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

I did my trial roulette on AST and ended up with Ravana which I fought ca. 3 months ago for the last time so my knowledge of the fight was a bit rusty, and the newbie message popped up. Even worse, my co-healer was also an AST and the MT pulled without asking if everyone knows what to do ._.' Well, turned out the other AST was one of the gentle kind who won't overwrite my cards, and everything went smoothly, people properly dodged stuff, killed adds and stacked for the big attack to recieve my shielding Aspected Helios. Then the MT fell off the arena after the first knockback attack. And then I stood somewhere where I shouldn't have stood and got killed. While my partner threw a raise to me, people were eating a lot of damage, I'm not sure where all this came from, at one point it was only the remaining tank, a bard and me standing and the LB3 wasn't up yet ._.' I raised the other healer and together we managed to bring everyone back to life and full health - thanks to the bard who was actually singing without being asked for it. This man got my comm! Singing bards will always get my comm! The other healer also deserved it, really sad I had only one to give :(

Oh, and guess who was the newbie. Yep, it was the MT.

We had a drunk healer in Aurum Vale a couple nights ago. I literally watched him drop dead in front of me from standing in Gold Bile. 2am and I started cracking up.

Plonk.

Aurum Vale is my favorite.

Had the unicorn neverreap today for roulette. All geared players who knew their role. A DRK that new how to use CD, a DRG and a SMN. The packs melted so fast that by the time blood price wore off the tank, there was only enough HP left for 2, maybe three Holy.

Was beautiful.

Of course followed up by a Pharos ex roulette, with a fend WAR who plulled big packs, didn't Aoe for hate, almost no CD, and on top of that would sit on 5 stacks of abandon/wrath for the entirety of every pull. All with one of the dps being pretty much min ilvl.

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Originally Posted by FunkYeahDragons

We had a drunk healer in Aurum Vale a couple nights ago. I literally watched him drop dead in front of me from standing in Gold Bile. 2am and I started cracking up.

Plonk.

Aurum Vale is my favorite.

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Was that me because I did this very thing a few nights ago, while healing
I wasn't drunk though. I wished I was.

I just landed in an in-progress level 60 roulette that made me want to cry, though not for the reasons one might think. It popped immediately as JIP with 26 minutes elapsed. This raised a bit of a red flag with me, but I shrugged and decided to see what was up. Upon entering the instance, I asked what had happened as I caught up with the group, and the reply was that the tank was new. It looked like the group had wiped at the second boss (nobody had protect/stone skin so I'm assuming the healer just bailed after the group wiped there), and I decided to look over the tank's gear. I kind of have a soft spot for newbie tanks. :3

They weren't kidding that he was new. I was presented with a Warrior using an i145 weapon and left side gear, a law belt and some green dungeon drop Fending jewelry. Twelve love him, he tried so hard though. He helped with totems at the second boss and even though he lost hate on trash mobs fairly often to me and to the DPS, he pulled them back as fast as he could. Decent cooldown usage, too. All that was really getting him was the item level differential. I'll be honest when I say that made me a little bit mad that their previous healer had bailed. It's one thing when someone new doesn't listen and doesn't know what they're doing on their class at all, but this guy was all ears and he was doing the absolute best he could. I'd like to think that maybe the previous healer had an emergency, but I know the reality is that they probably just got impatient and didn't want to deal with a new person.

We wonder why tanks are in such short supply? It's because too often the new ones are subjected to a trial by community. :/

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This is why we continually tell the old bard from my static that his character's name should be Lagolas Facepuller.

He's facepulled pretty much every raid and dungeon boss with either Foe Requiem or a bard autoattack. xD

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That's actually one of the big things I've liked about Minuet (and Gauss by extension, although obviously I had much less pre-3.0 MCH experience to draw back from)... it stopped all the annoying auto-attack earlypulls I used to do by accident :/

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

Was that me because I did this very thing a few nights ago, while healing
I wasn't drunk though. I wished I was.

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I don't think it was, unless you were on SCH. Eos probably saved all our asses.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

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Some people tend to forget that we all were wearing i145 / i150 the first few weeks after the release.

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Originally Posted by FunkYeahDragons

I don't think it was, unless you were on SCH. Eos probably saved all our asses.

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I was, in fact, a SCH
Eos saves lives.

However it probably wasn't me since this was right after the battle. I was headed on my way to the next area then I had to stop for a sec and......I died. Observational skills at their finest

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Originally Posted by cgbspender

Some people tend to forget that we all were wearing i145 / i150 the first few weeks after the release.

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I know right? I remember going in there in a bunch of NQ level 60 stuff from the vendor in Azys Lla. xD

Got Ramuh hm for trial roulette just now.

Sch says they're new.
Whm responds by pulling boss, then proceeding to afk. I call them out on it. (3 ppl died due to dat pull)
Meantime drk is explaining mechs. (about getting 3 orbs in last phase)

Apparently not listening, because sch+whm gets tethered together. Whm is afk and Sch is walking around in circles. I tell sch to get 3 orbs. Sch gets 1, waits 10s (so the buff falls off), gets another one... repeat.
At this point I dont care anymore because in hard the dmg is negligible.

At 10% We get LB3. War uses it on tank LB because i can LB (I was drg)
I facepalm and ask why. His reponse: "I dont care because its just trial roulette".
I facepalm harder.

'shocking' run

See it happened AGAIN
A BRD in EX roulette who used Wide Volley

Why no stop please :'(
She was also only using Venomous Bite I swear....oh well

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

See it happened AGAIN
A BRD in EX roulette who used Wide Volley

Why no stop please :'(
She was also only using Venomous Bite I swear....oh well

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depends in what situation that bard used it, wide wolley is a large circle aoe, it's better than quick nock in some situations.

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Originally Posted by RyuSaarva

depends in what situation that bard used it, wide wolley is a large circle aoe, it's better than quick nock in some situations.

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It was in situations it was unnecessary... if I could hit them all with Quick Nock (which I was), then so could they.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

Why no stop please :'(
She was also only using Venomous Bite I swear....oh well

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/comfort :(
What's wrong with Venomous Bite though? :confused:


Had a less then pleasant 60 roulette run today ._.
Middle of the night, suddenly DPS is the most sought after role (I only saw that happen like 3 times in all my FF life so far xD) so I queued up with my little NIN. Gear level and ability to play all over the place, ranging from "just fine" on bosses to "well, my AoE sucks, what was I supposed to do with more than 3 monsters again?". The other DPS was a new BRD.
What we got was a full ilvl 210 tank who appearently thought it would put him to shame to pull less than EVERYTHING POSSIBLE. Now if I was on my BLM, I would have totally apprechiated that! But that wasn't the case.
So we had a new BRD who refused to use even one AoE skill in the whole dungeon and a NIN who just generally sucks at AoE. I don't think I need to explain that killing one pack took ages and every single pull had me on the edge of "oh god the healer is gonna run out of mana before we finish..urgh why does he pull even more now?! oh great, there comes final sting...you realize the healer is about to pull aggro, right? No?"

I can't say it wasn't enjoyable to finally be required to use all my supportive skills to the max to keep the healer from getting eaten alive, but it was all just so...unnessecary x.X
Yeah of course you could argue it's not as much the tank's fault as it is the BRD's for not using AoE on large pulls and not singing songs to help the party out, but he was new, his gear level was so low that even with AoE it would barely have made a difference, and he probably had his hands full getting to know all the mechanics and songs were the last thing on his mind.

I kind of expect from an experienced tank to know that the biggest pull isn't always the best option just because you CAN survive it. Like, a good tank should be able to see "Oh hey, I have 2 people with low dmg who mainly use single target moves, maybe smaller pulls would be faster!"

Void Ark, just done reporting trolls.

I joined in prog on my alt(lolsmn) to Void Ark to get my weekly items... only wanting to run away right after I got in.

When I enter I see A group, everyone without Soul Crystals. All I'm like wtf at this point and see the alliance is pretty much wiping to trash after 1st boss (knots not being killed etc, you know the drill). I decide to stay anyway, I am desperate for my drops... We manage to kill trash and go to 2nd boss. A groups BLM- wait excuse me... THM, decides to pull. We somehow manage, with MANY deaths.

Tentacle boss, doesn't go ANY better. Boss is JUMPING around the room. We wipe. I ask people to put trolling aside and actually beat this, only to be ignored.

I leave.

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Originally Posted by Naliee

Tentacle boss, doesn't go ANY better. Boss is JUMPING around the room. We wipe. I ask people to put trolling aside and actually beat this, only to be ignored.

I leave.

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I was in Alliance A. The funny part was that we wiped to people ignoring mechanics rather than to our lack of soul crystals, and yet people were blaming everything on our alliance. We ended up clearing after y'all left. :p

First of all, knots were dying in C's part of the map, while A was doing both A's and B's. The second boss we didn't wipe to, and 3 of our players were in the top 6 in dps. The 3rd boss only killed us because people can't do mechanics and that ended up killing everyone. Also, if they didn't want us in there without soul crystals, they wouldn't allow us to do so. So my conclusion is, other people can't do mechanics and blamed it on the people having fun. This is starting to sound like hunts.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

I was in Alliance A. The funny part was that we wiped to people ignoring mechanics rather than to our lack of soul crystals, and yet people were blaming everything on our alliance. We ended up clearing after y'all left. :p

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So an alliance of just classes?
Aww that sounds like it would have been fun. Wish I hadn't gotten my weekly stuff already and cued for that. xD Would have loved to see that. xD

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

I was in Alliance A. The funny part was that we wiped to people ignoring mechanics rather than to our lack of soul crystals, and yet people were blaming everything on our alliance. We ended up clearing after y'all left. :p

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Good for you, too bad I missed it then.

Guess my hat or maybe even pants were too tight for me to have fun. I just wanted to get shit done before letter, clear and smoothly.

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Originally Posted by Komoritane

Hmm odd. Sounds like someone was trolling if a mage pulled and the boss was jumping around the room, though. No good to troll on the pull if you don't want everyone to get stacks of bile :)

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I don't even know who pulled, honestly. Our ACN was pretty drunk so it wouldn't surprise me if he did it. xD

Still, that didn't wipe the raid. People ignoring adds/orbs and other stuff did, lol.

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depends in what situation that bard used it, wide wolley is a large circle aoe, it's better than quick nock in some situations.

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Take it from me, many BRDs are still using (usually spamming) Wide Volley in situations where Quick Nock will do just fine. Wide Volley also doesn't hit as wide of an area as the name suggests, either (Rain of Death has greater radius, for instance)

A lot of people underestimate Quick Nock's area of effect, at least after getting the trait that increases it.

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Originally Posted by Kidala

Doing Sohm Al just now I ran into a SMN who would not use Ruin, Bio, Bio II or Miasma. The only spells he ever cast were Shadowflare, Painflare, and occasionally Ruin II or Ruin III. When asked if there was any particular reason he wasn't casting these spells he listed the spells he was casting and said the others were "level locked". He meant Tri-disaster was locked due to level sync. Even after being told he could still cast his DoTs normally and being requested to multiple times, he refused to. I don't even understand..

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Lvl 60 main SMN here and whether actions are synced or not, I always make sure to nuke mobs with everything i have XD

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Originally Posted by Atoli

What's wrong with Venomous Bite though? :confused:

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

She was also only using Venomous Bite I swear....oh well

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This, I guess :) Venomous Bite is great but since Iron Jaws exists you shouldn't need to use it more than once per encounter (depending on boss mechanics), let alone spam it.

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Originally Posted by Atoli

/comfort :(
What's wrong with Venomous Bite though? :confused:

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Nah I meant they were only using VB instead of VB and WB. That poor dot was so lonely it wanted its friend :(

While I've gotten my fair share of ASTs that overwrite my buffs, now I had AST that wouldn't even draw cards in 50 roulette.

Go figure.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

I was in Alliance A. The funny part was that we wiped to people ignoring mechanics rather than to our lack of soul crystals, and yet people were blaming everything on our alliance. We ended up clearing after y'all left. :p

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Tsk tsk purposefully gimping yourself at others expense. :(. Roood. Joking that sounds like a hell of an awesome time. XD. I tried to get together a party of 5 DRGs for VA once so everyone could enjoy the superb mass pole dancing but unfortunately only one person was game. :(

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Originally Posted by Naliee

When I enter I see A group, everyone without Soul Crystals. All I'm like wtf at this point and see the alliance is pretty much wiping to trash after 1st boss (knots not being killed etc, you know the drill). I decide to stay anyway, I am desperate for my drops... We manage to kill trash and go to 2nd boss. A groups BLM- wait excuse me... THM, decides to pull. We somehow manage, with MANY deaths.

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i've done this with my fc. but we were good enough to finish. sounds like they were just bad, even a marauder should be able to hold hate against anything other than another tank in there. it's not like the dps actually try. and dps jobs are only 3-400 dps ahead of classes.

edit: ah i see they did clear. good show then. doing the same thing every week is boring, you gotta spice it up every now and again.

Ifrit hm today, enter in protect and stoneskin are used I look over to my co tank pld no stance selected ait.

Defiance up and prepare my opener as I pull, pld immediately switchs on shield oath.

Go dps war you noob, as I position ifrit

What the hell man lol decided I'll be mting this from then on.

Did an aery run with a friend, asked him to parse my war pleased to say managed to out dps our second dps by a long way each boss fight, also a shout out to the ast we had, I felt I could of stayed deliverance the entire run.

Always a pleasure to see a healer who can effortlessly dps and heal.

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Originally Posted by Immut

doing the same thing every week is boring, you gotta spice it up every now and again.

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Spicing things up is fully okay, but then please do this on party finder, not duty finder >.<

An FC mate asked for a tank for an in-progress Qarn NM, I joined on dark knight. There was this astrologian throwing balances to me, stance dancing, dpsing, everything was smooth, we cleared the dungeon from the second boss on without problems.
Later, I did my leveling roulette on dark knight and ended up in Qarn again - with the very same healer :D We had a good laugh, but like always he's on another server :'(

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Originally Posted by Stupiduglytaru

Ifrit hm today, enter in protect and stoneskin are used I look over to my co tank pld no stance selected ait.

Defiance up and prepare my opener as I pull, pld immediately switchs on shield oath.

Go dps war you noob, as I position ifrit

What the hell man lol decided I'll be mting this from then on.

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I never understood where this "pld = mt" thing comes from. Sword oath is something like 40% more damage than shield oath. Easily beats the difference between defiance and deliverance. PLD is the go-to OT, DRK is the go-to MT, and WAR is your switch-hitter. I don't know baseball so I don't know if that's an appropriate analogy.

I had a funny moment in a dungeon, sort of. I don't remember the name of the dungeon off the top of my head but it was like...the fourth dungeon you unlock or something? We get a few rooms in, our tank disconnects so we wait a bit to see if someone else joins - no one does, so one of the DPS get a tank from their FC. Fine and dandy, although they seemed a bit squishy - but I didn't mind reviving them at least. In the beginning, I told them repeatedly this was my first time doing the dungeon and I was watching the cutscenes.

We get to the final boss and the DPS runs ahead while I'm watching a cutscene and I see words cross my screen "so-so closes in 15 seconds." I try to get in a rush to close the cutscene, but I didn't get in in time and got locked out. Everyone ended up dying and I ended up laughing, the DPS was used to running ahead instead of waiting. Nothing against the DPS, but I just found it funny that they locked the healer out.

The second time we all get in and managed defeat it, although I died at the end and had to get back to the start - but it was all in good fun.

I've seen a lot of Void Ark horror stories, but never really had that bad of one until today.

I think I counted some 8 or so DPS try to pull the "Oh, I didn't get to the gate in time and got locked out of the boss fight"
Real funny thing was that they called each other out on it. Ironic how the people who try to AFK through a 24-man call out other people trying to do the same thing.

Its amazing how special people are.

Ramuh hm (again)
Warrior is new. I'm telling him to use storms eye instead of spamming overpower (he is OT)
After we wipe to adds, a monk says that only warriors and ninjas do slashing damage.
I'm like LOL, stop spreading misinformation.
He insisted I'm wrong so I proceed to alt tab and google to prove this guy wrong.
Now I'm actually amazed at how hard it is to find who does slashing damage online (or my search terms were really bad)
Eventually 5 mins later I find a reddit post saying what damage types all classes do. Copy paste and link it into chat.
In the meantime party has pulled when i was alt tabbed. When I came back previous monk called me useless.
I link the thread.
Seeing that he got proved wrong, he proceeds to call me useless (cos i alt tabbed to find the information) and says he will be reporting me for afking for 5 mins (lol)
I feel like stopping misinformation > my dps

Worst thing was the other people just said 'I dont care about storms eye, lets just finish this'.
and this is why we have so many bad wars out there

Oh duty finder, you always make my day.

Recently I returned to the game after an extended break, along with my sister. Because of previous FC drama where everyone was basically rushed into skipping all cutscenes through Heavensward, we decided to make new characters. I decided I would go WHM because I anticipated that both of us as DPS would have those dreaded 40+ minute DF queue times. My sister plays her fave class, BRD.

We decided last night that we would queue some Neverreap + Fractual to cap Est tomes because we only needed around 60 each. Fractual pops and we enter; party is made up of WHM, BRD, DRG and DRK. I noticed straight off that DRK had less than 13k HP and proceeded to pull the whole damn map despite two hits from the trash mobs putting him/her in critical HP territory with him/her using CD at the worst times. I had to spam Cure II like it was going out of fashion, I was always at around 20% mp but my sister is my trusty BRD and gives me ballad to help us through. First boss goes rather well, until last 5% where tank is KO'd as we dodge those AOE's and OFC DRG + BRD kill boss before I can get a Raise off so tank respawns. Not a problem, better for tank to respawn than have weakness for 1min when s/he's already squishy....

We then wipe on way to second boss due to tank 'having a drink' right at the point when the trash mob that spawns the Chimera pops. We get to second boss and there is a 30 sec wait, so I quickly check DRK's gear.... ilvl185 Sky Pirate body, some green body dungeon drops varying lvl 139-145, ilvl133 belt, 1 mnd accessory, 1 int accessory, 2 slaying accessories... I guess that explains the low HP? I figured s/he may also be a 'new' player and is capping tomes so figure I will just Cure II spam for this run... what's the worst that can happen? We proceed to beat second boss, though both DRG and DRK get hit by every swing attack... luckily there were no KO's. We get through to final phase and both DRK and DRG get caught in those bind circle monsters on way to boss; because they are both bound they can't use any abilities so of course trash mobs aggro onto me when trying to keep tank up.... BRD tries to aoe them all down but we wipe..... managed to get through on 2nd attempt and jumped across to final boss.........

Final boss takes 2 attempts to clear. First attempt is an ultimate derpfest - DRG is doing minimum dps and bad rotation, he also ignores all adds and we take the aoe damage, get knockedback and hit those dreaded squares with the mines and all get paralysed. It was hell trying to esuna & keep tank alive so sadly tank goes down first.... my sister and I had already guessed this would happen before the fight started because it was a nightmare trying to keep him/her up anyway. I raise tank but while doing so DRG proceeds to get KO from hitting another mine.... we end up wiping.

We made our way to final boss again and DRK decided he would try to go in on me. He asked if I was tired or was struggling to cope with the power of their overall ilvl185. As I said before he only had ilvl185 body, the rest was a mish-mash of stuff which probably put him at ilvl 150ish to meet dungeon cap. DRG pipes up that he is also ilvl185.... checked him quickly and he is also wearing an int accessory, a dex accessory and a FENDING ring.... I mean wtf? ....We proceed and clear but I have honestly never had to spam Cure II so much in my life. No comm was given, and I ALWAYS Comm for a tank who knows his job and doesn't get critical HP off trash mobs.

Me & BRD leave dungeon and queue for Neverreap.... it pops and would you believe it? Same damn tank in that run... DF be trolling lol. DRK starts mouthing off about terrible 'noob' BRD and healer who can't heal, and he tried to get other dps to vote kick us both. In the end DRK got votekicked for harassment... new DRK tank jumps in and we have a super easy and smooth run.

Well, I just got CM while doing the story roulette on my BLM. We wiped after first boss. Don't think details are important after that:eek:

So many...

The Gladiator at level 45 in Dzemael Darkhold that refused to get a soul stone because 'it isn't necessary' was my favorite. He was booted after the first pull.
Every AST ever that doesn't have protect cross-classed and/or set in the first slot.
The 'should be more rare than they are' tank that only auto-attacks.
The DRKs that say they have never been in (not tanked, but stepped foot in) a pre-50 dungeon. This happens quite often these days.

I'm sure I have more that are suppressed...

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Originally Posted by Artemiz

Well, I just got CM while doing the story roulette on my BLM. We wiped after first boss. Don't think details are important after that:eek:

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HOW TELL ME HOW ONE MANAGES TO DO THAT!

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Originally Posted by UnstablePersonality

HOW TELL ME HOW ONE MANAGES TO DO THAT!

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There are just some things you don't want to know.






My bet though, both the healers were new and in cutscene, they probably had a couple of WAR fate tanks with all STR who didn't use CD and pulled the entire section. Some dps straggled for lights, or picked up aggro on a mob and stopped following. Everyone knows that will kill a fate tank.

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Originally Posted by Artemiz

Well, I just got CM while doing the story roulette on my BLM. We wiped after first boss. Don't think details are important after that:eek:

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My party wiped yesterday since me and the other healer couldn't keep up with the tank's aggro pulling chain..they ran too fast.