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

[The_Shang]

Last week I decided to run A8 on Summoner. I recently got into playing the job (I mostly played Scholar up to that point, if I went for anything ACN), hit the ilvl required to run A8 and went in to see how I did.

It couldn't have been more horrible. Now, you might need a little context before I say more. My Egi was on Obey/Guard. Note that.

Anyway, we got our buffs but someone pulled and it *wasn't* the tank. Near-wipe ensues before a tank could establish enough aggro. DPS overall was low as well, as adds weren't killed fast enough and healers weren't paying attention (I got nailed hard a few times and died). It all leads to a wipe before we even hit the second phase (aka A6 redux).

Oh, and guess what? I (better said, my Egi) got blamed for pulling :/
Couldn't even defend myself before people left the instance.

I queue'd up again immediately after that, got a wonderful party that cleared the fight with little issue.

Just when you lose hope in the DF, you get an awesome group to play with

[Kaurie]

Last week I decided to run A8 on Summoner. I recently got into playing the job (I mostly played Scholar up to that point, if I went for anything ACN), hit the ilvl required to run A8 and went in to see how I did.

It couldn't have been more horrible. Now, you might need a little context before I say more. My Egi was on Obey/Guard. Note that.

Anyway, we got our buffs but someone pulled and it *wasn't* the tank. Near-wipe ensues before a tank could establish enough aggro. DPS overall was low as well, as adds weren't killed fast enough and healers weren't paying attention (I got nailed hard a few times and died). It all leads to a wipe before we even hit the second phase (aka A6 redux).

Oh, and guess what? I (better said, my Egi) got blamed for pulling :/
Couldn't even defend myself before people left the instance.

I queue'd up again immediately after that, got a wonderful party that cleared the fight with little issue.

Just when you lose hope in the DF, you get an awesome group to play with

Just a heads up, if you target a mob and select Obey your pet will begin attacking. That may be what happened?

Your tank sounds god awful tho, it takes virtually no effort for them to get hate back on an accidental pull. Frustrating? Yes. Wipe worthy? No.

[The_Shang]

Just a heads up, if you target a mob and select Obey your pet will begin attacking. That may be what happened?

Your tank sounds god awful tho, it takes virtually no effort for them to get hate back on an accidental pull. Frustrating? Yes. Wipe worthy? No.

I never target a mob/boss unless I see a tank pull. It's what I learned early on when I started the game and was still working my way through MSQ's on Archer/Bard. Auto-attacks can be deadly (ha!).

I quickly figured out it worked the same way for the Summoner's Egi's, so I'm not likely to make such a mistake, especially when entering an instance where I'm 'new'. Thanks for the heads-up though.