The greatest lolwut moments on a duty

One time back in 2.0 a few friends and I got really bored and decided to derp around in Wander's Palace with all of us as Paladin. We went in fully expecting to wipe before the 1st boss.

Somehow (and I'm still not sure how we managed it...) we got all the way to the last boss without a single death. It was single-handedly the most entertaining run I've ever done.

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Originally Posted by ClaraLux

He's probably doing it to spiritbind and get crafting materia, which is really valuable. I wear crafting gear in dungeons too sometimes, but never 4 pieces at once. Two at most.

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not likely, considering PGL was the only class he had leveled.

i was in CT as WHM and one of the tanks was tanking iron giants at king behemoth i kept regen up for him then he scolded on me by losing aggro of iron giants

i was like lolwut?

if regen does all that of aggro losing to him i wonder how this guy will tank T4?

or more likely adds on levi EX

I went low-lv duty today and ended up in Brayflox. Our tank warned us he hadn't been here for a while, but seeing as Brayflox isn't hard from a tactical point of view (if anything it's a brain-check and gearcheck) there wasn't a huge problem. I was ilvl 68 Bard, the other DD ilvl 90 Monk, heal was downleveled from 40 and Tank was PLD, downleveled from 36 or so (judging by equip anyway).
Both the Monk and me regularly tanked adds, but that's not a huge problem since I can kite and Monk does fairly well tanking one mob :P

However, the endboss was just super-hilarious. First try the Monk and me went through multiple tank-swaps until we wiped. Allright, so I said we'd wait half a minute for the tank to get hate and move on. So I'm literally counting to 20 after the room closed while the Monk starts to attack the boss, but only used auto-attacks. I start dps-ing and after like 5-10 GCDs I was on 90% hate. I'm like "this has to be a bug, right?"

Well, after the tank died (healer went oom, since monk and me had to stand around iddle half of the fight unless we wanted to pull the boss from the tank^^) I'm looking through his equip and see a level 20 sword.

I tell him he should really, for his and our sake, get a new weapon after this dungeon asap, as it will make it far easier for him to tank and boss fights will get way easier when the dd's get to dps all the time. We had some nice chats and tried and tried again.

We finally downed the final boss at the 5 minutes left mark after 45! minutes of trying. Noone abandoned which was shockingly nice anyway, but here's the funniest part.

We beat the boss by both me and the monk forcefully dc-ing midfight to reset our aggro, so we could go full dps and it actually worked^^

Most hilarious "tactic" I've yet used :D

Just today in DF T1 we were about to die on Cad with it only having like a sliver of health left. So, I looked at the list and saw the Healer up and was like, good... and then looked at chat saw LB, pulled it off. SMN is not to be messed with! Haha it was a fun party and I now have a new strategy for the trash that I didnt' know of.

Garuda Ex, after the first wipe i wrote in chat: "She is so powerful, no way we can beat her". Vote abandon popped and passed.
Good thing i didn't mention she has wiped a whole twin adder patrol (alone)...

I had a DR run of Tam-Tara where the ACN summoned the Topaz Carbuncle at first. The tank asked them to switch it out for the Emerald Carbuncle, which they did. And then for the remainder of the dungeon, they only cast Physick. I pointed out that, usually, an ACN would put DOTs on enemies and that we already had a CNJ to heal, but they ignored me, so we went along with it and the CNJ did DPS in Cleric Stance. It all worked out fine, given that it's a low-level dungeon, but it was rather strange.

I assume the ACN really wanted to be a SCH and wasn't prepared to wait!

Cutter's Cry Chimera. Did you know a Bard can solo that fight? Because that happened once - three of us wiped leaving only the bard, who ran around and kited for the remaining 15% of its HP without ever taking another scratch.

When I was levelling Arcanist, I got a group of people to go to Halatali (Normal) from my FC and we didn't bother to check what classes everyone was, so when we jumped in, it was four DPS. On that day I learned that, in a pinch, Arcanist can substitute as both Tank and Healer completely effectively.

The most fun I've ever had in a Duty Finder though was actually on my first Praetorium run. The group was really pleasant, they had no problems watching cutscenes, and when we got to Ultima, someone was like "hold up I don't want this to be over yet. This group's great let's do something CRAZY". They confirmed we all knew the basics of the fight, and then said, "Okay, now, nobody kill the Magitek bits". The battle became an absolutely crazy lightshow by the end, but we came super close to succeeding - there were just too many DPS dead at the final phase to burn him down fast enough (and we couldn't limit break because standing still got you wrecked).

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Originally Posted by Garlyle

blop

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The praetorium part...I gotta try that out!
Most ppl think the main scenario is boring so hopefully they wouldnt mind if we spiced it up a little

Like a group I had in castrum, they all decided that the healers job was too easy so NO ONE dodged one single aoe. And instead of turning off the search lights at the end the tank thought it'd be fun to bring ALL of the big colossus mobs at one go. I laughed so hard

Qued for HM in progress leveling my SCH... BRD, MNK and me, no tank. I said "Lets give it a try" Thinking a tank should join us any time. The 3 of us ran the whole dungeon with the MNK tanking and was one of the smoothest runs I ever did.