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

Got A12N yesterday morning for Tails and we had a couple of Paladins who seemed unsure of themselves. I examined them and one was in a mix of 230-260 with some green pieces.

The other was in full Garo gear.

The Garo guy pulls and gets one shotted to Punishing Heat. The other PLD picks Alex up. We make it to adds phase and one of the dps goes down hard because adds weren't picked up. We struggle through past the phase change and it's one death after another; tanks, healers, dps, not even healer LB3 can let us muddle through.

As we wipe, the Garo guy is complaining about bads and ranting about the party so I say "you don't get to call the party bad; you're wearing pvp gear." One of the other players says "he's wearing pvp gear?" Healer said "yup."

I've never seen a vote dismiss go through so fast.

We got a fully geared tank in progress, he took MT, and we cleared just fine.

I was just running expert queue as WHM, and landed good ol' baelsar's wall. Everything was going about as well as you could expect, even down to the dps always failing extreme caution when also targeted by the aoe.

However, when we got to the griffen, I got targeted by the fetters mechanic while the boss was at 21%. The ninja decided that this was the time to finish developing LB2 then LB2 the boss. Boss survives at 5%, I die, we wipe.

This is the conversation that follows.

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... at that point all I could do was laugh.

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Originally Posted by JohnnyDevo

I was just running expert queue as WHM, and landed good ol' baelsar's wall. Everything was going about as well as you could expect, even down to the dps always failing extreme caution when also targeted by the aoe.

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I feel your pain on this, I was trying to help my friend's Tank through this dungeon earlier today (given I'm not the greatest WHM on the planet) and both dps were constantly failing the extreme caution and we wiped on this fight twice - even with a thorough explanation.....I'm glad I'm not the only one.

I think that some dps panic when the AOE is on them and they don't realise if they wait for the timer to run out they still have time to run and avoid the AOE.

Sometimes you just get unlucky with who you get in the party.

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

Had a wipefest Dun Scaith run where the top DPS was a THAUMATURGE. Not exactly a knock on everyone's DPS considering the guy was somehow pulling like 2.2k+, it was a wipefest because the alliance in general utterly failed at mechanics repeatedly at Scathach.

I have no idea what kind of crack that person was on, but I think I need to re-evaluate my life choices if I'm losing to a Thaumaturge of all things as a Bard, even if I was only like 100 behind. (Though I was singing foe for him, and he had an Astrologian in his party, so there's that I guess. Just a bit dumbfounded, and quite frankly in awe at that person's obvious skill level.)

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There's a good chance it was me. I've been playing THM in 24-man raids since 2.1, and we're in the same data center (I've never seen another THM).

It's fun to join 24-man on a class and (try to) get top DPS! Back in 2.x I'd go with a group of people on classes and we'd all go crazy. It's a shock to see CNJ outdamaging most of the DPS in the raid, and GLA finishing #1 overall.

I was leveling my SMN in The Aery earlier
a Tank with Mentor sign quit as soon as he see someone with bonus
we wait for about 5min and another tank join
everything go smoothly until first boss, the other DPS with a re-join icon, die a few time to "Prey"
but we manage to DPS the boss down
2nd boss is easier
the nightmare begin at Nidhogg
by the time we finish, Nidhogg wipe us 5 times
1st wipe, the other DPS is at the edge of map, healer couldnt heal her, with 1 DPS down, we couldnt kill all adds in time to get the barrier up
2nd wipe, we get all adds and barrier is up, but tank and that DPS forget to get inside barrier
3rd wipe, I got Sable Price and only Healer try to free me, of cause I die, with res we enter the adds phase while I have zero MP, we couldnt kill all adds
4th wipe, this time Healer got Sable Price, I have to spam whatever I have to free her, still we manage, and we even get through barrier phase, but then i got Sable Price again, and when healer try to res me, other DPS fail to dodge AOE and die, then Nidhogg just burn down Tank and healer
5th wipe, this time we told the other DPS what to do when Sable Price is casted, yet healer is still the only one try to free me from Sable Price, and luckily we burn Nidhogg HP down, the other DPS can lb Nidhogg and end my suffering

Correct me if I'm wrong, please.

I did expert roulette today and got Baelsar's Wall, with mnk and blm as dps. The tank pulled from the start to the first wall, which I normally heal without any problems. However the dps was so bad the tank and I ran out of cool downs and I couldn't pump out heals fast enough. Turned out the monk refused to use aoe because "monk aoe drains tp really badly."

That's basically unacceptable, right? I watched his tp and it never dipped below 80% on trash. What was he saving it for?

Ah, good ole duty finder. Where all DPS are dead before the first Gugnirs come down.

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Originally Posted by Moonfish

Correct me if I'm wrong, please.

I did expert roulette today and got Baelsar's Wall, with mnk and blm as dps. The tank pulled from the start to the first wall, which I normally heal without any problems. However the dps was so bad the tank and I ran out of cool downs and I couldn't pump out heals fast enough. Turned out the monk refused to use aoe because "monk aoe drains tp really badly."

That's basically unacceptable, right? I watched his tp and it never dipped below 80% on trash. What was he saving it for?

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He's an idiot. Welcome to the game where they breed like rabbits.

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Originally Posted by Spider-Dan

It's fun to join 24-man on a class and (try to) get top DPS! Back in 2.x I'd go with a group of people on classes and we'd all go crazy. It's a shock to see CNJ outdamaging most of the DPS in the raid, and GLA finishing #1 overall.

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I applaud you, but there is a flip side to this, I got into wall on expert ended up with a war, ast, lancer, and myself on nin. I look at his gear and he has just enough crafted gear to make i lvl and a joke of a wpn.
Tank says whatever and we start. Pulls the 1st pack which goes down a little slow but whatever. Pulls the rest and this time it takes forever. Healer is busy keeping tank up and the lancer that stood in everything, just me on aoe. No heavy thrust/doom spike just 123. then he proceeds to cast protect on everyone v.v
We ask him to use ht and do his rotations properly and he starts cussing at us for almost dying. we get to the 1st boss and the tank walks to me and gives me a thumbs up emote, I cheer him on and he drops stance and facepulls. Lancer goes in and i hit him with shadewalker, smokescreen on the healer, and go straight into my opener. He gets owned and we go on without him. Did it again at the next boss before he quit and we finished just fine

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Originally Posted by Tsubaki75

I applaud you, but there is a flip side to this, I got into wall on expert ended up with a war, ast, lancer, and myself on nin. I look at his gear and he has just enough crafted gear to make i lvl and a joke of a wpn.
Tank says whatever and we start. Pulls the 1st pack which goes down a little slow but whatever. Pulls the rest and this time it takes forever. Healer is busy keeping tank up and the lancer that stood in everything, just me on aoe. No heavy thrust/doom spike just 123. then he proceeds to cast protect on everyone v.v

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That kind of player wouldn't be any better with a job stone.