beat that dead horse now! heh

[Duffman]

dead horse = Dunes parties (of course)

Dinky and I (LS members and IRL friends)
decided to level our lower jobs.
He wanted to try out RDM and I, MNK.

We get into a party with (memory don't fail me...)
two whm's, blm, and a sam.
..i think that was it anyway...
all were tarus except for the sam/hume

All were ranks 1 and 2 (no biggie just not experienced
yet.) Dinky and I show up and they are very very idle
deciding who will pull.

sam= I can't pull since I am the obvious tank.
Duffman= <hmm.> you have 30% less HP than me.
Hume SAM vs. Galka MNK/war... What makes that obvious?

(granted I was kind of a dick but I wanted to know for real.)

Later on in a fight, Our health is all going to hell.
I use provoke, boost, then <Hundred Fists>, then <Shoulder Attack>.
The goblin finally dies.

Our Hume WHM = "Ok I am back. What did I miss?"

(I cuss quite a bit here)

eventually we all just simmer down and xp for awhile.
then we all go our merry ways.


.........my 3rd time in the dunes....(it is not a charm)....



..

 

[Duffman]

hmmm. since edit doesn't work in here.

I forgot to fully thank our
"Obvious Tank"
and our
"AFK WHM"

thank you thank you for the great pt.

oh and the "Obvious Tank" left and
we were tankless (not really) but it is funny
to say.

I would also pipe in the occasional
"I'm back now" (during a fight for a joke)

ok yeah I'm a dick sometimes, but I have
a really short tolerance for stupid people.

to everyone else out there. I really am nice
and helpful a lot of the time. Please don't be
discouraged if you see me in your party.

 

[Duffman]

ooh ooh one more funny bit.

the party was concerned that we were
without a tank after the SAM left.

??? hmmm ok.
I mean I could handle it, but ok.

........................
So the get a DRK
.......................

LOL! they got the right one though.
we needed a DD not a tank.
It was just too damn wierd.

 

[Kurgon]

Most of the tank classes are fairly even at those levels in my experience but hell I'm happy if someone else wants tank.

 

[jender]

"Dinky"? heheheh - what an unfortunate name for a guy...

 

[Duffman]

i have to disagree with that statment about all tanks
the same at that level.

It was not obvious that he would tank.
I just thought to myself and /tell Dinky
"watch, I will keep and HOLD hate all day."

...and I did...

I play SAM too, just like that guy did.
I never tanked. I just subbed war incase
the tank lost hate and the mages were attacked.

early on, here is SAM "Whiff-miss, Whiff-miss, Whiff-miss."

It gets better later on. I am still waiting to get
Meditate. I love sam and think the job kix!!!
....but it is not an obvious tank...

 

[Kurgon]

If I really want to pull hate I can to. I went nuts once {Provoke}{Dodge}{Focus}{Berserk}{Boost}{Combo} and for some strange reason when the thief SATA onto the Pld I still had the hate. Now honestly this is a case of someone over "nuking" obviously but I'm just saying that defense and attack values are very similar in those levels and while one might be "better" they are all passable. I find that a lot of mages at that stage think keeping hate is easy and will just spam all kind of "cool spells that I just bought" and then wonder why they died. Many times that hate goes wrong it is people not concidering their role in the hate managment.

 

[Kurgon]

I agree though that he wasn't the "obvious" tank.

 

[Duffman]

lol cool ... glad we agree.


the whm was hilarious. He would actually
spam cure as fast as possible when I needed it
or not.

That kept me from activating <boost> at times.
I get locked up when cure animation is activated.

re: SATA and your hate
oooh yeah haha and I was really holding hate the
entire time, but once the gobbo turned, bitch-smacked
Dinky one time then went back to me.
That was pretty funny.

---------on goblins------------
you like the ones in Movopolis? Those crack me up!
(frying pan hits, and the crazy candi-stripped stick animations)

 

[OniTatsujin]

Hahahaha, Valkurm Dunes, it is fun if you think positively >D

As SAM in valkurm dunes, I kind of took up three parts of the party, I was puller/tank/dd(SAM's make pretty good DD's in dunes) I held Hate well, and also, if done right, you can make it back to camp without ANY hits on you. Plus no one else was smart enough to bring a rng'd weapon(mostly all the THF's and NIN's ??? ) and so I pulled, and I did a hell of a good job doing so. Then came to tanking, usually the war's were still wearing leather, and there were no PLD's looking for party, so I tanked, and I did really well, it wasn't so bad because of my awesome Scale Mail, hahaha..If the SAM wanted to tank he should of pulled, its easy early hate and would help tanking.

However, i would of had a Galka MNK/WAR tank over a Hume SAM/WAR, yeah, you might have the heavier armor, but your VIT and HP sucks there little man(I mean little literally, Humes need to drink their selbina milk! )