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

[Noxifer]

Just was in Stone Vigil HM.. last boss. I died due to my controller freezing (whoops), the NIN dies right after me.
I'm AST so I just rez and run back....

The NIN and I watch as the WAR and the newbie BRD obliterate the last 3/4 of the boss(es) without us, haha.

Sounds like my first run of SV HM (the week it was released) -- went in with a group of friends trying to figure the mechanics out as we go, which was a LOT of fun ^_^
And on the last boss, the healer and one dd die, leaving me (WAR) and the bard to kill the overly friendly lizards xD We kept expecting to wipe due to no healer, but nope.

(Though the amount of times we wiped on the first boss of Tam-tara HM before figuring out the mechanics.... DF groups would have disbanded ages ago xD)

one of the NINs got upset because he wanted to be surprised by everything and not be ruined by knowing how it will go. PLD was confused but didn't comment. Once we we got to the second one tank started to explain and the NIN got upset once a again and NINs vote kicked him. Next tank came in started to explain fight and thus they were kicked.

Well... I can understand wanting to see the fights without getting it spoiled, especially if it's still early after release. But for crying out loud, at least say you'd like that at the start, instead of getting upset when people give you spoilers when they don't even know you don't want them. Is it really so hard to say, "Please don't explain the boss fights; I'd like to go in blind."
(Also... for that it's usually best to go in with a full group who is new to the place, since mechanics tend to get 'spoiled' even without explanations by the not-new team members performing them perfectly...)
Silly Ninjas... *shakes head*

Lolol i've come across a few of those "don't spoil the fight!" people. I get that you want to "experience" stuff fully for the first time but I don't see any harm in explaining what you need to do. Some people.. :P

Well, to me the 'first time experience' kind of involves boss mechanics ^_~ But if I haven't asked people not to explain mechanics, I'm not going to be upset with them for doing so ^^; That's just... unreasonable.

[Fluestergras]

As I've been leveling mch recently, whenever I see a brd as the second dps in the party I cry and prepare myself for a long run.

You break my heart :'( Whenever I have a MCH or 2nd BRD in my party, and if this one uses their stance, the run takes about 2 minutes longer, I think that's something I can live with *shrug*

Had a Brayflox NM run as AST recently, the tank wore a Goblin Cap (not as glamour, it was his headpiece). He told me the dungeons he did didn't drop anything yet (DRK lv47 - couldn't he simply buy something?). Yet we ran the dungeon quite well until before the Hellbender - I accidentally pulled a single mob, both DPS accidentally pulled a group of mobs each, at the same time the tank pulled another group. Yeah. Spammed heals, was sad about not having time to DPS or draw any cards, then after we made it out alive I sat in front of the PC, laughing manically.

[sirDarts]

Had a Brayflox NM run as AST recently, the tank wore a Goblin Cap (not as glamour, it was his headpiece). He told me the dungeons he did didn't drop anything yet (DRK lv47 - couldn't he simply buy something?). Yet we ran the dungeon quite well until before the Hellbender - I accidentally pulled a single mob, both DPS accidentally pulled a group of mobs each, at the same time the tank pulled another group. Yeah. Spammed heals, was sad about not having time to DPS or draw any cards, then after we made it out alive I sat in front of the PC, laughing manically.

Oh I know what you are talking about. I absolutely adore those runs where everything goes south, and you actually have to put in effort healing, reviving, etc. and you save the run despite half the team being dead at some point (had such for example in Titan HM a few times). It's such a great rush of adrenaline!

[AskaRay]

Nahahahaha no a long run is two DRG where one does not use any DOTS at all.
In the vault... I was waiting, I didn't say anything because one, didn't know which one wasn't doing it and two, I couldn't remember anything about DRG. Then one of them DC'd before the boss and I saw noooo DOTS. None. Asked the DRG why they weren't applying htem and they said they were...so I said "ok" and went on with it. Didn't want to press the issue since we were doing fine...just took foreverrrrr

Then we wiped once on the boss , no big deal it happens, and that DRG leaves.
SMN comes in and we finish quickly.

[Rynia]

What is it with Brayflox and terrible groups?
Also, try to avoid running anything in the Chaos datacentre during the day. It's awful.

Levelling, Paladin, pop into Brayflox. Sigh. Put on Sword Oath. Look at party list to see a synched-down ARC and a blm whose name is clearly a plug for a youtube channel, neither of which are good signs. Open search info, level 36 archer with PUG to 9. Maybe he's working on it, give the benefit of the doubt. Everything seems fine until the first boss, where the dps decide killing adds is beneath them and I get swarmed, but the healer manages to keep me alive (shoutout to Alexia Garcia of Moogle, you did a fab job!). After that it goes downhill rapidly, with the bard pulling ahead of me every time while I wait for our healer's MP to recover from the extra healing she had to do, the add not dying in the second boss, the archer constantly running in circles and pulling extra mobs in the big room and wiping us no less than three times. I persevered until we got to the third boss, where the archer decided to pull again and lock out the healer. ARC and BLM were clearly together as blm "threatened" to leave if I kicked the archer, so I just left. No time for that drama.

I did feel bad for the astro though =(

[MentheusDreyar]

Snip.

Tbh i find the Chaos data centre terrible at any time of the day :L which is why i only ever PUG leveling roulette and absolutely nothing else, and i've found a clear correlation to the bad players, but i'll probably get temp banned from the forums again for saying it so i won't

I'm going to quote myself though, this is my general experience having a full PUG in Chaos...... at any level of content

Tbh about 90% of players I end up with in DF might as well be dead on the floor given their performance. I feel like Im soloing the dungeon most of the time.

As an example in my levelling roulette today I was out DPSing two lv 50 DPS in temple of qarn as a lv 39 AST... Normally I'd just straight up AFK and go get something to eat unless there's a node nearly ready. But I felt like parsing this run to see just how bad they were...

Want to know their numbers at the end? PLD: 12 NIN: 15 BLM: 20
Want to know mine? AST: 43 that's while healing and DPSing while OOM for 60% of the run.

Yes this is the general skill level of people in DF and is the reason why the only thing I tolerate in DF is level roulette and nothing else this once a day is enough for me. Same goes for the other 200+ tanks and healers and DPS in my LS and friend list that avoid DF like the plague.

And just FYI that run took 87 mins >.<

[Fluestergras]

What is it with Brayflox and terrible groups?

Dunno, Brayflox is actually quite okay as long as the tank is good and the rest knows the basic mechanics (means: don't pull as non-tank, don't stand in aoe, don't heal before or during pull, etc.), but there's no dungeon where the DF morons fail in knowing the basics as hard as in Brayflox.

[Mayvee]

Tanked a run in Brayflox (lol) with an obvious Pre-made. After the first boss, the NIN decides to strip down to a bikini (not glamoured) , pull crap because "I don't wanna waste my mudras", the MCH keeps knocking stuff back and they all decide to pull even more crap and THEN tell me they wanted a full run ;-; I don't even know why I stuck it out >_>

[actualcactus]

My last Fractal run was an adventure.

Normally I run Experts with my FC and I guess I'd been spoiled by how nice and easy and quick we can chew through them, but it was late and everyone was tired for the day. So I solo queued after a half-hour wait and ended up with three others from the same server - I think two of them (the BRD and AST) were a premade, but they seemed to be familiar with the PLD as well. They're very chatty and having quite the conversation just standing at the start, which is fine with me, I'm generally patient and try to be friendly, and did contribute a bit as well. It ends up taking nearly 20 minutes to clear the first few rooms because they're just talking away mid-pull, I run out of TP maybe a third of the way into these huge AOE pulls and having to just run on fumes...but hey at least I can fit a Litany in on each pull?

By the time we're at the first boss their convo (which is still ongoing, with me occasionally tanking while the tank is unable to help mid-text) ends up steering waaaay into TMI territory, but at this point I'm pretty entertained by how strange it is? Eventually they start talking to me directly and began pelting me with thrusting jokes...I'm not about to forget that part. o___o

All in all the run ended up taking over an hour, we wiped on the last boss since the healer forgot to cure the bomb status twice and the tank and I ate it. At the end one of them said that this was one of their best runs ever, since 9 times out of 10 they have been kicked for the above reasons. I love DF.

[sirDarts]

Tbh i find the Chaos data centre terrible at any time of the day :L which is why i only ever PUG leveling roulette and absolutely nothing else, and i've found a clear correlation to the bad players, but i'll probably get temp banned from the forums again for saying it so i won't

I'm going to quote myself though, this is my general experience having a full PUG in Chaos...... at any level of content

Dunno, I usually don't have issues on Chaos. I even have such nice runs as a run in Fractal where I did not need to heal the tank at all against bosses, and only rarely against trashes, and could fully commit to DPSing, was fun.