Wobblegong

Speaking of unenthusiastic Hullbreaker HM pugs.... I got saucy the other day and Ex rou solo-queued as DPS. (SMN, my well-geared/practiced main, because I had a shred of self-preservation instinct remaining.) My logic was, I believe in our savior Quelling Strikes and there's an ilvl minimum on the roulette, the pugs will be fine! Zone in, buffs up, alright first pull! Aaaaand I pull aggro 10 seconds in. Ok... run it back to the tank, and keep doing that as I pull another thing then the first thing again and on and on. But eventually the pull was done. Check the tank's buff bar, oops, no stance! But they turned it on now, everything will be fine. Next pull: I pull again. The healer also pulls aggro. (The healer was a SCH.) By around pull 3 or 4 I was so flummoxed that I turned ye olde parsere on just because... what else could I do to get answers? The tank was running at the mobs! And they had gear equal to mine! What even! Painful story short, I was 46% of the party's damage that run. The SCH was another 20%. You will note that that leaves about 34%! This was split evenly between the PLD tank and the DRG, with the PLD doing slightly more. My only regret... besides the obvious ones... is that the healer booked it the moment Mistbeard cried uncle and I didn't comm them in time. Thank you, strange healer, wherever you are... ACN bros4lyfe.

Aaaand looks like I found someone so closing the thread! Thanks everyone, I hope to see you in game! o/

ICly: clerk seeks teacher for Conjury training, possibly some other non-magic healing skills. Not having to spend tons of time in the Shroud would be a bonus but not critical. OOC: paper-pusher and numbers nerd who's great with Arcanistry is dissatisfied, figures learning Conjury would solve many of her problems. Little does she know she's going to be terrible at it! This is the sort of thing that could be NPC'd easily enough but I do so love excuses to interact with new people. I'm looking for a Conjury teacher (could be a White Mage, could just be a CNJ ICly, whatever) who'd be down with helping my otherwise-capable roe lady discover that she sucks at this kind of magic but go forward with learning as much as she can anyways. This would probably be a somewhat long-term affair featuring a lot of Failing But Not Giving Up with an end goal of poor-to-middling Conjury skills on Keimahl's part. It's worth noting that she's not really an adventurer; she has a bit of an adventurous streak and she's made decent money taking out wayward wildlife, but at the end of the day she's not as brave or violence-minded as you need to be to really get anywhere as an Eorzean sell-sword. (Boy can she take inventories and balance your books though.) My schedule looks like: weekday afternoon & evening Eastern US time wide open (hello evening Euro friends!), weekends usually no good. Other notes: I'm happy to hand over as much or as little of the story (beyond the core milestones for my character) as you'd like! Want me to do all the work and DM(/GM/ST/pick your abbreviation) most of it? Can do. Want me to figure out the boring details in between exhibitions of your Conjury master being awesome? Also works. Got a story you want to tell and this would braid in nicely? That too! Only thing I insist on is plenty of OOC communication to make sure everyone's having a good time.