Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

It was so weird. Tank, myself, and other DPS all died to second boss in the new dungeon. It wasn't the doom. The line AoEs just stood there and all went off at once instead of one after the other. I thought it was lag on my end, but all three of us? Then the healer no less, soloed the last 3% or so, and bosses TB didn't one shot him. Then I just went back to the starting point and the shortcut wasn't there. Then the healer got all pissy with me for not taking it. I probably just missed it? Hell man I don't know. That was effin weird ������

Not a DF, but losing 89 IX materia in 2 attempts...

Queued up as a Healer for Level 50/60/70/80 dungeon and got Grand Cosmos with a sprout PLD running it for the first time. First pull, I waited to see if he would do a double pull. Nope, single pull but it's fine. It was long and I was healing a lot for him coz he takes so much damage. First boss - tank buster got him down to 40% health or so. I was like wtf? So I watched him and the skills he was using and turns out he was only using Requiescat. Not even a single mitigation coming from him. I looked up his search info to see what language he uses and it's English so I told him to use his mitigations to lessen the damage and that he has other skills aside from Requiescat. I thought I wasn't healing enough, turns out he wasn't using mitigations. After saying this, he used Sheltron, Sentinel at least but no Arms Length, Reprisal, Rampart, Hallowed Ground. On the door to the final boss I just /facepalmed and the other DPS consoled me and also offered some tips to the PLD but we got no reply whatsoever. I had to Rescue him to the chandelier when he was burning too since he wasn't moving to it even if we had it numbered for him. It's the first time I queued for that roulette in a week now and I'm traumatized.

Mentor roulette on GNB and got an in-progress Ktisis Hyperboreia. They had just done the first pull, so I went ahead and grabbed the next two packs. I notice damage is pretty slow, but I just shrug it off and go on. We finish off the first boss and pull the next group and I realize this scholar is just spamming physick and the occasional adlo. I'm in no danger of dying, but I'm going through all my cooldowns. I ask her what's up with the physick spam and she answers "because she wants to."

I wonder why you would want to play that way. I can see wanting to focus on heals over damage, since there are folks that really just want to heal, but why would you never use excog or any of the other cool healing abilities scholar has?

Anyways, I just left the group because ain't nobody got time for that. Ran Sastasha with a nice group of sprouts instead.

Lv90: Smileton, as a DRK.

Party DPS was atrociously low that I just learned today their first boss has a tankbuster called "Heart on Fire" (paraphrase) & last boss has a raidwide named "Violent Discharge". The party was a Medica II Mage, overgeared BLM who loves their #3 enmity constantly, and a decent SMN.

In the The Labyrinth of the Ancients at the Atomos pressure pad part, had someone (DPS) on the button team continually getting off it to go pull ads back to us. We also has one of our members go to the wrong side, so we were lacking the usual numbers. I call them back in chat, I get ignored. The other parties kill theirs and realize ours is still standing due to button member wanting to hang out at the end after they decided to be a button sitter. People are yelling their name in chat to get back on the button, ignored. I rescue their ass back to the button and they run off back to the Atomos. More Alliance chat screaming for them to get on the button. One of the two who were working on killing the Atomos start making their way back to stand on the button when FINALLY the space case gets their ass on the button and stays there.

Holy crap, you have a flag on your name so I'm assuming you've done this dungeon at least once. Either just mad trolling or chugged skip potions. The only other situation I can think of is they were a pre 5.3 character that finished Shadowbringers without finishing the Crystal Tower and were required to run it, but I didn't see the first timer message. Regardless, read your chat!

Seat of Sacrifice on red mage. Tank pops the mandatory LB3 a little early, it snapshots weirdly, leaving only me, a tank, and a healer alive. I go straight into rez mage mode, scraping everyone off the floor while the tank and healer keep the boss busy. Soon enough we're all back up and running.

Then the boss goes into the "two people per spot" meteor mechanic......and nobody stacks with me, and I get squished.

And then I get left on the floor for two-thirds of the rest of the fight. With some wits cracking jokes about it.

Class, guys.

To the tune of "The Rainbow Connection", as sung by Kermit the Frog:

Why are there so many
Posts about raid wipes
And how a mechanic's B.S.?
Raid wipes will happen
(Especially while progging)
And PF is often a mess...
So we've been told, though some choose to forget it,
And then make a post full of rage...

But I know we'll prog it, the next real mechanic,
And someday we'll see the next stage!

Who thought this savage strat,
Resolves the mechanic,
When run with a group in PF?
Somebody thought of that,
This DC believed it,
Now look at this field full of death...
Why are we dying, are they even trying?
That tank's gonna quit in a rage...

But I know we'll prog it, the next real mechanic,
And someday we'll see the next stage!

All of us parsing so well,
We know that it's probably magic...

https://i.imgur.com/835Vz9N.jpg

I laugh a lot of this one, the rest of party probably hated me:

I was doing some lvl 70 duty as a gun breaker. Im a main tank so I can know how to play my role good (no awesome, but good), but I was just leveling my gun breaker job so I wasn't really good at doing mitigations. So, I asked my brother (a main gun breaker raider) which is the "tank buster" mitigation? He wasn't sure but he told me he wasn't sure but it was one of the last ones.

I truly believed him and start using the weakest mitigation on bosses. Of course I got my health bar low with those attacks and I was like "NO! im lagging too much!! the mitigation is not working!!" While the healer had to put all his skills to use.

Nobody told me anything and the duty ended without a wipe (kudos to the healer). After that I read the skills to be sure about the mitigations and discover my mistake. I laugh a lot and told my brother, we both laughed

Im sorry healer, such devastation... it was not my intention

Went into a Storm's Crown EX farm party. Cleared it once with this group. I've seen enough mistakes on that party to realize they're definitely not a farm party. Hell, someone even got a clear out of that, so it was a clear for 1. Absolutely lied to. I realize the group was probably doing a reclear or clear for 1 rather than a farm party, so I rather they advertised it properly. My oGCDs were all across the board afterwards for trying to adjust to all those mistakes. Anywho, I stuck around since I figured they know how to clear it now. The following pulls however ...

DNC gets me killed by getting knocked up by a tornado so they couldn't stack with me (as a healer).
Later, DNC gets me and themselves killed by not spreading on second AoE after stacking. They later complains about not getting heals after we wipe.

Gee, I wonder why you weren't getting heals. Maybe it's not because I'm dead, got 2 stat debuffs, and now lost all my MP twice to you...
Someone replied by saying "best bet is don't go down then" -- aka calling them out for killing me. :P
Anywho, after they said that, someone directly quit the party. After seeing people leaving and making excuses, I left because at that point, it was apparent people did not know the fight in this group to farm it.

While looking through other parties, I saw the DNC put "No Hrothgars" on PF afterwards with 1 other person and I realize they still didn't realize their mistakes. Instead, they decided to be racist? Welp, that's a blacklist from me.

I feel your pain. I've been struggling with Storm's Crown groups as well. People running into my (healer) clock spot. My co-heal getting wrecked way too much. One forgot about about Liturgy of the Bell. I reminded them... "oh yeah lol. I only play sage".

Enrage groups are a lie. Farm groups are a lie. I see a couple of solo heal runs advertised. I have so much doubt for that.

I'm dreading the reset for Sephirot. :rolleyes:

Now that was something. Eighth circle clear LAST MINUTE. Been putting off doing it all week (I haven't bothered too much with the other raids either), but saw the time!

Asked the party if someone who knows the mechanics could mark themselves, since I have only done it twice (!).. nobody replied.. but I just chose to follow some person around that seemed like they knew where to stand - and they did. Fairly clean clear, and I got a drop.

Heroes' Gauntlet as WAR, a WHM with lv90 gear that still uses Cure 1, oh well, whatever.
The most annoying part is getting rescue by the end of the pull before the final boss because apparently wall to wall means i have to bring the mobs at the end of the map.. but the worst part is the 3 mobs only spawn once you clear the first trash so there was no reason to waste time on bringing them at the bridge (and the whole group was there waiting with no new enemy).

This kind of stuff is annoying, it sometimes happens in Venaspati as well after the 1st boss, only 3 adds with a wall but sometimes they want me to pull until there

Last night (or was it 2 days ago?) Expert Roulette: Fell Court of Troia, as a DRK.

Had a SMN who complimented me for always pulling mobs into their Slipstream persistent AoE. Finished the duty super fast and got out with 3 comms. If I felt really talkative, I would had the urge try ask:”My comrade in Hydaelyn, what sort of monster that hurt you that you felt the need to thank me every single time I pull things into your AoE?”

/comfort

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Last night (or was it 2 days ago?) Expert Roulette: Fell Court of Troia, as a DRK.

Had a SMN who complimented me for always pulling mobs into their Slipstream persistent AoE. Finished the duty super fast and got out with 3 comms. If I felt really talkative, I would had the urge try ask:”My comrade in Hydaelyn, what sort of monster that hurt you that you felt the need to thank me every single time I pull things into your AoE?”

/comfort

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The tanks that don't pull things in slipstreams. Those monsters lol.

But yeah, this is why it pays to play other jobs. Even if they're not your favorite, you can learn how it relates (or not) to yours, so you can be more flexible and thus, everyone wins.

To the raid last night that tried to blame all of us tanks in Orbonne for Thunder Slash killing off about half the alliance:

I was on the side, had turned my tank stance off after getting enough aggro so the sam in our party didn't go squish if the other two tanks died. My little mob bubble was green, however I could see her flipping between the DRK at the front with their stance on and the DRK next to me in A that had their stance on.

She chose the DRK in A to slap, who was next to me. Along with 14 other people.

It is not my fault y'all stood next to me. It is not my fault you didn't look and move. It is not my fault that I wanted to be a good tank and let the other two DRK tanks swank their e-peen around for all to see and try to be the main tank.

However saying 'the girls are fighting for aggro' and a few other derogatory things makes me NOT want to tank and just let the boss fly around to do her thing. I don't like getting blamed for things I didn't do.

You have eyes, please use them.

Sincerely,

One upset PLD

I got Stone Vigil in my leveling roulette with a WAR, MNK, and AST. AST was on-level and watching cutscenes, clearly the first time they'd been here. Of course the tank didn't care. She ran off and pulled everything to the barracks--a standard but fairly large pull--and our healer couldn't keep up. So we wiped. Okay, fine, no biggie, it happens. Next time we just go slower, right? In fact, MNK even says as much: "healer seems new, maybe try smaller pulls for now"

Nope. WAR: "i do that pull all the time with no issues but ok whatever" (also worth noting that WAR didn't Holmgang, either)

MNK: "ast doesn't have good burst heals yet at 41"

And so we pull again, and with half of the stuff already dead from the first go, barracks is a breeze this time. Except WAR runs off immediately for the next (big) pull all the way to the barbican. AST is a bit behind, loses us around the corner, and then gets lost looking in the side chambers, while WAR is getting testy in chat: "where the f*** are you healer" and "can you not even do your job" and "fine just wipe us all again why don't you." They die (still no Holmgang, btw) and MNK and I clean up while AST finally joins us.

MNK chimes in: "dude they're a sprout and got lost chill out"

Then I say: "you also ran off quick and pulled big without checking they were with you" (I'll admit, deescalation isn't my forte...) MNK says they agree with me.

WAR: "braindead healers can't even keep up now ok"

Then AST leaves, and I don't blame them. We get a new healer in just as MNK says: "please don't harass sprouts, WAR"

Icing on the cake, WAR decided to RP walk pulls after the first boss, saying "gotta make sure everyone keeps up, apparently"

By the time the first loot roll timed out, we were basically at the end so it wouldn't have been worthwhile to vote kick, but wow was I tempted.

I get it, it can be frustrating to have an inexperienced healer/player on your team. But how hard it is to be kind and patient with sprouts??

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Originally Posted by novamare

MNK chimes in: "dude they're a sprout and got lost chill out"

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I've been around on and off since 1.x, and let me tell you, I still get lost sometimes in an ARR dungeon when I haven't been into it in a while. It's nowhere near like what stuff was in 1.x, but some of the ARR ones are still borderline labyrinthine.

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Huge yikes. I mostly tank and dps for this very reason, tbh. I haven't healed outside of trusts in a long time.

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I got Stone Vigil etc

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People not having patience with new people in ARR content is annoying plus sprouts will feel lost in ARR dungeons, my first experience as a tank in Dzemael Darkhold was awful because my healer kept pulling everything for me while i was so confused of what was going on.

Would have kicked just to get that stress out.

TIL the phase change cutscene in Ultima Weapon fight where they talk a lot is the exact length of time of going to the kitchen, getting 4 double stuff Oreo cookies, a glass a milk, dunking them all in milk and consuming them all at a normal pace until the next fight starts.

Source: me just a half-hour earlier.

Yes, asshole... I have Sprint on my hotbar but I was checking loot drops I need for this class while you ran ahead and died. I was just asking for you to not run ahead. If you enjoy death then that's fantastic but in your rush to clear the dungeon in 58 seconds you actually slowed us all down by dying. Sorry you lost your chance at World Record for Toto-Rak but next time just wait 5 seconds while I check the gear I need.

Had a surprisingly comfy run of Osborne earlier. Dragged half the bodies in my group around with me but nothing really bad happened until High Seraph.

Not just surprised with how often I get this in roulette anymore(seriously I waited hours in queue the first time to get it as a Healer, now it just happens), but also the fact that it's mostly second nature to me now.

Just had a really nasty Hashmal spawn and we lost most of the alliance. We then recovered but when you've only got half an alliance and half of that's been raised and is debuffed, you can't really meet the DPS check... It was actually fun though even if there was 5 people on my team dying on each major boss(and no sprouts/CS on my team either). Really helped that no one gave me or anyone else any lip nor did anything stupid like tanks fighting for aggro happen. No one really talked and people just dealt with things as they happened(like my tank giving it a go at Mustadio, getting sniped and another tank just taking over, no questions asked). Think the most anxiety I had that run was when another group's SAM got really, really close to the Seraph while 6 or 7 people in other groups were still in cutscenes.

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Had a surprisingly comfy run of Osborne earlier. Dragged half the bodies in my group around with me but nothing really bad happened until High Seraph.

Not just surprised with how often I get this in roulette anymore(seriously I waited hours in queue the first time to get it as a Healer, now it just happens), but also the fact that it's mostly second nature to me now.

Just had a really nasty Hashmal spawn and we lost most of the alliance. We then recovered but when you've only got half an alliance and half of that's been raised and is debuffed, you can't really meet the DPS check... It was actually fun though even if there was 5 people on my team dying on each major boss(and no sprouts/CS on my team either). Really helped that no one gave me or anyone else any lip nor did anything stupid like tanks fighting for aggro happen. No one really talked and people just dealt with things as they happened(like my tank giving it a go at Mustadio, getting sniped and another tank just taking over, no questions asked). Think the most anxiety I had that run was when another group's SAM got really, really close to the Seraph while 6 or 7 people in other groups were still in cutscenes.

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The dps check isn't that hard and beat it plenty of times with over half of the people being dead from Hashmal, mass raises were common, especially when the raid was new content. Even then it could be easily beaten (the healcheck was harder tho :C and rip to thundergod wipes because 3 people in the circles was really hard for some reason... ah the olden times lmao). So it was more people not hitting buttons, but anyways.

You can get right to Ultimas hitbox and she won't attack until attacked, she doesnt auto engage. Probably gives a lot of people scares but I always get right up there and wait because it's funny to do, just don't attack her and don't get in her hitbox because I think that's a little too far for her, lol

Joined Expert roulette, tank is a mentor pld.
I inspect their adventurer plate.
"Please give me head pats"
I pat them.
I get slapped.
Ok rude.

At the end of the roulette I'm pretty absent-minded because I'm voice chatting.
Accidentally type "hello" instead of my usual "nice work" at the end because these lines are pretty much on auto pilot nowadays.
Paladin calls me cringe for "having a hello macro".
Ok, have a nice day, I guess.

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Joined Expert roulette, tank is a mentor pld.
I inspect their adventurer plate.
"Please give me head pats"
I pat them.
I get slapped.
Ok rude.

At the end of the roulette I'm pretty absent-minded because I'm voice chatting.
Accidentally type "hello" instead of my usual "nice work" at the end because these lines are pretty much on auto pilot nowadays.
Paladin calls me cringe for "having a hello macro".
Ok, have a nice day, I guess.

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This is bizarre and hilarious lol.

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The dps check isn't that hard and beat it plenty of times with over half of the people being dead from Hashmal, mass raises were common, especially when the raid was new content. Even then it could be easily beaten (the healcheck was harder tho :C and rip to thundergod wipes because 3 people in the circles was really hard for some reason... ah the olden times lmao). So it was more people not hitting buttons, but anyways.

You can get right to Ultimas hitbox and she won't attack until attacked, she doesnt auto engage. Probably gives a lot of people scares but I always get right up there and wait because it's funny to do, just don't attack her and don't get in her hitbox because I think that's a little too far for her, lol

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The heal check is stupidly easy though. Throw up regens, pop what OGCD group heals you have as needed, and then just throw out moderate amounts of your regular group heal while DPSing. And I'm not entirely sure, cause I think my team had the most people alive at that point with it being four. One group was literally just a tank and a healer, think another was a tank and two DPS and mine was both healers, a tank and a DPS. Half the people there had the res debuff on them.

And actually, my group messed up on Thundergod. Someone dropped one of the orbs over one of the circle pads, so we didn't get 3 people on it. I just healed right through it(although it did almost kill everyone).

I didn't actually know where the auto engage was for Seraph though.

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The heal check is stupidly easy though. Throw up regens, pop what OGCD group heals you have as needed, and then just throw out moderate amounts of your regular group heal while DPSing. And I'm not entirely sure, cause I think my team had the most people alive at that point with it being four. One group was literally just a tank and a healer, think another was a tank and two DPS and mine was both healers, a tank and a DPS. Half the people there had the res debuff on them.

And actually, my group messed up on Thundergod. Someone dropped one of the orbs over one of the circle pads, so we didn't get 3 people on it. I just healed right through it(although it did almost kill everyone).

I didn't actually know where the auto engage was for Seraph though.

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Everything can wipe but they nerfed the circle thing, that was a wipe before! That was usually the biggest mechanic people mwssed up lol
They also MASSIVELY nerfed the healcheck, its extremely laughable now :C

And I think it‘s stepping over her targetcircle. Never tried getting in, but everywhere around it is 100% save!
Its funny to dance in her face for intimidation

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Everything can wipe but they nerfed the circle thing, that was a wipe before! That was usually the biggest mechanic people mwssed up lol
They also MASSIVELY nerfed the healcheck, its extremely laughable now :C

And I think it‘s stepping over her targetcircle. Never tried getting in, but everywhere around it is 100% save!
Its funny to dance in her face for intimidation

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Did they nerf it or is it just because it's not ilvl sync'd and every new set of gear power creeps it?

Also the clock mechanic(circles I'm guessing?) is probably the easiest mechanic. Only reason to mess it up is if the people with spread markers decide to be jerks and not spread farther back. Usually happens if you have random melee dps that don't want to move away cause their dps is oh so important. Hashmal's attack is still 100% instant kill if you don't move though. I have Icarus though so even if I'm in a bad spot I can just hop to someone but it's usually nasty if he decides to hit the side that's next to the seraph. Most people don't realize that it's better to run through the other mechs than to get hit by that.

Also Seraph's hitbox is weird during the fight. I have to tilt my camera up slightly to make sure it targets her. I'm used to it now but when I started it was so annoying.

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Did they nerf it or is it just because it's not ilvl sync'd and every new set of gear power creeps it?

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They legit outright nerfed it; it's even got Echo added to buff everyone.

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Also Seraph's hitbox is weird during the fight. I have to tilt my camera up slightly to make sure it targets her. I'm used to it now but when I started it was so annoying.

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This is a problem with tab-targeting large/tall bosses in general; if you cannot see their nameplate, it will sometimes not consider them 'seen' and will not target them.

Two alternative options:

1. Bind 'Target Focus Target' to a hotkey, then focus-target the boss. As an added benefit this works to quickly re-target the thing you want to target in scenarios like, say, P3S where you have four Darkened Fire spawns that are invulnerable until you remove their buff. As a healer, if you need to switch targets to spot-heal someone and then try to tab back to the boss, half the time you will probably end up targeting a Darkened Fire instead.
2. Bind something to Next/Previous in the aggro list. I have my mouse scroll wheel bound to this (and Control+Scroll Wheel for zoom in/out); I can thus just use the scroll wheel and zip my selection up and down the aggro list. And if there's only one enemy, as with the High Seraph, just scrolling the wheel at all will target them. For multiple enemies, with sufficient practice, you can get the muscle memory to know exactly how far to scroll to get X number of enemies lower/higher in the list. (As an added bonus, since the opposing team in Crystalline Conflict is treated as an aggro list and I have been doing this long enough -- e.g. two years -- to have that muscle memory, I can target an opponent almost instantly.)

P6N for weekly token.
We had a couple of new people.
At one point (The Chorus Ixou + Polyominoid + spinning front/back cleave) it quickly went from 8 people alive to just me (SCH) and both tanks.

I glanced at the LB bar and confidently press LB to get everyone up.
Except...

...apparently the bar is not quite full to 3rd yet. So I wasted it. LOL
End up raising everyone one by one.

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They legit outright nerfed it; it's even got Echo added to buff everyone.



This is a problem with tab-targeting large/tall bosses in general; if you cannot see their nameplate, it will sometimes not consider them 'seen' and will not target them.

Two alternative options:

1. Bind 'Target Focus Target' to a hotkey, then focus-target the boss. As an added benefit this works to quickly re-target the thing you want to target in scenarios like, say, P3S where you have four Darkened Fire spawns that are invulnerable until you remove their buff. As a healer, if you need to switch targets to spot-heal someone and then try to tab back to the boss, half the time you will probably end up targeting a Darkened Fire instead.
2. Bind something to Next/Previous in the aggro list. I have my mouse scroll wheel bound to this (and Control+Scroll Wheel for zoom in/out); I can thus just use the scroll wheel and zip my selection up and down the aggro list. And if there's only one enemy, as with the High Seraph, just scrolling the wheel at all will target them. For multiple enemies, with sufficient practice, you can get the muscle memory to know exactly how far to scroll to get X number of enemies lower/higher in the list. (As an added bonus, since the opposing team in Crystalline Conflict is treated as an aggro list and I have been doing this long enough -- e.g. two years -- to have that muscle memory, I can target an opponent almost instantly.)

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Aye that

And yes, doorbosses have that issue.
If you stand in their hitbox(mostly) and have the camera turned away, you straight up can't target them.
It's VERY annoying for healer and i'm glad i have Benison/aquaveil/Excog and other stuf flike that on a macros because i will not struggle with that more than i have to...

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P6N for weekly token.
We had a couple of new people.
At one point (The Chorus Ixou + Polyominoid + spinning front/back cleave) it quickly went from 8 people alive to just me (SCH) and both tanks.

I glanced at the LB bar and confidently press LB to get everyone up.
Except...

...apparently the bar is not quite full to 3rd yet. So I wasted it. LOL
End up raising everyone one by one.

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OMG are you ME?? Because my last story was exactly that, just for a different mechanic.
"Time to lb3!" lb2s

..... akward silence
Resses everybody....

Omg

Honestly DF doesn’t really phase me these days because I’ve seen and malded over it all, and honestly have stopped caring about people playing suboptimally in casual content (up to a certain extent of course).

On the other hand, I feel like a “tales from party finder” or “tales from your static” would satiate my hunger for drama much better given how sweaty high end content can be…

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P6N for weekly token.
We had a couple of new people.
At one point (The Chorus Ixou + Polyominoid + spinning front/back cleave) it quickly went from 8 people alive to just me (SCH) and both tanks.

I glanced at the LB bar and confidently press LB to get everyone up.
Except...

...apparently the bar is not quite full to 3rd yet. So I wasted it. LOL
End up raising everyone one by one.

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I did this once during a Ruby EX run when it had just dropped. I somehow survived with the tanks and I panic LB'd without noticing it wasn't full yet. Was suuuuper embarrassed, apologized, but everyone was super chill about it (and I think it was because it was probably impossible to get the full bar before a wipe?).

On the flipside, when I was still a sprout and I was doing Tsukiyomi for the first time, everyone but me (WHM) and a tank were left standing because I think the entire party forgot about the moon phase mechanics. So, while I'm desperately trying to stay alive, and trying to find a safe spot to LB3, the other (dead) tank is SCREAMING at me to use the LB3. Spoilers, I couldn't/didn't and we wiped. We respawn and the tank begins to endlessly /slap me and start berating me on how stupid I am. Bruh. Thankfully a few of the other party members told him to leave me alone, to chill tf out because this was my first time and that he's free to leave if he's not going to be patient with sprouts. He ended up staying and no one died to the moon phases again and it was a wrap. Tank left without another word and I ended up swimming in player comms.

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On the other hand, I feel like a “tales from party finder” or “tales from your static” would satiate my hunger for drama much better given how sweaty high end content can be…

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I'm not sure "Tales from Party Finder" would be hugely different than "Tales from Duty Finder" save by degree, but "Tales from Your Static" is an idea both fascinating and horrifying in equal measure.

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I'm not sure "Tales from Party Finder" would be hugely different than "Tales from Duty Finder" save by degree, but "Tales from Your Static" is an idea both fascinating and horrifying in equal measure.

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I feel like people would be okay with it if static horror stories were posted here. I just don't think I've ever seen anyone post any.

I don't know how many people would actually post about static drama in general though, because that kind of falls into a category of airing your "dirty laundry" out to the public.

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Originally Posted by Packetdancer

I'm not sure "Tales from Party Finder" would be hugely different than "Tales from Duty Finder" save by degree, but "Tales from Your Static" is an idea both fascinating and horrifying in equal measure.

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Yeah, Party Finder is basically the same as Duty Finder. Completely random people coming together with a common goal. It'd probably fit just fine in this thread. I know I'd have a few tales to tell.

My first time in Dying Gasp. I was the last one to finish watching the cutscene. Five seconds after the battle commenced, I decided to be main tank since the other tank hadn't moved nor put tank stance on.
The other tank started a countdown soon after I rushed Hades with my tank stance turned on.
He also provoked the boss seconds later and took over as main tank.
Reflexively, I apologized for starting before the unprompted countdown. Besides that, no biggie. At least we finished with no wipes, one death (not me, yay!), and I got a commendation.

Clearing out the rest of the alliance raids today. Or at least trying to.

First time aglaia and honestly, it was easier than Orbonne Monastery.

Then moved on to clear the level 60 araids because I sort of skipped those.

First time void ark ends in 5 commends- other healer is first timer too but they're a sprout, so they end up munching on the dirt a bit. But what makes this run rough is the fact that another healer in another alliance is actively trolling, yoinking their tank around with rescue non-stop and pulling everything asap for the whole alliance. They couldn't vote kick fast enough and half the raid gets cleaved a few times for it. It was also a mess for some other mechanics.

Weeping City is alright minus a couple of tanks cleaving the entire party.

Dun Scaith is a disaster. First boss I feel like I cast res at least 10 times. Ended up burning a LB3 at the end as we had a lot of people dying on the final one.

Yeah Dun Scaith definitely takes off the Kids Gloves and is going to beat those mechanics into your head or die trying. 10 deaths actually seems kinda tame to some runs of that I've done. Felt like I was just a rez bot a time or two...

When in doubt...follow the herd.