Adventures of Divala Rose @divala-xiv - Tumblr Blog

Forcing everyone to log off for maintenance on Christmas Eve must be a conspiracy from Big Santa to get folks to go to bed early.

It's extra sus because of how early they shut down. Santa has always been anti-internet shopping during "his season" and now he's threatening our ability to play video games too?

What's next Santa? No streaming tv and movies?! NO INTERNET?

#christmas #starlight celebration #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv

Duty Finder Pet Peeves: Volume 2

Healers Being Stinkers: But Not for What You Think, Chapter One

One of the healers in my party running Dun Scaith asked where to find "Highland Mineral Water" and one person threw out a meme-y answer and I decided to use my handy dandy second screen to look it up between fights. "Highland Mineral Water" doesn't exist in the ffxiv database site so the conversation went thus:

Me: 90% sure that's not a thing. Them: tell that to my GC turn in list Me: Are you sure it didn't ask for highland spring water? Them: Same thing

It was at this point I knew they were not going to admit that they were wrong because they had said they looked for it in the gathering log and couldn't find it.

Me: It's not the same thing if you are trying to find it in your gathering log though Them: I was looking it up manually, I don't use the search bar

At this point I knew I was 100% correct and just dropped a "Well… if it IS highland spring water that is in Il Mheg next to urianger's house." because I was not gonna push the "ADMIT IT" thing but also wanted to take the highroad of providing the help initially asked for. They never spoke in the chat again.

Why ask for help then not be willing to admit the help was actually helpful because you made a minor -extremely understandable- mistake? Probably the same reason they don't use the search bar.

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #tales from the duty finder #daily roulettes #alliance raids #dun scaith

Pure insanity

Got the Meso Terminal in my roulettes today. We got to the second boss, which is actually four bosses that isolate the players in the party from each other, (and is usually a struggle fight for me) everyone in the party died except me. Which means there were still four bosses to kill but they were thankfully partially dead because everyone was slappin' em until they couldn't due to untimely deaths.

I managed to win the fight. The fight I usually struggle to handle just one of the four dudes. I offer credit to the white mage for announcing they died so I knew I needed to be more mindful of my own heath, while using my self heals and buff/debuff skills more. If I didn't know I didn't have a healer to keep me going and possibly raise me I would have probably not been as careful with my health and deploying my full range of skills.

Every now and then something totally wild happens when I am playing games and I get really sad after the fact that I wasn't recording my screen because I would love to watch a replay without worrying about staying alive while it's all happening. lmao

Also having proof beyond the chat logs would always be nice. I feel like retelling this kind of story ends up sounding like I am trying to be all "I'm amazing hurrdurr gimmie attention" when for me it's more so I can remember the event better in the future and just have a written testimony of pulling some magic out of my ass. I am probably more surprised by my lack of death in this instance than the rest of my party because I always go in assuming I'm gonna biff every fight and end up dead. It's a way to remind myself that I'm not always a dumpster fire in games.

Which is part of why I made this specific tumblr. So I can put into writing my memories, and my rants about a game I love and am constantly judging myself and my skills at playing. I don't expect people to care about my shenanigans, but I enjoy writing about things that I find joy in, so I'm not gonna stop myself just because even I feel like some of the situations are borderline unbelievable.

Anyway, keep clobbering the bad guys and have a great day. How do I end a post? uhhhh....

BYEEEEE

#final fantasy 14 #sometimes ya gotta buckle down and kick some ass #because of you die on the last monster of a long fight you tried to solo to the end #ya gonna look silly #and we all hate when we look silly #i still can't believe i pulled that off #i also took a tank buster to the face as a SAM once #today's feat was more impressive to myself tho #ffxiv

Daily Roulette Pet-Peeves: Volume 1

Tanks Being Derps, Chapter 2

I am currently doing meditative breathing right now from the tank (another paladin btw) I just ran Fell Court of Troia with.

The First Boss - is essentially a mob of the same lil'guys that the tank needs to keep in one pile while avoiding AOE's from more lil'guys who will then join the fight. The first major group that joins in has line AOEs that form and hourglass shape across the whole arena. Being dead center of the arena for this attack will kill you. Any and all of you will die if you stay in the middle.

Guess where the Paladin stayed. Guess who died.... Now guess who ended up having to tank all those little shits and drag them to a far part of the arena while the healer had to raise the pally, who I am not even sure if he knew he was dead because after the healer cast raise the dead tank had a big delay before he accepted it and got up.

That was me. The Samurai. I am so glad I almost always go into my roulettes as a samurai because I know my skill set and I can generally handle myself and stay alive while a pile of monsters are trying to eat me after they decide the tank being dead made them no fun anymore.

I know the roulettes are mostly used by people who are leveling alternative classes, so a lot of them my not know the skills they have available to them. Especially when the roulette is one that can throw you into lower level content. HOWEVER Fell Court of Troia is an end-game dungeon from Endwalker, so it is old content and anyone who is entering it should know by then that you don't stand in stacked AOEs let alone one that's stack has several layers to it. It's telegraphed long enough they could have taken the like four steps their character would have needed to get out of that shit. So they died, I did emergency tanking, other DPS cheered for me after the fight, and I replied with a "\o/" in chat because I suck at multitasking. Then we continued forward... One. Mob. At. A. Time.

This tank was not pulling wall to wall and while I am sure the healer could have handled it if the tank was paying any attention to what they were standing in... him grabbing the mobs slowly was probably one of the best decisions I was aware of him making. And I will fully admit that when I am DPS I don't pay attention to anyone else's cast bars, attacks, use of mitigations, so he may have been hitting all the right buttons, but I have no actual awareness of if they were or not. Second Boss - was less of a mess, but that's probably because of it being a single entity and had no ads to try to juggle either. Tank did die once, to the first set of Beatific Scorn aoes. So the tank buster that came immediately after was dropped on me. Again, glad I know my skill set and knew the tank was probably gonna be taking naps in every boss fight so I very firmly held onto my Feint and Tengentsu defensive options for when I inevitably was gonna need to eat a tank buster, and also had Second Wind and Bloodbath healing options available if I needed them. Bloodbath is less valuable against a single opponent but s still better than nothing. Luckily our healer was a Scholar and they were doing great with mitigating the damage the party was taking.

Just before the final boss the second DPS said something like "Thank you guys, this one always confuses me" referring to the dungeon as a whole so I stopped moving long enough to say "You're doing great anyway!" because they were doing pretty good, I hadn't noticed them die, they were actively trying to dodge stuff even if they didn't manage to in time, the effort was obviously there, so that's good enough for me. they then said "Only cuz I'm following your lead" and that make me internally be like "d'awww"

The Final Boss - was a little spicy for everyone for various reasons, but again the only one who kicked the bucket was the tank and it was right when all the necoserf ads were summoned into to the fight. This time bloodbath would have been very helpful coupled with my own AOEs, because there were eight of those stinkers, but the healer was definitely on point by now and I didn't need to heal through them almost at all. Earlier in the fight the other DPS got pushed into sludge and I timed my own running away from an AOE very poorly twice. Healer was healin' like a boss, they'd aced the whole dungeon tbh. Dungeon ended, healer and tank said gg tyfp and left. Other DPS and I cheered for each other, traded a few celebratory emotes and parted ways via the exit.

I then parked my self in my game house and spent waaay too long typing up this post.

#ffxiv #duty roulette #tales from the duty finder #ranting about tanks #retelling these encounters is good for my mental health #you can't convince me otherwise