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

EXP roulette. Neverreap. Summoner that propably kept hitting his keyboard with his face based on the numbers my friend posted to our Voip chat: first boss = 305 Second = 216 Third = 92

And they say we don't need parsers in this game... I wonder if we would have made it out in 90minutes if i didnt spam holy and dots everywhere. Theres something wrong if a WHM is out DPSing a DRG and SMN all the time troughout a dungeon.

Also the SMN had other classes at 60 so it was clearly not his first time.

I had a Neverreap run earlier in the week where the WHM was using a Zodiac weapon. When asked to change to something a bit stronger he refused, saying he didn't have anything else and wanted to get lights from the run. (I'm pretty sure you don't get light from HW content?)
The Tank was new, and was suffering from the lower heals, so he decided to pull smaller mobs. The WHM then complained that the run was going too slowly and ran ahead to pull more. Needless to say, we wiped a lot in that run. :(

This paladin in Gubal who used Divine Veil when the last trash mob before a boss fight was at 10% health.

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I had a Neverreap run earlier in the week where the WHM was using a Zodiac weapon. When asked to change to something a bit stronger he refused, saying he didn't have anything else and wanted to get lights from the run. (I'm pretty sure you don't get light from HW content?)

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You don't, yeah. As far as I know the only HW stuff that gives lights are FATEs (which are still the usual feeble lights)

Even if it did, it's still a dick move to keep a weapon that far underleveled equipped for the entire dungeon when you could just equip it before the last boss.

Ran the Vault on my WHM a couple days ago.

First thing i noticed was that the tank wasn't really trying to mitigate any of their damage taken, and was just facepulling mobs. This put a heavy strain on my MP.

Second thing i noticed was that the DPS was really slow. I think the black mage was using their 2.X rotation and none of their new skills (except maybe ley-lines)

Of course i struggle to heal the entire thing because these things combined is an invitation to disaster, but we make it to the last boss. Before our first pull i ask the tank to wait for MP, she doesn't and pulls while i'm at 25% mp. We wipe because they can't dps down the orb things in time before the big aoe (i normally help, but i can't because i'm out of MP).

For the second pull, i'm ready, but the struggles do not end. The DPS, on top of their sub-par damage, were also failing to avoid mechanics, wouldn't move to avoid the wall of adds, and were standing in aoes to get off casts or finish their combos. Eventually i ran out of MP and could no longer afford to put much effort into healing them. They both died, but by that point Assize and Shroud of saints were both off cooldown so I was able to get off two raises. Neither of them timed their accepting of the raise and got up asap, and both ended up getting up right before his big room aoe and were shot back down instantly.

So there i am, with my last 2% MP desperately trying to keep the tank alive until i can get another assize/shroud of saints off, but the tank gets smacked down, and so do I.

I don't make it to the next attempt because somewhere along the way they decided it was all my fault and booted me. I can't imagine they had much luck with another healer.

(To make it clear, i was quite literally doing everything within my power to keep them alive, i used Divine Seal on cooldown, Eye for an Eye on cooldown, Virus, Medica 2 was always up, and regen was always on the tank. There is only so much i can do).

I actually ran into the tank the next day for my expert roulette, they didn't recognize me, but oh how i wanted to destroy them.

So I have a story that unfortunately, stemmed off of myself and some of my friends. One of my FC mates made it to the end of the main story quests, so of course, that means Castrum Meridianum and Praetorium. It wasn't until after we queued up and got a party almost instantly that we all realized... We consisted of 2 tanks and 2 healers... we were the main team... To top it off, both healer's dislike these dungeons, so they also had limited knowledge on them.

As I think everyone knows, these dungeons are notorious for high lvl'd players doing speed runs. So my past experiences (all 2 of them) were based on my limited knowledge of those runs. I am a PLD (lvl 53) and when I beat it the 1st time, I simply followed the MT around like a sad little puppy as I tried to figure out the complex sequence of objectives I needed to do. Now... I was the MT since the other WAR tank was brand new to the map. I attempted to do the standard big pull to the 1st boss. Mistake. Oh god, was it a mistake. I was on skype with my friends, so I had warned I was going to do a big pull.
1st mob pull:
Healers: Wow, that's a lot but we can handle it. Wait... where are you going?
Me: Um, I already pulled the next mob, where are you guys?
Healers: About 20 miles behind you.

1st mob pull result: We all died. When I got to the boss, I tried to hold all the aggro, but obviously, I had to run around a bit as the dmg was substantial and the large AOE's weren't coming in. 2nd tank started pulling aggro with defiance and overpower and also had to run around (thus we started getting messy; spread out mobs). Healer's were frantically healing us (soo, building up some good emnity). First, it was only 1 or 2 adds leaving the group to hit the healers, but I still try to pull them back in. Other tank is also losing some and healer's aren't next to each other. I run out of MP (so no more flash) and War tank is out of TP from overpowering. DPS's aren't AOE'ing nor really killing the adds in a timely fashion. Healer's go down, DPS shortly follow and then tanks. DPS are all very angry with the pull (and I don't blame), so I pull smaller. After we kill the 1st mob in the start, DPS all complain we're moving at a snails pace and they all leave. New DPS come in. We simply warn them this time of the circumstances. They are much more accommodating (and we now have 2 BLM's with decent AOE, a BARD, and a Monk). Rest of the run went much smoother, but it was still a funny circumstance imo. The skype call I was in was quite the riot.

Next up, Praetorium. We know this is going to turn out the same because all of us are relatively new. So we all only had 1 class above lvl 50. So we go in and this time, warn prior. One BARD disconnects soon after our warning. Not sure if legit disconnect or they just weren't having it. But we gave 5 min, then booted and got replacement and continued on our way. For the most part, Prae went just fine all the way through except for 1 part. The part where you must get the access key for the magitek armor and then take the elevator up to board a magitek... Yea... I told my teammates to follow me. Lead them to the terminal to get the access. Then we all went up the elevator and continued on our merry way. Then I hear my skype friends say, "what's going on, I can't get in? Are there other one's?"
Oh uh. I asked if they picked up the key and got the response "what key"?
"The one I told you to get when I said follow me right before the elevator"
"You said follow me, but you didn't say to pick anything up"
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Now we're waiting at Nero with 4 DPS and 1 tank and one of the DPS says, "shall we start?"
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So as my friends are figuring things out, we're using the party chat to banter a bit. One of the DPS asked "Did you listen to Siri?"

Honestly, felt pretty bad for those who were with us, but was very happy they were all good sports and patient with us. Overall, it was a very funny experience though.

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Originally Posted by Ghishlain

Went into Trial DR with my MCH to get some EXP. Ended up with Garuda HM with a WAR and PLD tank. WAR asked if PLD wanted to MT and wit ha curt response of "no" the WAR pulled and MT'd.

Fight was slower than what I'm normally used to then I found out the PLD OT was literally not attacking. Didn't even bother to pick up sisters when they popped.

Fight didn't take that much longer than normal - we just had to burn sisters and we got to the "rotate around the arena" phase before killing Garuda. Still, sometimes I wonder why bother playing the game if you're gonna be lazy about it..

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^ Had the same thing happen again today except replace Garuda with Leviathan and lazy PLD with lazy BRD.

I wonder if I'll have it happen again tomorrow.

Boy oh boy, I a story to share with you guys. This one is actually pretty old, but still makes me giggle every time I think about it.

Back then I was levelling my SMN. One time I ran Copperbell Mines with a new healer and DPS, while the tank already had a LVL50 class. Everything went nice and smooth until we beat the second (or first? idk right now) boss and had to use the second elevator. Our healer accidentally activated the lever without the tank inside, so I waved my pet and the tank farewell as a joke.

Instead of following us and using the elevator, the tank started to freak out. He demanded an apology from all of us, because we left him behind and even “a child won’t leave his mate”. Since the healer and DPS wanted to go on quickly we kicked that guy, simply too annoyed to deal with him.

Guess what happened. Yes, he re-joined our group but still didn’t want to do his job. I tried to explain to him that I always /wave to my pet when it stays upstairs and that he shouldn’t make such a drama out of a simple joke. But no, he still wouldn’t tank, claiming “u always do dat but this time u were unlucky because I’m sensible”. We kicked him again and luckily a friend of mine decided to help us out, letting us finish the dungeon without further problems.

Maybe waving at him wasn’t nice at all, but still… I really don’t get why some people waste their time getting all angry about something so irrelevant.

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Originally Posted by Lalafallen

Boy oh boy, I a story to share with you guys.

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Reminds me of an encounter I had way back when on Wanderer's Palace normal.
I queued in via df as tank, we got all buffed up and I started with the standard pull, to beetles iirc.
Immediately the healer starts freaking out over chat, yelling at me, accusing me of going too fast,trying to force a speedrun, etc. So because they are freaking out and not healing, we wipe.
As we pop back at the entrance the healer is still going off in chat, cussing me out and generally just going nuts. Myself and the dps ask if they haven't done this dungeon before and try to explain that you have to go fast to outpace the big tonberry with the knife or it kills you. They say they are new (there was no new player message on zone in) and that there is no excuse to try to force them to go that fast. We reiterate that you have to for this dungeon and then go to start again. After the pull has been initiated and the dps and I are fighting the mobs the healer tells us they refuse to heal and just sits at the entrance. So we wipe again. We tell the healer that they will be kicked if they don't do their job, the healer keeps cussing us out so we kick them. About 10 seconds later they rejoin our group and start going off on us again in chat. Kicked. Again they rejoin and they continue their rant. This cycle of us kicking and them rejoining to cuss us out happens a few more times before we finally decide to just abandon so we don't get that healer rejoining.

A friend (MCH) and I (GLA) went to Haukke manor, it was my first time as tank in this dungeon, we had a DRG and a CNJ with us. I ran to the room with the first key, pulled the mobs there and noticed that my HP dropped horribly fast although the CNJ literally spammed Cure on me. I used all of my CDs but couldn't prevent myself from dying. The CNJ apologized, noticed that their equip wasn't up to date and thus wished for a small break to equip proper gear. I waited for them, after their OK I pulled the next group, but the same thing happened again. So, after respawning again, I had a closer look at my healer's gear and found the level 1 weapon equipped on them. The level 1 one. This thing doesn't have any stats. I asked if they can replace it with something better, but no. Don't know why, but instead of kicking them, I pulled the third group of which my friend took one mob away from me because "this healer can't keep you alive with three mobs beating you". Well, they couldn't even keep me alive with two mobs because they decided to heal both my friend and me simultaneously with Medica - which is even weaker than their 110 HP Cure. After I died for the third time, I finally kicked them, my MCH friend left and then returned as AST to spare us the waiting time for a new healer, and the free DPS slot was filled with a lv60 BLM using their ilvl200 weapon. We finished the dungeon without problems except maybe the fact the BLM always stole aggro from me.

I had some fun Alex runs last night.

Got into A4 as bard with an fc member on their drk. As soon as we load in, before I can even turn WM on (I'd been whm before joining), the other tank pulls without a word. Evidently several people weren't ready because things went very bad very quickly. People are eating too many orbs, one monk is eating every single one, people are running all over with tethers, the healers are dying left and right, I get asked to put mage's ballad up (because the healers keep dying) even though it had already been up for a while (because the healers kept dying)... it was a disaster. We wipe, and I take a look at the chat log...

Turns out the new player message was there. I ask if anyone needs an explanation, and the healer says he's new. So I start explaining, and while I am, the monk just says "heal that's it" and, of course, the tank just pulls without a word or a readycheck. We somehow manage to kill both legs despite the monk dying to orbs over and over, the dragoon dying twice to I don't even know what, and the healers dying a few more times... Then we wipe again.

So we vote abandoned. :/

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Originally Posted by Avidria

... the dragoon dying twice to I don't even know what...

So we vote abandoned. :/

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He died because thats the dragoons role. It's just what they do.

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Originally Posted by Whiteroom

He died because thats the dragoons role. It's just what they do.

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The leading cause seems to be holding their spear backwards.

Using Phlebotomize on one's self is not pretty. D:

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Originally Posted by Fluestergras

A friend (MCH) and I (GLA) went to Haukke manor, it was my first time as tank in this dungeon, we had a DRG and a CNJ with us. I ran to the room with the first key, pulled the mobs there and noticed that my HP dropped horribly fast although the CNJ literally spammed Cure on me. I used all of my CDs but couldn't prevent myself from dying. The CNJ apologized, noticed that their equip wasn't up to date and thus wished for a small break to equip proper gear. I waited for them, after their OK I pulled the next group, but the same thing happened again. So, after respawning again, I had a closer look at my healer's gear and found the level 1 weapon equipped on them. The level 1 one. This thing doesn't have any stats. I asked if they can replace it with something better, but no. Don't know why, but instead of kicking them, I pulled the third group of which my friend took one mob away from me because "this healer can't keep you alive with three mobs beating you". Well, they couldn't even keep me alive with two mobs because they decided to heal both my friend and me simultaneously with Medica - which is even weaker than their 110 HP Cure. After I died for the third time, I finally kicked them, my MCH friend left and then returned as AST to spare us the waiting time for a new healer, and the free DPS slot was filled with a lv60 BLM using their ilvl200 weapon. We finished the dungeon without problems except maybe the fact the BLM always stole aggro from me.

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I don't know whether to be vaguely impressed your healer managed to get that far with a lvl1 weapon, or marvel at the sheer insanity someone never bothered upgrading their weapon despite class questlines gifting you plenty.

Decided to run my PLD through Dusk Vigil, wiped on the first pack due to our healer not being 'ready', even though he/she was one step behind me the whole time. I decided to check said Healers lodestone, had every pony, louisiex minion ect. Wonder how much those carries were.

Just finished my leveling daily, it was cutter's cry. Standard group a melee, me the black mage, a dark knight(new to his class), and a 60 healer. The dungeon starts off tank makes a standard pull, waited for the unleash then I started off with my aoe rotation.
FIRST fire 2 and I have all the aggro, after being beaten to death I noticed the dark knight is not in his tanking stance. Fun times! So I let him know its not on. He turns in on, then turns it off before the next pull ( apparently to gain aggro?) I died again. I'm like its cool hes new to this job so I type a paragraph about how to tank with a dark knight.
We are back on track sorta, I kept having to use physic to heal him. Now its the white mages turn for a lesson. I notice she doesn't use regen, so I let her know she wouldn't have to spam cure as much with it on. Her reply its a stupid spell and you can assist me in healing.

The vote abandon button was looking good at this point, but I'm a glutton for punishment.

Some how we make it to the second boss, the dark knight is dead, I don't know how it happened but it did. The ninja is running mad circles around the room throwing daggers at the boss ( this is confusing to me because I am the one with aggro), the healer is following suit just sprinting around the boss. Till I explain, in between physics's and a few thunders, that I am the one holding agro. After an O moment the dark knight gets a rez, only to die to the sand pit. So with pure thunder power and some dagger throws (because the ninja never stops running) we get past the boss.
I decide I need some coffee. While away they have made it to the first sand tele, apparently with a few deaths along the way.

We start on the next round of trash, things are looking up we clear to the final boss no one dies everyone has found a way to work together, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!
Or so I thought, 5 seconds into chimera the healer has all the agro, the tank is desperately spamming unleash, and the ninja has once again started to throw daggers while doing his best naruto run, around the boss. Soon they are all dead to Ram's voice. Chimera turns to me, death is coming. Wipe one out of the way.

Five wipes later.............

The only thing keeping me in here is pure rage. I will clear this dungeon, the healer has died once again to the ball and dragons voice. Physic and Thunder are my Friends again! The rogue has finally stop running and has decided to join the fight. The dark knight ( who cannot dodge anything) is low on health. I toss a last Thunder and two physics's then die to dragon's voice. The boss is at 4 % , the ninja has pulled LB to his bar and finally uses it. 2% the dark knight is spamming unleash again and before dying leaves the boss with his dot. Last man standing is the ninja. Channeling his inner Naruto he dagger throws the boss to death.....we have cleared the dungeon.

Never again .... I'm swearing of leveling roulette

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Originally Posted by Maikeru

Reminds me of certain tanks I had the chance to meet in DF. That kind of tank that tell the DPS "If you pull, you tank". I'll respect that policy but I don't like that. I play healer most of the time in DF, so yeah... don't ask me to not heal them when they pull, because I'll punch your nipples. I'll not let the DPS die even if they engaged in, because I am slowing the run down by doing so. If you don't want to do your job because of your policy, you don't have the right to ask me to not do mine. And yes, I had some situations like this in DF. People need to keep their pride in their pocket and play the game.

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I run that policy often. However I only really enforce it if a dps is pulling groups when the healer is low on mana or I am low on either tp or mana. I have pulled it out a few times on people who are "attempting to speed up the run" which gets on my nerves more then anything else. I like fast runs as much as the next guy and try to average about 20-25 ish minutes on those I can, such as fractle and neverreap, but I have had times where I jump into a run and my child wakes up or something and I have to slow or some other situation. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna play to the best I can at that moment so you can wait for my pull or you can tank it.

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Originally Posted by MrsFluffyButt

Decided to run my PLD through Dusk Vigil, wiped on the first pack due to our healer not being 'ready', even though he/she was one step behind me the whole time. I decided to check said Healers lodestone, had every pony, louisiex minion ect. Wonder how much those carries were.

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Sometimes we just aren't paying attention. This happens.

Just had a French SMN in Stone Vigil easy mode wearing Mythril CP bracelets and necklace, a level 15 STR ring and a level 29 MND earring.

Needless to say, I'm afk for the next half an hour.

Can we job lock accessories, and add an iLvl requirement to story content, please?

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Originally Posted by Crysten

Can we job lock accessories, please?

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what about STR tanks of those tanks with melded accessories which prove way better than anything in AS1?

So, did DF for some xp on my Paladin. Got Aurum Vale and did the usual; say hi and ask if the group is comfortable with bigger pulls. The 2 dps seemed game, but the healer hesitated, first asking "how big is a big pull?" and then after I said "aggro'ing the enemies up to the 1st boss" he followed up with "I'm a shitty healer". So, I told them no issue and that I would do smaller pulls and gauge the sizes after based on how we do from there...
Here's where it gets fun. Pull the 1st and 2nd mob group right at the start. This consisted of 1 nix, 2 of those flower enemies, 2 bats and then one of the dps pulled in 2 of the jellies by accident after about a min. We wiped. I used up every defensive cooldown I had and even bloodbath trying to keep myself up. The healer wasn't kidding. 700 hp avg heals that came once in a blue moon. I honestly couldn't even tell you if he was attempting to dps as well. I was too busy running around like a damned fool just trying to stay alive in wait for the heals to come because my CD's were recharging.
So after wiping on just 2 mobs, I figured this was gonna be a slow haul and decided 1 mob per pull is probably going to be the pace here (and it was). Unfortunately, the dps kept pulling more mobs in as well, which slowed things down considerably. Most of the time, I was able to keep us from wiping, but I died a total of 5 times. Sadly, when we got to the banemites, we found that even single mob pulls were proving difficult for the healer. Nearly every pull required me to pop all my CD's to stay alive, along with using bloodbath and running away in circle's to avoid more dmg (pls remember, I'm a Paladin as well... so bloodbath really isn't the go to heal as I have no AoE attacks in AV). I thought about using cure on myself even, but I used up all my MP doing flashes just to keep aggro on me since the mobs were so slow to kill.

When we got to coincounter.... oh god was it a nightmare. To top off the lack of heals coming my way, my internet started to crap out on me and I began to lag :( So this meant mistimed dodges from the 100 ton swings and, of course, my demise. 1st time was a wipe. 2nd time, the healer managed to swiftcast revive me before anything real bad happened. The bard caught the aggro when I died, so he just ran around the map while I got back up. I immediately pulled the aggro back after 2 hits. Luckily, the healer did get my hp back up by the time his 1st swing came around at me.

Honestly, I'm not, per se, mad at the healer. I got a warning at the beginning. But my god. I've never had to use every CD I had on each and every pull just to stay alive. But the DPS also really weren't dishing out the damage needed either. I can understand the ninja having a bit of trouble whenever I had to start running in circles to offset some damage to stay alive, but the Bard wasn't dealing that much either.

I thought about switching to sword oath to try dishing out more dps, but decided against it as it seemed I needed the defense much more.

My alt ran an expert roulette yesterday with a tank that called himself "The Naked Paladin". He started out fully geared in Fractal and then proceeded as the duty went by to remove gear little at t time until he had nothing on his left side but his underclothes. Needless to say the healer had fun trying to keep him up. We wiped a couple times as he proceeded to ask about how sexy he was among other somewhat suggestive remarks. Thankfully, he did put his gear back on for the last boss. I personally spent time out of Wanderers Minute running and shooting minions who were after me as a result of his dying. I managed to keep alive while doing what bards used to did before they became casters. ;)

I will say it was entertaining to say the least.

Qued neverreap, got this Dark Knight tank....things were fine until last boss, right before last boss he pulled the entire final group up to the gap then jumped it, which caused the entire group to deaggro onto us. The healer stayed with us, and he then decided charging the boss was a good idea while we were cleaning up the mess of that dumbass.

Just had an A3 where the other scholar would only use phyisck, lustrate, and succor.

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Originally Posted by UnstablePersonality

Qued neverreap, got this Dark Knight tank....things were fine until last boss, right before last boss he pulled the entire final group up to the gap then jumped it, which caused the entire group to deaggro onto us. The healer stayed with us, and he then decided charging the boss was a good idea while we were cleaning up the mess of that dumbass.

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...but there's a gate

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Originally Posted by raela

...but there's a gate

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Exactly what I was thinking.


Somewhat unrelated, but I have had some interesting times with that jump to the last boss platform.
There was one time my group and I were all hopping over to the boss platform and halfway across the gap it just dropped me ... into the pit, killing me. There was a bit of confusion as all my group saw was that I suddenly disappeared and was dead. When I told them what happened, everyone got a good laugh out of it, with comments like "the run was going too well for DF so the game decided to punish you."

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Originally Posted by TouchandFeel

Exactly what I was thinking.


Somewhat unrelated, but I have had some interesting times with that jump to the last boss platform.
There was one time my group and I were all hopping over to the boss platform and halfway across the gap it just dropped me ... into the pit, killing me. There was a bit of confusion as all my group saw was that I suddenly disappeared and was dead. When I told them what happened, everyone got a good laugh out of it, with comments like "the run was going too well for DF so the game decided to punish you."

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Latency can kill you - if the game lags in catching you with the air, you'll hit the ground and die. On the other air hops you can fall under the clouds and hit ground, but there's no instant death (vanu lava?!). Lag does odd things.

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Originally Posted by raela

Latency can kill you - if the game lags in catching you with the air, you'll hit the ground and die. On the other air hops you can fall under the clouds and hit ground, but there's no instant death (vanu lava?!). Lag does odd things.

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I figured as much, it was just funny because of how perfect the timing of the random lag spike was. One second I'm in the air hopping across to the platform then at the peak of the jump I just drop like a stone into the pit.

It was like the game decided to do this
https://media0.giphy.com/media/hHh2lqWFeHYBO/giphy.gif

I was running fractal continuum with a friend of mine and I was healer. The two people who joined us were new and their armor they were wearing was low geared, which was understandable because they were new. I had ilvl170 gear on and a few ilvl190 but I was struggling healing the tank he was a DRK and his health would drop really fast. We got up to trash where the chimera was and that's when we wiped. I knew this run was going to be hard to heal because I don't main WHM. The tank asked me if he should pull less adds but you can't really pull less adds during the run because they are all connected. But I told him that you can try to pull less but you can use better armor because your kinda squishy. The tank after reading what I said was pissed off and said I was taking drugs. After hearing that I left because I'm not healing a tank who will continue wiping and have a horrible attitude torward advice. Throughout the run I was trying to be very nice. -_-

Following my experience last night, I tried my leveling roulette again.

I got a class confused SMN that clearly identified as a SCH.

He didn't have any INT gear cos he had a life. I also didn't want to waste my life carrying a MND gear SMN through Dzmael Darkhold.

I'm afk again, yay!

Did HM roulette on AST yesterday. Everything was a normal, routine run until the last stretch on the way to the boss. They pulled the last group and I was getting hit in the face so hard I couldn't keep up heals on myself, let alone anyone else in the group. I died, returned, and the tank died and the first Party Chat from him the entire run. Was "healer?"

My response was "...died?"

Not another word. We returned, got through the mobs that wiped us just fine, got to Diabolos. Group didn't ask if I was okay with burn method, just did it and fortunately I was able to keep heals up just fine. It was my first time healing that particular dungeon on any healer job.

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...but there's a gate

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Correction there is a gate while certain mobs are alive. When those die then yeah.
And then also remember there is mobs that have no relation to the gates at all, And say the tank has aggro on all and runs off after the gate clears, Those unrelated mobs will follow, Which does happen by the way...Then yeah those mobs will follow and lead to the very situation I described previously. So everything before gate one, the giraffe looking things and whatever else stays too.

Went to Brayflox NM on my paladin, got a scholar with me who writ "noooo another PLD", and quit.
Well, someone has to tank the enemies.
And if this scholar leaves any duty with a paladin, they will have a hard time doing anything as (according to the statistics) almost half of all tanks are paladins.
Some people...

.Stone Vigil with a random group.
Everything went... okay, except that the mobs were dying terribly slow, so I took a closer look at the other DPS, a lvl44 SMN. Their ger was okay, nothing that had to be replaced at all.

While we were trying to defeat the first boss, I finally found out what was wrong. The only ability the SMN was using was Miasma. No Bio, no Bio II, not even Ruin. Just Miasma over and over again.

After killing the boss I tried to explain to them their basic rotation and how to use their abilities correctly. They actually started to use Ruin instead of Miasma, but still seemed to be kind of confused about Bio and all the rest. It was painfully to watch, but at least they tried. Still, when you're lvl44 already you should at least know the basics of your class.

DD just now, queued in as WAR for my leveling roulette. (seems to be all I get for WAR roulette)

Things are going alright, get to the room after the second boss. I pull one set of the mobs, and grab the four skeletons when the first mob dies. The healer decides to pull the other two mobs in, which can be heavy in DD. So I pick them up and start hitting some cool downs, while I blow through all my CD, the healer just Holy's until he has no mp instead of healing me...

"Guess I won't dps then." is the comment after the wipe...

No, you don't pull extra mobs that would strain someone straight healing, and then spend all your mp on dps.

To his credit, he did hit shroud, as I was taking the last hit that would kill me, meaning he just dropped the hate so the dps would get killed first.

Was leveling WAR in Sohm Al. Had a smn who would never bane. Never multidot. Just dot one monster and ruin spam. I wanted to holmgang the smn to me and have him stare in fear of my Au Ranian eyes as I yell BAAAAANE

Got Shiva for trial routlette. Not sure if most of the party forgot the fight or there were more new people than those who spoke up or what; but people were just standing in every AOE despite the fact every AOE almost killed them (normally this isn't a problem when you're insanely overgeared, but almost no one seemed to be), trying to move when she turned the floor to ice, standing behind the tank for some reason, ignoring the 4 adds that spawn, etc etc. It was...bizarre. Only two people spoke up (one of which was the other healer), but no one looked like they knew the fight. In any case, I picked up my keyboard (I'm on ps4) and proceed to explain the fight (which I would have done at the beginning, but duty commened, tank insatntly pulls, and no one objects which just leads me to believe everyone at least has an idea of what to do). And at some point, I accidentally hit the toggle walk key....and I forgot what the toggle walk key was.

Uh oh...

So here I am darn near having a heart attack because I'm forced into walking during the entire fight and I'm still somehow the only one dodging AOEs. In any case, everything is going fine and I guess the tank turned Shiva around or something because I blink and suddenly 3 dps, the offtank, and the other healer get instantly wiped out. I rez the other healer and Shiva then freezes the floor.

I accidentally moved.

Ooooops. So now I'm frozen and the other healer, bless their soul, is trying their hardest, but sadly we wipe....but secretly I'm happy because now I can find out what the toggle walk key is lol. One tank leaves angrily. We sit in awkward silence for a few minutes. New tank joins. We clear. Everyone is happy.