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

[Ilenya]

Running Aery as a DRK, had the two DPS roleplaying, not really an issue, was interesting to listen to. The WHM, however...

I died to the first pull. The first two enemies that you can run into. To the best of my knowledge I didn't get a single heal the entire fight, except the swiftcast+raise to pick me back up. Spent the rest of the dungeon with the WHM pre-casting Regen before pulls and the DPS pulling ahead of me, died again later because who knows what the WHM was doing, and once we finally finished, had the WHM say "Cant give you recommend Alex, since you never used Cover on me"

They left before I could respond, but really?

[Gabrielleblanc]

Did a vault while leveling DRK after paladin, run was going slightly smooth but we get to the last boss and wipe due to dps standing in Aoe and the AST running out of MP, to which I am greeted with "wear fnding gear fgt tnk." I had been wearing 3 fending 2 str regardless because leveling gear w/e. I just reply "I have 12.5k hp and you should have no issues healing this if dps didn't stand in AE, i did this as a paladin literally yesterday with 10k. Either get good or vote kick me and wait 30 minutes." I was vote kicked and laughed my ass off on teamspeak.

[Dragoon130]

wait you lose exp if you are dead at the death of the boss?

Sometimes it gives it to me sometimes it doesn't. Either way the dude was acting ridiculous.

[Meimi_chan]

On reset day I DF for Alex 1 (nm) as a monk, group beats Faust no problem and both me and the summoner volunteer for the 0.5 boss.
First time I didn't touch the adds assuming the summoner had them... Nope they went straight to the healers so I had to chase to get them. I have absolutely no idea about what the summoner was doing, as I never saw a dot and in the end I was the only one gathering/killing adds.
Of course I saw that our boss was way behind the other one, even if my DPS was decent (or I hope it was, my FC says that I am a good monk, so I trust them in that), I can't really keep up alone between boss and adds.
Luckily we killed it and I got my drop.



Yesterday I queued for The Library as a bard to get my last exp to 60, tank and black mage are new, so I think "finally a slow run".. Well, it was slow pertaining the pulling of trash mobs, but as soon as we reach the first boss tank pulls without waiting for explanations.
I type something really fast but as soon as the book closes both tank and blm die... Scholar and I soloed the boss, it doesn't hit hard but I felt bad for the new people.
Second boss, tank again pulls before I have time to type, but the fight goes smoothly for the most part.
I had a bit of time to type (internal cheer)before the last boss because the tank was waiting for people to roll on his weapon and being a bit vocal on it in party chat...But apparently my explanation was ignored because we wiped 4 times and group disbanded.

[KeluBehemoth]

I run as a tank because I expect 15 min clears.

Anything over 20 mins is too long.

30 is just ridiculous unless half the party is in greens.

[Dragoon130]

I have another one from last night. Doing A4N for the first time with a partial FC party. I've been incredibly lazy on doing any of the raid content due to a combination of my static falling apart as well as work and fatherhood taking most of my time. Friend (WAR) says he will main tank so I can learn the mechanics. It took 10 tries. Neither pug SCH was healing insisting that thier fairies could handle it. No sacred soil, lustrates, aldlos, not a single heal for 9 tries. I got yelled at by one for throwing a Clemancy at the warrior. Yeah it was a fun time. Won the shaft though.

[Fluestergras]

Bards not singing. Two black mages, me as summoner, but no requiem.
Or bards not using WM.
Or healers flaming me as bard for singing the warden's paean for the warrior with this macro that tells me when he uses berserk, so that I can block the incoming pacification. "You're a dps and we're the healers, so stop singing!" Seriously?

[Fynlar]

No. You still get experience while dead as long as you contributed to the fight and have group credit. Same thing with any fights in the world (ie: FATEs)

If you are dead you will not get EXP from kills, trust me on this.

You can still get clearance/bonus EXP, such as first-timer completion bonus, AiN bonus, and roulette bonus. But the chunk of EXP that comes from the boss itself, you will not get if you're dead, which is why I advise just releasing if the boss is close to being defeated.

Animus books worked the same way, by the way. Did not get credit if you were dead. Been a common gripe about the books for a while now.

[BunnyChain]

Here's another one from a long while ago (was quite hard to grasp for me as well):

Frontline Secure; me on SCH, stay at Adder's Outpost (OP), other healer goes with the rest for drones, trying to lead the party "keep OP captured and get drones/node at 20", BRD tells everyone to get Flame OP - me included, I ask who's going to hold our OP, BRD tells me they will, I don't see anyone coming over so I stay, around 20 - I tell again to go to middle for node/drones, most of the team goes to capture Flame OP, only me and (iirc) DRG at middle, BRD: "You're an idiot.", Maelstrom wins.

I check on BRD on the Lodestone - rank 45 with Logistics System mount (200 wins at least).

TL;DR: Capture Flame's OP = instant win.

[Avidria]

Had a World of Darkness run yesterday that was pretty...interesting. No new player bonus so I figure everyone probably at least knows the mechanics and such. Silly me.

We get to the first boss and half my alliance gets hit by the first bane. Apparently just about everyone did...luckily my whole alliance knew how to get the buff off, but six people from the other alliances go down. I'm thinking alright, this is fine, we can do this. Nope. Every single bane most of my alliance gets hit and several more people die. Half the raid is dead and the boss isn't even at 60% yet. People are standing in AoE's, stacking the same color 2+ times, and they're hitting the floor left and right. At one point I'm pretty sure I was the only healer alive. We wiped once, then almost wiped again and just barely cleared with less than half of our players alive.

Giant lizard guy was alright, still a few deaths and people standing in bad, and came very close to losing most of the raid during heat wave, but we got it.

Third boss and people are dying to AoE's, standing in the purple goo without mini, healers are trying to dps, our tank gets punched in the face...but we get it eventually.

Last boss goes about as well as all the others but we just barely clear that, too.

And then someone says "Hey thanks for making this my most smooth run of WoD guys!" ._.