Duty Finder Facts

[arus2001]

My bigger concern is dungeon drops felt a bit too sparse, which could then contribute to that frustration of DDs waiting longer in line when they do a dungeon just to have nothing drop for them. Friend of mine did a lot more dungeons than I did as a tank and among those he said he never once saw a tank helmet drop. Of the few I did, I managed 2 mage pieces on Need while getting 3 DoW on Greed. Dunno if there's gear for every slot since I haven't scoured the DATs, but I suspect I'd have to go at it a while just to complete a tank, melee, and mage set for the 20-30 push.

[Lucavi]

This problem happens in every game, but I feel like in this game it's made a lot worse by the 1tank 1healer 2dd party setup.

Oh no doubt. I get that Arc's are probably going to want to DPS and all, but still, allowing them to choose a role would have been for the best. Sure, it could be abused: some douche Arc could easily que as healer for a fast queue then refuse, but this is the alternative.

[Spider-Dan]

Main reason for this is that you're basically in a inter-server limbo, as in the OP. I don't think the game would really know what to do if you tried whispering Seph Iroth (yourserver) while you were instance-partying with Seph Iroth (anotherserver). But that's speculative on my part.

Yoshi's current "explanation" is that the tell restriction in DF instances is to prevent griefing.

Oh no doubt. I get that Arc's are probably going to want to DPS and all, but still, allowing them to choose a role would have been for the best. Sure, it could be abused: some douche Arc could easily que as healer for a fast queue then refuse, but this is the alternative.

It would be nice if people would stop referring to "arc" when they don't mean "archer." Especially people who have been talking about archers for the last 3 years.

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Personally, I see no reason why ACN (one of the two jobs with a native healing spell) is not slotted as healer from jump. Furthermore, they should add an option where you can pick your desired class for dungeon "Need" (and have the default option be a separate selection for your current class). If I want to go into dungeons as 50ARC but lot need as my 15ACN, why can't I? (There should also be a level-check on your selected Need class, so you may not Need on gear that you cannot equip.)

Finally, the best thing I've taken from this thread is: if you want to DF as DPS, make a party with a friend as tank or healer. Instant line-jump!

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Acn really can't heal all that well with just physick. I was doing halatali when our whm dc'd at the first boss(lol like we'll get a replacement) so we went for it me being acn. I healed the mrd tank and had topaz out to help tank and it wasn't too bad. Even threw in some dots now and then and actually needed to use aetherflow. However when we got passed that part we got to a group of two mantis and a snake and I simply couldn't keep up with healing even with topaz helping to tank(and this is just with spamming physick and the hot for carby). If they would have given acn a hot cure ability in addition to physick I think we would have been ok for a healer.

[DeathbySnoosnoo]

found it annoying that the coffers without gear just the sellable alg pieces would just go to whoever opened the coffer, not split up or go to loot pool, led to people bum rushing coffers to open them. also that you can't need a piece of gear if you can't currently equip it on the job your playing, sucks. other than that they were lots of fun.

[Ratatapa]

I'm shocked Rata did not create this thread

Duty Finder has worked well for me since P3.

I just wasn't fast enough

[Tokitoki]

Physician suffers because ACN naturally had a lower MND stat. Even increasing it through the stat points you get my heals were about half they were on CNJ.

[Raldo]

found it annoying that the coffers without gear just the sellable alg pieces would just go to whoever opened the coffer, not split up or go to loot pool, led to people bum rushing coffers to open them. also that you can't need a piece of gear if you can't currently equip it on the job your playing, sucks. other than that they were lots of fun.

This flies in the face of the way all the betas have functioned up until this point. I find this very hard to believe. I got the 3102 before I could do a dungeon, so could someone confirm that this is incorrect?

[Tokitoki]

found it annoying that the coffers without gear just the sellable alg pieces would just go to whoever opened the coffer, not split up or go to loot pool, led to people bum rushing coffers to open them. also that you can't need a piece of gear if you can't currently equip it on the job your playing, sucks. other than that they were lots of fun.

Yeah that's not true. They are automatically and randomly split between the party members.

[DeathbySnoosnoo]

Yeah that's not true. They are automatically and randomly split between the party members.

Maybe they were ,i didn't check my personal inventory on it, but the text that pops up definitely says person who opened coffer get 4 pieces, and doesn't mention anyone else. so maybe its just misleading text?

[Tokitoki]

Maybe they were ,i didn't check my personal inventory on it, but the text that pops up definitely says person who opened coffer get 4 pieces, and doesn't mention anyone else. so maybe its just misleading text?

It says who gets what. Maybe you only noticed when the person you thought opened also received an item. I received things from Phase 1 through this weekend without opening coffers and it says as much in the chat log.

[Raldo]

It should be completely random and look something like this:

Person One obtains 4 Allagan Tinpieces.
Person Three obtains 2 Allagan Tinpieces.
Person One obtains 2 Allagan Tinpieces.
Person Four obtains 3 Allagan Tinpieces.

It's possible that the person that opened it randomly obtained everything, but that should be pretty rare.

[Arelian]

You're just mistaken. I've opened a lot of the chests and the 4 pieces frequently went to someone else. The chests also have a chance to drop a piece of armor from that dungeon set, so they're worth going out of your way for.

[Ratatapa]

They are not split, in Tamtara yesterday someone opened a chest I got Tinpiece but not my friend(who was not the one who opened the chest)

[DeathbySnoosnoo]

every time, whoever opened it, the text said got all the pieces, every time, i ran several dutys with my LS mates we noticed and discussed it. Now like i said i didn't check my inventory before and after(so it could just be a text thing) but i can say 100% that whoever opened it the text said the got all the pieces.

edit: we ended up taking turns opening them after the 3rd or forth dungeon to accommodate it.

[Tokitoki]

They are not split, in Tamtara yesterday someone opened a chest I got Tinpiece but not my friend(who was not the one who opened the chest)

The are randomly given to party members... better?

[gaogaostegosaurus]

every time, whoever opened it, the text said got all the pieces, every time, i ran several dutys with my LS mates we noticed and discussed it. Now like i said i didn't check my inventory before and after(so it could just be a text thing) but i can say 100% that whoever opened it the text said the got all the pieces.

edit: we ended up taking turns opening them after the 3rd or forth dungeon to accommodate it.

Oh god, I hope I don't end up in a group like this.
"wtf it's not your turn to open"

[Maaglin]

Is it not possible to set loot options?

[Ratatapa]

Is it not possible to set loot options?

No

[gaogaostegosaurus]

Not as far as I know, but I was making a comment on how it's not necessary. Gear is thrown into the lot pool for everyone to lot as you probably know, and I dunno why people are under the impression that who opens it has anything to do with who gets the other items.