Duty Finder happy fun times!

Everyone has duty finder horror stories.
This isn't those.
These are the times you used the duty finder and had a good time!

Please start all stories with "This one time, in the duty finder.."
Bonus points for duty roulette stories.

This one time, in the duty finder, I joined Garuda story in progress as a bard. 20 minutes left on the clock. I say "Not going well?" The healer dejectedly replies. Someone votes to abandon - rejected. We run it - kill her on the first try (well, my first try). I say "So, what was the problem?" The healer starts cheering uncontrollably. :cool:
The other 2 players never said anything, sadly.

This one time, in the duty finder, doing low level roulette as a warrior I got Titan story with 3 new players. I explained the mechanics - one-shot it. :cool:

This one time, in the duty finder, we entered crystal tower 45 minutes before maintenance. This was on a Sunday night when there was still a weekly lock on loot drops. Everyone was friendly, having a good time, I got my drop, and we finished 3 minutes before maintenance. :D
It was my second ever CT run. :p

This one time, in the duty finder, I joined something in progress through the low level roulette. I really don't remember what it was because before I could type "hello" the other 3 people killed the boss. Quickest roulette ever!

This one time, in the duty finder, the party was 4 female Miqo'te and .. well, what happens in the duty finder stays in the duty finder. :o

And just to get it out of the way..
This one time, in the duty finder, got Ifrit story in the low level roulette .. and everyone has a relic. Easiest full run ever.

This one time in the duty finder, I was doing my duty roulette and I came across AK, no biggie!

Well our tank and MNK were brand spanking new to lvl 50 stuff. Which I'm fine with and don't mind helping new people, but I never got the chance to do it... because the BRD did all the explaining and mentoring with me commenting very minimal if the BRD forgot something. It was the most refreshing pt I've been in, for a very long while. Any time the poor MNK or PLD didn't simply know something because being fresh 50's the BRD would take their time and just walk them through it.

Always being very encouraging and never speeding things up or getting angry, upset, or snippy with both of them, it just really warmed my heart to see there are people out there willing to help others especially when they're new and still learning how a game works. I gladly gave my commendation to the BRD, I even got one in that PT being the SCH XD though I felt the BRD deserved them all :3

This time in duty finder a tank left in Hardmode Brayflox is was no biggie because we had a bard and a blm. I said if the bard can tank I'll heal him. He said fine. We proceeded through the dungeon got to the last boss. We wanted to try to 3 man it and then a PLD shows up and we basically said f it we're going in without the PLD.
After we go in we beat the last boss before the big bomb.
The PLD and I quote " that was the best and easiest Soldiery run I've ever had." He then said thanks and proceeded to say how awesome that was.
I loved that day xD

This one time in duty finder, rolled Copperbell Mines story on my PLD. The party was me, an archer and I think a THM or a ACN (can't quite remember but they were a caster :P) and a CNJ. At this point I was still not very confident in my tanking ability so I let the party know, they said it was cool and both the damage were new anyway. So we get to the final boss, when the healer suddenly quits D: . So I ask if we should wait for a healer, they say yes so I ask my FC for help to maybe speed up the process a bit. Two FC members sign up and end up in different groups when suddenly I realise I never got the notification to replenish ranks and I wasn't the party leader XD. Since the party leader was one of the new damage they didn't know what that ment so dismissed it D: We finally managed to activate the replenish ranks thing but still didn't get a healer. So at this point I get tired and say "Lets do this", cast protect, and head in with the two damage hot on my tail

We start the fight. I open with FF and shield lob to establish fast enmity control and start doing my single target combo rotation. Whenever I get low on health everyone pauses to cast a quick cure on me, including myself. I've marked the boss as a focus to make sure the two new guys didn't go hitting the ads because I wouldn't be able to save them if we didn't kill the boss fast enough. Boss starts hitting the first boulder so I use the oppurtunity to pop Conv and get some extra heals in. The boulder goes down and the boss starts hitting me again. The two DPS figured I wanted to focus boss so helpfully did so. By now we have him on about 40% health. Shits getting intense as my health gets lower and lower and our heals start not being enough. At 5% health, a healer joins in and we're like, huzzah! Then the boss dies and I'm just thinking "Yeeeeeeeeeeeesss!". Best run of story Copperbell Mines ever.

This one time, in duty roulette, I was running heals (whm) for soldiery cap and the group up was pld, 2 mnks and myself in halitali hard. Me and the dps exchange salutations and the tank ignores up til his stone skin is up and runs off. Oooookay. Guy pulls up to second pack and I expect to have a hell of a time for the remainder of the instance. Dps are working down at a reasonable rate, but without some dedicated aoe, it\\'s tough going keeping the tank up. Tank graces us with his text letting dps know they need to pick it up and when this first encounter is finally over just... Abandons. No words, just gone. Mnks ask what now, and I suggest 3-manning as far as we can. Queue find more and we set off punching and aeroing our way to the first boss. It\\'s fun. Mnks are trading aggro with their position bonuses and I\\'m tossing out dots and were all dancing around one another when things get dicey.

We get to the first boss and I say to hell with optimal, lets just go for it. And we one shot the guy. Another tank showed up mid fight and we all chat about how much fun we had and how awesome it was to watch before going on to crush franz the fair and company. Great group, and I got three commends! ^^

This one time in duty roulette, I had just unlocked sch and was doing my 2nd run on it ever. Got into haukke and right after the first room the tank got pissy because he wasn't using flash or holding hate at all(and he was waaaay super geared) and we asked him if he could use flash to gold hate better for us. got vote kicked by the 2 Dps after getting mouthy with them.
Anyways, we waited for a few, chatted happily. No tank after 5 minutes. Said w/e and ran through the dungeon no tank. Got to the boss, decided to wait again. After 3 failed attempts at fc mates to join in progress we decided to just try the boss.

Not only did we destroy the boss with no tank, but to this day, that boss fight with no tank was smother than any haukke run I had done up to that point with a tank. And smother than half the runs I've done after. Lol. It was a good night.

This one time in duty finder, I ran Praetarium. I was so shocked when a dps who was a first timer was allowed to watch his cutscenes. However a tank immediately left the run (probably due to everyone other than healers being fresh 50s aka no real speed run). We ended up with one tank, and later lost 2 dps due to d/c.
The run was smooth, fun and positive despite the loss of three players. At ultima we were joined by two of the tank's friends and we cleared everything.
I was just happy because for once, a praetarium run was very pleasant to all the new people involved (Turns out there were two first timers actually and I suspect the d/c dps were the same).

This one time in the duty finder, I entered an Ifrit EX which I desperately needed practice on as WHM. We had some elitist A-holes in the group, but fortunately for me the other healer was very experienced. She taught me a lot about how to do the raid effectively, and although we didn't finish, I learned a lot from a very nice player. If I could've given out a commendation, it would've been given to that healer.

Just yesterday I did AK through party finder. Actually DC midway, but party didn't even mind.

Then one of ls mates shouting Odin pops, so I have to excuse myself from party and can leave. Rushed to the scene and got my gold rating. Re-enter AK again with join-in-progress, and behold, same party waiting again, this time only Anantaboga remains. We cleared it pretty quick, and to top it all, I even got 1 recommendation even though I'm a black mage. :D

This one time, in DF Trial Roulette, got Thornmarch. Fight went ok until there was some confusion in the last half, and people start dropping left right and center. OT is kiting his guy plus now another one or two, I have my two, and we have one healer. No Lb3. Healer had just used SC. Keeping us healed, manages to raise one person after the other, me casting protect and SS each time, till we eventually clear it. No wipes. Was pretty cool

Who else is reading these stories in Alyson Hannigan's voice?

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Originally Posted by Amelia_Pond_Behemoth

Who else is reading these stories in Alyson Hannigan's voice?

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I do now.

Small moment during a DF party for Turn 1. I was on DRG. The WHM gave us all Stoneskin before we pulled ADS. After the fight was over, the WHM looked us over and remarked that all Stoneskins minus the ones on the tanks were still intact. Nobody got hit by anything avoidable. Also, being on a job infamous for eating AoEs, I felt a little proud of myself too. :>

It was one of the most awesome DF Coil runs I ever had.

So many of those... Hm... Let's see the first one I come in mind...

Oh, yes!...

Brayflox Hard, even if it wasn¡t exactly duty finder full because my dear friend healer and me joined... Then came a dragoon and a bard as DPS... We did it like often, like we are super sync to do, taking all the damn mobs there and going crazy!... For some reason I don't know the Bard died, when I noticed it, he was died...

Then he said "Please, do never do this again, we are not two BLM" and he left the party... That was awesome, I mean... DPS just left because misteriously died? After many many brayflox doing that, it was first time that happened. Well, we managed to kill the mobs only the DRG and me, then....And here comes the happy part...

DRG also left and two monks joined the party!.... I said "Oh, not two BLM but... Love it! Let's go! Two monks is my favorite set for Brayflox!" of course mocking of the comment of the guy before...

Ironically, we did the FASTER brayflox I have ever did with those super monks that really knew how to use super well their class, and while they were hitting like crazies, me and my healer friend were all time doing jokes about the "We are not BLM" and "This has to be with two BLM" etc.

We got a funny time there, felt inspired by the two monks, congratulated them, one of them even blushed because it was rare for her to see someone talking about she did a god job... We all got fun and after that I just decided to use my low level pugilist for fun, in honor to them, in another dungeon with my healer friend, version tank. (Or rather, ninja turtle version as she said)

There are more, maybe other day. I'm a player that uses too much duty finder and hardly ever fully premades.

This one time, in the duty roulette, I was running Tam Tara. At first everything looked good, the tank had some trouble getting aggro (I died at the first boss...) but this seems to be a common problem at lower levels, no bad feelings. Both DPS were quite new to the game (*see below), the mage was using most of the time Blizzard and an occasional Fire 2 when there was only 1 mob left but the SMN did his job well. Everything felt a bit chaotic but I like it that way.

We wiped at the final boss and everyone but the tank got back up. He didnt talk to us and after some minutes he left the party (no disconnection, I guess he wanted an afk kick but we didnt do him this favor). Running the full dungeon but then cancel on last boss is just sad and since there was a SMN we tried our luck, we wiped once but on the 2nd try we managed to clear it without tank :)

It was an awesome party, one of my best experiences with roulette so far. They even wanted to invite me to their FC, not knowing that roulette is cross server. If you come across a BLM/SMN pair on Phoenix form a party with them, they are great guys.


On a sidenote, although being new to the game they said something sad: "we are used to it" and "good tanks are rare" :(
This happend last week btw, I really hope guys like them will continue to play

This one time, in DF, tonight actually, did T1 just for the hell of it. Two new DPS and other new tank. Did a brief explanation of things, before each boss.

Made it successfully with no wipes. Was very cool

This one time in DF I cued up for Manor HM. I was not the only new person so we were learning the fights as we go. First two boss fights are no problem. 3rd we learned the mechanics of trial and error. While I wish I could say we cleared the dungeon, we did not. We persisted until the time expired getting better and better on the final boss each time. No one blamed anyone. We just learned from our mistakes and made changes. All four of us know the fight that much better and when we go our separate ways to clear the dungeon, we'll be that much more prepared. We all became better players through our failures.

Bringing this back to spread the positivity! I have 4 stories:

This one time, in Duty Finder, I was accompanying a FC friend to Haukke HM for the first time. The other DPS was new too and tank ended up explaining strat both in English for my friend and in German for the other DPS! I felt so bad I couldn't help him out but I was on PS3 and he was quicker than me in two languages than me in one. We wiped 4-5 times on the last boss becuase the DPS was slow - but I discovered a new mechanic where the boss would sacrifice one of us instead of the adds! Never saw that before xD The first time we were all shocked, but with 20 minutes on the clock we decided for one last try and we finally killed her!

This other time, in Duty Finder, I was accompanying the same FC friend plus another one to Copperbell HM for the first time. The tank we ended up with was new too, so this time I had to explain everything, keyboard or not. We didn't even wipe at the first boss, which I was worried about, and the rest of the run was actually pretty smooth! We did wipe A LOT on the last boss, and unfortunately I had friends waiting for me outside my house so I had to leave after a couple of tries, but I've been informed that they managed to beat it, so yay!

This other other time (which happened just a few minutes ago, actually), in Duty Finder, I was accompanying another FC member to Aurum Vale for the first time. It was the tank's first time as a WAR: we wiped 4 times at the first pull lol, he had troubles keeping hate and was undergeared, but when he asked us if we wanted him to leave we said no and we did so much better after that, we one-shotted the boss! It was incredibly satisfying watching us go from complete strangers to working as a team. And since I have names, I can thank them in person! So, Sieg Sinclair and J'qen Vydic, thank you for sticking until the end!

Aaaand this other other other time, in Duty Finder, happened the best thing ever. I was accompanying a FC member to Preatorium. It was his first time and he wanted to watch the cutscenes. I told him I'd stick with him and I'd try to ask the group to do the same, but we all know how people are in Prae... Half of them left immediately, another one left after a while, then a DPS joined and left again, but thankfully a tank and healer stayed with us from the beginning and a couple of other people from my FC and a LS I'm in joined in progress to help us out. I am so, so grateful that you stayed and helped a stranger out of kindess. And I have names for this one too! Except of the tank, because in one screenshot she had already left, and in the previous one she was interacting with a device. Talk about good timing :/ But I can thank Komumu Komu and Luna Lulane. You are the kind of people that make this game worth playing!

This is a noob story, but still one great memory of a DF run.


This one time in Duty Finder I was leveling ACN, and entered Halatali. The other DPS (who wasn't any higher level than me) happened to be ACN, too.

We kill the first batch of mobs, everything is going fine.
Suddenly, barely five minutes in, the tank and healer both leave the instance, without a single word, nor appearant reason.

ACN2 and I decide to wait a bit, without much hope of seeing a replacement (this was before the roulette). Meanwhile, we chat amiably to pass time.

Time is ticking, and seeing that nobody's coming, we decide to summon our Topazes and go on to kill what we could, before the clock settled the matter for us. Neither of us had much experience outside of standart 4 man team dungeons, so we didn't expect to go very far, but we both knew this specific dungeon already.

When the two of us reached the first boss, we stopped. We had never imagined downing a boss without at least 3 people, but seeing that nobody was coming, why not?
We were surprised by the ease with which we killed it. Then again, we thought, it had easy mechanics. There is no way we'll manage the second boss and its adds.

When we killed the second boss, without dying either, we where extasic. We started to think we could do the whole dungeon, imagine that!
Time was ticking, and we took much longer than we would usualy need. We went on to the last boss unsure of the result.

We finally killed the last boss, still without dying, just a few minutes before the timer ran out.


This is a noob story, but still one great memory of a DF run.
We experienced the thrill of what was a new challenge to us, one we had never thought to take.
We learned a lot about our class and our pets.
We had a great time in pleasant company, having met a fun and nice person in the process.


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Another one, though not as found a memory. Just to counter the idea that Duty Finder should be renamed Derp Finder.
Still old and noob-ish, but still:

This one time, in Duty Finder, I was running Qarn as DPS. I had done it before, and outleveled it a bit, but I just happened to enjoy it, so ran it through DF for fun.

I ended up with a full first timer team.
Not so surprising considering it wasn't a compulsory dungeon, and most people I knew at the time thought it was a nightmare. Nevertheless, I had never been the only experienced one on this dungeon.

All three first timers were calm, attentive, professional. I gave a short briefing before boss battles, but nothing more was needed.

I must admit I was prepared to wipe a few times, especially considering my own first time there even with an experienced team.

It ended up being one of the smoothest run I had there. Zero wipe, not even on the first boss. We ended up completing the dungeon in record time.



This one time, in Duty Finder, I went with a FC mate to kill Garuda for her quest.
I had done it as SCH before, though only a couple of times, and was playing DPS this time. The rest of the team was made of first-timers.

Not unsurprisingly, we wiped. Tried again, then wiped again. Adn again. And again...
But every time, we went a little further, Garuda's life a little lower.

No one quit. Step by step, we figured the fight out.

We ended up using al 90 minutes of the timer, and by that time, Garuda was very close to dead.

We didn't kill her on this run, but we learned a lot, had a good time, and left with no regrets.

This one time in Duty Finder I was doing Main Scenario Roulette for my tomes. I rolled Prae on my WAR. One of the DD's wasn't fond of the dungeon, so he left. Another DD joined shortly after in his stead. We charged forward with a Well geared PLD main tanking and speed running well. We finish the dungeon before the first DD's penalty expired. I got to laugh at someone's unwise choice.

Rolled DR for high level, got AK. On 1st triple mobs, I aoe Fire II them and sooner realize that the PLD cannot hold aggro. Check the gear and it's still iLvl 55 for most of it, so I play the safe and regular sleeping mob methods. Doing ok till we reached Anantaboga. The tank makes boss tail facing directly to rest of us who has position at the usual hiding spot beside the 2nd gargoyle pop. Tried our best but we wiped, especially since after 2nd gargoyle comes alive, rest of party member didn't know what to do with purple tether line.

Then I ask party if they can understand english, since they're JP besides me. Tank responded, apologize, then admiting it's his 1st time (quite obvious since I saw the map achievement when they reaching final boss room). Said it was ok, then proceed to teach how to tank Anantaboga and how to deal with overall fight.

2nd attempt, got a small hitch but this time we managed to win the fight. When I exited, I got 3 commendation, even though I'm BLM. :D

Everytime I get into a dungeon with players doing it their first time is so great as long as they communicate
Like this one time in duty finder I did Stone Vigil with 3 new ppl. I explained everything and we one shotted every boss. I was so proud of them!

Tonight I got Castrum Meridianum. 3 new people introduced themselves. Everyone was welcoming and, while the run was a little fast overall, no one was forced to skip any cutscenes and all the fights were explained. :D