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

[RaquelleAvarosa]

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I agree that Vault is "difficult to heal" to a certain extend. Vault's final boss burns a lot of the healer's mana IF there are party members not dodging stuff/breaking chains fast. And that happens a lot when there's a newbie in the group.

[Supersun]

I agree that Vault is "difficult to heal" to a certain extend. Vault's final boss burns a lot of the healer's mana IF there are party members not dodging stuff/breaking chains fast. And that happens a lot when there's a newbie in the group.

Ser Grinnaux The Bulls**t can also get messy if people are unfamiliar with the fight.

[TetsuyaHikari]

I agree that Vault is "difficult to heal" to a certain extend. Vault's final boss burns a lot of the healer's mana IF there are party members not dodging stuff/breaking chains fast. And that happens a lot when there's a newbie in the group.

I guess I've just never felt that kind of struggle since I always run SCH when I heal, so all of the dungeons are EASY MODO for me, lol.

[Oohlalaheals]

Went into cutters cry with my Lil tank... I start quite tentatively pulling smallish groups until I get a feel for what the whm can handle. The overheated monk immediately goes to pull everything I haven't in each room and I have to battle to get aggro.><

Never let anyone else try to control the flow of the run and pull mobs you didn't want. I will call people out all the time for this. They are not the tank, and if they want to control the flow they can go be a tank. My priority is keeping everything controlled, and keeping everyone alive. If I call someone out and they continue doing it, I will not taunt off of them. I have let dps die as a tank and as a healer for repeatedly doing that kind of crap to other tanks.

[swiss_Momo]

Did levelling roulette on my Monk yesterday and got Titan normal. Meh. Got teamed up with a German White Mage and a French Warrior & Summoner, all 3 sprouts.
Fight starts pretty normal, but then the tank drops after Titans first jump with the healer being OOM and we wipe. Next try I pay a bit attention to what the others are doing, and to no surprise the healer is spamming cure 2 only to go OOM pretty fast again.

I point this out to the healer, and he listens to my suggestion even though he newer said a single word throughout the whole run. After 2 more tries or so we make it past the heart phase, but this time the healer dies to or shortly after Titans ultimate.

Now I take a look at his gear, and oh boy, no head piece and chest was the lvl 5 class quest reward (I think of casting even). Why...? How...? I point this too out to him, and luckily he has some better gear on himself that he changed into. We try again and eventually manage to beat Titan. The healer dropped again at around 15% or so, but the Summoner did a good job on keeping me and the tank alive.

The whole deal took about an hour, but I managed to get them further on each try, so I guess they all managed to gain some helpful experience from this

[raela]

I guess I've just never felt that kind of struggle since I always run SCH when I heal, so all of the dungeons are EASY MODO for me, lol.

Even the best of healers cannot carry a truly miserable party. Some dungeons are just easier (or harder) to handle when people are ignoring mechanics and failing at their jobs. All dungeons are simple with a good group - I consider difficulty more a measure of how things go when the party is bad.

[MeiUshu]

Never let anyone else try to control the flow of the run and pull mobs you didn't want. I will call people out all the time for this. They are not the tank, and if they want to control the flow they can go be a tank. My priority is keeping everything controlled, and keeping everyone alive. If I call someone out and they continue doing it, I will not taunt off of them. I have let dps die as a tank and as a healer for repeatedly doing that kind of crap to other tanks.

I mark targets, and warn them if they attack a different target then the one marked they deal with aggro that is ripped from me and I proceed to do so. Some say how good they are in Healing themselves, be my guest I even went DPS only since they insisted in attacking different targets and pulling before me, I am not difficult.

[Aldebaran92]

Queue up for Mentor roulette on my Scholar, get Sastasha, pop Cleric and off we go. The DPS (bard and rogue) run ahead of the sprout tank at times, but he regains aggro fairly quickly and no one's ever near death, since Selene handles everything. Halfway through, the rogue pipes up with a "protect" in the party chat, and I say that it isn't needed at this level. So the rogue actually stops to cross-class Protect, then proceeds to spam it everytime she can (like before and after the bosses). Worried about her survival maybe...but then she proceeds to pull pretty much everything before the tank can get to the mobs. I can't with people sometimes.

[HyoMinPark]

Was running Cutter's Cry yesterday to level up my SMN/SCH, and we got a new person bonus message. I assumed it was the level 38 bean sprout DRG.

I was sorely mistaken.

It was the level 53 WAR.

Like. How. Why. I can't.
And it was the worst run I had ever experienced. That poor healer. I helped as much as I could but too many people were dying too quickly on the last boss, and avoiding his ice/lightning AoEs and the ball of lightning that stalks you for a few seconds. I'm surprised we made it out alive (relatively speaking). Went in with gear at 100%. Left with most around 50%. Yeeeeaaaahhh....

[Ebonwings]

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Imagine my WoD spams as DRK last week, two of the runs people ignored Cloud of Darkness mechanics ( snakes and the imprison add clouds overlaps and ignoring meteors). Never in my tanking career have I push my gear from 100% to 10%. ._.