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

I do my best healing and I've done pretty well so far if I do say myself - Which I just did.

Anyway, unlocked aurum vale, and this one is a bit nutty when I do it for the first time on any class. But, I got over it and went head first. Doing pretty good, get to first boss, I have multiple problems. Maybe because I haven't had to heal that much before? But I got on with it! We end up dying, and we try again, beating the boss on our 2nd go!

During that time, the mentor tank was kind enough to help me out, telling me some really good tips- Albeit which I should already know, rip me.

Mr tank helps me out more along the way, and after the wild party at the first boss, it's pretty much smooth sailing ahead. We get to last boss, which was a lil tricky but we did it. I thanked him, gave him a comm and off I went. Surprised I got 3 comms from that tbh.

EDIT: 90% of my runs as healer so far have been really good, hardly any deaths etc. I wonder how bad I'll be at 50+ dungs. Ahhh rip me.

Had an awesome leveling roulette and got Quarn Normal. The party had a new DRK, NIN who is new to dungeon, MCH, and I WHM. We all explained boss mecahnics to the new player, the party is a bit wonky at first, like new guy forgot to kill bees fast, we wiped to trash and once on first boss. The best thing was we stick together until the dungeon end, which was nice to see since mostly I've seen people drop out after two wipes.

I have been getting either Quarn Normal for leveling roulette or Quarn HM for level 50 roulette a lot these past few days.....

Bard is RIDICULOUSLY fun when you end up with an Astrologian in a Void Ark run that decides to slap ALL the cards on you.

RAPID FIRE ARROWS FOR DAYS

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

Bard is RIDICULOUSLY fun when you end up with an Astrologian in a Void Ark run that decides to slap ALL the cards on you.

RAPID FIRE ARROWS FOR DAYS

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I had an Aery run earlier on BLM with an Ast and the combination of a powered up arrow and my ley lines, I was casting so quickly, like 1.7 cast time on fire, it was insane.

Astrologians need some more love <3

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Originally Posted by Pastel_Orchid

Last night I was in MS roulette and got hit with a random lag spike. Spent 75% of the dungeon either frozen completely or watching all 7 other people jump around the screen. I've never cast so many fire III in a row in my life :) too bad they didn't count ;(

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Hahaha. I was in Syrcus Tower as a bard and half way fighting the boss i had a lag spike. I keep shooting arrows while everyone just stood still and look pretty. I stop shooting arrows and stood there for awhile and suddenly everyone just disappeared like magic. I was like "where is everyone?!"
Open my map and saw everyone was waiting for me at the next check point lol. SPRINT LIKE CRAZY XD

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Originally Posted by CuteWhisper

I kept telling to please avoid them and all he said was: "im watching netflix with the wife, not paying attention just here for tomes"

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My response to that is to immediately initiate a vote kick. Even if it fails, it sends a rather clear message. If after a failed vote kick, he keeps it up, I'd let him eat floor a time or 2, then try again - and leave if it fails the second time.

--Erim Nelhah

Just had this one

Doing Cuff of the Son DF edition
2nd boss, was sitting at 7 stacks of vulnerability, all cooldowns blown to survive to this point, OT still not taking it. I die of course. I get resurrected. OT calls me out saying i should be rotating cooldowns (which i was yet still died) I mentioned I was and a bunch started saying obviously you werent etc etc (one of them being a healer)

Is it a crime to do the fight the way hoping the OT would share the burden and take some stacks while mine clear? Like the fight was meant to be played? or we at the Git Gud Scrub stage and blame the tank for her own death. I dont know, Im just mad

3am - So last aurum run. We get to the bedkeeper thingys and because drg hit 50, he/she left. Didn't bother any of us as we crushed the last boss first try with just the 3 of us. No deaths surprisingly! Such good teamwork!

So, queued up for a DF run before work, got an in-progress Stone Vigil (as a DRK). Turns out that their tank had either bailed or was booted (I didn't ask). They gave me a bit of what had happened as I made my way towards them (they had made it to the second boss). When I get there, SS and Protect go up immediately, ready check goes off nicely, and I pull the boss. Everything goes well throughout the rest of Stone Vigil, we kill Isgebind without anyone dying, and I walk out of there with 2 comms.

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Originally Posted by Raevynne

2nd boss, was sitting at 7 stacks of vulnerability, all cooldowns blown to survive to this point, OT still not taking it. I die of course. I get resurrected. OT calls me out saying i should be rotating cooldowns (which i was yet still died) I mentioned I was and a bunch started saying obviously you werent etc etc (one of them being a healer)

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I feel you didnt do anything wrong. In fact the OT was wrong not to swap. Not sure abt your side but in my area we always do tank swap. I think i seen a post abt another tank who had this problem and he had 9 stacks vulnerability. Obviously that group you had was just pure bad luck who knows nothing.

This healer was healing Sohm Al, which is a HW dungeon that has never healed before. Obviously we scraped through and by some miracle, we got to the last boss. However, that healer also died to AoE on the wing phase EVERY TIME. We of course kicked that guy and got a healer that we killed it no problem with. For fucks sake, make sure you practice in lowbie dungeons first.

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Originally Posted by zmandude24

This healer was healing Sohm Al, which is a HW dungeon that has never healed before. Obviously we scraped through and by some miracle, we got to the last boss. However, that healer also died to AoE on the wing phase EVERY TIME. We of course kicked that guy and got a healer that we killed it no problem with. For fucks sake, make sure you practice in lowbie dungeons first.

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Sohm Al was new to the guy to heal so some mechanics need to be learned, if everybody do like you and kick those that have yet to attempt a place how you think that person is going to learn how the dungeon works if systematically that person is. kicked ?...yeah sure...no need to answer me that someone the guy was trying to heal a new place is being kicked for trying...even if dying into aoes
I dont need an answer is not the place I just couldnt stay silent while reading this

So I was on my lowbie the other night trying to get her through mainlines so I had more dungeons to do on her than Sastasha, Tam Tara, Copperbell and Toto-Rak. I finally unlocked Haukke Manor, easy lowbie dungeon, and quickest non-trial dungeon with VERY few mechanics except for the final boss and AOE dungeons.

Tank insta left, so Healer, Me and the other DPS stuck around for a bit. I was jamming to Vocaloid so I figure this'll be quick. Nope, healer left said he was gonna go back to PF.

Welp. I couldn't vote abandon because it hadn't been 15 minutes yet, and it seemed like a waste of time to wait for another healer AND tank.
I did the other DPS a solid and kicked him because I wasn't sure if he was gonna get a penalty or not, then left.

Oddly enough, I didn't get a penalty, but I do hope whomever the other DPS was that run, if you're reading this- A'donna Bhela wishes you luck and hope you got a better run.

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Originally Posted by Ashennae

Oddly enough, I didn't get a penalty

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You don't get a penalty if the party isn't full. (so if someone is kicked, or left)

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Originally Posted by Lambadelta

You don't get a penalty if the party isn't full. (so if someone is kicked, or left)

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So me kicking them was utterly pointless. :'(

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

Sohm Al was new to the guy to heal so some mechanics need to be learned, if everybody do like you and kick those that have yet to attempt a place how you think that person is going to learn how the dungeon works if systematically that person is. kicked ?...yeah sure...no need to answer me that someone the guy was trying to heal a new place is being kicked for trying...even if dying into aoes
I dont need an answer is not the place I just couldnt stay silent while reading this

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There's being new to a dungeon and just being bad by standing in the bad. Anyone with a brain knows that orange/red pulsating marks on the ground is bad. No excuses for that.

Expert roulette & I get Antitower. I say at the start that it's my very first time there as BLM (actually, first time in a level 60 dungeon ever as BLM). Embarrassingly, I made mistakes like miscalculations on remaining mp, forgetting Raging at times, and going into Enochian for AoE. But the NIN was amazing and so were the WAR and WHM. It felt like a really fast run (18 minutes). But what blew me away and made me so grateful was when WAR deliberately faced Calcabrina to me so I need not move for Brace, especially as I have already set Ley Lines down too. I asked him if he did that on purpose and he said yes & that he used to main BLM. To Noveen & Mainyu & Ryuno, thank you for such a nice first experience. ^_^ I wanted to give everyone comms, but I had to go with the NIN. He's a fellow DPS and he did a lot of dmg! But I felt bad to not have been able to give to the WAR.. T_T

Keeper of the Lake via mentor roulette, the WHM is new. Everything's fine except for this one wipe at the first boss, until at the last trash packs before the final boss, the tank pulls everything, the WHM can't keep up with the incoming damage, wipe. We could have discussed about big pulls with new healers at this moment, but I decided to give the WHM advice for what they can do during big pulls, like using Presence of Mind and Divine Seal.
...then the dragoon told me to "stop talking bullshit, the dungeon isn't that hard". ...eh? I'm sorry for giving advice which YOU don't have anything to do with?

It just seems like some people have to chime in no matter what even when it has nothing to do with them, like him telling you to stop talking bs added nothing to the whole conversation when you clearly gave sound advice.

Some people are just...I don't even know, how do they even succeed at life.

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Originally Posted by Iifa

going into Enochian for AoE

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this is correct. you should still use for the 5% damage buff of this short CD

Doing roulettes yesterday with my FC team. We started with trials and got Ramuh. I was MT and my friend was OT, and since we were both collecting poetics, the new person bonus was a beautiful message to behold. Anyways, I think more than one person was new, because no one knew to eat the orbs when they were tethered to another. I'm tanking and typing out advice in the chat when I notice my health just plummet. Pop convalescence and Dark Mind, and my health doesn't move even though I see "Cure"--"Cure"--"Cure" over and over again. Look up, and the healer is healing me in CS. I mention it in the chat (as my cooldowns fall off and my health drops to 30%). WHM keeps on healing. In cleric.

We wipe to Judgement bolt because people weren't killing adds. Before I pull, I explain the mechanics again. The SCH (who spent the entire first part tethered to the WHM) says "Oh! I'm supposed to eat the orbs?" (This was after we had been typing it out over and over in the chat before the wipe. I reply yes and explain that eating three breaks the tether. I wait patiently for them to summon Eos/Selene. They don't so myself and my FC mate ask them which faerie they plan to use. They summon Eos. Round two begins. We kill the adds fast enough, but we still wipe. WHM gets terrored (as does my friend) and no one shocks them out of it after myself and a MNK kept telling them to shock them out of terror. I die because WHM is dead and SCH isn't healing me. SCH uses LB2...while only him and two DPS are alive. -__- wipe #2.

Third time we finally cleared but God. Both of those healers got carried so hard. I understand the SCH was new, but when you have 4 party members shouting mechanics at you... ;-; why not listen? I walked away with 4 comms but still.

MS roulette: get Praetorium and proceed to groan inwardly, but the new player bonus pops and that makes it a little better I guess. Tanks run ahead and aggro first group, but then don't stay behind and the mobs all aggro myself and my friend (we're both on WHM). The entire rest of the party gets slaughtered because my friend and I are stunned (and then dead) and the tanks are like "Lol you're supposed to go through the transporter." I said "Hard to do when you're stunned because the tanks went through the transporter first."

Now, we had 4 new people in this party. So half were new (though I think one of the tanks was on an alt, but still). New people try in vain to watch the cutscenes but mentor tank pulls first boss. With only the two tanks and the two healers in the room. The DPS all leave the cutscene and sprint into the room. I'm a little annoyed now because these tanks are just running around in Sword Oath (because mentor tank said if one used Shield Oath they would be fighting for aggro????), and I know MS is super easy and most cheese it nowadays, but some of the new people looked like they wanted to experience it at the game intended (I.e., with mechanics and cutscenes).

Anyways, myself, the mentor tank, and my MNK friend are bickering in the chat because the mentor tank doesn't want to wait for the new people. They accuse us of biting their head off, and yes I was cross, but I got cheated out of my first run because people didn't want to wait for me and I didn't want to be that person for these new people. A DRG keeps jumping in and is like "barely seeing any of this place is how I prefer things" and I just respond that maybe, but others are different. And when half of the party is new, it's probably good to be a little bit more patient.

Idk. I know people rush through MS and just want it over with, but I felt bad for the bean sprouts in there. :/ And I know there's PF and they can make PF parties for non-cheesed clears, but when I did MS, I was completely unaware of what PF was and how to use it. >.<;;;

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

MS roulette: get Castrum

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I had the same type of encounter today in Castrum except this time the mentor was a Dragoon. One Tank, one healer and 2 DPS we're new. Moaning that he "Doesn't want to spend all day in here". I replied with "Your free to leave whenever you want". "Only if you kick me". The poor first timers had a bad experience, they had to skip pretty much everything.

I can count on one hand easily the amount of actual nice and helpful mentors I've met.

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Originally Posted by revonine

I can count on one hand easily the amount of actual nice and helpful mentors I've met.

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The low requirements and being granted a crown brings out the over entitled and trollish and "I'm superior cause I have a crown." bunch, they flock to it like moths to a flame.

So sadly the good mentors are a rarity but when you do meet the good mentors its a lovely experience.

I had to join an in-progress Castrum last night after both tanks left at the start.

Serously, folks, MS Roulette is a 50/50 shot at Castrum and Praetoreum. Please don't join MS Roulette if you don't want to take the time to run whichever one you get.

On the other hand, my PLD got a level from it, so it's all good. :)

--Erim Nelhah

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

don't... take this the wrong way, but... uh. What was the pickup line? Like. Nothing they said was bad. Hell, I'm a guy, I've been told I'm the Glue a number of times. It's just a simple compliment. I dunno. Doesn't seem overly flirty to me.

I mean hell. I'm rediculous when I'm in a party, and I make dick and balls jokes and obvious-fake flirts. <_< This guy just seemed like he was complimenting the healer.

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I was thinking the same honestly. It just came across to me like he was being silly and friendly, especially since his first comment had the same patient air about it - but because someone happened to mention they were female, suddenly everything is a potential flirt attempt, haha.

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

Bard is RIDICULOUSLY fun when you end up with an Astrologian in a Void Ark run that decides to slap ALL the cards on you.

RAPID FIRE ARROWS FOR DAYS

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My friend gets sad when I play with her AST on my Bard because she's always like "I gave you Balance/Arrow!" over our private linkshell to which I only reply "Thank you! ...what's that?".

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

Sohm Al was new to the guy to heal so some mechanics need to be learned, if everybody do like you and kick those that have yet to attempt a place how you think that person is going to learn how the dungeon works if systematically that person is. kicked ?...yeah sure...no need to answer me that someone the guy was trying to heal a new place is being kicked for trying...even if dying into aoes
I dont need an answer is not the place I just couldnt stay silent while reading this

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I got the same impression ; Naturally there's little to judge since I wasn't in the run myself to see all that went on, but in my experience, 90% of the time it's people giving the most lazy and pathetic excuse for an explanation and expecting people to perform flawlessly off of that. That said, maybe the healer was just another mute that never replied or showed any inclination towards heeding what could have potentially been very coherent explanations either, so I don't know - though I am sceptical.

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

Third time we finally cleared but God. Both of those healers got carried so hard. I understand the SCH was new, but when you have 4 party members shouting mechanics at you... ;-; why not listen? I walked away with 4 comms but still.

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Some people do not read the chat window during combat due to focusing on other things. This is doubly problematic for a healer as they are likely watching HP bars.

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Originally Posted by Knahli

My friend gets sad when I play with her AST on my Bard because she's always like "I gave you Balance/Arrow!" over our private linkshell to which I only reply "Thank you! ...what's that?".

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Your friend has probably already told you, but I'll restate what they are here for those who don't know: The Balance is a straight damage buff, and The Arrow is an Attack Speed (that is, SkS, SpS, and AA speed) buff. Both are great for a bard, tho arguably a good BLM could make better use of The Arrow. :)

--Erim Nelhah

Ravana normal for trial roulette.

One by one, people were being knocked off. At about 10 or 15%, all that was left was me, the BLM and a BRD.

the BLM was tanking and the BRD was singing for us, I managed to keep us alive and we used the one spot in the arena that was left to prevent us from being thrown off. We made it though.

Holy crap.

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Originally Posted by raela

Some people do not read the chat window during combat due to focusing on other things. This is doubly problematic for a healer as they are likely watching HP bars.

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Be that as it may, they continued to not eat the orbs the other two times after we pulled and they saw the mechanics. :/ I wouldn't have been as frustrated with them if they had at least listened after the acknowledged the chat. :/

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Originally Posted by NaesakiAshwell

The low requirements and being granted a crown brings out the over entitled and trollish and "I'm superior cause I have a crown." bunch, they flock to it like moths to a flame.

So sadly the good mentors are a rarity but when you do meet the good mentors its a lovely experience.

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Let's not forget that you can get a crown through crafting and gathering. I swear that's how most people must have gotten their crowns. >.>

Soooo back to midas grinding and got Cuff of Son.
Round 1: Everything went well.... Until Vortexer. Its like you are shitting smoothly and suddenly BOOM EXPLOSIVE DIARRHOEA. Positioning of the ice wasn't good and well... Tank just had to put it in a way that is really impossible to avoid Ultra flash. Half of the party wiped but the one healer managed to get everyone back on track. Kudos to the awesome healer :D
Didn't get my stuff so I queued up with 2 other midas selections. I got Cuff of Son again. *prays*

Round 2: Brawler stage halfway through both tanks lost aggro and the boss turned to me. Welp i got squished and I was speechless. At least he didn't do a one tank buster facing the party. D:

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Originally Posted by Hrimfaxi

Round 2: Brawler stage halfway through both tanks lost aggro and the boss turned to me. Welp i got squished and I was speechless. At least he didn't do a one tank buster facing the party. D:

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In A6 Normal I had an OT Provoke off me right before he used attach. It was the Tank buster, and the OT didn't move. He said he thought it was Double. I just stood there looking at my entire dead party and said 'Well that just happened.'

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Originally Posted by Erim-Nelhah

Your friend has probably already told you, but I'll restate what they are here for those who don't know: The Balance is a straight damage buff, and The Arrow is an Attack Speed (that is, SkS, SpS, and AA speed) buff. Both are great for a bard, tho arguably a good BLM could make better use of The Arrow. :)

--Erim Nelhah

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She normally gives me to more deserving classes, but depending on the party composition, or even just if she just wants to be nice to me because the other players are unfriendly mutes, she occasionally throws them my way I think, hahaha. And yes, she has. A few times I think ; I just never remember because I never notice them being thrown on to me I guess!

Why are people so mean to me? I don't get it.

http://images.wmwrestling.com/uploads/BigMeanie.png

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Originally Posted by Evangela

Why are people so mean to me? I don't get it.

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General jerk aside, they did get one thing right. Melee should be helping with padlock, there's no reason not to. The only exception is the main tank.

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Originally Posted by Chirol86

General jerk aside, they did get one thing right. Melee should be helping with padlock, there's no reason not to. The only exception is the main tank.

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Agreed. I am a dragoon and i always go and smash the pad lock to bits whether there is ranged dps or not. Its not like the needles gonna KO you on the spot. :/

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

Sohm Al was new to the guy to heal so some mechanics need to be learned, if everybody do like you and kick those that have yet to attempt a place how you think that person is going to learn how the dungeon works if systematically that person is. kicked ?...yeah sure...no need to answer me that someone the guy was trying to heal a new place is being kicked for trying...even if dying into aoes
I dont need an answer is not the place I just couldnt stay silent while reading this

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I think you misunderstood what I said. I meant to say that he never healed period. I wouldn't have cared at all if he hadn't healed the instance before since that's not a big deal. The guy had no idea how to play his class was the problem.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

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DPS should always go and break the padlock, no matter what type you are. The needles are only deadly if you're standing on them and get hit with something else, like the beam. Their disposition was uncalled for and should be reported, but being melee is not an excuse to ignore the padlock, because all melee groups can happen and can deal with this mechanic with no issue.


On a note of instance runs as of late, I had a pretty good one some time ago. I tend to queue with the BF as double DPS in Ex (MNK and BLM), and we got into Antitower. I forget to initiate the usual greeting, so we kind of go on our way. Everything was melting as usual, but the tank and healer were pulling good DPS too. Before the second boss, they comment on how surprised they were with the DPS being so high, and wishing they could commend us both. I say that we (the DPS) queued together, so it's not a big deal, but they also replied that they queued together. After we destroy the rest of the instance, we doled out the comms accordingly, said our thanks and good byes, and every one walked out with a comm.

Most runs are pretty good, but this one was memorable.

Because moments like this, all you can do is laugh at your own idiocy...

So I've been trying to get battlemage gear to drop for my alt and someone from my FC offered to spam it unsynced with his lvl60. So I'm not really paying any attention since he's pulling everything for shits and giggles (boss included) and melting them while we joke in chat and whatnot. He has to pop off, so I queue up solo. First run, no problem. Second run starts off like normal, then tank does a big pull so we can beat the maintenance only for my heals to suddenly do next to nothing. Now I've healed through huge pulls before-- on Bray no less. It's only then I realize literally all my gear had broke during those unsynced spams and I never noticed. :eek:

All I can say is at least they were good about it because that was a little embarrassing.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

Why are people so mean to me? I don't get it.

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Too many trying to be impartial here. Who cares about the damn padlock. No player "nub" or otherwise should be spoken too in such a manner. I hope you reported them for harassment and for use of third party software.