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

[Erys]

Trying to Thornmach Ex DF. Explain the strategy on controller because PC MASTER RACE KB+M IS SUPERIOR are too busy to explain before raging, several groups, no one listens, one group listens, we nearly do it, ninja forgets everything and leaves WHM moogle almost dead.
SE, please. Implement a chat that comes out of your TV/monitor, slaps you in the face and forces you to type back/confirm you understand/affirmative or negative response. Much needed.

[SaitoHikari]

Lv. 60 Roulette. Got freaking Neverreap once again. I haven't had a Fractal run in a week.

We all jump to the platform where the last boss is. Bard for some reason runs backwards, jumps off, and dies. Said he saw a friend jump back the day before. >_>

[Whiteroom]

Good Point, what was I thinking doing it the right way in DF, tbh I usually only run it with my FC, and we tend to do the fight the way it was designed. Since I need to run it, calculating in beast tribe dailies, probably 180 times to get the items i'll need I must succumb to running it with strangers. I agree, I don't have a problem provoking .5 off the ramp as OT, I just don't understand how common procedure goes against the grain of the fight's mechanics. Seriously, the MT has full aggro of .5, so why swap that target when it's easier to swap Opp, and there is no dps loss either than the MT autorunning north.

I just find that in DF Alex runs, it's best to plan for having the worst teams in there an be plesantly surprised if its not. I have seen so much in tanking for two relics... I just find it's best not to try to push people to new or different things in there right now. About half the time it seems to end in a wipe, costing more

Hell, 2/6 runs in A4 had wipes the other day. One from a dps bringing all three lasers to myself and another DPS, so they both died, and I died almost immediatly after. Another Nisi got passed around like a bad cold.

[GleepWurp]

My first attempt at Void Ark today, we wiped on Irminsul and then again on Cuchulainn. Among other issues, the tank in my group was wearing level 56 armor... with all i210 strength jewelry to get them to the minimum iLevel.

[Synrin]

Been in two groups yesterday. Thornmarch Hard. Wiped 5 times in total. DPS would focus the King even when told to kill the adds first. And they weren't first-timers... I don't even....

[Fluestergras]

This astrologian never drawing any cards and running on the first trash packs without a stance. After I asked them to activate either Diurnal or Nocturnal, they chose the latter, but never used Aspected Benefic and only one Aspected Helios during the entire dungeon. They never used Helios or anything else than Benefic and Benefic II either.

This was in the Vault.

[aesteval]

A while back I was doing trials roulette as a Dragoon and got Titan HM.
There were two other dragoons in the party and one of the dragoons made a joke about elusive jumping off the platform.

I have yet to be knocked off by Titan. I've been victimized by elusive jump multiple times. ...it happens... I had to rearrange some skills on my palette to reduce the risk. Seriously, having elusive jump and your combo opener on comparable locations on different palettes is a bad idea. At least it was a FC party and not duty finder.

[LDR]

EX, get pharosHM, WAR/NIN/WHM, im runing BLM. WAR and NIN seemed to be averagely geared, smattering of 200s, not many 210s etc, WHM seemed to be highly geared. i was thinking, this will be great, the WHM will have the power and the NIN can aid the WAR in agro and TP and we can mega pull this dung to hell and i can flare till the cows come home.

nah

i guess the WAR wasnt confident as they only pulled mobs as they were; so the first load on the stairs? normally yad pull the corruption things to the slimes and get 6/7 adds, then do final set at bottom OR pull it all. we did it in 3 sections, basic pulls are go. WAR has also TP floored by the time we deal with it all and get to the 4adds before first boss. No Goads :U WAR swaps into deliverance here and there, but i dont see the TP regain kick in, so no idea.

first boss, i figure, well hopefully i can kick out normally and if there is an agro issue we have a NIN right? shadewalker and smokescreen? nop
i begin my opener, first hit fine, second hit i have agro. pop my defensive cds, and do nothing till tank regains, decide to cast into ice to get the flow going without mass agro from fire as tank just regained; boss pings back to me regardless, so i stand and wait some more.
i do my first enoch refresh without having cast fire4 once :U
things also progress slowly, i may be a turret but im not full on solo dps tier; notcie the NIN is doing stuff like Doton on the boss? and using the ice mudra??!?!
either way stuff was slow and i couldnt go all out as i was riding the WAR for agro constantly and didnt want to turn this into a ping pong game.
WHM was fine, im p.sure they did more dps than the NIN; WHM would continue to be MVP for the rest of the dung and put up with this [throws commends]

anyway, we pass, next section, single pull first robot thing, then tanks vokes second robot thing to single tank that before doing coblyns but idk smth happened and he had to tank them too, 4 adds!!!! i do aoe and flare!!!
BIG MISTAKEY
i would realise from this point i am relagated to ST BLM dps for the rest of the dung even if 3/4+ adds :UUU
carry on, tank doesnt even pull next coblyns to the bomb maker so i can aoe from that, so i just ignore them and ST the bomb maker myself; hey at least it meant he got an agro lead on the mobs.
second boss, i decide to wait before making my move; tank pulls, i throw E4E on him, stand, throw Apoc on him cause why not. i dont begin my opener until the boss does his first jump basically.
by the end of my first F4 chain i have agro >.>
so i divert off onto the slime add, and hold back again on boss
much the same as last time but we get through so.

repeat previous single pulls
then we get to the big room with the 3 bomb makers and the adds and yeah.
Tank grabs first add while me and nin deal with the makers.
tank doesnt move
WHM tells him to go grab the two by the wall so he does
then tanks them nearby, leaving that 4th kobold by the 3rd bomb maker
SO me and the NIN take it upon ourselves to tank the 4th add, thank the lord BLM has its manawalls so the WHM could just regen me and focus on the tank who... had gone into deliverance vs the 3 adds and was pingponging HP like mad.
still we survive

final boss
pull, i wait, e4e tank, wait, apoc tank, wait, i even hit the boss with lethargy and virus just as something to occupy the 10 odd seconds i wait.
do opener, dont get agro! but i am riding the tanks ass again so, hold back time.
NIN still using odd mudras and doing odd rotations and idk
WHM chips in with cleric otherwise bombs wouldve had us in the later stages; i can burn one solo but both is tough so.

overall it was an .... interesting run? WHM did good to put up with it all so.
still
i do sometimes question how people get these classes to 60 and then do this

[DatPotato]

went into party finder with a friend (to help people too scared to try a1s)
we got whm (yeah could be hard) but what was very cute was what they did, they were too scared to die
so they came with full vit accessories and vit food they had more HP than us tanks, can't help but smile, beginners are adorable

[LelenaLena]

Joined a Pharos HM in progress as my WHM. Found a SMN and a BLM waiting at the gate to the 2nd boss. We waited a few minutes for a new tank to show up, before the BLM says "Lets try it with Titan tanking".
I'm up for trying things out, and while it took a bit longer than normal, Titan was able to tank the 2nd boss no problem.

Still no tank in sight, so we decided to try our luck with the remainder of the dungeon. We completed the remaining mobs with a combination of Titan tanking and us kiting mobs, without any deaths.
The final boss was also handled without any issues. (found out that the stacking Fire Vuln debuff maxes out at 5 stacks).

Shout out to the SMN and BLM, and big shout out to the Chicken Nugget. I will not call you useless again.