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

[Ashkendor]

Thanks, I didn't know that, now I feel silly. I thought it was something you unlocked after getting a certain number of those medal things under your name. xD

Unfortunately no. Apparently the beta forums were a mess so we have some pretty draconian posting restrictions that have just never been lifted. Editing to bypass the limit is counter-intuitive imo but they've shown no signs of changing it anytime soon.

[GleepWurp]

Third time, blue again, somehow I eat the damage as does the MNK. No worries, keep going. I'm dodging the breaths, trying to keep the boss as still as possible for the DPS. Ball, DRG runs, everything is A-OK! I'm not certain what happened from there, but the next blue both DPS eat it and die.

I've done Cutter's Cry too many times, and running it as melee DPS it's rare that I'm able to actually dodge blue in time. I've run it as a ninja, ran straight away from chimera as soon as I saw the casting bar come up, was at least twice as far away from chimera as the size of the ice animation, and was still hit with the damage anyway. The only times I've been able to successfully dodge it was when I started running as soon as it mentioned the eye color change, BEFORE the casting bar for Ram's Voice is even shown.

[bounddreamer]

My first clear of Sephirot Hard (not extreme) was with mostly FC people, in teamspeak, and a non-FC healer who joined via DF. We did it in two tries, pretty decent after an initial DC scare that led to a quick wipe with our hapless SCH, who had been DCing off and on before and after maintenance.

Later that evening, I signed up for a quick trials roulette, and was surprised by none other than...Sephirot the Fiend! Having cleared on my DRG earlier, it was somewhat daunting when the other WAR sized me up and immediately said "you're main tank." (Later I looked at his gear and was a bit surprised he managed to clear min iLevel requirement).

Wiped multiple times. Each time, the Scholar, who was on point, kept giving tips/spamming mechanics macros. At one point only me and the other warrior were alive and kept going back and forth between the Sephirot ground punches followed by earth shakers and the SCH remarked, pay attention to what they're doing, this is what you need to do.

It was our fourth or so attempt, forty minutes in, and what I'd in my mind tagged as my last attempt when we got past the phase transition and adds phase without losing anyone to out of bounds, piled in the wind torrent and escaped the hand sweep, and lost the AST. So the SCH kept everyone alive for the last third or so of the entire fight, dps managed to get him down, and we finally cleared. I said "SCH for all the comms!!" and I really hope they got them all, it was a rough one. Kind of a shock, though it shouldn't have been, to find myself so quickly thrown into Sephirot for Trials Roulette.

[Ashkendor]

Got Antitower for Expert roulette. Inspect the tank. 4/5 Slaying gear. I didn't say anything (not everyone has the Eso right away to replace their gear, etc), but I was expecting the worst. I was actually very pleasantly surprised. She made great use of her cooldowns and left me some enormous DPS windows. Between her CD usage and my abuse of Whispering Dawn, I spent the majority of the dungeon in Cleric Stance. I didn't even notice till the end that one of the DPS was all in law gear because the whole thing went very smoothly. We even had two melee, both of which were very good at keeping adds off me at the second boss.

The last boss in that dungeon is still nightmare fuel, though. .______.

[Lyshell]

Positive experience!! Incoming Happy Healer!

So I wanted to run the new raids (non savage) and I said screw it I'll run it blind. DF'd A5 and got an entire group of people who didn't know anything. WE WIPED BIG TIME! But we learned we kept picking up what everything did and how to handle it. No one got mad no one got frustrated there was no name calling, we pushed through till we got it. I had never been so proud to play this game and I had so much fun, more than I have had in a really long time. Shout out to my group you guys were awesome I hope I can play with you guys again!

[Lyshell]

Side note also did A6 blind DF run did win but that wasn't as smooth that was a total zombie run lol but still fun.

[Veralidaine]

Got the Aery for my leveling roulette today on my ninja. No new message so I expected things to go alright. Things were going ok until the last boss. When Estinien put up his bubble, the healer didn't stand in it.

The SMN told him he needed to stand in the bubble. The healer didn't like that. He was very snarky about it and stated he was new, and so the SMN went on about how he shoulda said something if he didnt know the fight. The healer countered with the fact that he hadnt played in 6 months and couldnt remember the fight.

The SMN wanted to argue about that and called him a liar and that he wasnt new, he just "forgot" the fight.

Finally the tank said let's go guys and we got it done, but it was just some funny drama. I love those kinds of runs, where people argue but it's not about me :X

[Laurima]

done Void Ark last night with a friend (both WHM)

first boss, when the group gets stunned for the dps check in the middle, our group is left outside

notice a SMN standing there furiously spamming Physick.

at 65% HP

despite their being no damage

-_-

that is all.

[Selli]

Did Void Ark today.

Someone pulled Cuchulainn. Locks out 2 healers and 3 DPS.

Both healers are freaking out in /a chat about being locked out.

They wipe at about 5%.

Someone says, "Would be nice if the healers in the other Alliances actually did something."

What is Raid Awareness anyway?

[KinnisonArc]

Cleared Burden of Son fight last night, the DF party wiped several times and took an hour to kill. I went as SCH and since its first time, I had no idea of how the mechanic works. Healing was so-so except sometimes I had to take a few beams to the face because I was casting heals and boss attacks are always on the unfavorable position against me (like aiming its rapidfire cone at me and jump attack next to me while I'm not completely topped).

After somewhere like the 3rd wipe, this guy (from same server so yeah I know him) started raging on me and telling me to deinstall (I'm aware its actually real word) because my heal kills everyone (lol) and that I run around like a chicken and dying to mechanics (orly). Obviously trying to pin a blame on healer thing but some other good guy in the party told everyone not to rage, of course I didn't because I know damn well he dies a lot on mechanics himself too.

Being the one to judge life and death to the party, the rest is history—for him only of course.

Also this guy doesn't even have healer class but I'd like to see him dish it out better than me.

Deinstall
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heh