitigations.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

THANK GOD for the seasoned player (he was the tank!) that took the time to tell me, like you did with that tank, how I can help myself help the group. I was so grateful. I don't know why anyone would get tuchus touchy (it's my nice way of saying butthurt) about someone offering assistance! I'm open to ALL the helps anyone out there ever wanna give me.

Keeping the Tank topped off isn't necessarily a bad strategy if you use pug groups a lot (or basically exclusively like I do). I consider myself a pretty competent healer (not a main, but I've been playing since Heavensward and I've done most content that isn't Savage) but I've lost a tank or two because I took the few seconds to let off a damage spell only for them to eat massive unmitigated damage in those few seconds. Usually the first couple of pulls will let you know the pace.

I tend to pre-emptive heal (stack regens or place shields pre-pull) so I can have those few seconds of damage dealing without having to hand-hold but depending on your tank's level of experience (and what they think the expectation is--can't tell you how many times a inexperienced tank pulled wall-to-wall in a leveling dungeon with zero CD's and probably thought they did awesome because I healed the crap out of them) making sure your tank is in the 80% is probably best practice if they're HP is see sawing all over.


Also, some of the best advice I ever got was from straight up a-holes, and while I could have gone without the scathing invective, I certainly used what they said to improve. Its a shame because vets have good experience to share but most people just don't want to hear it these days. They'd rather read it on reddit.

[Cincierta]

Earlier in leveling rou I get thrown into Aitascope on my WHM, and realized that the war tank was rather...squishy in the gear department. Multiple 90s, thought he was new until the gate dropped and no new person notice popped on my screen at all.

He was also taking hits with no mit until the first boss, single pulling, and not. Using. Bloodwhetting. Like, at all. I'd see when he'd use Infuriate as the buff icon/Nascent Chaos for it is distinct, but not Bloodwhetting.

My good man, what is the point of being unga-bunga ree-ree when you do not touch your unga-bunga biggest-axe-man button? Unga-bunga button makes green numbers go brr. I was going to give you some REALLY good advice until I saw your search comment.

'No bullying'. Normally whenever I see this, it's a massive warning flag to get away from that player.

I ended up leaving after the first boss, which was sad because the BLM in that party was abso-f*cking-loutely amazing, and felt awful for abandoning them that early in the dungeon. However seeing war tanks who don't mitigate/use Bloodwhetting are like discount MRDs. I won't compare them to the other tanks as that would be an insult to the other three we've got.

To the dps I had to abandon: I'm sorry you had to put up with such a tank that didn't think to prioritize unga-bunga and keep hate off of you.

To the tank: please read your tooltips, I'm begging you. I shouldn't run out of resources and resort to spamming Cure 2 on those single pulls you were doing. Heck, go pay Tataru's botique a visit and grab your 89 war gear. It's snazzy-looking, trust me. You want it. You need it. YOU. NEED. IT.

[Cheremia]

Queued for Expert with a friend
we got Troia

GNB and RDM were the other two teammates, I was on WHM

GNB single pulls. Boring but okay, i won't force bigger pulls
GNB gets a lot of damage from single pulls so i already have to heal MORE than usual... fine...
Friend said they have multiple slots of 89 gear... ah

Before the first boss, the GNB said: don't let me fall that low
About 20-30% i let them fall down to before healing and as said, i already HAD TO HEAL MORE THAN EVER OTHER TANKS ON BIG PULLS (leveling dungeons excluded, those don't count) and they wanted me to heal MORE
I literally just threw ?????????? at them, while friend said lmao and the RDM "but you didn't die"

They said something along the line "then its fine if i don't tank" as they stood in bad twice on the first boss and died twice. I wasted TWO swiftcasts on him and the second death, they even DCed. Friend sadly died (thank you rdm for ressing her)

We managed and got a WAR and everything went as per usual, aka "healing, i hardly know her" as the WAR could tank the entire dungeon and be fine probably

I'm still confused on how you get this much damage on like, 3 mobs and then tell me to heal even more than i already had to... I didn't even say or do anything...
I had to use Cure II before the first boss... that's how much damage they got

[Jettinson]

While I am not too fond of rerunning the new lv90 dungeon due to the undyable reused glam (aside some class changes, the Maiming seems to be more appropriate to Reaper for example) i gotta say it has been a blast as a healer. Final boss seems to be killing more people than what Troia did. It has been fun!

And for healing in general, it is important to know your healing potencies abilities and the effects. If you have an idea/aware of the amount of damage something is going to do then heal/mitigate. Some healers take the advice of leaving everyone at death's door health and forget that not all classes share the same defense/hp or some attacks take more or are fixed.

[Anarnee]

STORY TIME again. Was level leveling my alts Black mage and got Xelphatol for 50/60/70/80 roulette. The tank was pulling at a snails pace. They would multiple, but like wait for stuff to be half dead before moving to the next group.

Nothing infuriates me more than people that pull like that.

So me and the White mage start running ahead and waiting for this tank before the next pack.

At the end the tank and the other DPS leave immediately.

And as I am leaving the the healer manages to type out "only fast thing that tank did was leave" I feel so bad cause I was leaving as they said it and I hope they see this one day and feel seen cause YES THEY DROVE ME NUTS TOO. Thank you White mage you were amazing.

And going back to this post real fast. Does it create a ton of extra spiky damage for the healers to take care of, or it kinda whatever at this point? That trial pops up so seldomly for me these days and I always just run around popping bubbles, but if I can just stand in place doing my thing, sweet!

Hiya, yes you want to pop the correct bubbles for sure BUT there are two types of red bubbles. One of them is the one that you want to pop, the other is the one that spawns the sprites. You can tell the ones that have the sprites in them by their duller look. The sprites are not that annoying to deal with, but you can just ignore those and not have to deal with them! The other red bubbles and the black ones are important to get though. I've seen some parties get pretty close to wiping by letting a lot get by.

The amount of time I need to tell sprouts & veteran players alike in that trial to -only- let tank soak the meteor alone is baffling. Even then sometimes there are still *good willed* dps that attempts to assist in the endeavor... only to learn (or not) it the hard way...

For some reason those tower marker registers as "soak the damage together!!"-marker to a good number of players.

RIGHT. I had just typed in ONLY TANKS TAKE THE METEORS. And then the craft mentor healer said that I wanted to scream.