Let's DF Castrum to Finish Story!

[Evandis]

How dare anyone do such a thing and ruin your speed run that you decided to DF!?


Speed runs are things you should be doing with your FC, not random DF parties. If your FC cannot do them for you than your FC is bad...or they think you are bad and you should feel bad.

What triggers this post? I just dinged 50 last night. Just finished my Paladin 50 quest and decided to finish the story. I DF, solo and get into a group where a couple of the players have decided that this is going to be a speed run. They start making statements like "tanks need to know this dungeon inside and out." I politely point out that I am doing this for the first time for story clear. Well that started the negative comments from them.

They just started running off. So I followed. Then they stood there waiting for me to do something, so I pull the closest mobs. Then they yell at me for pulling mobs we didn't have to fight. Okay. Thanks for telling me that after the fact.

Next they want me to go aggro some mobs and run them to the cannons. Okay. I did that and apparently ran them too close. I was suppose to know that a mob I have never fought before used a giant cleaving ability.

They tell me to tank in the left corner. They don't tell me if that is left from the way they are facing or the way I am facing and then get all pissy when I ask for clarification.

They tell me to grab the adds that pop on the right side and run them to the middle. So I flash the adds and start running, only for them to start killing them right where they stand and complain about me losing aggro.

Then they tell me to tank the final boss in the middle. I shield lob pull it, provoke and flash and am about to do my Savage to Rage combo to start building hate and they tier 3 limit break it and complain that I lost hate at the beginning of the fight.

I hate this community. It is absolutely deplorable. I use to think the people saying that FFXI community was so much better than this were just people stuck in their ways. Now I am starting to agree with them.

/rant

To any new players who get into a DF instance with me...I will never do this to you.

[Livilda]

Are you secretly me? I personally plan to troll every wannabe speedrunner I find in the Duty Finder, as I know it's going to be patched eventually anyway.

[dragonblade369]

Are you the same Paladin who suggested that STR is a better stat than VIT for stat allocation?

To the point of the thread: I agree with you. DF should let people enjoy their story.

[Mythrella]

Let's not.

Unfortunately, there's a reason it's named the Doodie Finder.

♥

[Evandis]

Are you the same Paladin who suggested that STR is a better stat than VIT for stat allocation?

To the point of the thread: I agree with you. DF should let people enjoy their story.

That would be countless of Paladins. So that doesn't really narrow anything down?

[Psyotix]

Well... The problem is everyone complained about the speed runs in AK so much that they decided to not only to break the exploit but to increase the amount of trash pulls. Making it much slower to gain tomes, and making CM - a story dungeon the fastest possible way to farm Philo. So instead of complaining about the speed runners ask why did SE make it this way. Not only that AK was only a 4 man which allowed those of us to create a group for speed running much easier.

Besides that point I typically take a group of 4 with me to CM to speed run and we will run it and leave anyone behind without complaining or raging or even saying anything to them at all. If they want to watch cut scenes fine, just don't complain when your locked out of a fight or you miss cut scenes because your still watching another when we pop the next cut scene.

BTW as a Tank its your choice if you want to speed run or not. Unless your off tanking then your pretty much just a DPS in CM.

[Evandis]

Well... The problem is everyone complained about the speed runs in AK so much that they decided to not only to break the exploit but to increase the amount of trash pulls.

You are missing the point. I do not have a problem with people doing speed runs. I have a problem with them complaining and not guiding people doing the dungeon for the first time and expecting them to just know how to do a speed run. I can watch the CS later, which is what I did.

[Lethaltyrant]

I say us pld should stick together in the fact they cant complete the run without us lol so we are calling the shots or they are going to die lololol and if they dont like it go sit in duty finder another hour trying to find another tank because apparently thats how long it takes for most ppl to find one

[Lemon8or]

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Unfortunately, Leviathan is in the same group with Faerie. I sure hope I never run into your group then.

[Mazley]

Ya I will be new to that Dungeon very soon. Guess what I ain't rushing and if you don't like it leave and go wait for another hour for all I care.