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

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Originally Posted by Highwilds

I entered Library as lv 58 Machinist. [...] check the dragoon's gear... only to notice there's a couple of blue gear, no HQs at all of crafted gear, and a level 50 weapon... A second later my screen darkens and I get the message "You've been dismissed from the party, and from the duty."

And that's how I was kicked out of a dungeon for the first time in my 2 years of playing ff14. My blood is still boiling from the whole incident. ><;;;

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Wow, that sucks ;_; When the other dps had lower gear and all. I mean, it's possible it was a friend of theirs and they were hoping to get an over-geared dps to carry said friend through, but...

Also, I'm really amazed at how you managed to enter the Library at level 58! =O That's some serious skillz, dude!

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Originally Posted by Noxifer

Wow, that sucks ;_; When the other dps had lower gear and all. I mean, it's possible it was a friend of theirs and they were hoping to get an over-geared dps to carry said friend through, but...

Also, I'm really amazed at how you managed to enter the Library at level 58! =O That's some serious skillz, dude!

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OOPS! Edited level! Haha. 8 or 9, what's the difference! Krhm! Yeah, probably the carrying was the case, since the dungeon caps at 60. Meh. ;;

Tried to level my my MCH yesterday. Got Stone Vigil three times, two of them being horrible and very short runs, since I had to leave both parties before we even got to the first boss.
Both tanks couldn't hold aggro for the love of Halone. I know, I know, SV can be hard for new, undergeared tanks, but both of them didn't even seem to care. Most of the time they just concentrated on one monster, while the others happily slayed our healers. After three wipes in the first run my Co-DPS left and I followed shortly after, since I knew this run wasn't going anywhere.

What made me really mad was the second run, where our tank was still a Gladiator. After a few wipes someone in my group asked them why they didn't change their class, that they'd be much better with their specific job and so on. Tank tells us that they know, but:

http://www.bilder-upload.eu/upload/7...1456056122.png

Wait. WAT PLZ. What was that even supposed to mean?
The rest of the group kicked them of course, but left shortly after.

At least the last run was pretty nice and I even managed to get to level 45, but all that trouble really annoyed me.

Had a pretty bad Arboretum run, and it was pretty much mostly my fault.

The tank was doing rather huge pulls, and the party was doing the honeycomb skip method. One of the bees stung right as I healed him, so he survived that, then the second one came right when all the others monsters used their burst abilities like a split second before, so it was pretty much timed so that it was impossible to top off the tank before it hit. Wiped there.

Then a second huge pull that I'd done before plenty of times, the second one right after the bee queen with all the bears and everything. Kept the tank up for about a minute, then the CDs ran out and the tank somehow took like 80% damage in a second. No problem, I was prepared for this, right? Hit benediction, nope, tank dies right as benediction reaches him. :/

The whole party ragequit on me after that. I feel like crawling in a corner and crying. :(

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

The whole party ragequit on me after that. I feel like crawling in a corner and crying. :(

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Don't blame yourself. People will ragequit over stupid things. None of these DPS stepped up to stun the bee casting Final Sting, none of these tanks choose to time their invincibility to handle the mechanic. People dump it on the healers and the onus comes to be on them - and that's something I find sickening and absurd.

So dont' blame yourself. You did your best. It's not your fault they decided to ragequit. And hopefully your party recovered after. Were I around when this happened, I'd come in there and show you what a real tank does. >:o

Had a tank rage quit over the weirdest thing just now in The Vault.

Boyfriend and I were finishing two of our awoken relics so we went into the last dungeon.

The tank couldn't really hold hate on anything...don't know why....we were managing though.

At the beginning of the dungeon tank was afk when the barrier went down, we waited about a minute for him to start pulling, but np.

After first boss (which was messy with my BF getting hate on the boss and almost dying) the tank goes afk with no word again for over a minute. No one says anything we just wait. He finally starts up the stairs.

Now after a couple more pulls he goes afk for the third time with no word for 2 minutes so I finally ask him if there is a reason for so many random afk and not telling us anything (I asked politely nothing rude). I mean he is playing with other human beings here and we are trying to play not stand around. If he has to afk I have no problem with it if he just types something but he is not bothering to say "brb" or "sry hold on" you know common courtesies.

Well I guess I pissed him off cause he went on a bit of a rant and then up and rage quit the dungeon all because I asked him why he kept afking without just letting us know with a quick "brb" etc.

Gawd these people rage so fast, he acts like I jumped on him the minute he afk'd for a second. He did it 3 times before I decided to ask him. Like really. Well we got another tank almost immediately and finished the dungeon no problem so I guess it's too bad he decided to get so mad at me for asking a legit question and nicely ask him to just let us know with a "brb".

Friends and I do 50 roulette with me tanking. One random DPS.
We get Halatali, which is fine, whatever. DPS are NIN and BLM, my friend. Other friend is WHM.
Hate is all over the place. I can't hold a damn thing against my BLM friend. Eventually we wipe and my healer friend just says to me "Uh...shield oath?"

I wanted to smack myself.

Wow, just wow. Was in a Sohm Al run and had a DPS with some MAJOR Rage issues, was called things like faggot and asked why I wasn't aborted O.o. All because He pulled threat off me during the last boss when I was moving him. LOVE THEM GIANT EPEENS lol

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Originally Posted by Amenty

Wow, just wow. Was in a Sohm Al run and had a DPS with some MAJOR Rage issues, was called things like faggot and asked why I wasn't aborted O.o. All because He pulled threat off me during the last boss when I was moving him. LOVE THEM GIANT EPEENS lol

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Yeah I would've let him die.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

Also because of WV he kept singing Army's Paeon since he was hemorrhaging TP.

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Oh my god you made me laugh there XD

I just remembered the first or second time I wiped to Echidna in Void Ark. Why did we wipe? ... Because the entire friggin alliance was arguing about glamours.

Like, someone said "I just noticed no one's wearing the damn Thavnairan Bustier in here! You guys rock!" before Echidna was pulled. Chaos ensued.

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Originally Posted by vanitaslaughing

I just remembered the first or second time I wiped to Echidna in Void Ark. Why did we wipe? ... Because the entire friggin alliance was arguing about glamours.

Like, someone said "I just noticed no one's wearing the damn Thavnairan Bustier in here! You guys rock!" before Echidna was pulled. Chaos ensued.

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This is the funnies thing to wipe to

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Originally Posted by Amenty

Wow, just wow. Was in a Sohm Al run and had a DPS with some MAJOR Rage issues, was called things like faggot and asked why I wasn't aborted O.o. All because He pulled threat off me during the last boss when I was moving him. LOVE THEM GIANT EPEENS lol

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Jeez. I hope you reported him. Those types of comments deserve a ban.

Also, if I were your healer. Yeah, he would be dying. :D

I queued in for Level 50 Roulette yesterday on my level 57 DRK and got Wanderers Palace HM. I was doing normal sized pulls, not small but not huge either as I'm still leveling. The WHM was also leveling as she was level 55.

At one point, after the first boss, I pulled a mob of 4 enemies (with defensive cooldowns on) and yet she still let the party die. The MCH says "wtf healer?" No response. Then, she finally responds in utter rage that we are all wasting her time because of the normal sized pulls I was doing, and since we are wasting her time, she's gonna waste ours.

Both me and the MCH responded, quite calmly, that she couldn't even keep us alive on a normal pull, let alone a huge pull. She responded with more rage and screaming about us wasting her time. So, we dismissed her.

Sure enough, she has one DPS and a tank at 60. I just knew she was leveling WHM so she could mentor. If you don't have the patience for people in DF (and only one single wipe which was her fault) then you sure as hell shouldn't be a mentor to others.

Just had pretty much the worst Void Ark I've ever seen. Tanks fighting over aggro. Bosses getting faced into the raid. Adds not getting picked up/moved. Abilities not getting interrupted. A co-healer that only used Draw 13 times in the entire raid and did almost no single-target healing yet managed to overheal massively due to spamming Aspected Helios. The entirety of Alliance A apparently got so upset over us asking them to stop their bad play (i.e. facing boss into the raid, not picking up their adds, etc) that they decided they were just going to play like utter shit for the rest of the instance. At least, this is what they said on /a at the end of the instance. Honestly, I think they were just that awful to begin with. >.>

I've been lvling NIN lately (is 57 now) I've done quite of Aery runs to try getting the lv55 NIN weapon (still using DV weapon) and have yet to see it drop. Have the whole NIN set though but no weapon.

But for some reason in some runs I've done, I've had people not even try getting me out of the sable price almost like they just wanted to sacrifice me. Though I would break out anyone that gets trapped in it. So not sure why some didn't even try.

At I already got my lesser panda, got it when lvling AST, but will be still rolling on it for my sister.

Oh well. Hopefully NIN won't be lv60 before I get that weapon. I really want it. >.>

Me and my boyfriend were leveling our alts, got Stone Vigil normal. Me as DRK.

I died four times. On single mobs pulls. Not the complicated ones either. Healer: "lagging" They cast Adlo on me when I'm at sub 100HP.

After the third time I die, I'm getting agitated. After the fourth time, I type in party chat "seriously?"

Please. If you are lagging that badly that your tank is dying on average pulls, then please leave. You are a healer anyways, once your internet stabilizes you'll pretty much get an instant que.

last night I got Wanderers Palace HM in lv 50 Roulette I was a bard there was a drg and pally and whm we got up to the first boss and the spears came drg didn't help me attach them stay with the boss then we had like 3 show up I was trying my best to take them down but at the end we wipe on the frist boss we kick the drg me and the pally and whm toke care of the fist boss as we waited for a new dps

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Originally Posted by vanitaslaughing

"I just noticed no one's wearing the damn Thavnairan Bustier in here! You guys rock!" before Echidna was pulled. Chaos ensued.

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I do have to question the truth to that, because it is scientifically proven to be impossible in a group of 24 players, including catgirl healers °-°
Just joking, sounds like fun times^^

My own little story:

One and a half hours before serverdown today, I decided to finish 15 A1 runs before the servers go down x)
Of course, it generally didn't work out because random parties aren't all that quick and pops take a while too on a weekday night, but it wasn't all THAT bad until I met the party that would become the bane of my token hunting :x
Me on NIN, 2 DRGs, 1 BRD. On Faust I already noticed that the dmg was...quite slow. But because I was talking in FC chat, I didn't pay too much attention just how slow it was.
When we got down to the boss, it got worse °-°
Split was at 73%. I have NEVER seen such a high number..xD I'm used to ~30% in df groups, below 10% in farms. Now, I know that I'm not exactly a great NIN and I'm used to being the lowest DPS at 900-1200 (depending on if I forget to put poison on my blades again..xD), but everyone was so. much. lower x.X
I was alone on Original, all 3 others were on 0.5, and still I had 1.0 down to 10% when the other was still above 30% HP, so I switched to 0.5 too. When it hit 2%, I went back, expecting the WAR to have taken away a chunk of 1.0's HP but it was still at 10%...which I finished before the other 3 DPS players finished the 2% on 1.0 ~.~
All in all, we had 8! jumps in that fight.
EIGHT.
No new or undergeared players btw.
I'm still kind of...speechless. And everyone was all friendly and acting normal, which made me think that not even one of them found the time it took to be weird or too long...maybe because they actually never had a faster run than that x.x

>Be me
>Be in Sastasha (hard)
>Be with 2 girls in the FC
>Be at last boss
>Both girls blush
>desu

This happened some days back and I kinda ranted on another thread but will share my story here for its relevance.

Got into Fractal as WHM. Things went pretty normal, then noticed that the WAR tank occasionally loses aggro to heals and/or dps. Normally it'd be a no biggie since it didnt cause us any wipes. Just kill and move on kind of thing. But he also fails to observe incoming patrolling mobs and provoke them. What happens to the patrols? They come to me/dps.

However, I start to notice that when a mob is on me/dps, tank does NOTHING to pull it back until like probably 20 seconds later. Repeat this for almost every mob pull.

We reach the Minotaurus boss. He did not, i repeat , did NOT avoid ANY of his attacks. Normally if everyone in the party does what they should do, I'd be helping to DPS almost the entirety of the boss fight but it's the other way round. I have to be on standby to heal him through every single boss attack (even the basic frontal attack).

Here's where it starts to get "fun". I realize his ilvl's around 170, so I figure maybe he's new. Asked in party chat if he knows what to do........no response. at. all. And yes, he does speak English (we knew that at the end). I even did the auto-translate phrases Can You Speak English/German/French/Japanese. Did all of them in succession, got a laugh from the DPS =p

Right before the last boss, he replies "I can speak final boss who cares" , and that's an exact word for word quote. Being a healer I responded in kind. I let him die when boss was at 20% and kept DPS alive for them to LB the boss and finish the dungeon. Left while leaving him to rot on the floor. I do not mind inexperienced tanks but I definitely mind douchebags.

Got 2 comms from the DPS after this =P. Do not piss off your healer xD

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Originally Posted by AlphaFox

Seems like a lot of these people are doing it for the sake of getting the jollies out of kicking people who do not agree with their thinking, or hoping to see rage.

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Nope. It's the 'mean people suck' coalition throwing their weight around. Remember: Disagreement is harassment, and feeling annoyed that you have to do most of the work is a hate crime.

i have met many ice blm or fire 3 only blm lol...

Went to kill Sephirot about an hour after the start of 3.2, so I guess everyone in the party was new to the fight. The first two times we wiped due to "we don't have a clue what we're doing here lol", during the third try the MT decided to tank Seph with its face to the party, causing a wipe in less than a minute after the start of the fight. Getting wiped in a brandnew fight via cleaves, I felt like "srsly!?" :rolleyes:

Starting off 3.2 strong. Farming A6 for a lens, run into a group of most new people (of course, first day of content). Two of them, a WHM and DRG, were the most annoying toxic people. The DRG acting like he knew all the fights told the other tank (I was MT for most fights) to do things that would've gotten him and the rest of the group killed. After I told him he was wrong, him and the WHM just started spamming "Hall of the Novice pls" over and over, sometimes filling the entire chat log. Enough that I'm pretty sure they had a macro for it.

Good to know people being asses hasn't changed.

Edit: Got a good follow up story. Some DRK in Burden of the Son (A8) kept yelling at me to tank swap when he had the magic down debuff... I never once tank swapped in that entire duty my first time through. After he screwed up and got vulnerability and died to a TB he started calling me "retard" and "l2taunt." Which is also funny because I did taunt, but he just kept hitting it in Grit, so I figured he wanted it. And then he tried to hold the group hostage until they kicked me. Fun fact, it failed and before anyone could kick him (people wanted to) he pulls again.

Just did A5, tank started explaining it before asking if we wanted to know. I let him know that'd like to go in blind and responds with: if you want blind go savage.
Sometimes, I just wished some people were a bit more nice.

Pretty amazing how many people are freaking out in midas when it hasn't even been released more than a day. Going into casual content blind and figuring things out yourself is too much to ask for these days.

Apologies if this gets a bit long winded, first time sharing a story from the DF.

So I enter Cutters Cry NM for the first time. Me (WAR), FC mate DRG (also new), a MNK and an AST. Say "Hello" to everyone and inform them it's my first time in this dungeon and to please let me know if there's any tips or tricks I should know as a tank (I should mention that I watched the Mizztec guide so I have an idea of what to expect). The MNK says not to worry, they've done Cutters a hundred times. AST says they'll do their best to keep everyone alive; buffs up and we're off!

I do normal pulls of 3-4 mobs, open with a couple OPs and start into my enmity rotation, notice that I'm having a helluva time keeping threat, look at my buffs...oops. Pop on Defiance and apologize to everyone. Keep going, everything is smooth, mobs are dying quick...although both DPS decide to attack different targets half the time, but I'm used to tabbing through my enmity combo, so no worries.

We get to the first boss, Princess Ant-thing. The MNK says they'll kite the adds while we burn the boss and does just that, smooth as silk. We congratulate each other on a job well done and move on down the line. We're going at a decent pace, maybe a little slow since I'm just doing the basic pulls and trying to learn the place, but no problems.

Worm boss, MNK says just stay out of the attacks and we'll be fine. Everyone runs in and starts their thing. Worm burrows and 1 shots the MNK. I pop a couple cooldowns to allow the AST time to res the MNK, we laugh it off and keep going. Down the boss without any other issues. We're trucking along and get to the final boss (I get a couple tanking upgrades along the way, new helmet and necklace, yay).

We all stop at the entrance and lay out the plan: Purple = In, Blue = Out, Ball = Run. This is where my ego gets the better of me, I think, "Hohoho, Roz, this has been a cakewalk so far, we are going to cream this Chimera!"

...We charge in, first eyes are purple, everyone stacks in, no sweat! Second, blue, everyone gets out in time, no damage. Third time, blue again, somehow I eat the damage as does the MNK. No worries, keep going. I'm dodging the breaths, trying to keep the boss as still as possible for the DPS. Ball, DRG runs, everything is A-OK! I'm not certain what happened from there, but the next blue both DPS eat it and die. I pop damn near everything I have to allow the AST to rez both DPS back into the fight. They both get up and we're looking OK, maybe a little ragged and silly.
From here on, I could not for the life of me (or the poor AST) get out of the blue in time. I don't know what was wrong with me but I raised my bowl out to the Chimera and pleaded for more. Apparently, the MNK and my DRG friend took my cue.

In my short time playing this game, I've never seen a healer work so hard to keep 3 idiots alive for the last 50% of a boss.

After we finally killed the damned thing, calls of "Super heals" and "Damn you are a beast, AST!" and myself apologizing profusely for making their life a living hell; the AST says, "Thanks. This is my first time healing as an AST, I usually play SMN."
Needless to say, there went someone who earned their 3 coms.

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Originally Posted by Anzer

(Also, 1000 limit sucks)

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You can simply edit your original post to bypass the limit instead of multiposting. ^^

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

You can simply edit your original post to bypass the limit instead of multiposting. ^^

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Thanks, I didn't know that, now I feel silly. I thought it was something you unlocked after getting a certain number of those medal things under your name. xD

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Originally Posted by Anzer

Thanks, I didn't know that, now I feel silly. I thought it was something you unlocked after getting a certain number of those medal things under your name. xD

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Unfortunately no. Apparently the beta forums were a mess so we have some pretty draconian posting restrictions that have just never been lifted. Editing to bypass the limit is counter-intuitive imo but they've shown no signs of changing it anytime soon.

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Originally Posted by Anzer

Third time, blue again, somehow I eat the damage as does the MNK. No worries, keep going. I'm dodging the breaths, trying to keep the boss as still as possible for the DPS. Ball, DRG runs, everything is A-OK! I'm not certain what happened from there, but the next blue both DPS eat it and die.

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I've done Cutter's Cry too many times, and running it as melee DPS it's rare that I'm able to actually dodge blue in time. I've run it as a ninja, ran straight away from chimera as soon as I saw the casting bar come up, was at least twice as far away from chimera as the size of the ice animation, and was still hit with the damage anyway. The only times I've been able to successfully dodge it was when I started running as soon as it mentioned the eye color change, BEFORE the casting bar for Ram's Voice is even shown.

My first clear of Sephirot Hard (not extreme) was with mostly FC people, in teamspeak, and a non-FC healer who joined via DF. We did it in two tries, pretty decent after an initial DC scare that led to a quick wipe with our hapless SCH, who had been DCing off and on before and after maintenance.

Later that evening, I signed up for a quick trials roulette, and was surprised by none other than...Sephirot the Fiend! Having cleared on my DRG earlier, it was somewhat daunting when the other WAR sized me up and immediately said "you're main tank." (Later I looked at his gear and was a bit surprised he managed to clear min iLevel requirement).

Wiped multiple times. Each time, the Scholar, who was on point, kept giving tips/spamming mechanics macros. At one point only me and the other warrior were alive and kept going back and forth between the Sephirot ground punches followed by earth shakers and the SCH remarked, pay attention to what they're doing, this is what you need to do.

It was our fourth or so attempt, forty minutes in, and what I'd in my mind tagged as my last attempt when we got past the phase transition and adds phase without losing anyone to out of bounds, piled in the wind torrent and escaped the hand sweep, and lost the AST. So the SCH kept everyone alive for the last third or so of the entire fight, dps managed to get him down, and we finally cleared. I said "SCH for all the comms!!" and I really hope they got them all, it was a rough one. Kind of a shock, though it shouldn't have been, to find myself so quickly thrown into Sephirot for Trials Roulette.

Got Antitower for Expert roulette. Inspect the tank. 4/5 Slaying gear. I didn't say anything (not everyone has the Eso right away to replace their gear, etc), but I was expecting the worst. I was actually very pleasantly surprised. She made great use of her cooldowns and left me some enormous DPS windows. Between her CD usage and my abuse of Whispering Dawn, I spent the majority of the dungeon in Cleric Stance. I didn't even notice till the end that one of the DPS was all in law gear because the whole thing went very smoothly. We even had two melee, both of which were very good at keeping adds off me at the second boss.

The last boss in that dungeon is still nightmare fuel, though. .______.

Positive experience!! Incoming Happy Healer!

So I wanted to run the new raids (non savage) and I said screw it I'll run it blind. DF'd A5 and got an entire group of people who didn't know anything. WE WIPED BIG TIME! But we learned we kept picking up what everything did and how to handle it. No one got mad no one got frustrated there was no name calling, we pushed through till we got it. I had never been so proud to play this game and I had so much fun, more than I have had in a really long time. Shout out to my group you guys were awesome I hope I can play with you guys again!

Side note also did A6 blind DF run did win but that wasn't as smooth that was a total zombie run lol but still fun.

Got the Aery for my leveling roulette today on my ninja. No new message so I expected things to go alright. Things were going ok until the last boss. When Estinien put up his bubble, the healer didn't stand in it.

The SMN told him he needed to stand in the bubble. The healer didn't like that. He was very snarky about it and stated he was new, and so the SMN went on about how he shoulda said something if he didnt know the fight. The healer countered with the fact that he hadnt played in 6 months and couldnt remember the fight.

The SMN wanted to argue about that and called him a liar and that he wasnt new, he just "forgot" the fight.

Finally the tank said let's go guys and we got it done, but it was just some funny drama. I love those kinds of runs, where people argue but it's not about me :X

done Void Ark last night with a friend (both WHM)

first boss, when the group gets stunned for the dps check in the middle, our group is left outside

notice a SMN standing there furiously spamming Physick.

at 65% HP

despite their being no damage

-_-

that is all.

Did Void Ark today.

Someone pulled Cuchulainn. Locks out 2 healers and 3 DPS.

Both healers are freaking out in /a chat about being locked out.

They wipe at about 5%.

Someone says, "Would be nice if the healers in the other Alliances actually did something."

What is Raid Awareness anyway?

Cleared Burden of Son fight last night, the DF party wiped several times and took an hour to kill. I went as SCH and since its first time, I had no idea of how the mechanic works. Healing was so-so except sometimes I had to take a few beams to the face because I was casting heals and boss attacks are always on the unfavorable position against me (like aiming its rapidfire cone at me and jump attack next to me while I'm not completely topped).

After somewhere like the 3rd wipe, this guy (from same server so yeah I know him) started raging on me and telling me to deinstall (I'm aware its actually real word) because my heal kills everyone (lol) and that I run around like a chicken and dying to mechanics (orly). Obviously trying to pin a blame on healer thing but some other good guy in the party told everyone not to rage, of course I didn't because I know damn well he dies a lot on mechanics himself too.

Being the one to judge life and death to the party, the rest is history—for him only of course.

Also this guy doesn't even have healer class but I'd like to see him dish it out better than me.

Deinstall
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heh