Drinking at Druthers

Casual Gamer and RPer. Plays: Cindrelle Alambertel (Balmung) Rohesia Thorneyes (Balmung)

[saggitariusarrow-deactivated201]

dps: THE TANK IS DYING.

me, a veteran healer:

[fuckyouasshole123-deactivated20]

dps: THE TANK IS DYING

me, a veteran tank:

[questir-a]

tank: let me die

me, a veteran dps:

[stalwart-shield]

healer: the dps are dead and I’m not raising them again

me, a veteran tank:

[burning-yaungol]

Healers and Tanks: Dead

Boss: Still alive

Me, a Veteran DPS:

[gelmorra]

On the big pulls thing-

Especially right now, when a larger proportion of players will be new and at or below intended ilvl, if ANY party member doesn’t feel up to it, default to small pulls.

As a healer, I NEED to know whether the DPS can handle a large pull before I can make a real judgement on whether I can, because I need to know how long I’m going to be called to maintain sustained large amounts of healing. Especially if we’re going to be AOEing things and the damage isn’t going to just drop off over time as things die quickly one by one.

Yes, you should absolutely be asking the healer if they think they can handle big pulls, and they absolutely should have the power to veto them. But DPS should have the same veto power.

A lot of the posts I’ve seen on this seem to cast DPS players as universally all wanting huge pulls fast, and many say that the DPS shouldn’t get any say in whether a speedrun happens as a result. I understand the frustration that can lead to the former and while I disagree and thing it’s an unfair characterisation it’s largely harmless. But the latter isn’t and going in with the mindset that DPS are always going to want/be capable of a speedrun is only going to lead to more uncomfortable dungeon runs.

No one player should get to decide whether a speedrun happens but any one player should get to veto one. A quick run isn’t worth making one person stressed and uncomfortable for 20 minutes, and that’s assuming that the run can still BE quick and successful with ¼ of the party not on board.

[redbellybandit]

Yes, this.

I was running Tam Tara recently, after getting back into the game maybe a month ago. I was playing as tank, which I haven’t done much. I was also playing with two DPS friends who were new to the game, including one who had only done one dungeon before. The healer friends in that group couldn’t join us, so we queued up.

The healer we got proceeded to blast through the dungeon as fast as they could get away with, running ahead before we’d finished the last mob, and stealing nearly every pull from me, letting my health drop, jumping into dungeons, and generally making the run a terrible experience for the rest of us even after the obvious notice that all three of us were low levels and pretty new to the game. If the three of us hadn’t been in discord talking around their work and commiserating, I’m pretty sure at least one of those friends wouldn’t have bothered to keep trying the game out.

We got through it just fine, in the end, but it was a scramble, not a fun learning experience.

[elixirsgelsandherbs]

Attack of the Sprouts !!

@nateharmonica 

[redbellybandit]

some more screenshot dumps, I love duskwights too much

[redbellybandit]

He looks so nice out in the sun!

Also I know it’s generic but bless this game for giving me midlevel robe options that don’t look ridiculous

[redbellybandit]

this is exactly how headbands work.

taking advantage of the free playtime to get back into xiv. I forgot how much I loved duskwights, so I just made a new one to relearn the game cause wow it has been a long time This is Ciceroix Teaurelin, he’s on cactuar.

[naihtan-deactivated20161019]

Looking for FFXIV rp’ers

Reblog if you’re a FFXIV Roleplayer! /o/

[redbellybandit]

Sometimes, to my dismay, I forget that there’s a muscle tone slider for highlander ladies. Then I do something like dress Rohesia up for the Moonfire Faire...

Oh right, she’d be totally ready to punch someone out as necessary.

[gelmorra]

Thank you for 500 followers!

It’s giveaway time!

It’s been 2 years already, hasn’t it? You’re all nerds, but I’m grateful you’ve stuck with me so long, and I’m glad for all the newer followers as well!

The prizes!

1 HQ art!

3 NQ arts!

2 FFXIV 60-day timecard codes (EU only!)

I’ll random.org some winners up at 12am brit time on 13th september.

Enter by liking (for the art prizes) or reblogging (or both, to enter twice)! If you reblog and you’re in the EU, let me know by adding a tag to that effect or mentioning it in your reblob.

(If anyone can think of a way for someone to make it clear that they’re able to use the EU timecards via like, let me know!)

This is for followers only, since it’s a way to thank my followers for sticking with me this long, sorry! But if non-followers want to signal boost, I’m not exactly going to argue.

Also, for every 50 notes this gets, I will write a HELPFUL GUIDE TO LITERALLY ANYTHING FFXIV, no matter how little I actually know about it. This will probably end badly, but it’s not like I don’t look like an idiot 90% of the time anyway. If people want to throw suggestions for topics at me by ask, I’ll choose from those. 

[yaranyarai]

bangs fists on table……………….. LET HIM DANCE

[pudgy-puk]

this question still haunts me.

[lannasroleplaymemes]

Send me an emotion and I’ll describe how my Muse expresses it non-verbally.

Indifference Anxiety Frustration Excitement Impatience Boredom Sorrow Love (specify if platonic or romantic) Confusion Lust Disgust Exhaustion Panic Fright Enthusiasm Mischief …Or any other you can think of!

[redbellybandit]

There are only three magic classes in the 2.X content. Yet, somehow, in my quest to get my CNJ to WHM, I managed to level the wrong one to 15. Go me.

[fivetail-ffxiv]

fuck off

[gelmorra]

like ACTUALLY TOO CUTE WHY IS SHE EVEN ALLOWED TO EXIST

[vergil-moved-deactivated2016071]

So I drew a thing about the Atomos minion.

[sabelrose]