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

[SaitoHikari]

I met another Bard in Void Ark in another party that would use alliance chat to coordinate Foe Requiem with me. Foe downtime was pretty much non-existent between the two of us. Although we might have mildly annoyed everyone else with the constant 'FOE UP/DOWN' messages.

I think hell has frozen over.

Ashe Avarosan of Coeurl, if you see this, thank you for what was perhaps the best run of Void Ark I've ever been in. And I say this as someone who probably runs it about 10 times per week purely for fun.

[Minseo]

I actually had a pretty good Void Ark run today.
No wipes, only like 2 people died in our party, bosses died quickly, mechanics were actually done. Honestly I think the world is ending.

[AlphaFox]

With all the runs I have done there I have never had a tank try pull the Turtle to the beehive wall. Most can barely survive the Turtle and ants. @_@

[Darkstride]

I was in Level 50 Roulette yesterday with a Warrior that was just very .....strange. It was Wanderer's Palace Hard. Piece of cake, right? Guess not. The Warrior was silent and ran foward, collecting the usual enemy gathering so we could AoE blast them down. He loses aggro pretty easily it seems, but his gear is quite a bit lower than mine so I figure that's why. It's only WP, so a couple enemies chewing on me isn't a huge deal. Then I noticed his TP was plummeting quickly, so I use Goad. At the end of the fight, his TP is still low but he continues forward, full speed ahead through bosses and mob groups, not allowing his TP to regenerate or the AST's MP to recover. I pull aggro a few times and have to stop so he can get it back. He kept my Goad on cooldown 100% of the time the whole dungeon. Once we reached the area with the Standards, he collects pretty much every single enemy possible and dies almost instantly. They all turn on me, and then I die almost instantly...and so on. He spawns at the entrance runs back and does the same thing again.....and dies again. The 3rd time, he again does the same thing, but by then we had killed off enough of the group to make it somewhat manageable. Still not a word spoken, and he is burning through TP like I've never seen before. I actually thought he was a bot at one point because it didn't seem to matter that he died, it was just rinse and repeat. But then he muttered "lb" during a boss when the healer got killed by stray aggro, so at that point I was just confused. The last boss was a bit of a struggle, I was constantly getting aggro so it was hard to even DPS at all.

We finished the dungeon, but the whole run was just ....wierd.

[TheUltimateSeph]

With all the runs I have done there I have never had a tank try pull the Turtle to the beehive wall. Most can barely survive the Turtle and ants. @_@

Omg was I in the same run with you? I just joined in progress as a whm in a group that was at the turtle. Tank pulled it all the way to the second beehive wall lol. The first wall was already dead so I guess they tried once and that's were the last healer left. XD

[AlphaFox]

Omg was I in the same run with you? I just joined in progress as a whm in a group that was at the turtle. Tank pulled it all the way to the second beehive wall lol. The first wall was already dead so I guess they tried once and that's were the last healer left. XD

As awesome as that would be, you wouldn't have been able to join more than likely as I only run those as healer at the time. XD Last few days I've had to refrain due to massive lag when I get off work to play, can't really have a laggy healer. :S

[Twilite]

You had a bot tank. They tend to run 50 content..

[Selli]

With all the runs I have done there I have never had a tank try pull the Turtle to the beehive wall. Most can barely survive the Turtle and ants. @_@

Roflmfao. Did you run with my boyfriend? XD He has the mentality of "no matter how new a dungeon is, the only thing stopping my pull is walls."

We attempted that pull (the turtle, and caterpillar things, and ants, and bees) the first day the new dungeons came out. It was a nightmare to heal through, but we the DPS and I survived... I'm pretty sure he doesn't do that pull anymore, through. But I still find it funny that someone else has attempted it. XD

[MeiUshu]

Roflmfao. Did you run with my boyfriend? XD He has the mentality of "no matter how new a dungeon is, the only thing stopping my pull is walls."

We attempted that pull (the turtle, and caterpillar things, and ants, and bees) the first day the new dungeons came out. It was a nightmare to heal through, but we the DPS and I survived... I'm pretty sure he doesn't do that pull anymore, through. But I still find it funny that someone else has attempted it. XD

what is bugging isnt the attempt de per se, there are tanks that can do that they dont go from 100 % down to 25% in one shot you have barely time to bring them up that the next one sees them down again to 25 % you bring them up again .and paff down again there though you are short of possibilities to bring them up again as they continue to take hits dont run out of AOEs and keep going down no matter how fast + added + asylum + assize you use ...

as I said in that run I used everything tried everything but there was just no way I could keep up, and the blame put on the healer was just too much for me to take, as I didnt feel I didnt do all I could or even didnt know what I was doing, which wasnt the case, it just was not possible at that moment to do so

[Selli]

Snip.

The way my boyfriend handles Final Sting is he has a separate tab for enemy attacks (I'm not quite sure which specific form of dialouge it is) and when he sees "So-and-so is preparing Final Sting" he pops Hallowed/Living Dead. It's worked really well for us so far as long as the mobs use their skills within the same time frame as those buffs.

It's definitely a team effort to get through a pull with bees and a heavy part of it is on the tank. It's pretty hard to counter Final Stings with Bene the first one, and Tetra the second.

I've had tanks die to Final Sting before, they always blame the healer. It's just easier to blame someone else. Even though the bees wouldn't use Final String if they died faster...