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

[AskaRay]

Well, one step at a time, only been playing 15 days. I am sure there are lots of things waiting to raise my blood pressure to unsafe levels. I am just glad I am not automatically a total dead-weight when I get that in Duty Roulette now.

EDIT: Not sure how hard it is but I want to do The Lost City of Amdapor one day simply because the music sounds wonderful from the vids I've listened to from the OST on YouTube.

Just remember, everyone gets knocked off of Titan at least once.
With my new computer I was just recently able to dodge Landslide consistently. My poor friends had to carry me through EX a few months ago (I tried like a million times; I just couldn't stay alive because my crap laptop didn't let me dodge in time).

[randysquirrel]

So... Sastasha. Beginning to see why so many people hate it. Was doing it on Archer tonight, with a CNJ, LCR, and MRD. I think the healer was the only non-green leaf. I suppose it wasn't exactly bad... but I have to wonder if the marauder and lancer spoke English. Not a single word the entire run, not even in answer to questions. And it was so slow, omg, with me accidental ripping aggro right and left. And the last fight, of course, myself and the healer are the only ones trying to keep the adds from spawning. It doesn't work. They fill the room, boss is at 15% I think? LB is almost full to the second bar. Hell with it. Tank just died, I use it. And there we go, wipe prevented. Yet, not a single comm.

Probably because if you just stay on the boss it dies before any adds appear anyway

[Pells]

Probably because if you just stay on the boss it dies before any adds appear anyway

If there are adds and the boss is still at 15%, there wasn't enough damage for that particular strategy. You need to be able to do roughly 20% of the boss' health in the time it takes for them to spawn in order to skip them, meaning the last set of four don't spawn before he's dead, or just as he's dying. Probably could have told before hand, since the run was 'so slow'.

[Raven_Darkstar]

If there are adds and the boss is still at 15%, there wasn't enough damage for that particular strategy. You need to be able to do roughly 20% of the boss' health in the time it takes for them to spawn in order to skip them, meaning the last set of four don't spawn before he's dead, or just as he's dying. Probably could have told before hand, since the run was 'so slow'.

Exactly. I'm still pretty new, so I couldn't tell you if anyone was doing a horrible job in their role. Mostly I'm paying really focused attention to what I'm supposed to doing. I have no problem with skipping mechanics, IF the group can handle that. The way things had been going, tank was a bit overly optimistic trying to simply focus the boss down. I can adapt to whatever the group wants to do. I was just a little bummed. Though I guess I could say at least I finally got to use an LB. ;P

Allow me to add a bit more detail to that story. Normally, I'd be the last one to complain about a slow run. If stuff's dying, progress is happening, it's whatever. So, like I said, tank and lancer (possibly a premade) don't talk at all. Okay, fine. But they can't seem to decide which one is the tank. Lancer is consistently pulling off the tank, or before her. As well as my suddenly having mobs on me that were definitely attacking the tank before! Her health dips a lot throughout the run. Could have been the healer, I don't know. They run allover the place, haring off into side rooms, standing still for long minutes here and there. Generally acting lost or something. During the last phase of the Captain Madison fight, I had to run my pack of scurvy dogs over to the tank for her to take them, since she hadn't even bothered to try and pick them up in the first place.

So yeah, I was more than ready to be the hell out of there. I tried to type into chat before the last boss, asking if we were gonna do mechanics or just try and focus him down. Not that the mute tank would have answered. But this boss, out of the whole dungeon, they decide to actually pull quickly! So, I position myself by a grate, ready to run. When add spawning prevention fails so abysmally, I shrug it off and simply switch to burning down the boss. I was hoping this more usual tactic (from what I've seen) would work. But nope! There is no way two dps and a healer were gonna finish this with the tank dead. So... archer LB, yay! And boss is dead. And there I was, feeling absolutely awesome, I saved the day, woohoo. Wait.. no comms. Awww.

To sum up, it was a hassle of a dungeon with a bummer of an ending.

[raela]

Got lost city in ex roulette today.. The tank ran into the first boss room, ignored the boss, and stood staring at the wall until after the first clone skill. He then proceeded to voke the boss and tanked like normal for the rest of the run.

Well, as normal as single pulls are. Was very wtf though.

[AskaRay]

Got lost city in ex roulette today.. The tank ran into the first boss room, ignored the boss, and stood staring at the wall until after the first clone skill. He then proceeded to voke the boss and tanked like normal for the rest of the run.

Well, as normal as single pulls are. Was very wtf though.

Sounds like someone had autorun on and forgot about a dungeon, haha

[FunkYeahDragons]

I used to post about PvP, but I usually run with my friends and they listen to me. So I can't complain about that! c:

Feast is miserable, tho. Don't heal Feast. >.<

Feast healing is for sickos like me who enjoy it. Bar your windows, hide your kids, lock up the burritos.

[Alisa180]

A positive DF story!

I got Antitower in my Ex Roulette today. Among the party members was a MNK, and unlike the vast majority of DF DPS, he actually made me work to keep aggro for once. I rarely had time to even do my Royal Authority combo, because the threat he was generating was so high. I'd spread my threat combo out, come back to whatever enemy he was targeting, and 99% of the time he'd be *this* close to ripping off me (needless to say, I usually capped off my RoH combo on whatever he was focusing on).

During the second to last pull, he actually ripped off an enemy a few times before I was finished grabbing everything (I was doing big pulls). Before the last one, I had to tell him to hold off until I pulled everything, because his DPS was too strong. Lol. I also made a point to praise him for his exceptional DPS before the final boss. The BRD wasn't half-bad either, and the WHM made liberal use of Cleric Stance, resulting in a very quick run overall.

The MNK earned my commendation as a result of his DPS prowess. I only wish more DPS in DF were like him.

[Erim-Nelhah]

A1 Normal. First time doing it in quite a while, so I'm a bit rusty. I ask in FC if anyone wants to come along for the bonus...nope. Ok, I'll try my luck with DF.

Run #1: Co-tank solo-tanks Faust, then we get to Opressor. First pull, I'm not sure if I provoked too early or if I accidentally provoked the original Oppressor due to mistargeting, but whichever it is, the grab doesn't work right and we wipe to too much aoe damage. Second pull, I mention that it's generally safer for the OT to pull the Opressor and the MT to grab 0.5 when it comes out, and the MT agrees. This time the grab goes better (still a bit shaky, but better), but we wipe at the end because one of the DPS LBs 0.5 while both are still up and we end up killing 0.5 while the original is still at about 12%, without enough DPS to burn through it during the self-destruct cast. At that point, the other tank leaves, followed by the rest of the group.

Run #2: This time I get an FC mate to co-tank, so that's one worry out of the way, but we run into other problems. Round 1: We get to second adds, nobody grabs one of them off of me, and I wasn't expecting that, so I get mini'd and killed, leading to a quick wipe. Round 2: Somehow after one of the jumps, the bosses are too close together, so we wipe again. 2 dps leave and are quickly replaced. Round 3: One of the new DPS asks if we know how to split damage after the split - no response, ready check, pull, adds get handled properly, DPS gets split appropriately, 0.5 dies first and original gets melee LB'd and dies. Yay for decent DPS.

Here's hoping the rest of Gordias goes better.

--Erim Nelhah

[Singularity]

EDIT: Not sure how hard it is but I want to do The Lost City of Amdapor one day simply because the music sounds wonderful from the vids I've listened to from the OST on YouTube.

If you're a fan of the Lost City theme, you may be interested to know that you can get it as an Orchestrion track (it's called "The Scars of Battle").

Also, if you like gentle background music, you may also want to check out Snowcloak, and later on the Antitower (the latter of which is also available for the Orchestrion)