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

[Avidria]

I'm fairly new and still working the MSQ. I queue up for Levi HM as SCH. Load in, say, "Hi, I'm new here." just to give people a heads up. MT immediately pulls saying "there's no mechanics just burn it." I'm all like really? >.> <.< ?? Okay, whatever. Shieldin' Healin' DPSin'...

Suddenly the entire party is dead. My reaction: O.O

Me: I thought there were no mechanics?
MT: There aren't.
Me: >.> <.< ??
MT: Pulls again. This time no wipe. Clear.
Me: Dafuq just happened? Oh well, whatevs...Still don't know what the mechanics are

It always sucks when that happens. Had someone do that to a healer who was new to A4 once...told him to "just heal" without anything beyond that. Naturally we wiped again and again and...vote abandoned. :/

The others covered the big mechanics for levi, but If you ever do it on extreme, there's another thing for healers: you want to stay away from the rest of the group since there will be an AoE originating on you. But yeah, definitely can't ignore those mechanics.

[Whiteroom]

It always sucks when that happens. Had someone do that to a healer who was new to A4 once...told him to "just heal" without anything beyond that. Naturally we wiped again and again and...vote abandoned. :/

The others covered the big mechanics for levi, but If you ever do it on extreme, there's another thing for healers: you want to stay away from the rest of the group since there will be an AoE originating on you. But yeah, definitely can't ignore those mechanics.

Yeah, I've seen that. Tell the healer to "just heal" in the one that is a heal check. Obviously the advice comes from a non-healer. Discoid... yeah miss that tanks dead. Nisi... yeah, lets run around and play tag. Better put up my Med II, oh wait, theres adds... What! Why cant I heal the off tank!? What do you mean everythings splash damage?

[Malicewolf]

Yea, it's always bad when people give bad info. I've joined dungeons for 1st time and asked if there's anything I should know as a tank and been told it's a tank and spank, then find there's much more to it. Always a pleasant surprise to hear "DPS have to kill the adds and you ended up pointing the boss right at us noob!"
Tell me to drag the boss away then... I ain't watching your butt the entire time. I'm lookin at my hp as the boss continues to punch my face in seeing if I need to pop a defensive CD. Or my favorite, wanderer's palace final boss. 1st time there, told to point the boss away from the party (common sense really). So I do. Then I find out he shoots an AoE from his butt... REALLY?! Luckily, my party members were nice there and just moved to his side without complaining.

But I always find the opposite situations to be kind of funny. When I went into Odin, I remember both the healer's were new and asked if there was anything they should know. The 1st response was, "run like hell".

[bounddreamer]

Had an awesome clear last night when I decided to queue for duty roulette at around half an hour before maintenance. Really wanted to get my AST to 59.

First thing in, we load into Aery and the tank drops. So we wait a bit, getting nervous. Will we get a join in progress in time to clear before maintenance? I call out to one of my LSs, no response. Now we're under 30 minutes. I call again and one of my awesome hunting buddies joins us on his 60 DRK. He comments it's a tight time frame before maintenance and I agree, saying I hope we can do it!

From then on we had an absolutely flawless run. Pulls went smooth, healing went fine, was able to dps a bit, card RNG was good, no one died or stood in AoE's. It was a God Mode run, and we were all doing our best performance.

We cleared the dungeon with 2 minutes to spare before maintenance and I was able to give my friend a comm at the end. \o/

[Veralidaine]

Today I was doing Aurum Vale on my BRD because I had a quest for my GC that I've been putting off. Got a PLD tank and I think a SCH healer. Things are going ok, PLD was in magitek gear and sort of pulling a bit much for the healer but we weren't wiping and lots of aoe so all good.

We get to the room with all the scorpions and stuff right before the cyclops boss. PLD pulls whole room, dies when mobs are at about 1/4 health, so I kite them around like a pro and pew pew while he runs back. Healer keeps me up and everythings good.

The problem came at the lots of morbols and seeds room. Tank pulled entire room, big morbols, little morbols. Perhaps an oversight on his part but the seeds all hatched and attacked the healer and she died, he died, we all died.

We all ran back, and the healer says "worst tank I've ever seen" and rage quits. Me and the other dps are just sittin here like whyyyy right before the last boss! The tank really wasn't bad!

In the end we got another healer, killed last room and last boss just fine, big pulls and all.

[Adire]

The problem came at the lots of morbols and seeds room. Tank pulled entire room, big morbols, little morbols. Perhaps an oversight on his part but the seeds all hatched and attacked the healer and she died, he died, we all died.

Probably not an oversight. Pulling that entire room is possible but it can get messy fast if not done correctly.

The tank has to pick up the morbols when they hatch while keeping the big morbols from aiming its huge aoes at the group, and it can be difficult to see considering how many morbols are in the room and how small the room is. Not a good combo.

The other way to do the pull is to provoke them into hatching with ranged attacks while staying out of range of the big morbols. It takes a while so some opt to just pull the whole thing at once. And a misstep by someone can aggro the second morbol and eggs, so if you pull the first group at once it's risky to not pull the second group.

[Veralidaine]

Probably not an oversight. Pulling that entire room is possible but it can get messy fast if not done correctly.

The tank has to pick up the morbols when they hatch while keeping the big morbol from aiming its huge aoes at the group, and it can be difficult to see considering how many morbols are in the room and how small the room is. Not a good combo.

The other way to do the pull is to provoke them into hatching with ranged attacks while staying out of range of the big morbol. It takes a while so some opt to just pull the whole thing at once.

What I meant by this is perhaps he should have watched for the hatching eggs and grabbed them when they came out so they would not have gotten the healer, but we all make mistakes.

[Adire]

What I meant by this is perhaps he should have watched for the hatching eggs and grabbed them when they came out so they would not have gotten the healer, but we all make mistakes.

Yes, he should have. Anything is better than allowing the healer to tank significant damage. But the thing is, if you run to the eggs and they aren't hatching at the same exact time, you risk pointing the big morbol's big aoes at the group even more because it's positioning is changing for a longer time.

The tank may have been expecting the healer to run to him (which the healer should have done). Then the tank wouldn't have had to risk AoEing the group and could have picked them up as they came to the healer. Healers should know that putting yourself at max range isn't always the best idea. If you know adds are spawning, staying near the tank makes everyones' lives easier. Melees don't have to chase down the boss (or Morbol mini-boss in this case) while the tank chases down adds, position changing remains minimal.

[Xanikk999]

So last night I was in the dungeon finder and we had some drama unfold.

I got temple of qarn and I noticed that the mobs were dying really slowly. I noticed the healer, a white mage, just standing there inbetween heals and I suggested to him that he should dps when the tank doesn't need healing.

He then told me "I would if the tank knew how to use his cooldowns". Then the tank said he is using his cooldown and he only had one at his level. The healer started calling the tank bad and then drama ensued. The tank was getting very irritated and and one pull he died and asked the healer what the hell he was doing. The healer said he was bad again and then the tank just started cursing a storm at him. They wouldn't stop arguing. The healer vote kicked the tank and then the other DPS called us both jerks and left. Then the healer left.

10 minutes later while all alone the duty finder refills with new members. The new dps asked what happened. We had no problems the rest of the run!

[Veralidaine]

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If things are dying slowly wouldn't it be more reasonable to look at the other dps or yourself and see what is making it slow before suggesting that the healer dps? I'm all for healer dps but when things are dying slowly it's more likely because the actual dps are either doing something wrong, is new, or is just being lazy.