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

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

I was in cutters cry today, and the tank got angry at me for not commendatimg him. He just stood there yelling at me to com him, and leave the instance. My response was "brb sandwich." When I got back there were at least three paragraphs on why I was such a loser, before he gave up and left. I didn't care. My sandwich was pretty good. It's was teriyaki, with delicious lettuce, toasted bread, and Japanese sauce. I even prepared some green tea. Screw drama, make sandwiches. :p ;)

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I never understood why people go so crazy over getting commendations. A lot of times people even forget to or players just leave the instance too quickly.

Besides, acting like that sure wouldn't earn that tank any. Sorry you had to go through that though!

How did the tank know though if you guys were still in the duty?

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

I was in cutters cry today, and the tank got angry at me for not commendatimg him. He just stood there yelling at me to com him, and leave the instance. My response was "brb sandwich." When I got back there were at least three paragraphs on why I was such a loser, before he gave up and left. I didn't care. My sandwich was pretty good. It's was teriyaki, with delicious lettuce, toasted bread, and Japanese sauce. I even prepared some green tea. Screw drama, make sandwiches. :p ;)

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I think I would have been laughing so much that my sandwich would have fallen apart. I've never heard of anyone raging that hard for coms.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

I have only ever done PotD with friends so far, so this might be a stupid question, but... are mobs somehow harder when you go in with DF/random people? I keep reading this stories about how people are being little crybabies about party composition and yet my last run of 41-50 was with a friend, he on smn, I on bard, no one else around and it took us like... 30 minutes or so? So... did I missed something?

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No, the enemies are not harder depending on number of people in your party.

I've soloed Palace of the Dead on Summoner, and I think there are 2 main differences.
1.) You can take your time raising your level before progressing to the next area. Because if you are in matched party, everyone wants to move forward as quickly as possible. It means, when you get to the next set of floors, the enemies are pretty tough for the first 2 or 3 floors until you level up.
However, as solo, you can spend your remaining time running around on the last floor leveling up until 5 minutes remain. Then, move on to the boss.
With a high enough level, the bosses are not so hard (if you follow mechanics) and the next 2,3 floors are not too bad.
2.) Pomanders carry over (as someone else mentioned). So you can use them only when you really really need to. Which is basically going to be floors 30-40. There are a lot of tough enemies which roam around. sometimes in groups of 3. The Nightmare Gourmands, Cotablepas (or something), and Succubus. There are very annoying! Plus, floor 40 boss is tough because adds must die fast!

If you can clear floor 40, 41-50 are VERY easy. The reason is, by that time you should be close to level 60. Enemies will be at your level. So it goes very fast.
31-40 are very hard because enemies will be above your level.

When you are solo, you must keeps on your toes. Watching all surroundings at all times. Managing your health and timing potion / skill use.
With 4 DPS in a random party, most people just aren't careful enough.

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Yeah, with a 60 second cooldown timer..xD
There is a reason why I hate doing Brayflox NM on SCH ._.
There is just so much poison thrown around, and you have close to no way to cleanse it :/

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SCH : Adlo = 4 stacks tank /selene although is not necessary (the skill of Selene was introduced recently before that we had to manage with Adlo and is super easy)
WHM : Esuna = 4 stacks tank, 2 dps, if you have regen use it and forget tehre is even poison
AST : aspect benefit if you have it, if not still same, wait for 4 stacks on tanks and 2 on dps before using Exalted detriment.

there are no reasons whatsoever to run out of mana or have to get mad at Healing poison more so in Bray (except if people purposedly stand in pool of poison ....but is me.

Now more seriously, Igot a run sometimes back at Ramex, I was barely geared, well just geared enough, so the message of bonus appeared, I was new to that place on that toon at a time, someone commented and said Bonus and I said yeah me the healer, next you know ...three people left, 1 tank, the other healer, and a dps...I never laughed so much in my entire gaming life ...which says, people think that because there is a bonus people are new as in totally new...wihtout really knowing if it is the case ...needless to say we got replacement and we finished no problem.

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

WHM : Esuna = 4 stacks tank, 2 dps, if you have regen use it and forget tehre is even poison

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WHM's Regen isn't available in Brayflox NM.

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

SCH : Adlo = 4 stacks tank /selene although is not necessary (the skill of Selene was introduced recently before that we had to manage with Adlo and is super easy)
WHM : Esuna = 4 stacks tank, 2 dps, if you have regen use it and forget tehre is even poison
AST : aspect benefit if you have it, if not still same, wait for 4 stacks on tanks and 2 on dps before using Exalted detriment.

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Yeah... guys don't do that. This isn't Aurum Vale where you wait 2 or 3 stacks of debuff. Don't let anyone get to 2 or 4 stacks if you can dispell it. No reason to. You won't run out of mp. Only reason to make people have stacks is being on sch and having Selene dispell every minute. 4 stacks or even 2, and boss crits or launches poison pool and does his frontals and tumults, and you WILL run out of mp with that method.
Stop giving wrong advice already.

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Originally Posted by Fluestergras

WHM's Regen isn't available in Brayflox NM.

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it dépends what level you play it..is a lvl 34 and as far as I mentioned I said if you have it....if not. you still can let things go up to 4 stacks without problem and use esuna when it reaches 4 stacks.. if you have regen as some go there at 34 then is even easier, as far as I remember Bray is 32-34/35 dungeon...so yeah you could have it
eh?

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Originally Posted by Bebekurenai

Yeah... guys don't do that. This isn't Aurum Vale where you wait 2 or 3 stacks of debuff. Don't let anyone get to 2 or 4 stacks if you can dispell it. No reason to. You won't run out of mp. Only reason to make people have stacks is being on sch and having Selene dispell every minute. 4 stacks or even 2, and boss crits or launches poison pool and does his frontals and tumults, and you WILL run out of mp with that method.
Stop giving wrong advice already.

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Ok any time anywhere you want to get a lesson about that particular in Bray norm I am your *man* say it and I will be there, and once i have proven you wrong...I want an apology on these boards.

Let me know

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

it dépends what level you play it..is a lvl 34 and as far as I mentioned I said if you have it....if not. you still can let things go up to 4 stacks without problem and use esuna when it reaches 4 stacks.. if you have regen as some go there at 34 then is even easier, as far as I remember Bray is 32-34/35 dungeon...so yeah you could have it
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No, Regen is a level 35 skill and Brayflox syncs you down to level 34, so WHM's Regen will never be available.

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

Ok any time anywhere you want to get a lesson about that particular in Bray norm I am your *man* say it and I will be there, and once i have proven you wrong...I want an apology on these boards.

Let me know

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I'd rather not. Your advices are the perfect example of what NOT to do. Apology for what? If I'd ask you for apologies every time you were wrong, you'd be banned from these forums for flooding.

Yeah... no. As already said, Regen is a lvl 35 spell WHM Job quest skill. Stoneskin is the level 34 spell that conjurers learn. I'm having flashbacks to when I had multiple wipes in 2013-early 2014 in Brayflox just reading that advice.

Leviathan HM for Trials. After adds pop the first time, OT loses hate on the tail (to the DRG, I guess), and the DRG calls it out. The salt shaker spills over after that, with the OT and DRG name-calling each other the whole time. Almost zero problems that fight, aside from that aggro slip. No deaths nothing. I don't think I've seen things go from 0 to 10 on the rage scale that quick.

Speaking of DRG tanks, I queued for a mentor roulette this morning and got Labyrinth of the Ancients. Two tanks in my alliance, both in tank stance, both geared in a mix of 230/240 gear.

Everything C alliance was supposed to tank, I was DRG tanking. Big trash on the way to Bone Dragon? Tanked it. Platinals? Tanked em. Atomos? Tanked it. C Vassagos was all mine. (The DRK actually tried for 2 seconds but it went right back to me. Bruh do you even power slash.) Then both our tanks died to Ancient Flare at Phlegethon so i tanked the Iron Giant at the pads. Bless the AST who kept me healed up, he got my comm.

Apologies Flustergas wasnt for you typing un train isnt easy

Dont call otgers liars if you cabt walk the talk

Yeah sorry for regen for sone reason had in mind was 34 still stands you dont need to remove the poison before 4 stacks and 2 on dps

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

Dont call otgers liars if you cabt walk the talk

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He didn't call you anything o_O

Are you trolling and looking for drama on purpose? I really can't seem to understand your logic.

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I know this is totally my fault. I main sch although I have ast lvl 60 as well. Now on where I have Leeches for SCH, that's where I placed Benefic II and where I have Physick, I have Exalted Detriment for AST.

I helped one FC member with Titan story mode along with two other FC members. I forgot I went in as AST, and kept Exalted-ing him and I was wondering why he wasn't being healed. Took me a while to realize not on my SCH and my keys are slightly different. We almost wiped and it was an odd experience.

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

there are no reasons whatsoever to run out of mana or have to get mad at Healing poison more so in Bray (except if people purposedly stand in pool of poison ....but is me.

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Nowhere did I say that I run out of mana or got mad because I had to cleanse poison..:confused:
I just said I hate doing that dungeon on said class. Because it's annoying. If anything, I'm mad because I CAN'T cleanse poison.

And in case that wasn't obvious:
It's not like I can't deal with it, and tbh, your advice is so wrong, I'd actually start having troubles if I did follow it..:rolleyes:

There is literally NO REASON to wait with despelling on WHM/AST. All that would be doing is force you into constant healing to keep them alive, instead of allowing you to stay in Cleric Stance most of the time.
And no, a bit of despell does not mean you'll instantly run out of MP either..u.u

Now yes, SCH is a bit more tricky, but still. If the tank DOES pull the dragon out of the green goo and the fight isn't unnecessarily prolonged, just use Eos' regen and you can pretty much ignore everyone's health and status effects anyway and by the time it wears off the boss is dead.
If the tank does not pull the dragon out and the combined DPS is not high enough to burn it down even in the regeneration goo, there's nothing you can do as the healer anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I once had a fight that went on for somewhere between 12 and 20 minutes before I just intentionally wiped the group because it was literally going nowhere.

I was 49 on my Warrior and I queued up for Aurum Vale, I usually take it slow because I often get new people in the group and I need to explain certain things, especially the beginning to keep people from pulling more than the poor healer can keep up...Yeah I got a Lalafel healer...Didn't speak a word of english, obviously used macro's to speak..didn't bother me, what did bother me was the "Go go go 2/3 packs always" and he'd run in and just start pulling mobs back and then running back to me, when about 90% of the mobs were dead, He'd run off and gather more..

I mean...I think what pisses me off the most is that when he pulled a lot and I took hate off him to tank...the little son of a...He healed me just fine and kept me up, He did his job REALLY well, It just doesn't sit well with me when I had 0 word in what I wanted to pull and when...It's a rant, I mean I think it's a rant..ugh...

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Originally Posted by LordX

I was 49 on my Warrior and I queued up for Aurum Vale, I usually take it slow because I often get new people in the group and I need to explain certain things, especially the beginning to keep people from pulling more than the poor healer can keep up...Yeah I got a Lalafel healer...Didn't speak a word of english, obviously used macro's to speak..didn't bother me, what did bother me was the "Go go go 2/3 packs always" and he'd run in and just start pulling mobs back and then running back to me, when about 90% of the mobs were dead, He'd run off and gather more..

I mean...I think what pisses me off the most is that when he pulled a lot and I took hate off him to tank...the little son of a...He healed me just fine and kept me up, He did his job REALLY well, It just doesn't sit well with me when I had 0 word in what I wanted to pull and when...It's a rant, I mean I think it's a rant..ugh...

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Like... He knew better than you what you and he could handle?

OK this is a few weeks old. I was running bis ex with a friend for the bird and we kept running into another half party. It was awesome for df as they were good and we had lots of fun together. We saw a lot of birds drop and when their party had all theirs I was a bit sad as it would then be back to normal df parties (shudder).

To my surprise they turned up again and ran a few more with us to try and get me a bird too, I wasn't lucky but I felt write privileged they had come back to help out a stranger :)

It really made me happy for ages and I know I'll get the bird eventually :)

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Originally Posted by TaranTatsuuchi

Like... He knew better than you what you and he could handle?

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Still. Bad form. One missed mob on the healer or DPS could mean a wipe. It's one thing to trust you tank to do their job, it's another thing to trust them to be able to react to your shenanigans. Props to the tank for rolling with it and not losing patience.

I just clipped through Bismarck in Bis HM.
That's... That's just embarrassing. I'm literally dead before the adds even spawned because for some reason that dumb whale was not solid when I jumped onto him. My god. My god, please bury me and play some lame song, I'm literally bright red in embarrassment

They're fighting the adds as I type this. I clipped through Bismarck and died before the adds spawned. THROUGH BISMARCK. Why does this always happen to me,

UPDATE: They wiped. Both thanks and one healer are gone. This is incredible and I wanna lie down and spontaneously combust. This is so embarrassing

Main Scenario Roulette as AST, co-healer is a WHM. It's Praetorium. This WHM insists on pulling and tanking everything, and can't be bothered to wait for tanks to do anything.

I did what I always do as AST in MSQ roulette, which is throwing up Aspected Helios and Benefic on one of the tanks, keeping people alive if they start to drop on HP, drawing cards, and then switching to Cleric Stance to DPS a bit, etc.

Usually, I'm rather lucky to get a comm for any of this. This time, I got 4. I guess, when your co-healer is most decidedly not doing their job, you look awesome in comparison for doing it.

... As if clipping through Bismarck wasn't weird enough.
So after we all left Bis me and my friends signed up again, adn got Chrysalis. General moaning in the linkshell, we all hate that place.

So I shoulder tackle Nabriales right as he teleports and... I end up literally next to him, on the other side of the map, where he just teleported to. I just... shoulder tackle-teleported with him. What is this game DOING right now.

To quote my friend in the linkshell:
Nabriales speedrun strat.

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Originally Posted by vanitaslaughing

I just clipped through Bismarck in Bis HM.

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Yeah there is a split second after he rams the island before he turns into "solid ground". Because of that, I wait a short moment before jumping on now.
And yes, I also learned it the hard way ;)

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Originally Posted by vanitaslaughing

So I shoulder tackle Nabriales right as he teleports and... I end up literally next to him, on the other side of the map, where he just teleported to.

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That is AWESOME and I absolutely need to try it xD
Although I doubt I'll be able to pull the timing off °-°

I think this is probably the same way my BLM casts work in that fight. Like, if I start casting before he teleports, my fireball hits him where he lands, the cast isn't interrupted or anything.

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Originally Posted by Drkdays

Still. Bad form. One missed mob on the healer or DPS could mean a wipe. It's one thing to trust you tank to do their job, it's another thing to trust them to be able to react to your shenanigans. Props to the tank for rolling with it and not losing patience.

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I agree, I meant it as more of a suggestion of his possible mindset.

Sees they've added the weapon upgrade item. It's been over month since I actually played and I only got about four hours of sleep. Sure, let's run Weeping City. For the most part everything went fine. Something happened with C during Ozma and both their healer's quit. We tried, but ended up wiping. Second round I went to hit "5" and missed and hit "R" instead and ran off the edge. It was at the start of the fight so it was all good. Weakness ran out sometime during the Ozmashade part. Then during Calofestorie someone kept triggering the hair jail. At one point there were two right next to each other and when breaking out the first group we got grabbed. Didn't wipe during that fight, but I personally died five times. Got a Comm.

Then I went and did VA. Nothing exciting happened. But I did get my AST weapon upgraded and died it Pink.

Speaking of Wiping Shitty, I went in as SCH yet again, today. Looked for a healer's jacket, walked off with a tank's circlet because I haven't seen that damn jacket drop in weeks.

On the plus side, my co-healer was a WHM who actually knew what they were doing, and... and before this I'd never truly appreciated just having a co-healer who's not incompetent, an asshole, or an incompetent asshole before, in Wiping Shitty. I could DPS! I could heal! Nobody ran into the damn Ozmaspheres when I said I'd eat them, allowing me to eat them safely, and heal and shield myself! I could do my job and they did their job, and it worked!

And there were no wipes! Except that somehow, both the other alliances ended up wiping to Calofisteri, while my own was the only one that apparently knew how to dodge mechanics. So at one point it was just us two healers, dodging mechanics, keeping the MT alive, and trying to find some time to ress the other alliances' healers.

To be honest, a situation like this is just another Tuesday in Wiping Shitty for me. Nothing out of the ordinary. I've carried entire groups before and had nothing to show for it. I wasn't expecting any comms at all, especially since I didn't have to do anything particularly stressful, with a good co-healer. So imagine my surprise when I left, and 4 comms popped up. Thanks for all that.

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Yeah there is a split second after he rams the island before he turns into "solid ground".

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I know that one, I actually legitimately clipped through him while everyone else who jumped at the same time was on him. It was weird, and even hours later I'm still kind of embarrassed. Maybe my angle was just off and I touched part of his back that just sends oyu tumbling and it didn't register properly so I just clipped through, or whatever, but that was very strange and I hope I don't get Bis HM any time soon. At least I can avoid the farms because I have the bird but weh;;

Stone Vigil normal. WAR, SCH, NIN, and me on BRD. Tank makes a slightly larger than normal first pull, catching the healer off guard and causing a near-wipe as mobs pick us off one by one. At this point the healer makes some suggestions to the tank about gearing. Tank seems to take the advice okay which is cool. We continue on and the tank has to go afk for a bit before the first boss.

Then the healer addresses me. Wait, what? What'd I do?

During the entire 10 minutes or so the healer goes on to pick apart my gear, even linking BiS Weeping City pieces that I need instead of what I've got on. I'm utterly confused and embarrassed by this. And I still am. I get it: He wants to be helpful. I didn't pay attention to icons, but maybe he got this as Mentor Roulette and wanted to do his job. He's a bard main. But this still felt like going to a dine-in restaurant and having the waiter pick apart my clothes even though I dressed-up to the extent that I could.

Honestly... I don't have a static. So raiding and ex primals are pretty much on the back-burner for me. When it comes to playing the jobs I do, I just try to learn and do enough of my job to not get yelled at. I try to gear up enough to not get yelled at. I even try to meld the proper secondaries to not get yelled at. Yet here I am, in a low level dungeon, getting my gear choice picked apart. I'm still embarrassed. I kind of just want to avoid DF now.

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

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Or you could carry Antidote on you? 1 minute CD and is off the global cooldown (OGCD) you don't want stacks to rise up and hurt your tank especially if they're new and don't avoid stuff or get a bad knockback and a poison ticks. I know it's low lvl but having Antidotes, Spine Dropes, etc cost literally like 100 gil and 1-2 spaces on your hotbar. I always carry them on my Sch in case I do get low lvl stuff when I que with my friends through lvling roulette or specific que for anything under lvl 40 but that's just me, also you don't get regen till lvl 35 as a Whm soo..yeah there's that why would you want stacks to rise up to 3-4 making your job as a healer more stressful where you can get rid of it and DPS/heal? I don't get your logic.

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Originally Posted by Awful

Or you could carry Antidote on you? 1 minute CD and is off the global cooldown (OGCD) you don't want stacks to rise up and hurt your tank especially if they're new and don't avoid stuff or get a bad knockback and a poison ticks. I know it's low lvl but having Antidotes, Spine Dropes, etc cost literally like 100 gil and 1-2 spaces on your hotbar. I always carry them on my Sch in case I do get low lvl stuff when I que with my friends through lvling roulette or specific que for anything under lvl 40 but that's just me, also you don't get regen till lvl 35 as a Whm soo..yeah there's that why would you want stacks to rise up to 3-4 making your job as a healer more stressful where you can get rid of it and DPS/heal? I don't get your logic.

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I remember when you needed to use antidotes in that level 15ish quest for the main story way back when...
Or you died...

Just got out of Hullbreaker Hard Mode. We all said hello to each other. No one did poorly. No one died. We all did the mechanics to a tee, and it went fairly quick.

And at the end of it all, I get three coms. I'm a black mage. My head hurts now.

Keeper of the Lake as PLD. Other party members were WHM, MNK, and SMN. This run took 50 minutes to complete.

First of all, the DPS was slower than molasses in winter. So yeah, 50 minutes.

Second of all, at the first boss, this WHM just. Kept. Spamming. Cure. Maybe an occasional Medica II and Regen thrown in. Popped Divine Seal + Shroud of Saints before I'd even pulled. I sat at full HP from the regens and they just kept spamming Cure over and over and over until I got sick of the sound effect of the spell. I'm not even joking, they ran out of MP spamming Cure and managed to die to the first boss as it reached the last 2%. I had absolutely no aggro issues at all this entire run, so any deaths that occurred were due to AoEs or random targeting attacks.

But fine, no wipes. Until Midgardsormr. Oh my god, Midgardsormr.

First try, both WHM and MNK died to Midgardsormr's ultimate blast, because they ran to the very edge of the arena, instead of staying inside the invincibility shield, for whatever asinine reason. The SMN raises them both, but this WHM just can't manage their MP. I tried my very best in spamming X-Potions to stay alive, but it's a lost cause when the SMN and WHM both go down to AoEs.

Second try, everyone except me dies to Midgardsormr's ultimate blast, because they didn't get the shield up in time, while I popped Hallowed Ground. I tried, but once again, losing battle.

Finally killed him on the third try. What the hell. There was no new person bonus, nobody said anything about not knowing the mechanics, just what possesses you to run to the edge of the battlefield when there is a very clear field of invincibility in the middle, and a massive AoE that covers the entire room?

Amdapor Keep on my WHM alt with my friends on warrior and BLM. As the warrior friend and my alt are fresh 50s and because we wanted to open all the treasure chests, we decided to do a full run, which the ninja was not very happy about. We are wasting his time, the exp the dungeons gives are shit, most of the treasure chests are shit too (he's actually right about that, but as I said, we talk about fresh 50s, we take every single exp and every single gil we can get), and if we don't stop killing everything, he's gonna report us. Just wtf. We told him that the majority of the party wants to do a full run, and if he as the only person is not okay with that, he's free to leave. He didn't leave, but seriously, sometimes I don't understand why some people are this impatient that they even want to report someone for having another playstyle than themselves.

Selli be mad.

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Queue for Mentor Roulette. 40 minute wait time. >.> When it finally pops it's Shiva EX. Not excited it's a primal, but w/e. I'm on MNK. First attempt we make it to 20%. Everyone is alive, everyone is at full HP. Healers have <50% MP. MT says to LB. So I do.

Immediately, the tank goes down. I have aggro. I pop all my buffs. A solid 10 seconds pass. I go down. The healers go down. The rest of the party goes down. Why did we go down? Because the healers are FREAKING out at me "DPS are only allowed to use LB at 10%" "LB is only for healers" "Don't you dare use it again"

Are you kidding me? x.x We were FINE. And even if the MT had died anyway, one party member going down should never wipe a group. It's so easy to recover, especially in fights like Shiva EX. I popped Fists of Earth and all of my buffs (Mantra, Bloodbath, Foresight, Mantra, IR, PB, and Featherfoot), I was perfectly self sustainable for the raise, there was more than enough time to get the tank back up or for the OT to voke and the fight to carry on. But instead they started freaking out in the chat and let the whole party go down.

At least we two-shot it. But I'm still in disbelief.

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This was like 7-8 months ago. But, was in the Vault with a DRK. And s/he refused to use Darkside and Unleash. We asked why. They told us it drained the MP badly. We told him about the MP/HP combo and Blood Price. It said that they didn't help with MP. And my party was taking aggro constantly. So, I'm sorry to say, kicked them for not listening and taking our advice.

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Originally Posted by Kallistra

Selli be mad.

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THE FUCK? LB is for anyone who can use it. If it's that bad where healers need to use it that means everyone is DEAD. Who makes these rules anyway? As far as I know it's always ALWAYS been up to the DPS to use it when they can to finish out the match. What were those healers smoking?

Adding to the frustration of this run, my PC just forced me to write this out for the FOURTH time...omg stop deleting my sh*t :mad:

So, Cape Westwind trial roulette:

I was complaining about always getting Steps of Faith recently, so I was positively surprised when I ended up in Cape Westwind. I thought this was gonna be done in half a minute, and of course, in no way did I think it was possible to still wipe there in 2016 with a team of 7 experienced players. I mean, how could that ever happen? :rolleyes:

Boy, was I wrong.

So, it took ages for the walls to go down because the newbie who was watching the cutscene was either a super slow reader or took a bunch of screenshots or whatever, in any case, I never saw that cutscene take that long and...honestly, it doesn't really matter, I know that's just how things are and that's fine but my half-a-minute prediction was already destroyed x)

So when we were finally ready to go, we quickly explained "just focus on burning down the boss, ignore everything else" and the fight began.
After a bit, the 2 adds spawned in the South and me, being the dutiful BLM that I am (:p) threw a quick AoE Sleep their way and continued on killing the boss.

A few seconds later - the adds still firmly asleep from my lovely lullaby - the main tank suddenly ran across the entire field, dragging the boss along, killing 4 people in the process with boss' AoE or cleave (not sure which, it was all very messy), only to wake up the adds.

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He then proceeded to hit them, completely ignoring the boss who gleefully slaugthered the others because aggro was everywhere but with the tank :eek:

With most of the DPS dead, of course, we got all the nasty following phases with fire puddles and giant AoEs and everything...and while those remaining fought for their lives to finish the last few percent of HP on the boss, the former MT still stood there, all alone in the South, swinging his Nidhogg EX sword weakly against those adds which barely had a scratch.

Good job, mister ●‿●

Seriously, a big thanks to the WHM who saved that run, I'm sorry I couldn't commend you, you left the instance too fast :(