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

[Fevelle]

Decided to run my PLD through Dusk Vigil, wiped on the first pack due to our healer not being 'ready', even though he/she was one step behind me the whole time. I decided to check said Healers lodestone, had every pony, louisiex minion ect. Wonder how much those carries were.

Sometimes we just aren't paying attention. This happens.

[Crysten]

Just had a French SMN in Stone Vigil easy mode wearing Mythril CP bracelets and necklace, a level 15 STR ring and a level 29 MND earring.

Needless to say, I'm afk for the next half an hour.

Can we job lock accessories, and add an iLvl requirement to story content, please?

[Kolaina]

Can we job lock accessories, please?

what about STR tanks of those tanks with melded accessories which prove way better than anything in AS1?

[Malicewolf]

So, did DF for some xp on my Paladin. Got Aurum Vale and did the usual; say hi and ask if the group is comfortable with bigger pulls. The 2 dps seemed game, but the healer hesitated, first asking "how big is a big pull?" and then after I said "aggro'ing the enemies up to the 1st boss" he followed up with "I'm a shitty healer". So, I told them no issue and that I would do smaller pulls and gauge the sizes after based on how we do from there...
Here's where it gets fun. Pull the 1st and 2nd mob group right at the start. This consisted of 1 nix, 2 of those flower enemies, 2 bats and then one of the dps pulled in 2 of the jellies by accident after about a min. We wiped. I used up every defensive cooldown I had and even bloodbath trying to keep myself up. The healer wasn't kidding. 700 hp avg heals that came once in a blue moon. I honestly couldn't even tell you if he was attempting to dps as well. I was too busy running around like a damned fool just trying to stay alive in wait for the heals to come because my CD's were recharging.
So after wiping on just 2 mobs, I figured this was gonna be a slow haul and decided 1 mob per pull is probably going to be the pace here (and it was). Unfortunately, the dps kept pulling more mobs in as well, which slowed things down considerably. Most of the time, I was able to keep us from wiping, but I died a total of 5 times. Sadly, when we got to the banemites, we found that even single mob pulls were proving difficult for the healer. Nearly every pull required me to pop all my CD's to stay alive, along with using bloodbath and running away in circle's to avoid more dmg (pls remember, I'm a Paladin as well... so bloodbath really isn't the go to heal as I have no AoE attacks in AV). I thought about using cure on myself even, but I used up all my MP doing flashes just to keep aggro on me since the mobs were so slow to kill.

When we got to coincounter.... oh god was it a nightmare. To top off the lack of heals coming my way, my internet started to crap out on me and I began to lag So this meant mistimed dodges from the 100 ton swings and, of course, my demise. 1st time was a wipe. 2nd time, the healer managed to swiftcast revive me before anything real bad happened. The bard caught the aggro when I died, so he just ran around the map while I got back up. I immediately pulled the aggro back after 2 hits. Luckily, the healer did get my hp back up by the time his 1st swing came around at me.

Honestly, I'm not, per se, mad at the healer. I got a warning at the beginning. But my god. I've never had to use every CD I had on each and every pull just to stay alive. But the DPS also really weren't dishing out the damage needed either. I can understand the ninja having a bit of trouble whenever I had to start running in circles to offset some damage to stay alive, but the Bard wasn't dealing that much either.

I thought about switching to sword oath to try dishing out more dps, but decided against it as it seemed I needed the defense much more.

[LaylaTsarra]

My alt ran an expert roulette yesterday with a tank that called himself "The Naked Paladin". He started out fully geared in Fractal and then proceeded as the duty went by to remove gear little at t time until he had nothing on his left side but his underclothes. Needless to say the healer had fun trying to keep him up. We wiped a couple times as he proceeded to ask about how sexy he was among other somewhat suggestive remarks. Thankfully, he did put his gear back on for the last boss. I personally spent time out of Wanderers Minute running and shooting minions who were after me as a result of his dying. I managed to keep alive while doing what bards used to did before they became casters.

I will say it was entertaining to say the least.

[UnstablePersonality]

Qued neverreap, got this Dark Knight tank....things were fine until last boss, right before last boss he pulled the entire final group up to the gap then jumped it, which caused the entire group to deaggro onto us. The healer stayed with us, and he then decided charging the boss was a good idea while we were cleaning up the mess of that dumbass.

[Averax]

Just had an A3 where the other scholar would only use phyisck, lustrate, and succor.

[raela]

Qued neverreap, got this Dark Knight tank....things were fine until last boss, right before last boss he pulled the entire final group up to the gap then jumped it, which caused the entire group to deaggro onto us. The healer stayed with us, and he then decided charging the boss was a good idea while we were cleaning up the mess of that dumbass.

...but there's a gate

[TouchandFeel]

...but there's a gate

Exactly what I was thinking.


Somewhat unrelated, but I have had some interesting times with that jump to the last boss platform.
There was one time my group and I were all hopping over to the boss platform and halfway across the gap it just dropped me ... into the pit, killing me. There was a bit of confusion as all my group saw was that I suddenly disappeared and was dead. When I told them what happened, everyone got a good laugh out of it, with comments like "the run was going too well for DF so the game decided to punish you."

[raela]

Exactly what I was thinking.


Somewhat unrelated, but I have had some interesting times with that jump to the last boss platform.
There was one time my group and I were all hopping over to the boss platform and halfway across the gap it just dropped me ... into the pit, killing me. There was a bit of confusion as all my group saw was that I suddenly disappeared and was dead. When I told them what happened, everyone got a good laugh out of it, with comments like "the run was going too well for DF so the game decided to punish you."

Latency can kill you - if the game lags in catching you with the air, you'll hit the ground and die. On the other air hops you can fall under the clouds and hit ground, but there's no instant death (vanu lava?!). Lag does odd things.