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

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Originally Posted by Avatre

Another thing I wish tanks did...is run THROUGH the second pack of enemies so that they are all gathered on one side of the tank, rather than completely circling them making it a LOT harder for the DPS with AoEs that don't reach very far to be able to hit everything. So many tanks I get stop right in front of the second pack, making it so half the pull is behind them and half in front.

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This.

To be more precise, this will affect AoE that are mostly targeted (For exemple, RDM, SMN, BLM have mostly AoE Spell that are Targeted). Some classe like DRG will always struggle, because the line is kinda small, SAM/MNK/NIN/RPR don't suffer that much, except for Targeted AoE, like Katon/Goka Mekyaku or Communio for exemple.

Please tank, pack them correctly IF POSSIBLE (Some pack with "huge" monster are impossible to place correctly, but that's just because of the monster collision)

This is from three days ago on my female middie alt: Malikah's Hell Well, as a RDM. Paired with GNB, WHM, and 1st timer RPR.

First pull right off the bat, and WHM already failed to upkeep the tank despite seeing Rampart+Camo+Rep being used by the GNB.

"Ok well... Dualcast-Sleep it is..." I said in my mind. Thankfully first few pulls do not resist Sleep status & the RPR was... freestyling + single targeting. Hey, we made it without wiping so it should alright, yes?

"Haha sorry I just like green dps :smiley:" says the WHM in party.
Also WHM:*Freecuring several times throughout the run*

My inner healer heart was flabbergasted.

And apparently having a RDM in party (me) probably made them think they could leverage all the raise duty to me. No. I ain't doing that if their Swift was available & I could've sworn the RPR died at least 3-4 times every boss fight and WHM only raised a total of 3 times the entire run, all of which happened in 3rd boss where players have literally all the time they need to raise a neighborhood. I simply refused to hit that Verraise at that point.

"No, do your job, sweetie." I grumbled in my mind.

Why, oh why... /playdead

GNB also made a wise decision to not do wall pull the 2nd pack after first boss... my comm goes to her. Thank you for sticking till the end.

So have you ever seen a bard so bad in expert roulette that they only use a single dot on mobs the entire run? Like just strictly one kind of dot and almost never touch the other? Along with never touching Apex Arrow, Emperyal Arrow, Barrage, Raging Strikes, and Iron Jaws? So much so that the RDM makes up an excuse and leaves after the second boss after seeing said bard be dead weight?

I bore witness to that today in the Aetherfont dungeon and I want to curl up and hide under the covers with s'mores so I can console myself that that's how bard is not supposed to be played.

Paid legends...

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Originally Posted by Chie_M

Paid legends...

https://media.tenor.com/YoCtfV5RqCAA...e-migraine.gif

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Just witnessed a full crown mentor legend in a level 80 msq trial try to join for stack marker while having a spread marker. Two of the other three people that had spread markers were sprouts and they knew perfectly well what to do. If it wasn't for the fact that said trial isn't sync'd, I'm pretty sure they would have killed half the party.

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Just witnessed a full crown mentor legend in a level 80 msq trial try to join for stack marker while having a spread marker. Two of the other three people that had spread markers were sprouts and they knew perfectly well what to do. If it wasn't for the fact that said trial isn't sync'd, I'm pretty sure they would have killed half the party.

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I don't see the issue if it was unsynced? oh, its hades.

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Originally Posted by Mosha

I don't see the issue if it was unsynced? oh, its hades.

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Should've been more specific. It's level sync'd, not item sync'd. Everyone on the stack lived with like 1-2k hp aside from the tank. Yes, it's Hades.

Anyways, of course there's an issue.

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Should've been more specific. It's level sync'd, not item sync'd. Everyone on the stack lived with like 1-2k hp aside from the tank. Yes, it's Hades.

Anyways, of course there's an issue.

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lmaaaaaaaao oh well at least the healers had to heal

So, I needed tombstones for crafting and was burnt out on Hunt Trains so decided to do 50/60/etc roulette to break the monotony a little. Friend tagged along to level his NIN a bit.
The party is myself (SCH), NIN friend, GNB and MNK.

Absolute worst players I have ever seen in 10 years of playing and it's not even close. 1st pull, GNB decides to not pull wall to wall. Ok, so one of those runs, whatever. The MNK is doing their single target rotation the entire time, despite the 1st group having about 6 enemies. We kill half the enemies before the GNB just decides to drag the half dead enemies to the next group and I notice that the Tank has a few too many mitigations hit (4 were all going simultaneously) and I started to get worried. 2nd pull the Tank does a normal wall to wall and he and the MNK proceed to just eat AoEs left and right. Again, MNK isn't using AoEs and the GNB is playing a bit weird. Like, I see them fire off 1 attack, wait a few seconds extra and then the 2nd attack goes off, almost like he has the rotation macro'd or something, which I'm honestly convinced was the case.

1st boss, the Tank face tanks EVERYTHING. Dodging is a foreign concept and he was collecting Vuln stacks like they were trophies. The MNK was running around like a headless chicken whenever he got a circle AoE on him and it was just an overall painful fight but we pull thru. Garden area and I legit believe the Tank is trolling at this point. 1st pull is again, 1 pack, half killed before going to the next group. He gets aggro, NIN puts down a Dotom and for the 1st few seconds it's normal, then the Tank just decides to run into the wall out of the Dotom for whatever reason. Bombs cast their AoE and Tank doesn't dodge, still running into the wall and eats both the AoEs, I heal him and he pops Superbolide.......and it gets worse because after this, Mr. Tank decides to wall to wall pull. He and the MNK both get hit with a poison cleave, Tank is somehow not able to hold aggro on everything so MNK and NIN are getting hit as well. I used everything, Sacred Soil, Recit+Excog, Seraph, literally spammed Addlo/Succor until I was completely out of MP and we wiped. I honestly wanted to leave at this point but pushed on against my better judgement. 2nd boss the MNK and GNB didn't really do any mechanics for the fight at all, GNB continued eating mechanics, etc. Nothing really noteworthy happened on the way to the last boss, apart from the Tank running up the stairs with the Dragon add and stopping just before the next group of enemies could aggro so, the Tank's standard of pulling. Final Boss, MNK dies to the fire AoE mechanic before the Blue Flame mechanic. I fully expected the Tank to die but to his credit he did do it right....the 1st time. When the mechanic came up again, both the MNK and GNB decided to eat the floor together and die to the blue flame. My friend gets aggro and I rez the tank, who immediately Superbolides after getting rezzed.......He didn't even get aggro back from the NIN before a Tank buster killed him and even after that, I had Aggro for a little while before he got it back.

After the run, I just signed off for the night. I was too mentally exhausted after all that to even think to continue anymore.

For clarification, yes, we did offer advice, explained mechanics, etc. GNB was in full HQ level 86 gear and wasn't a maxed level GNB but did have WAR at 90 as well as a handful of jobs in the 60-70 range so not completely new, MNK was in a similar situation. I honestly should've taken the penalty and just gone back to hunt trains. It wasn't worth the mental anguish.

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Just witnessed a full crown mentor legend in a level 80 msq trial try to join for stack marker while having a spread marker. Two of the other three people that had spread markers were sprouts and they knew perfectly well what to do. If it wasn't for the fact that said trial isn't sync'd, I'm pretty sure they would have killed half the party.

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I'm a full crown. I'm a (TEA only) legend.

These paid legend morons ruin a perfectly good crown symbol / entire category of titles. It's at the point that I'm hesitant around anybody actually using a legend title at all - and I have one!

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Originally Posted by Chie_M

I'm a full crown. I'm a (TEA only) legend.

These paid legend morons ruin a perfectly good crown symbol / entire category of titles. It's at the point that I'm hesitant around anybody actually using a legend title at all - and I have one!

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Tbh doing ultimate content is mostly a personal achievement and to share with your potential static as well. I dont think there are many ultimate raiders that care about how they are perceived by others, even if it might be a bummer when fake titles are running around and diminishing that prestige a bit.

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Originally Posted by SilversLyu

Tbh doing ultimate content is mostly a personal achievement and to share with your potential static as well. I dont think there are many ultimate raiders that care about how they are perceived by others, even if it might be a bummer when fake titles are running around and diminishing that prestige a bit.

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Replace personal achievement with testing your sanity and your on the nose

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Originally Posted by Ivtrix

Replace personal achievement with testing your sanity and your on the nose

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Ultimate content is pain.
Fashion is pain
Hence, Ultimate content is Fashion

had a run of shisui with a drk that single pulled, never used a cd, and turned off their stance somehow during the second boss.

edit: run of world of darkness ended with the party leaving because half of us somehow died during garm. GARM.

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Originally Posted by Cincierta

So have you ever seen a bard so bad in expert roulette that they only use a single dot on mobs the entire run? Like just strictly one kind of dot and almost never touch the other? Along with never touching Apex Arrow, Emperyal Arrow, Barrage, Raging Strikes, and Iron Jaws? So much so that the RDM makes up an excuse and leaves after the second boss after seeing said bard be dead weight?

I bore witness to that today in the Aetherfont dungeon and I want to curl up and hide under the covers with s'mores so I can console myself that that's how bard is not supposed to be played.

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Originally Posted by EgilTheStressedMage

had a run of shisui with a drk that single pulled, never used a cd, and turned off their stance somehow during the second boss.

edit: run of world of darkness ended with the party leaving because half of us somehow died during garm. GARM.

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Reality: venting about people not doing the barest minimum of their kit
The community:

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Originally Posted by Minarisweet

I once queued for leveling roulette and the whm missed one gcd so I came here to shame them

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Just one of those days. FC member needed people for seat of sacrifice. Joined them as a tank, other tank is a rando WAR. Rando WAR doesn't remember anything about the fight and initially says they'll leave it to me to tank. 5 seconds into the pull he's beside me and provoking. I just turn off stance and let it happen but wow... this guy ate every mechanic humanly possible. He's not using his mitigations or his heals, he's purely alive with 6 vuln stacks because the healers and myself(who is also playing as WAR) are doing everything possible to keep him alive.

Then right before chains I ask him to let me handle the LB. It's been a bit of a disaster so far and I kind of had a feeling it was going to continue. He says yes but the proceeds to immediately waste the LB as soon as we escape chains and the cutscene ends. No one says anything. We just do it all over again and he promises to get it right this time with some people trying to tell him when the time is right. I pop it and everyone's cheering for him... because of course. Post run everyone's telling him what a good job he did while the one FC member that was there helping with me(had 2 FC members there, one that needed the duty and another that was helping like me) was giving me consolation pats because they understood.

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Just one of those days. FC member needed people for seat of sacrifice. Joined them as a tank, other tank is a rando WAR. Rando WAR doesn't remember anything about the fight and initially says they'll leave it to me to tank. 5 seconds into the pull he's beside me and provoking. I just turn off stance and let it happen but wow... this guy ate every mechanic humanly possible. He's not using his mitigations or his heals, he's purely alive with 6 vuln stacks because the healers and myself(who is also playing as WAR) are doing everything possible to keep him alive.

Then right before chains I ask him to let me handle the LB. It's been a bit of a disaster so far and I kind of had a feeling it was going to continue. He says yes but the proceeds to immediately waste the LB as soon as we escape chains and the cutscene ends. No one says anything. We just do it all over again and he promises to get it right this time with some people trying to tell him when the time is right. I pop it and everyone's cheering for him... because of course. Post run everyone's telling him what a good job he did while the one FC member that was there helping with me(had 2 FC members there, one that needed the duty and another that was helping like me) was giving me consolation pats because they understood.

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Here's what you do with pissbaby tanks as soon as they voke you voke it back and there you are inside their voke cycle just need to out dps them and they're not getting the boss back.

Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard) on my fem middie alt, as a BLM.

Of course DF decides to pair me with a single pulling & no cooldown WAR + SGE(??) + single targeting freestyle MNK (or was it RPR I forgot).

And guess what, the WAR still dies and wiped a couple of times.

I found a mentor healer who threw a silent tantrum. Got The Aetherfont for Expert daily on my RDM main. We had a clumsy 1st timer SMN who needed plenty of heals but still tried their best. After the 2nd boss, the mentor healer got annoyed and wanted to kick the SMN out of the party. The reason was AFK but the SMN was not AFK so I clicked no. Of course the real reason was the SMN's clumsiness. Awesome mentor, instant kick for someone who's trying to learn the fight! /sarcasm :( So the healer got visibly angrier because the kick failed. They stopped healing us and died on purpose. I Verraised them. They accepted but let themselves die again and again... After a few Verraises I got tired of wasting MP on the healer so I focused on healing as a RDM and told the SMN to follow me to avoid boss mechanics. Fortunately, the tank was a pro WAR. We killed the last boss, said ty, I got out of the dungeon and reported the healer for passive aggressive behavior and not contributing to the fight. Sorry not sorry.

Have you ever had a samurai and summoner so bad in Dead Ends that they stand in aoes on just about everything, die at least twice to each boss, nearly bite it during trash pulls because orange is the new tasty, and have one of them drop off a passive-aggressive ':(' on you during the last boss because mechanics are for cars? All the while you're dumping everything and the kitchen sink as sage to keep them upright and/or scrape them off the ground repeatedly? But the only other redeeming factor for the party is the gigachad paladin yet you feel like total garbage for failing the denser-than-a-brick dps?

Well, I just had that kind of Dead Ends run and I want to just curl up and die.

recently i had a fun little tam-tara run. i just pulled everything including the boss (not that you can call these enemies bosses, but the purple line seems to scare people from pulling more).
nobody complained and no problems occured... pls more of it

Welp.. for starter, I've read a lot of 'that Dead Ends runs'-stories from this thread and other sources where people end up spending more than 30m in said sessions because of the hilarity they were presented in. Personally? I have NEVER experienced that sort of run myself at least as far as I can remember... until just now.

GNB (Me), SGE, and double SMN. The SGE and one of the SMN are first timer into the dungeon.

When the duty commences, SGE immediately turns on Kardion ("Yep, standard.") plus Kerachole + Physis II right off the bat ("Wait, what?"). No mobs just yet, we're still running toward the first pack...

"Okay, well whatever." I said in my mind.

SGE were spewing random abilities in no particular pattern. But obviously wasn't enough to keep me healthy dealing with the wall pull. Alright... 1st Bolide it is.

Second wall pull. This time something similar happens, but we got out unscathed because one of the SMN throw out their Phoenixcogitation at me. Hey, whoever did that you have my thanks q.q

First boss was akin to any of those horror dead ends stories I've read: Necrosis for one, Necrosis for two, Necrosis for everybody, without Esuna on top. I ended up having to solo the boss from 20%. The fight must've took at least 5 minutes because my Superbolide was like 30s from coming off cooldown by the time the boss was dead.

Ah well... moving on to next wall pull. Similar thing happens again where I had to bolide. The party wiped on the wall pull after that. Eh? No biggie, let's do it again. There goes the 3rd bolide. I had a hunch the SGE was probably having trouble to properly target me in the midst things happening, because majority of heals that I received mainly comes from their randomly spewed AoE heals. So... I gave them a little tips. Whether or not they received that well, I'll leave that to Mother Nymeia to decide.

Second boss? Less chaotic, but I concur it also took at least 5 minutes because again... the bolide timer tells me that much. The other SMN (not the first timer) made their personal mission to be a resurrection-bot to scrape the two first timers entire time.. which suffice to say, much appreciated.

Alright second boss down. Moving on to next wall pull. Yikes okay, that's the 4th bolide lmao. I kinda hesitated on next pull after all those bolides, but one of the SMN accidentally pulled the next pack so... well okay, whatever. Let's do it. Ehheeyy, surprise! That was the only wall pull properly done..! I could see the SGE tried to replicate what I advised earlier so I guess that's a win for me.

Ra-La? Yep. Chaotic. Chaotic as hell. 5th Bolide happened. I also tried to Aurora/HoC the 2nd SMN, saving them from deaths several times but eventually we still wiped at 10%. We did clear on 2nd attempt. Both SMN have figured what to avoid, so those two were raise botting whoever kisses the dirt until we finally cleared. I took a look on my chatlog, the run lasted for at least 36m.

Honestly? I would say it felt miserable but at the same time... quite satisfactory. I laughed a lot, but I guess that's just me on a good mood today. ;)

If you were in the Matrix, would you rather know the truth or live in blissful ignorance?

https://i.imgur.com/ZjBp7Av.png

Seemed like a nice bunch of folks, at least they were honest with me. But what if this is the reason for every single commendation I ever got? Would I even want to know?? :eek:

Had a nice Euphrosyne. One DPS is leeching(suiciding off the edge of the platform every chance/literally sprinting towards tank busters), so I just started leaving him dead. I would've liked to vote kick but it didn't seem like it was worth it.

Our tank rushed the last boss immediately instead of waiting for the cutsceners(and there was people from other parties asking before they did too). I was just going to ignore it but said tank immediately had an ego trip when we finished the run so I pointed it out to them before leaving.

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Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne

elitism

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What i wonder here is the following. You clearly seem to notice that the SGE is new and struggeling and still pull wall to wall? At least have the decency as an experienced player to slow down a bit.

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Originally Posted by NailBach

What i wonder here is the following. You clearly seem to notice that the SGE is new and struggeling and still pull wall to wall? At least have the decency as an experienced player to slow down a bit.

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Im pretty sure they said after noticing the struggle, they adjusted. That’s not elitism. Elitism is not expecting that by max level, someone be half competent at their class, and can play by the meta of wall to wall. Especially as a preemptive healer (shields).

I’d look up what elitism is buddy.

E4n for Wondrous Tails. Think I raised at least 20 times as an AST. At least that felt fun.

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Originally Posted by NailBach

What i wonder here is the following. You clearly seem to notice that the SGE is new and struggeling and still pull wall to wall? At least have the decency as an experienced player to slow down a bit.

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Dead Ends, a lv90 dungeon.
Lv90 SGE, a job that starts from lv70.
"New"?

Imho that's not an excuse to an inability to at least purely heal with Diagnosis 100% without dpsing (Yes, I will manage even if that's the only thing they do the entire time.)

Idk how far lower the bar has to be set if spamming a lv4 spell in a lv90 dungeon at a single target is still deemed too hard. I'm not even expecting them to do it flawlessly like those rare specimens known as 0 GCD healers in DF encounters. If what I did still an 'elitism' to you then so be it. :shrug:

Mind you, they managed to improve ever so slightly at last pull that we walled successfully and that was after I offered them a quick advice. If I continued to coddle them, at that point then I would be enabling them to continue play terribly.

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Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne

E4n for Wondrous Tails. Think I raised at least 20 times as an AST. At least that felt fun.



Dead Ends, a lv90 dungeon.
Lv90 SGE, a job that starts from lv70.
"New"?

Imho that's not an excuse to an inability to at least purely heal with Diagnosis 100% without dpsing (Yes, I will manage even if that's the only thing they do the entire time.)

Idk how far lower the bar has to be set if spamming a lv4 spell in a lv90 dungeon at a single target is still deemed too hard. I'm not even expecting them to do it flawlessly like those rare specimens known as 0 GCD healers in DF encounters. If what I did still an 'elitism' to you then so be it. :shrug:

Mind you, they managed to improve ever so slightly at last pull that we walled successfully and that was after I offered them a quick advice. If I continued to coddle them, at that point then I would be enabling them to continue play terribly.

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THIS.

I met a couple of players especially tanks and healers with no game sense and i mean ZERO. Gathering makers ignored, turn in circles with the boss or running around with the boss or mobs and the classic, as a healer, spamm the basic heal until a second tank grows. I am not mean or anything but in an extreme or even lvl 90 content i expect atleast : what do youre buttons on a base level and which markers do what.

I found an DNC that told me MCH does no damage, in an Expert, and for that reason she would partner the tank instead of me...
Expert runs in the evening are wild.

I swear it's always the dirt munchers that get the drops. Imagine getting top dps with any contest, even despite the fact that you ate dirt yourself once because one of the tanks decided to panic and run across half the arena to drop a tankbuster on you and you still don't get the drop.

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Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne

Honestly? I would say it felt miserable but at the same time... quite satisfactory. I laughed a lot, but I guess that's just me on a good mood today. ;)

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Sometimes the most chaotic runs are the best. The ones where you finish exhausted but OK.

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If you were in the Matrix, would you rather know the truth or live in blissful ignorance?

https://i.imgur.com/ZjBp7Av.png

Seemed like a nice bunch of folks, at least they were honest with me. But what if this is the reason for every single commendation I ever got? Would I even want to know?? :eek:

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Nah. If you did poorly they would give NO commendation. If you get a group and they comm you...you earned it somehow. Being good, Being helpful, being entertaining, or maybe cause everyone else sucked but you.

The best runs are when you're going with friends and the first one to make the healer start swearing like a sailor wins. I wouldn't inflict it on a random group, but with FC mates or friends, it's hilarious.

Today I learned that, if one of the tanks dc's in O12N, it's one heck of a ride. Also that 32k tankbuster deleted my sage. Shoutout to the group I just had after one of our tanks didn't come back from dc and we went on without him.

Y'all were amazing little nutjobs that deserved that clear.

The Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Hard)

Intro cutscene: 1:48
Phase 1: 1:39
Phase transition: 0:23
Phase 2: 0:38

Yoshi Please

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Originally Posted by VictorSpoils

The Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Hard)

Intro cutscene: 1:48
Phase 1: 1:39
Phase transition: 0:23
Phase 2: 0:38

Yoshi Please

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A lot of ARR trials are like that, thanks to gear inflation and power creep. Shiva and Leviathan are more noticeable due to having longer intro cut scenes, but most of them only taking longer than a minute because they go off-screen or become invulnerable for part of the fight. Nabriales takes noticeably longer because he's the final mandatory ARR trial (well, Steps of Faith used to take longer, but it's a solo fight now; and I forget where Battle in the Big Keep fits here, but that's optional), so he's closer to the gear cap.

5678 roulette on my alt as a DNC: gets Aetherochemical Research Facility. Paired with DRK, SGE, and first timer SMN.

"Hello. My first time in this dungeon as a SGE, and I only ever unsync'ed this place." said the SGE.

... What do you know, it's always that last boss fire/ice mechanic that trips people off. Five total wipes and SGE never made it out alive the moment this mechanic happens on 2nd phase. Explained about the mechanic, and the server snapshot---nope. Still no go.

Guess what advice that actually worked?

"Just stand on far North/South and shield yourself when that mech happens." I said in the party chat.

Yep, 1 vuln stack, but better than getting venn diagrammed to death and slowing me down from getting my roulette reward zzzz.

/playdead

To the paladin tank that I just healed in Sirensong Sea:

Please read your tooltips. Please make use of your cooldowns, but stagger them. Dumping them all at once is a massive waste, and expecting me to keep you at 100% health is uncalled for, especially as a white mage. My main mitigation I have for you is Holy stun spam, which means you don't take damage while they're stunned, meaning you get to live longer!

Please stay in the Asylum bubble. It heals you, meaning you get to live longer. It will not heal the mobs, despite what that voice inside your head tells you.

You also have this amazing ability that you can spam every so often called Shelltron, which helps reduce the damage you take considering you were wearing nq white left gear and str right gear. Also please get the appropriate gear for you role. It gives you something called tank stats that *gasp* help you tank and live better!

Speaking of living, you also have something that you got at level 50 called Hallowed Ground. It literally makes you a god for 10 seconds, especially since you were going wall-to-wall on pulls and NOT USING COOLDOWNS UNTIL YOU WERE SITTING AT 20% HEALTH. Or stupidly stacking them.

Stop spamming Clemency to keep yourself at 100% health. It keeps you from dpsing things down faster so you don't die as fast. Doing so means I'm allowed to play chicken with your health.

You also left before I could give you advice. I looked you up. You've a 90 whm yourself, so you should know how this works. Please take my advice since you decided to zip out the second the boss died, so now I get to shame you on the forums.

Sincerely,

One very angry whm

Had a spiteful RDM during Lapis Manalis. Think they had CS at the start and during the first boss they're eating every hit. Second boss I took no chances and gave them the yoink during soul scythe(look-dash-aoe). I was actually too late because I waited a bit, hoping they were going to back flip out of it but they weren't even turning around in the right direction to do so.

Immediately after that the RDM starts afking. They followed for the pulls but then went afk during the last boss as well.

I kept them alive through it all, and through most of the final boss, where they finally died. Gave them a res, they actually declined it but my team mates gave them the benefit of the doubt, wondering if they "passed out".

https://i.imgur.com/YvBUH8k.png

Edit: Also, am I the only person that hates when people get attitudes like this in alliance raids? I mean the sentiment is shared. I enjoy seeing raids other than CT but I just hate when people get attitudes as they see others immediately leave. It sucks, they shouldn't but really... Especially when it turns out that this was perhaps the longest Tower at Paradigm's Breach I have ever done, with the two people specifically having over 6 deaths each. Doesn't help that I'm not feeling well right now and anything over 30 minutes is just too much.

https://i.imgur.com/wjoyJmg.png

Sandwich! Good - Bad - Good

Got Quarn with 2 new people. No deaths! They understood the floor-cleanse mechanic! Without chat! Wohoo!

Bad: Violet tides. During the big pull i wasn't w2w so the sage pulls me forward. Happening a lot lately. Kinda annoying ngl. But hey: maybe i'm too pessimistic? We wipe twice. After the third time healer gives a "use u XD" followed by "CD" because writing is hard when standing still. Hit him with the truth: *I* was using CDs. Him? Well at the third time i was suddenly spammed with every addersgall skill. All at once. Yeah screw my living dead. But hey: we made it through! So i told him that this was the first time i saw those skills. He got all "XD" about it. Only realized later that it was also the first time i saw the Kardia heals... oh well. Karma hit him with forgetting? The charm mechanic on the next boss. Thankfully he wasn't really needed anymore.

Good: MSQ Roulette with 2 new ones (yes again 2 new ^^). Ultima. Everyone actually ran away from the stream! I so often see a new healer just stand there... even multiple times. This healer was going out of there last second every time. Looked funny aswell ^^ And to top it off: The dps actually used LB when i said! Once before the cutscene and then before we gain 3 bars! :)

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Guess what advice that actually worked?

"Just stand on far North/South and shield yourself when that mech happens." I said in the party chat.

Yep, 1 vuln stack, but better than getting venn diagrammed to death and slowing me down from getting my roulette reward zzzz.

/playdead

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That's pretty good advice, actually. Glad it all worked out.

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Originally Posted by Cincierta

To the paladin tank that I just healed in Sirensong Sea:

Please read your tooltips. Please make use of your cooldowns, but stagger them. Dumping them all at once is a massive waste, and expecting me to keep you at 100% health is uncalled for, especially as a white mage. My main mitigation I have for you is Holy stun spam, which means you don't take damage while they're stunned, meaning you get to live longer!

Please stay in the Asylum bubble. It heals you, meaning you get to live longer. It will not heal the mobs, despite what that voice inside your head tells you.

You also have this amazing ability that you can spam every so often called Shelltron, which helps reduce the damage you take considering you were wearing nq white left gear and str right gear. Also please get the appropriate gear for you role. It gives you something called tank stats that *gasp* help you tank and live better!

Speaking of living, you also have something that you got at level 50 called Hallowed Ground. It literally makes you a god for 10 seconds, especially since you were going wall-to-wall on pulls and NOT USING COOLDOWNS UNTIL YOU WERE SITTING AT 20% HEALTH. Or stupidly stacking them.

Stop spamming Clemency to keep yourself at 100% health. It keeps you from dpsing things down faster so you don't die as fast. Doing so means I'm allowed to play chicken with your health.

You also left before I could give you advice. I looked you up. You've a 90 whm yourself, so you should know how this works. Please take my advice since you decided to zip out the second the boss died, so now I get to shame you on the forums.

Sincerely,

One very angry whm

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Oh god. That sounds so much like the first time I healed in a random level 80 dungeon as a white mage. Nothing but wipe after wipe on trash.

It was the worst experience and it was all the tank's fault. Yet, you couldn't tell him that.

He was a super nasty guy who expected to be kept at 100% health at all times.

According to this tank, healers weren't supposed to cast damage spells, and if he had to use mitigation, it was because the healer wasn't healing him enough.

What can I say? Some people are just idiots.

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