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Joined an in-progress Sephirot for my trial roulette, there were warrior and dark knight, white mage and scholar, a monk, three BLMs (one of them being me), a first time message and an echo boost of 10%. As soon as I load in, the DRK pulls, not even giving the healers the time to cast Protect for me :D Whatever, the tanks and me are the only ones not getting hit by that AOE attack Sephirot turns himself to the party for (whatever it's called, I don't know any attack names of this guy), thus I'm a bit worried about how many firsttimers are even here. Things are fine except for this attack though, we make it past the Ultimate and then wipe at the second Storm of Words not getting killed fast enough.
Now this is where the true fun begins.
After the healers Protect and Stoneskin us, the DRK pulls again without noticing that the other two BLMs left. We never get a replacement, so it's up to the monk and me having to meet a bunch of DPS checks. I don't think we make it past the Ultimate, but everyone is trying, and so am I. We enter add phase, kill everything, wait for the Ultimate... and survive! And we kill the first Storm of Words! And we kill the second one! Everyone is on point, it's too amazing. Then the scholar gets knocked off the platform, whatever, the WHM just soloheals! Unfortunately at one point the tanks start ignoring the towers, so we wipe nonetheless with Sephirot being at 30%.
Now we have an echo boost of 30% and half an hour left for the duty, we can totally make it, so I cheer the party up for another try. Too sad they're not as excited about what just happened as I am, so they just vote abandon :(
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Vault
We wipe on last boss, healer DCs and doesn't return. We votekick successfully
Healer joins, i do the usual "View search info" thingy for curiosity. See that (s)he's french.
I say "Baguette!" in party chat.
Healer leaves.
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I run Ex primals pre-HW regularly on week-ends SYNC. The number of fails in those trials is just incredible and by noneless by 230ilvl fully greared that allow themselves to call losers other players, NEW players, for dying when they themselves all they do is repeatedly face tank Shiva and get one shotted by the sword attack, attack Ramuh without bothering to collect the orbs and get one shotted or keep putting more then one circle on charmed people and kill them, dont move on the ship and get thrown overboard on Levi and this not once or twice but repeatedly even if repeatedly explained and told is just baffling. Sometimes I Wonder if they are just trolls or do it on purpose or just seriously believe that they can win like that.
So many more that bluntly tell others to ignore mechanics and just attack as people are all wayyyyy overgeared when is a sync run and to go and play unsync because is way easier and then leave a party that for many of them waited hours to have a chance to try.
Yep, all I can say is.....EX runs (namely Shiva, Levi and Ramuh for now) are really fun. On the other hand, it holds a very large palette of players, from new to experimented, from patient to impatient players and at times, just at times, you get that group that repeatedly end up together as they are seemingly the only ones runing those ex during that day that, by will power and stubborness, finally make it...is so much gratifying when it happens that is all Worth it..I would recommend it to anyone !
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Amdapor Keep (Hard), I'm with my boon ( DRK ), a BLM and a DRG.
BLM is on point as is my tank. The DRG however thought it'd be wise to pull before the tank- probably under the impression that I'd hoist him up and get him out of the fire. Instead, it would be wise to let the aggro go straight to my tank and to also give a hint that the DPS should know his role... so I let him die. He does this a second time a few more pulls after. Everyone in the group is also outDPSing him. He even had the nads to pull before my tank entered into the next area ( he was phasing to it, his connection is slower so it took a few more seconds ).
This DRG was also quite squishy and he kept kiting the adds anyway whenever he got the enmity he so desired. If my tank were to make an effort to reclaim the aggro, it'd be a waste of time chasing him and I honestly wondered if the DRG was doing it to be an ass and screw up the run.
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Leveling Duty Roulette: Stone Vigil, as a WHM. No new messages, but our tank was obviously a newer player (I didn't check his info, outside his sprout icon). The run was painfully slow, with the tank stopping between every mob, I assume to talk to his FC/LS, as I don't think TP is that hard to manage with such small pulls and decent DPS, myself included once he decided to turn on defiance. Bard (may have been a different class, he drops out later in the story, but we'll go with bard) gear drops from the bonus room after the second boss, and the tank demands the BRD to pass it for him to complete his collection. They don't because the BRD actually needed the gear, as they weren't sync'd. The tank then asked (tells) them to trade it to him. I told him they're untradable and a boost to DPS, so there's no reason to pass. He gets mad, the 2 exchange words, the BRD rage quits, insert new DPS. After that, his delay between pulls get longer to the point that our MNK would initiate battles and with no tank in sight, I just healed thru the damage. It was much faster than waiting for our tank to finish his LS conversations. We get to the room with the 3 Aevis'. The tank asks (tells) us to wait on TP (first time he's mentioned TP the entire dungeon), of course we all wait, but he stands too close and face pulls them, then types "WTF" as if we did it. -.- Eventually, we make it to the last boss and the tank says something about making sure we watch the ground for the AOE markers. I found that amusing after the fact, since he was the only one getting hit by them and up to this point we had not given any kind of indication that the 3 of us were unaware of the dungeon's mechanics. We survive, tank pulls a macro asking to rate him with a comm. He did not get it from me and judging from what I received, he didn't get it from the DPS either. Whelp. Just another day in DF.
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Did 60 roulette today, got ARF like always.
On our way to the boss room tank (I think) mentions this is one of the fastest runs he's had in here. (Comp was me as BRD, AST, SMN, and PLD).
It is very fast, great stuff.
We beat the boss and leave. I got all three comms; I was so surprised.... :'D
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Shout out to the 2 awesome bards on antitower run just now :)
The 3 of us (me on SCH) kicked butt after the DRK dc'd right before calca. Wish I could commend you both <3
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Well, just going to leave this here. (Only lala in party)
https://gyazo.com/4864eea2d5f5fd789b5d52460abc6467.png
To be honest, I was not in a good mood upon entering. I just wanted to get in and get it done, the above was just enough for me to contemplate letting them pull everything, dying and then calling em a fleabag (was a Miquote) before quitting for the night.
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I was doing my roulettes early in the afternoon today. We're in the middle of AFR when my phone goes off. It's a text so I ignore it and then my phone starts ringing. So I pick it up, put it on speaker, and keep healing.
It's my best friend, she's in the hospital and about to have her first kid.
I start crying, she starts crying, we start squealing--people within earshot thought we were fucking weird.
And I... forgot I was in the run and ran out the door.
>.>
<.<
I am so sorry.
[EDIT] For anyone curious: mama is doing super amazing. She was born with a pretty severe heart issue so she had a C-Section and she has to stay a couple days to make sure she's really strong before she goes anywhere (but everything went well and she's going to be perfectly okay. They just don't want her to stress out her body). Baby boy is strong and healthy and getting lots of daddy tlc while mama is resting. And I am one super excited and proud godmother (though I'm wondering when I get the fairy part? I'm pretty sure that was in the fine print).
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Friday, 24th July. I’m currently leveling Astrologian, so decide to run the highest possible dungeon for practice. Aurum Vale. For some reason all of the tanks we get leave the moment they zone in, followed by all the damage dealers, safe a quite friendly Miqo’te ninja girl. We clear some of the trash after an Au’ra joins but there is only so much we can do without a tank, so the horned one leaves. Our next random buddy, a male Elezen, declares he will wait five minutes before leaving. I cross my fingers, leave and requeue as a tank in the hopes of getting in the same instance.
Sadly, I get sorted into a new group. The healer says she was new to healing and seems pretty anxious (Aurum Vale can be a pain even for experienced healers), so we proceed carefully, giving tips and me turtling it. A few wipes while getting the hang of it and we finish it all in a good mood.
I do want to try Aurum Vale as Astrologian, so I queue again. No sooner has the barrier fallen, the tank bolts off, pulling EVERYTHING, without much effort to keep it to herself. I spam everything I can, hit Lightspeed for instant heals but we still die. Some mobs get dragged to the entrance where they start nibbling on us the moment we respawn. After a while we somehow find ourselves all together and alive, so I start buffing, then... déjà vu. With mobs at our heels, we run for dear life to the entrance and out of the dungeon. I start thinking Aurum Vale must be cursed this Friday.
I still want to do Aurum Vale as an Astrologian. Good luck this time, it goes rather normal but still not as smooth as usual. At the end one of the DPS (?) expresses his bewilderment at suddenly playing worse than usual. My fears of the Friday curse intensify, so I do not queue again.
Later that night, we have a FC run of the Expert Roulette. Sohr Khai, my favourite. Moglin went slower than usual, followed by one wipe for each of the other two bosses. Buddies apologizing, wondering what’s happening…
There was definitely something fishy going on that Friday, I tell you.