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Charity322
Charity322

Ah right. Didn't think of that. I'll change it.

Charity322
Charity322

I've done it regularly in POTD. But that's fine, because whatever you wear doesn't have any effect.

Mermaid
Mermaid

Dzemael Darkhold is the most bipolar dungeon in this game. Before the first boss you can pull as much as you want, stand in the purple light, and take little damage. It's a tank's dream. After the fir

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FreelanceWizard

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The fun thing about the WP fight? The totem's change there effect each time you fight him.

 

That was a bit funny for us, since we were like, "Okay, green is heavy, blue is toad, red is fire resist down -- WTF how did I get turned into a toad again?" :) Thankfully, for us, purple remained Damage Up both times, so that made the key mechanic easier to deal with.

 

I love going in blind. Figuring out the fights, guessing what the mechanics are from how the mob moves and looks, the "OMG HOLY CRAP" moment when you see a 90 degree cone or "150 seconds until Crash Down"... I love those moments. :)

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Melkire

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G'raha Tia is the most awfully-written, unbelievable fan-fiction tier snowflake character. I want him to die.

 

Wholeheartedly agreed.

 

"I'm a rare Miqo'te male! I'm mixed breed! I'm a victim of bigotry! I'm awesome but you'll only be informed that I'm awesome! Cid & co. love me!"

 

 

"I'm an heir to the Allagan legacy courtesy of this SHARINGAN special eye of mine!"

 

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Kellach Woods

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G'raha Tia is the most awfully-written, unbelievable fan-fiction tier snowflake character. I want him to die.

 

Honestly, I know that he's supposed to replace Desh but Desh wasn't that fucking annoying...

 

Also, Desh sacced himself (or not really in the 3D version) to keep the floating continent floating. What's G'raha done other than whine and have heterochromatic eyes?

 

* * *

 

Hate it when my computer dies while I'm writing a massive personal loredump and I end up losing everything :(

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Duskwright

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Want to hear something really depressing and annoying? Try having being in a "Relationship" with a guy that ends up abusing you, and you have no way to talk to any of your friends because the FC youre in, has extremely toxic members always flooding the Voice Chat in which wards you away from the Voice Chat.. for Two Whole Months before working up the courage to leave said FC, then having the Guild Leaders get mad at you for leaving because they keep toxic members. /cries

 

There's more and more to this story, but I'm not gonna get to into it. Just.. ugh. my terrible tale. =w=;

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Spethah

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Being in the situation where you want to get the Hussar and Darklight (Dragoon) set, with the Divine Wisdom head piece to boot, for RP reasons and shit happens.

 

1. The items never drop. 

 

2. The queue times for dps for me is around 20-30 minutes a time.

 

3. I can't find ANYONE that wants to help me get these things so I can RP.

 

It's frustrating me to no end that I can't just get a group and get this over and done with because it's old crappy dungeons and no one wants that.

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Perth

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Being in the situation where you want to get the Hussar and Darklight (Dragoon) set, with the Divine Wisdom head piece to boot, for RP reasons and shit happens.

 

1. The items never drop. 

 

2. The queue times for dps for me is around 20-30 minutes a time.

 

3. I can't find ANYONE that wants to help me get these things so I can RP.

 

It's frustrating me to no end that I can't just get a group and get this over and done with because it's old crappy dungeons and no one wants that.

 

Actually, I have a 50 WHM I can help you on! Only problem is I'm generally quite busy on weekends, but if you catch me online and not occupied (Atoli Taira) I can totally help drag you through queues!

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Steel Wolf

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Being in the situation where you want to get the Hussar and Darklight (Dragoon) set, with the Divine Wisdom head piece to boot, for RP reasons and shit happens.

 

1. The items never drop. 

 

2. The queue times for dps for me is around 20-30 minutes a time.

 

3. I can't find ANYONE that wants to help me get these things so I can RP.

 

It's frustrating me to no end that I can't just get a group and get this over and done with because it's old crappy dungeons and no one wants that.

 

Actually, I have a 50 WHM I can help you on! Only problem is I'm generally quite busy on weekends, but if you catch me online and not occupied (Atoli Taira) I can totally help drag you through queues!

 

I'm not really clear on where these items drop, but if you need a tanker count me in!

 

Minor gripe here...and more a personal problem than anything with people I've played with...but I hate that I'm only a couple hundred tomes away from my next bit of Soldiery kit and I'm just TOO TIRED to do just TWO MEASLY LITTLE RUNS! OMG IT'S JUST A LOW ROULETTE AND A WOD RUN PLEASE BODY LET ME DO EEEET!! ><

 

...I at least did have enough Poetics to buy a new belt though. :3 But STILL!

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Kellach Woods

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Okay, so. New patch, people run new dungeons and don't know the mechanics - That's fine, whatever, so long as we're all on the same page I can eat a repair bill or two or a thousand.

 

However, sometimes, you just wanna bill expanses to arguably the most infuriating healer alive.

 

First off, he complains that everyone is new to the instance. In Day 2.

 

Second, he complains that I'm not doing big enough pulls. In a blind run.

 

Third, when I oblige him, he's too busy doing over 9000 Holy to actually, y'know, HEAL ME when we have a BLM so he's not the only source of AoE. Oh, and he's Holying out of Cleric Stance when you can turn that shit off off GCD.

 

Fourth, we get to the first fight "uh I forget his mechanics"

 

Fifth, we get to the second fight "uh I forget his mechanics guess they're not important" (Also, shoutouts to the BLM and NIN who walked through the correct totem twice without realizing they got a damage up, even after I called it out in chat, and then proceeded to ignore EVERY. SINGLE. DAMAGE. BUFF.)

 

Sixth, we get to the last boss, SOMEHOW, and our healer smoking some of that dank somnus FINALLY REMEMBERS A MECHANIC. "Oh, he's got a doom mechanic." Yes, and? We have like, 3 different Doom mechanics in the game prior to this patch. "you have to tank him out of standards" ok, but idols give him a tethered buff, what are you going to do about it. Nothing? Oh, how fucking swell.

 

We did not deserve that WPHM kill, and the best part? I GOT ALL OF JACK AND SHIT FOR THIS DUNGEON! EVEN THOUGH I NEVER ROLLED ANYTHING UNDER 70.

 

* * *

 

Fortunately I then helped out with a Stone Vigil story, which I'm kind of grateful that people didn't complain about my WHMing since I don't do that nearly enough.

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Melodia

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Want to hear something really depressing and annoying? Try having being in a "Relationship" with a guy that ends up abusing you, and you have no way to talk to any of your friends because the FC youre in, has extremely toxic members always flooding the Voice Chat in which wards you away from the Voice Chat.. for Two Whole Months before working up the courage to leave said FC, then having the Guild Leaders get mad at you for leaving because they keep toxic members. /cries

 

There's more and more to this story, but I'm not gonna get to into it. Just.. ugh. my terrible tale. =w=;

*hugs* :(

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Steel Wolf

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Want to hear something really depressing and annoying? Try having being in a "Relationship" with a guy that ends up abusing you, and you have no way to talk to any of your friends because the FC youre in, has extremely toxic members always flooding the Voice Chat in which wards you away from the Voice Chat.. for Two Whole Months before working up the courage to leave said FC, then having the Guild Leaders get mad at you for leaving because they keep toxic members. /cries

 

There's more and more to this story, but I'm not gonna get to into it. Just.. ugh. my terrible tale. =w=;

*hugs* :(

 

 

*joins Mel in the huggy pile* :c

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Spethah

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Tries to do FATEs for Animus, no one holds for 20 seconds despite me pleading and even willing to PAY them for it. Repeat that 5 times.

 

The gear that does drop gets stolen by a dragoon thaT SAID HE WOULD PASS ON IT AND THEN LEAVES THE DUNGEON WITH A "HUE".

 

Also those people in ST that have quite a few new people yet expect them to work perfectly like they've done this hundreds of times before.

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Majidae

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Been doing the early three dungeons over and over to level my alt, who's a healer. Since I'd taken such a long break, I happened to forget the trials of being a healer in this game, and thus, have encountered the full spectrum of shitty tanks.

 

Best ones:

 

- Refused to acknowledge me and the other two DPS, who were drawing aggro more often then he was, up until we wiped on the final boss of Sastasha. At this point he demanded to know why I hadn't 'been healing more'. I replied that when I'm focusing on trying to heal the whole damn party because of patchy aggro, it's hard to keep anybody's health at full or near it. He then said that I should 'take more action to protect myself then'. So we vote kicked him from the party. Just me taking action. :)

 

- Was doing hunts on a separate account and would periodically ask us to wait for minutes at a time while he did them. Also asked if I was a girl, then refused to believe my answer because I was playing a male Elezen, and apparently women only play Miqo'te. News to me?

 

- Ran straight ahead as soon as the cut scene was over and into the 'wall', and continued to do so until we booted him. Poorly coded bot, maybe?

 

I'd kind of hoped the dungeons had gotten better with time but, haha, apparently not?

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Dravus

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PVP QUEUES. WTF IS THIS SE I'M A TANK I DON'T SIT IN QUEUES

 

Following on from PvP...

 

PvP as a melee DPS class is very frustrating. Ranged classes have a pretty major advantage and so far I've spent most of my time just standing next to allied healers to defend them against anybody that tries to assault them.

 

I can't wait for the Machinist class so I can join the ranks of the ranged DPS!

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Aysun

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This has been mentioned before iirc, but...

 

Those bards that think Shield Lob is sufficient threat to be able to just go ape shit on the mob as I'm still moving to grab the second (and sometimes third) group for the AoE fun....

 

Those tanks that want me to wait until they shield lob+Flash+combo before I touch the mobs. :(

 

Nah really those bards that rip hate off you doing that are just dumb. I pop all my CDs immediately when I go, but the way I weave it with normal attacks and you know, QUELLING STRIKES, I usually don't rip unless the tank isn't actively trying to hold.

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