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

[Powe]

So I decided to do the new primal today, i got a premade group. The tank asked " you want tips?" i said yes, he started without telling me the important stuff T.T. Turns out its insanely similar to Titan ex, I healed Titan ex for fun so i was able to get into the grove of things. The only snafu was we lost a tank and a brd during the punch shock wave thing. Besides that it was great, It might be more fun then Thordan

[Malicewolf]

Went into the new trial, Sephirot HM. It was my first time and I was tanking. The other tank had been there before and was giving out some directions to the group (I think he automatically assumed lots of new people, which is fine, but I felt bad for the SMN who put up eye for an eye on the entire group, then we didn't pull because of the explanation xD). So the other tank gives a basic overview and I pull (as he's in deliverance as WAR, so I just put on ShO and go). Fight is going smoothly at first, but a few min in, one of his tank busters hits me extra hard and I go down. My hp wasn't topped off at this point and I didn't pop any CD's (because I wasn't used catching the cue's for it yet). OT takes over, I get a quick res and pop on SwO and start whacking away. We continue on. Then Sephirot goes into giant mode. The other tank says, "be careful, now you can get knocked off". I'm standing right in front of Sephirot smacking away at him when he said this and I get knocked off.... T.T' I sit there dead and watch for the mechanics while I'm at it. They get far enough for me to catch the drift of how things should go though. The party eventually wipes and we start again.

Now this time, things are going pretty well. I pull again, things are going well. Tank busters are still hitting me hard as I still didn't have the right timing on my CD's unfortunately. I die on one of them again, but I did use my CD's this time. It just wasn't enough unfortunately. Same thing, OT takes over, i get res, I become OT. Sephirot becomes a giant again. This time, I'm ready for the hand o doom! I don't get knocked off \(*0*)/

Then that one mechanic where you kill the wind thing and get propelled into the air comes. I see one of our healers doesn't seem to realize they need to be in the circle to survive, so I pop cover on her. I'm sitting there like, yeeaaaa, I'm awesome! Then we get propelled into the air and the hand of doom comes sweeping through. I'm in mid air still when I suddenly die... oh.... yea... might of wanted to do that hallowed ground... Whoops. But hey! They healer survived xD I get another quick res and we finish up the boss. I just thought it was funny.

[_slowpoke_]

That feel when you go into M3 to get the head token, get a party where like 5 people are new, spend 3 mins explaining the fight, wipe 3 times, then roll an 11 on the single head token that dropped, and not getting even a single commendation. Gee, thanks for nothing, team.

(Yeah, I should just stick to farm groups in PF, but was pretty dead for the past several hours.)

[BrokenFox]

That feel when you go into M3 to get the head token, get a party where like 5 people are new, spend 3 mins explaining the fight, wipe 3 times, then roll an 11 on the single head token that dropped, and not getting even a single commendation. Gee, thanks for nothing, team.

Yeah man, everyone should know that fight to a T 3 days after the patch. You also deserve all the high rolls just because.

[Selli]

The glamor farmers in PvP depress me.

"Lol, we're not even going to try, we just want our marks so we can get the new gear. Stop telling us where to go because no one cares."

x.x

Had a game last night where myself (Noct AST) and a SCH outhealed the 3 WHMs on our GC. One of them healed for 50k and died 10 times. I think you literally have to cast nothing but Cure I to heal that low in FL, smh.

[vanitaslaughing]

Haah, gotta admit, I was That DPS the last few days. I had an unpleasant week, starting with my laptop dying after Skype-ing through all of the 3.2 story in 6 hours with friends. The day after, I started getting random bouts of horrible, horrible lag with my PS4, up to the game being straight up unplayable.

Have you guys ever seen a fight going in stop motion with none of your inputs registering properly, but the sever not kicking you entirely? It's unpleasant, frustrating, and today I finally let out a screech loud enough to alert my dad of my situation (after the PS4 repeatedly told me the WPA password was wrong...)

I wish I could apologise to the A7 group from yesterday... I just didnt see the entire fight at all, everything happened at once or not at all u_u

On the positive, pre-lag side, I got a A6 clear in a group with my best friend tanking bc her ninja isnt geared enough yet, and we managed to kill the last guy like 3 seconds before he hit enrage... because we were three dragoons, a dark knight, a warrior, I think a white mage and an astrologian, and the bard had disconnected ages ago... even got my second foot token... That was a wild ride, start to finish, because me and my friend went in blinder than blind. Faceplanted about as much as I faceplanted earlier that day when me and my other friend did Sephirot completely blind for the first time (although that was a first try clear. That WHM was amazing, they straight up solohealed a bunch of idiots, myself included, after my friend got pushed off!)

Man this new laptop's weird as it can be, though.

[Anzer]

Nothing mind-blowing or terrible, just thought I'd share.

My first run through Stone Vigil NM tonight with my DRG friend, had an AST and I believe a BRD. Very smooth run, except when I lost hate on a random mob due to the AST going HAAM on it between heals. But the AST explained each boss and told me the best places to tank 'em so the rest of the party would have the easiest time with the mechanics of the fights.
Just really overall pleasant experience, so my comm and thanks to them!

[Fluestergras]

Did trial roulette on my DRK yesterday and got Chrysalis. Nobody watches the cutscene, yet the newbie message pops up, but before I can ask if everyone knows what to do, the other DRK activates Grit and Darkside and pulls. Sigh. Things are going smooth though, people do this spheres thing properly, nobody wastes our LB on Nabriales. Then the meteor phase starts and I'm the only one catching up meteors, wondering what the MT does. The Aetherial Tear is dying horribly slowly and nobody uses the LB, our party on the other side is dying horribly fast because I fail at catching up all the meteors - in the end it's only me and this very big meteor and I decide to die honorably by dancing the Manderville Dance under the very big meteor.

After this one wipe half of the party leaves (I really, really hate this) and the MT disconnects until a lv60 WHM, a new lv53 ninja and myself are left. I ask the ninja if they know what to do and explain everything after they told me that they don't, meanwhile the group is getting filled with a Noct AST and three bards (one of them saying "what we really need now is another bard" #andnotasingleballadwassung). The other dark knight never came back so I kick them, and as I didn't expect a replacement to show up soon I decide to solotank this and warn my group that I never maintanked Chrysalis before. While I run to Nabriales to smash an Unmend right into his face I read a message from the WHM: "Just make sure to pop CDs during Triple". Okay, can do this, I guess. Things are going fine except at one point when Nabriales casts Triple while I have all my defensive CDs on, well, CD. Oops, guess I have to work on my timing, at least the AST was clever enough to give me a new shield for every single attack (they got my comm for this). Literally three seconds before the meteor phase a warrior shows up so I don't have to deal with meteors alone, whee. Again nobody uses the LB on the Aetherial Tear although I told the ninja to use it before, I feel like "no, not again" but the damage the bards dish out is so sweet and epic that they kill the thing without the LB.

This was kind of a new experience to me and, although it was Chrysalis which many people say about "God no not this shit in DF", quite a nice and funny one. I just wish that people don't ragequit after a single wipe, especially with firsttimers in the party.

[_slowpoke_]

Yeah man, everyone should know that fight to a T 3 days after the patch. You also deserve all the high rolls just because.

You misunderstood me, I guess. I have absolutely no problem with people not knowing the fight, and wiping a few times, and I actually enjoy explaining fights as long as people listen and improve.

I was frustrated about my lack of luck with RNG (that 11 roll was in a streak of sub-40 rolls) after doing the fight with about a dozen mediocre to extremely bad¹ DF groups yesterday combined with the fact that half the groups I explained the fights to were incredibly ungrateful (sometimes getting as much as zero comms and not even a thanks in /p) despite the fact that about half of them were new and often even asked for explanations.

¹ and I mean bad as in "sub-par player in general", not "doesn't know the fight". There's a difference and it's usually easy to tell. Like tanks who can neither solo-tank the Uplander Doom nor tank-swap properly, even after the third wipe from multiple tank deaths and several detailed explanations about how this (fairly simple) tank buster mechanic works. Let's not get started about DPS players.

[Lunaxia]

Got stuck with an all German group in the Aery on my MCH today. I'm level 58 and was somehow out DPSing the level 60 SMN and taking the aggro from the tank without even trying (?!) The tank was also extremely slow (dying and not accepting a raise for 5+ minutes, standing around for ages between mobs, and so on) so I started... "helping" him pull. I was asked to "let him tank his way." I said I would if he does his job better. You can guess what happened ten seconds later.

I'll be the first to admit that DPS initiating pulls is irritating, but it's less so than being forced to stand around for five minutes between pulls while the tank strolls around at his own leisure. Part of being a good tank is setting a decent pace for the dungeon, and even as a healer I'd rather spam heal a DPS for a few minutes than sit around doing nothing. Tanks who think we've got all the time in the world to hang around waiting for them drive me insane.