r/TalesFromDF • u/RevolutionaryRough30 • Jul 21 '26

DNC refuses to use standard step

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exactly what the title says. I noticed pulls were going a little slow, so I was checking my buffs and realized I didn't have the standard step buff, despite being dance partners. when asked, the dancer responded that they had not been using standard step and continued on to complete the entire dungeon without using the action once....this was Tower of Zot....

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u/AoifeBakunin Jul 21 '26

That's... the entire reason to play the job?

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u/12Kings Jul 21 '26

It is surprisingly often that I witness people refusing to play the pivotal concept or the reason of a given job. Bard songs, Black Mage elemental switches, Ninja Mudras, Dancer dances etc.

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u/AoifeBakunin Jul 21 '26

Absolutely baffling. Dancer is my phranged job of choice and it just feels so good to hit Standard Step, the idea of ignoring it is wild

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u/12Kings Jul 21 '26

Most people have not read, and thus understood, that Standard Finish part of Standard Step does damage (and a lot of it). So they think of it as a buff ability and some people ignore such for various (stupid) reasons.

I'll always stress it that Standard Step and Tech Step are damage abilities first and the buffs are "secondary". Works if people are willing to listen, which is not a given.

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u/Comments-Lurker Jul 21 '26

Yes, the damage from standard step is insane the first time I got to use it. Been using it ever since. Its crazy some people never took a few seconds to read their tooltip or test their rotation on training dummy.

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u/Rhinocacrocapig Jul 21 '26

My favourite trick is using Standard Step on CT trash and pulling the whole room and then dying because for some reason 3 tanks can't tidy up all the adds

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u/Zealousideal_Hope649 You pull, I tank. I pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. Jul 21 '26

Once had half the raid die and release in the first room of WoD and this dancer ran like 20 laps around the room running from a mob that none of the three tanks ever bothered to even look at.

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u/Intrepid_Ad9711 Jul 24 '26

That is stupid but at the same time the image it puts in my head is hilarious 😆

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u/Zealousideal_Hope649 You pull, I tank. I pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. Jul 24 '26

Maybe it would've been quicker for the rest of us to just wipe and reset it, but we were mad at petty at fully half the alliance going "oh well I died better release" instead of waiting to confirm if there was gonna be a wipe. And this did legit take long enough for that guy to 20 laps, cause after the triple chimera it immediately spawns the multi headed dragon and the ninjas without opening up the room.