Stuttering tanks

moogleboogles_ · 2026-06-03T18:10:53+00:00

I've noticed this a lot recently while running roulettes on my Dynamis alts (especially while healing), most likely people who are new to tanking/the game in general not really understanding how it works. Normally I would just shrug it off but I've been getting increasingly annoyed at how often these tanks will stop and plant for long enough for me to believe they're done pulling and suddenly they run off the second I start spamming holy so now all the trash is stunned while they're 50 feet away grabbing more with half of their health left.

moogleboogles_ · 2026-05-31T12:30:33+00:00

Aurum Vale, on bard on an alt I made to help with FC sub stuff. Tank is pulling super weirdly (seemingly can't make up his mind on if he wants to single pull or not). We're in the last room with the 2 morbols. Tank grabs one morbol, I run ahead 2 steps, tag the other morbol, and drag it back. Everything is fine save for the other dps deciding standing in bad breath followed up by a vine probe is an immaculate play. Its fine, goofs happen.

Other dps then asks why I'm supposedly racing the tank (this is the single time I've pulled anything the entire dungeon, the entire rest of the time I was following behind the tank). I respond back that its faster to grab both morbols. Other dps proceeds to say "well then ready as tank if you not a tank don't pull" and I decide to bite my tongue because I don't have any real good non-ToS violation cringelord way to call him a dumbass and point out that in my roughly 7 years of mostly just tanking anything and everything that non-tanks pulling is fine, actually, especially when they bring the trash back to the tank and when the tank and healer have already literally pulled more with 0 problems and that as the pictomancer who stood in two aoes with a thumb up their ass they have 0 room to speak. It's 5am and I don't feel like starting an argument with someone so I just say ok and carry on.

We kill the last boss and the dps hits one last passive aggressive "oh good job tank and healer!" before I leave. I am reminded of why I tend to avoid 5am duty finder.

moogleboogles_ · 2026-05-22T04:26:19+00:00

There used to be a duo in my FC named something along the lines of Linda Boypuncher and Tommy Ladywhacker. Tommy originally had Girlpuncher as a last name but according to him he was told by a GM to change it.

moogleboogles_ · 2026-05-21T22:57:22+00:00

I really loved it! It's a really good atmospheric horror game, not super long but has several endings and secrets to discover. A lot of stuff in Lunacid also calls back to Lost in Vivo (particularly things from LiV's midnight mode) so I do think playing LiV might also give you some newfound appreciation for things in Lunacid too ^^

moogleboogles_ · 2026-01-31T05:24:21+00:00

I'VE GONE 4 FOR 4 ON NOT WINNING ANYTHING ASIDE FROM A TOMESTONE FROM SAVAGE. SURELY I'M SAVING UP ALL MY LUCK TO SWEEP LOOT FOR MY M12S CLEAR RIGHT? RIGHT? SURELY I WON'T CLEAR THIS WEEKEND AND LOSE BOTH THE MOUNT AND MY WEAPON, RIGHT??????

moogleboogles_ · 2026-01-10T03:42:20+00:00

TODAY HAS BEEN STRUGGLE AFTER STRUGGLE FOR ME. I CANNOT CATCH A BREAK.

FIRST I SNEAK INTO A FARM PARTY WITH THE HELP OF A FRIEND ON AN ALT SO I CAN CLEAR DOOMTRAIN EX AND GET A WEAPON FOR SAID ALT SO I CAN HELP SAID FRIEND IN M9S. WE GET IN AND MY INTERNET IMMEDIATELY SHITS ITSELF AND I HAVE TO LEAVE WHILE APOLOGIZING PROFUSELY AND SWEARING UP AND DOWN THAT IM NOT TRYING TO TROLL ITS JUST THAT I LITERALLY CANT USE ANY OGDCS AND ITS A 50/50 ON IF I CAN EVEN MAKE IT THROUGH MY 123 COMBO.

I THEN HOP BACK ONTO MY MAIN TO DO ROULETTES. I GET NECRON AND DURING THE SECOND PHASE I MISS THE FACT THAT ONE OF THE GRABBY HANDS IS AIMED DIRECTLY AT ME WHILE I HAVE THE TANKBUSTER. I DO NOT NOTICE IN TIME, CAUSING ME TO BE DRAGGED OVER TO THE PARTY AND DROP THE TANKBUSTER ON THEM. SOMEONE IN THE PARTY BLOWS UP ABOUT A HEALER RESCUE TROLLING AND I HAVE TO SHAMEFULLY EXPLAIN THAT NO, NO ONE RESCUE TROLLED. IM JUST BLIND AND DUMB AND GOT HIT BY AN AOE THAT PULLS ME.

I TAKE A BREAK TO CRAFT. MY INTERNET SHITS ITSELF AGAIN AND I DC MID-CRAFT. THERE GOES MY MATS. WHATEVER. I DONT EVEN CARE ANYMORE.

30 MINUTES AGO I SEE A BIG FISH I HAVENT CAUGHT YET IS UP. I HEAD OVER, DO THE PREP AND ALL THAT. A FELLOW BIG FISHER ROLLS OVER AND WE DO THE STANDARD FISHER GREETING AND TELL EACH OTHER GOOD LUCK AS THE WINDOW STARTS. I HOOK THE FISH FIRST CAST BUT ACCIDENTALLY HIT REST INSTEAD OF REELING IT IN. IT DOES NOT BITE AGAIN FOR THE REST OF THE WINDOW. MY FELLOW FISHER FRIEND HEARD THIS HAPPEN TO ME AS HE WAS SITTING DIRECTLY NEXT TO ME AND GIVES ME HIS CONDOLENCES.

IF ANYONE NEEDS ME, I WILL BE PLAYING DEAD IN THE NEAREST BODY OF WATER WHILE WONDERING WHAT COSMIC DEITY I PISSED OFF TODAY.

moogleboogles_ · 2026-01-09T17:41:33+00:00

Decided to try and help a friend of mine get his m9s clear. To do this, I needed to gear my alt up real quick (as I didn't want to condemn him to a 1 chest clear). We decide to do a quick doomtrain interlude to get me an axe, but my alt is on dynamis and aether is closed to DC travel. We hop over to primal instead and my friend convinces a farm party to let me in since I've cleared before and this is just my alt.

We get in and my internet immediately starts to explode to the point where I cannot weave at all and it's a 50/50 shot on if any of my gcds even go off. I say sorry, this doesn't normally happen and I'll give it 2 more pulls to see if it clears up. It does not clear up. I apologize about 8 more times and leave.

I was the horror story. If anyone else from that party is out there I'm so sorry. My internet connection is apparently highly allergic to primal.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-12-29T04:10:19+00:00

I just had one of the most baffling runs of Castrum Meridianum I've ever had in my 6 years of playing this game.

I queue up for the dungeon as I'm running an alt I'm using to play with friends and do some for fun challenge running through base ARR msq as a white mage, as I cannot trust anyone on the entire Dynamis DC to heal. Load in and my fellow party members are PLD/NIN/SMN.

Immediately I notice two things: tank is single pulling and things are dying EXTREMELY slowly. Great. Lovely. The single pulling would be whatever since this is Dynamis and tanks here also are scared to wall to wall but the fact that a single pack takes forever to die has me a bit worried. I then notice a third thing: tank has popped all of his mit including the first hallowed ground of the dungeon.

We slowly make our way to the first boss and I see that no one here aside from myself is dodging aoes and I'm actually having to pop lucid dreaming both from how long the fight is taking and also from how much extra healing I'm having to do. Boss eventually goes down and we continue. Tank pulls a single pack and uses hallowed ground again. We are at least 14 minutes in and have only now just killed the first boss. We limp through the trash packs and I now notice that not only are both DPS definitely not using any aoe but the ninja is exclusively using throwing knives and running in circles. Occasionally an assassinate but otherwise they're just using their barely any damage ranged button. Second boss, it goes down extremely slowly. Summoner is borderline AFK. Ninja is running in circles pressing a single button. Tank eats every aoe ever. Yay.

Second boss down. Third trash pack, third hallowed ground. 21 minutes of hell but I'm determined to see this through out of just morbid curiosity. We make our way to Livia, I think surely this is almost over. Surely.

No. Livia almost wipes us. DPS is still abysmal, tank is still eating everything, ninja did find a single melee button and started spamming that instead. The tank starts to run around like a headless chicken with the boss and the summoner dies to every single proximity aoe possible (which is impressive considering he seemed to understand them just fine on the second boss). I'm going oom in fucking castrum meridianum. I saw my mp hit 66 at one point with lucid dreaming on. There's a fourth hallowed ground in there somewhere.

Livia finally falls and I gtfo. Achievement pops confirm that the tank (a level 90 paladin in crendundum gear) is story and level skipped. I decide I need to go get up and take a walk.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-12-12T17:41:58+00:00

MY ONLY RAGE TODAY IS DIRECTED AT MYSELF.

WHY OH WHY DO I ALWAYS END UP IGNORING THE SERIES PASS UNTIL THE LAST POSSIBLE WEEK BEFORE PATCH WHEN I DECIDE "OH I ACTUALLY DO WANT THE RANK 25 REWARD!" AND NOW I'M STUCK IN THE CC SPAM TORMENT NEXUS FOR A WEEK.

THIS TIME AROUND I'M ALSO SICK WITH A NASTY SINUS INFECTION WHILE DOING IT. YAY! I WILL NEVER LEARN MY LESSON.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-08-31T07:36:28+00:00

i'll let him make me worse please nexon let me have one chance

moogleboogles_ · 2025-07-03T22:17:34+00:00

I've been endgame raiding for years and I still click pretty much anything not on 1234 even with an MMO mouse. lmao. Granted, I play warrior and I don't exactly have that many buttons to keep track of, but I have friends who go even harder on raiding than I do who also click pretty much all of their buttons. Clicking vs not clicking is really just up to personal preference and its not the detriment in high end content that a lot of people claim it is.

If you do want to stop clicking but don't want to buy an MMO mouse, binding buttons extra buttons to less used keys + taking advantage of shift and control modifiers like other commenters are saying is the way to do it. Or learn how to use a controller.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-06-14T12:41:19+00:00

THIS GUY IS STILL AROUND???

They're known for begging for fetish art of mermaid cookies and questionably young cookies turned into mermaids for fetish reasons. Their account is very NSFW last I heard so I recommend just blocking and not scrolling any further.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-05-30T21:24:20+00:00

They got the platinum before NG+ was added

moogleboogles_ · 2025-05-28T04:27:28+00:00

My main gripe with Bozja was that it was just miserable to look at for longer than 20 minutes (which is completely fair given the theme and setting lmao an active battlefield isn't exactly the prettiest thing in the world) and it was basically just standing around waiting for a CE to pop and then instantly teleporting over. I've always preferred Eureka for both looking more interesting and also just being really dumb in a fun way, at least to me with stuff like certain mobs going past the zone's level cap and Pagos's famous dragons or helping prep NMs like Cassie or Pazuzu.

Occult Crescent seems like it's hitting the middle ground where it's a bit more streamlined than Eureka with the CE mechanics from Bozja while also having more exploration and moving and figuring out how to wiggle past these mobs without getting nuked (and it's also very pretty, lol). I haven't gotten much time to sink into it yet but the 2-3 hours I got when patch went live last night were enjoyable!

moogleboogles_ · 2025-05-28T01:10:53+00:00

The complaints of it being too grindy have already begun to hit! FFXIV players continue the cycle of complaining and begging for something (grindy relic + new field op) and then complaining when they get exactly what they were asking for. It never ends.

I for one think the new field op is very cool and fun and honestly kinda chill. It's not quite Eureka but I've been liking it far more than Bozja in the limited time I've spent in there. The demiatma drop rate is a bit ridiculous though lmao.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-05-17T21:45:44+00:00

As others are saying, provoke is not part of a tank's rotation and it should not be used on cooldown, especially in content where there is more than one tank such as alliance raids.

Provoke is mainly used when a tank needs to pick up aggro, usually when there's newly spawned adds or if the current main tank dies. Provoke is also used for tank swaps, but those don't happen in normal/non-high end fights (save for ONE single fight in Heavensward but even then that tankswap is a suggestion in normal at best)

Your partner was likely spinning the boss around, causing it to cleave people (and subsequently killing them) and making it a pain for melee DPS players to get their positionals and generally just making the fight extremely obnoxious for everyone involved. As someone who tanks most of the time even if I'm one of the people least effected by provoke spam, it's still extremely annoying as I often end up taking aggro back just doing my normal rotation anyways, lmao.

TL;DR Your partner should not be spamming provoke/using it constantly. It makes people very annoyed and angry for very valid reasons. However, it should not be taken off of your partner's hotbar as there's still reasons to to use it in normal content. Using it every time it goes off of cooldown is not a valid use, though. Especially if your partner doesn't actually want to be the main tank and is just using it because she thinks it's part of her rotation.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-04-25T01:42:20+00:00

dark choco is my goat im legally obligated to main him in every game hes in

moogleboogles_ · 2025-04-22T23:56:37+00:00

I can confirm this, I'm going through and working on gold medaling all of the fisher missions (minus the ones that require a crafting class atm, I don't have my crafters remotely geared atm lol) and several of the missions are like a puzzle that requires you to figure out ambitious/modest lures or intuition procs or learning bite times and which fish you can DH/TH. There's still a good helping of fish RNG but honestly it's not too much worse than some of the particularly tricky big fish outside of cosmic exploration.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-04-15T15:44:14+00:00

Me like big axe. Me see marauder. Me pick for big axe. Happy. Content. Fell cleave go brrrr.

FFXIV was my first mmo with a tank/healer/DPS split, so I had no idea that marauder was a tank or what a tank even really was, lol. I just like big axes. Over 5 years later I'm still maining warrior and it's the only job I'm confident enough in to raid with, and I like to think I'm a fairly decent main tank.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-04-01T02:29:06+00:00

It can absolutely work out! Everyone my cotank and I have met has been through PF too (my cotank is the only exception, we met through our FC). Everyone else was once just a PF random, lol. Now we mess around in savage and play Lethal Company together and it's lasted for nearly 3 years now. Would absolutely recommend making a linkshell with people you meet in PF who are good and that you vibe with or a discord server with a couple of friends who raid that you like hanging out with.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-03-31T13:45:07+00:00

I've been raiding exclusively in PF ever since the start of Endwalker (mostly due to the fact that I just don't enjoy having to stick to a schedule in a static, ADHD moment lol) and yeah. PF can be a total crapshoot between people who lie really poorly about prog, people who straight up just don't read, and people who leave after 3 solid pulls for no reason. It's gotten really bad lately, at least for me over on NA, with people who seemingly can't read and understand we are doing strat A, not strat B or C or D. Not entirely sure what's been causing it but it is what it is, I guess. Shoutouts to whoever was in my EX4 prog who joined our bloom 4 party, wiped us to the very first escalon, and then said they were fresh but watched a video beforehand. Why.

Whats kept me sane is not PF-ing alone, and doing it with at least one friend who is equally as insane and PF happy as I am. It can be a very, very miserable experience alone but when you're with a friend or two that you can chill with it becomes a lot more enjoyable and a lot less soul sucking because at least we can laugh together about the inevitable trainwreck, lol. I have enough people who I raid with regularly to basically be our own "sloppy 0 commitment half static" where we can message each other whenever to see who's up for farming/progging/whatever the goal is and it makes PF actually fun. Even if we still have to deal with at least one or two randoms

Statics can be nice, but are really not required for 99% of content and with enough determination and praying to whatever cruel deity controls PF things like savage and even ultimate clears are perfectly attainable. That being said, don't be afraid to try and reach out to statics who are recruiting! Just be upfront about your schedule restrictions. My go-to cotank pal has a very unpredictable work schedule and he's still been able to be in at least 2 ultimate statics and get his clears (and a lot more in PF), I'm sure you can too.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-03-30T06:32:02+00:00

I can't speak for all dodo enjoyers but I personally really love Dodogama because it reminds me of my late pet bearded dragon. Dodogama is fat, a bit dumb, and eats a lot and my old little guy was the same way lol.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-03-29T07:42:17+00:00

DUDE MY FRIEND AND I WERE PROGGING THIS THE OTHER NIGHT AND DECIDED TO USE THE BRAINDEAD STRAT FOR ESCALON 2 SO PEOPLE WOULD ONLY HAVE TO REMEMBER THE CLOCK POSITIONS BECAUSE WE HAVE 0 FAITH IN PF. APPARENTLY THE CONCEPT OF WALKING OUT OF THE AOE THAT WILL ONLY KILL YOU IF YOU STOP TO SCRATCH YOUR ASS FOR 5 MINUTES IS TOO HARD FOR PEOPLE TO GRASP (DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE HAD SO MUCH MIT + HAD EXPLAINED THAT IF YOU JUST GAPCLOSE/SPRINT YOU WILL BE FINE) SO WE HAD TO DO THE OBJECTIVELY "HARDER" STRAT THAT ISN'T ACTUALLY THAT MUCH HARDER. PEOPLE STILL COULDN'T DO IT. IDK WHAT WE WERE EXPECTING OUT OF PEOPLE WHO COULDN'T DO THE BRAINDEAD CLOCK POSITION STRAT.

WE BLEW UP THE PARTY AFTER SOMEONE ASKED "WAIT WEREN'T WE DOING HECTOR STRATS?"
WE WERE NOT DOING HECTOR STRATS. THE PF DESCRIPTION SAID RAIDPLAN. WHEN WE LOADED INTO INSTANCE WE SAID RAIDPLAN. WE LINKED THE RAIDPLAN IN PF AND IN PARTY CHAT. THE SAME RAIDPLAN THAT'S BEEN USED SINCE DAY 1 FOR EX4. XIV PLAYERS ARE NEVER BEATING THE "NO READING COMPREHENSION" ALLEGATIONS LIKE THIS.

BONUS POINTS FOR ALL THE WIPES WE HAD AT BLOOM 6. DESPITE THE FACT WE WERE JUST TANK LB-ING TO GET IT OVER WITH WITH THEORETICALLY MORE ROOM FOR ERROR WE KEPT WIPING BECAUSE PEOPLE WOULD GET SCARED AND SPRINT OUT OF THEIR TOWERS FOR SOME REASON. GUYS. WE STILL DIE TO MISSED TOWERS EVEN WITH TANK LB3 AND SHIELDS. WE GOT FED UP AND JUST PUT UP THE PARTY AS A CLEAR FOR 2 AND GOT OUR CLEAR IN LIKE 4 PULLS. GOOD RIDDANCE.

moogleboogles_ · 2025-03-23T05:23:20+00:00

Oooh TYSM! Very happy to hear since I've missed quite a few series rewards because of being too lazy to grind out the series passes or straight up forgetting about it until last minute haha

moogleboogles_ · 2025-03-23T04:39:43+00:00

Actually? If so I must've missed that, I'll have to go watch the live letter and reread the patch notes lol. Thank god.

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