Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[TheAnser]

My friend and I were leveling some classes a little while back, me on PLD and him on BRD. It was a mostly uneventful leveling process, but there were a couple of those duty finder moments.

Firstly, we were running Qarn NM. We zone in, hellos are said, and I start pulling. First pull goes fine, things dying at a normal pace. Midway through the second pull, the other dps (I don't remember what they were) just leaves. Doesn't disconnect, just leaves. Right after this we notice that the scholar is just sitting at the doorway, not healing. So we get through the pull with a combination of stun-locking, cooldowns, and SSing myself. Right as we are finishing the last monster, the scholar finishes whatever they were presumably typing.

Scholar: "lol this bard has downs"
Me: "Excuse me?"
Friend: "What?"
Scholar: "yeah I'm leaving, he has no gear on. DPS sucks"

He leaves before we can tell him it's a GLAMOUR. Seriously, it was just a swimsuit glamour. I'd assume that the two of them were a pre-made, but it wasn't like they were new or anything. I guess they never heard of glamour? Wow. And bringing down syndrome into things as an insult really showed how we were getting the bottom of the barrel players in DF in that run.

For the second story, my friend and I were running stone vigil NM. We notice that during the pulls, the healer (a SCH) is just spamming adlo on me with eos on sic while sitting on full aetherflow stacks. I mean, I'm staying alive for a little while like this, but the problem comes when we get to some of the pulls that can end up bigger. They aren't using energy drain or reusing aetherflow, and spamming adlo takes a fair amount of MP, so they start running out and we wipe on a trash pull from lack of heals. This scholar isn't new to the dungeon, but is a new scholar in general, so my friend and I, both being level 60 SCHs, give some polite advice and tell him to use aetherflow/energy drain/physick. He responds saying, "I use adlo because it shields and gives a regen. Heals the most." My friend and I are baffled by this, and of course tell him that is false. He insists though that it gives a regen because the tank's health goes up while the shield still hasn't been broken. We tell him that it's just the fairy healing or maybe even the fairy regen that is raising my health while the adlo is up, but nope. Far be it from this scholar to trust the word of two level 60 ones. Even the black mage in the party pipes up about this, but after that the scholar doesn't speak. On the last boss I was getting physicks from the black mage because the scholar was running out of MP, and their magical adlo regens weren't keeping me up. You got our comms BLM

[TSLsmokey]

Happy one this time. To all those in my Raid Finder party for Sophia EX last night. You have given me hope again, no matter how false it may be. Considering that I have normally had a ton of EX parties go very salty within 5 minutes and disband from 1 wipe, the fact that you guys held together and were willing and eager to learn alongside me was very encouraging. Special thanks to the PLD who had cleared and who was giving us tips the entire time.

[dlgc]

Usually I am in "lurker mode", and prefer more to read than to post. But below was an incident a few days ago with someone from Ultros, which left me, in
Dr. Leonard Hofstadter's word "befuddled".



It was way in the morning, and I just got out of an A9S clear a few hours prior. My roulette popped, so I ported in and said my hello, and turned my head from the screen momentarily to take a sip of water. When I turned my head back, I saw a familiar question which I have came across many times before from our tank(lets call her KatethePld for now).

I suppose her question was more directed to me than anyone else. But when 4 strangers(the other two being a SMN and BLM, I think) are placed together first time as a team, that question is ambiguous at best, since I just don't have sufficient data to provide an informed answer. What I usually say is somewhere along the line of, "Let's try a medium test-pull and see how things go."

Mind you, my reply showed up on my own screen a fraction of a second prior to the tank's reply. And right after she posted, she immediately dropped out of pt. The whole "fiasco" lasted for less than 30 secs. The rest of the party was left scratching our heads, confused. What's with the rush?!

But we got a replacement tank soon after and finished it with no issues.

Cheers,
D.

[lvlagmarink]

I just had sohm al from mentor roulette as a monk with dark, ast and nin..

DRK pulled 2 monster from the start without having protect being casted and started losing aggro to me, the other monster got nin as 2nd aggro list at around 3/4 bar.. tank decided to mass pull during the 2 poison drake segment and we wiped.. Ast healing was rather fine if i may say from using synastry, lightspeed and any other asta healing tool.. The drk had like awful defense buff which he only used at around last moment when he almost died.

After we killed the first boss, i began to notice that AST never casted a single card during the first segment, so i asked why:
Me : Name, is there a problem with your cards?
Ast: not really
Ast: just rather heal and dps rather than use them
Me: ok then..

We proceeded sorta fine while the drk lost aggro ocasionally, and suddenly the ast used balance on me once, and a bole on tank.. and that's it..

[EdwinLi]

One time when I was running a level 50 dungeon roulette a DPS player got mad at me for not ignoring Boss mechanics.

The reason was because he said the group agreed to skip mechanics in their Voice chat.

I said to him that I am not part of their Voice chat so I can't hear what they say and that he should have discussed it with me first before they constantly rushed through the dungeon.

and the person's reply was "F**** you noob" and he then quit the dungeon with his "friends"

[Sentaryuu]

Finally tried Thordan Ex through the Raid Finder, but of course after some wipes they abandon. :/ Couldn't get past the 2nd phase. I was willing to go the full time, too especially after waiting almost an hour for the que to pop. Bleh.

[FunkYeahDragons]

PotD is not hard content, but twice now this week we've wiped on 41-50 with hoard pieces. 30+ minutes each time down the drain. Even basic strategies are just beyond the recent batch of players.

Don't pull mobs alone away from the party as we're leaving the room.

Don't run all over the room with your mobs as we're pulling more mobs and spawn yet more mobs.

Especially do not do this if you or the tank/healer cannot handle these big surprise pulls.

Do not open chests during battle and set off landmines or spawn mimics.

Don't yank mobs out of the BLM's AOE when we just spent a Witching Pomander on them and run off.

Just don't do it, and we clear and get to keep our goodies.

Guess it's back to healing this myself. Half the time we don't even have a healer 41-50, anyway.

[Kanitezz]

One time when I was running a level 50 dungeon roulette a DPS player got mad at me for not ignoring Boss mechanics.

The reason was because he said the group agreed to skip mechanics in their Voice chat.

I said to him that I am not part of their Voice chat so I can't hear what they say and that he should have discussed it with me first before they constantly rushed through the dungeon.

and the person's reply was "F**** you noob" and he then quit the dungeon with his "friends"

Im sorry but thats so funny to me, just because of how stupid it is.

[Mysterysword]

Tanking Xelphatol as PLD.

Me: "Hmm, I just did a huge pull, my HP is naturally dropping rather fast, and this SCH is spam healing me in Cleric Stance. No biggie, just type out a quick reminder of that fact, and pop Hallowed Ground to buy them some time."

10 seconds later...

Me: "Oh god I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die, they're still in Cleric Stance, blow ALL the cooldowns and I can't even Clemency any more."

Aaah, the good old classics. And another anecdote from the other side of the tank/healer fence, Dusk Vigil as SCH.

The tank is a lvl. 51 WAR in full Mythrite gear, which is mostly NQ. They had 10k HP in Defiance. I am baffled as to how anyone could have 2 lvl. 60 jobs and yet not have enough Poetics to afford even 1 piece of Ironworks gear. That this WAR seemed to enjoy doing large pulls did not help. Their HP dropped like a hot potato on pulls of 3 mobs. From 10k to 3k in 5 seconds. I'm not even joking.

Yet, through the grace of god and all that is healing, I managed to prevent any deaths, right up until the WAR decided to pull the last 4 mobs together, just before the final boss. The giant wolf and the 3 ice sprites, in a place where the wind blows and gives people uncleansable Frostbite? Yeah, the wolf buffs its own physical attack, and those sprites each hit me, an overleveled, overgeared SCH, for 800 per hit. I tried, oh, how I tried, but nope, couldn't heal through that, and we wiped.

[Atoli]

Finally tried Thordan Ex through the Raid Finder. I was willing to go the full time, too especially after waiting almost an hour for the que to pop. Bleh.

You actually got Thordan EX to pop? Lol.
I signed up for that yesterday morning, then left the house and forgot I was still in queue. Returned and noticed the queue, but went to watch the stream, hours of discussions, checking the raid finder just for fun inbetween. Went to bed in the end.
Now I came back and realized I was signed up for it for about 24 hours - the entire time at 1/8 <3