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

[AlphaFox]

You can only trade in Precision items for the Unidentified items. Each person upon clear of a normal Alex turn gets 1 precision item in their inventory (no lotting required, everyone gets one). The items from the boxes still only gives the i190 Alex normal gear if you need those, most people don't anymore.

Ah that makes sense, wasn't even aware we were getting items on clear.

[SpiritMuse]

Had a few pretty awesome runs of A1N the other day. I was tanking and my friend healing, and every time we requeued we got in with (mostly) the same people. The same tank/healer combo, at any rate. And they were good. Everything died so fast! Nobody talked, really, only a few nods and waves and salutes were exchanged and then everyone went about their business. And in the last run the other tank actually stayed a few seconds instead of immediately running off and waved farewell to me. Good times.

[KaitlanKela]

My point was about the reporting of parser use when no harassment took place.

Not to bring this up again, but the person in question was running a parser with the intent to judge the team. By saying, "hey, this person did 1100 dps as a tank and they get my comm" they imply, "the rest of you did less than that....XP"

I mean, that's borderline in "harassment" territory, but hey, even if that was the only thing that went on I may report it and let the GM decide, that's their job anyway.

But with all the other trolling that went on, their intent was to harass. The report was fine.

[bounddreamer]

I queued to tank A1N yesterday and then switched to Armorer to craft a glamor crystal. Duty popped, switched back, went in and let the group know I'd get Faust and adds as we were en route. OT says okay and switched from Defiance to deliverance. I pull and I'm going from my RoH combo to Goring Blade combo, add pops, I lose Faust. No big deal, Circle of Scorn, flash, RoH on Faust again, another add appears...I lose Faust again! Provoke, aggro combo, I'm starting to wonder if I'm in Sword Oath when another add pops and at that point a dps says ..."Shield Oath?" I face palm and turn it on. I was stanceless. I turn it on, apologize, we do a speedy burn through the rest of Faust's help and I let them know I was crafting when duty popped, lol. The rest of the run was totally smooth and I even got two comms. XD

[Whiteroom]

Whew... Queue for an in progress lvl 60 roulette just now. Get Fractal last boss.

Met with, "Please be better than the last healer, actually heal."

Should be easy, I'm 209 WHM, and have healed this probably almost 100 times. Should be...

Dps start by ignoring adds, then standing in front of boss, WAR uses no defensive CD the whole fight. I'm almost out of MP for all of it. Dps stand in Bomb drop AOE, Educator AOE and pretty much everything else. I had to let them know that it was not the previous healers fault at the end, and that I had never had to heal so much incoming damage in that fight before.

[Fevelle]

Leveling my alt today, got all classes to 30 and now I'm on my way to 40, leveling WHM. Queue for Brayflox in progress since I needed it for the MSQ.

23 minutes elapsed. "Ok" - I thought - "They must be fighting Aiatar, this will be quick".

Still before first boss. Twenty three minutes. The run went smooth, to my surprise, but the tank was in DPS gear so he was extremely squishy (like dropping constantly to 200 HP when the pull had 3 mobs). Glad he got all the 3 Cavalry gear that dropped.

My guess was that the previous healer was still learning and had problems keeping him up (I remember how hard Brayflox was for me when I started in this game, having no MMO experience whatsoever) so he left after trying a dozen times...

[Zefiris]

Today my adsl was to 30 minutes without stay off (yesterday dropped each 5 minutes or less), then I decided risk roulette trial. Sucess. Roulette leveling as bard. Cutter Cry and healer leave. I leave for try help as healer, but catch other party in progress. Well, all right, I go help, but then... my adsl down I am sorry by that run needed a healer >.< I never simulate dc.

[aesteval]

Had a bad trial turn into a good this evening. Short version is that it started off with a condenscending mouthy individual criticizing anything and everything. After two wipes due to failed mechanic checks (including DPS) they say they can't be bothered with this and leave. More follow suit. Around half the party leaves. Eventually the party fills up again. I know the echo is in place, but the echo doesn't explain how the DPS checked was burned in less than half the time by the new party. Go figure.

[bounddreamer]

I've had Ravana runs like that. Half the party leaves then suddenly we clear it just fine with replacements.

[Fluestergras]

I learned a new BLM rotation in Fractal:
Manawall, Blizzard, Blizzard III, Blizzard III, Flare, Blizzard, Fire (with a proc that's never used), Blizzard, Blizzard III, Blizzard III.