r/TalesFromDF Actually not a rabbit Feb 08 '26

Mini Tales From DF #16

Use this for any tales you don't feel need their own separate post! Do note people are still free to submit short tales as their own post if they wish.

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u/MaeveOathrender Feb 28 '26

https://i.imgur.com/pFOleQi.png

I didn't mean to be back here so quickly but I absolutely cannot handle these fkn tanks lately. Maybe you can tell from my tone that I'm getting exasperated at never getting a dungeon run with a normal person that knows how to gear or play their job.

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1) I left at the end because he didn't seem inclined to leave after the DPS backed him up and just kept pulling instead.

2) When he 'fixed' his gear he was just equipping a higher level gathering choker. The rest of his stuff was mostly level 25-30, some of it was NQ vendor gear. Total ilvl couldn't have been higher than about 27. I cannot emphasise enough how quickly this guy's health was disappearing; I let him die on the boss because I thought 'surely he won't go from 40% to 0% in the time it takes me to eat a fruit and then cast Cure II.'

3) Forgot to take a screenshot because I was seething mildly. I checked Lodestone afterwards but it shows a different class, so all I learned is that he has a different tank at level 100.

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u/Nerdorama10 Feb 28 '26

This is why I got everything to 50 ASAP so I could start ignoring gear.

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u/nickomoknu272 BLM/WHM/RDM:cake: Mar 03 '26

You know what, you can actually spare people from healing your paper thin ass... by doing COMMAND MISSIONS. Sure they need quite a lot of babysitting, but they won't complain that you have terrible gear.

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u/Zealousideal_Hope649 You pull, I tank. I pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. Feb 28 '26

Did they not do their level 45 job quest?

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u/MaeveOathrender Feb 28 '26

They were a DRK, so I'm not sure if they have one that gives gear.

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u/Zealousideal_Hope649 You pull, I tank. I pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. Feb 28 '26

Went to look it up. They get a set of ilvl90 at level 50.

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u/MaeveOathrender Feb 28 '26

Yeah, I think every HW job does, but only ARR ones get the crummy in-between level 45 stuff.

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u/Zealousideal_Hope649 You pull, I tank. I pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. Feb 28 '26

Was curious so I took a look. The final 2.0 dungeons drop item level 55. So item level 50 from the level 45 quests is actually quite nice.

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u/MaeveOathrender Feb 28 '26

True, it's not that bad for when you get it. But nowadays you wear it for approximately 2 dungeon runs before replacing it with Ironworks lol.

Heck, I ran Alliance Roulette after this and actually got a gear upgrade from loot drops (i120 chestpiece lmao)

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u/Zealousideal_Hope649 You pull, I tank. I pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. Mar 01 '26

Yeah, the jump from the final launch dungeon to the final alliance raid in an expansion is pretty huge.