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

[Jpec07]

The other night, I went into the leveling roulette with my DRK. Lo and behold, I get Sastasha, and so prepare to be extremely bored for several minutes. However, before we begin, while I wait for the AST to cast protect, the Pugilist chimes in and says this is their first piece of group content ever, and apologizes for any screw-ups they may perform. I immediately prepare for the group to collectively groan...

...when everyone starts helping them.

I was marking targets, while the healer explained the basics of the UI (i.e. Enemy/enmity list, party frames, how to switch action bars, how to assign hotkeys, how to move stuff around, etc.). The THM began explaining the basics of how combos work, how to watch your buffs and enemy debuffs, even simple things like where the boss room started, and what to do if you pull enmity (which, thankfully, did not happen). We took turns explaining the boss mechanics, and what was going to happen, and proceeded through one of the cleanest Sastasha runs I've ever had. That Pugilist rocked his stuff, too, and the whole group was super helpful.

It's one of those times when I wish I could have commended everyone. People were super helpful, amazingly welcoming and friendly, and it just made me really happy to be playing this game. Always love it when I get groups that remind me how incredible this community can be.

[Ilenya]

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.

Nothing about the lackluster tanking, but Cutter's Cry isn't a required dungeon. It's entirely possible to skip it until you run into needing it for a GC hunting log.

[KaitlanKela]

Just had something never happen to me before in trial roulette. Got Ruda HM. I'm leveling my DRK (58) and the other tank is in DPS stance, so I pop grit. The barrier goes down and two dps immediately rush in and pull. I provoke and try to establish hate as best I can, but they are fighting me for it tooth and nail.

I LOS the rock pillar for shriek, then I pull the boss away from the rocks so her aoes don't hurt them before the ultimate. They are still plunking away at the boss. This time, I have threat so it's okay.
The ultimate comes, I los behind the rock and pop a cool down, I pick up the boss and drag her away, but I didn't get there quite before the super-crazy DPS who ignored the ultimate and took massive damage but got to the boss first. Because I'm back to fighting them for hate, I got a little turned around and pulled the boss west and not south by accident. I'm watching the aggro meters so I didn't notice that everyone is blowing up chat

"Lol, old school in here"
"Keke are you a bot?"
"I think it's a f'ing bot."

The boss teleports south and I run to pick the boss back up. I no longer have hate. I see the chat and I'm all like ?? I made one mistake, but we are positively destroying her. I didn't die, I didn't get anyone killed. What is the big deal?

So I was like, "No...?"

And his guy was like, "Well, wtf are u doin then?"

"Tanking?"

"Solo? lol"

At this point, the boss is dead. Couldn't get hate back ever after the teleport. They're laughing at me. I'm pretty peeved, so I type, "Whatever man." And I leave.

But seriously? Who deliberately pulls a boss as a DPS and then freaks out when the tank makes one mistake? I've had 99% great DF experiences in this game, but this one was really unsettling. Faith in playerbase slightly decreased.

[HyoMinPark]

snipppps

I'm aware, but this wasn't his only level 50 job he had; he had quite a few. I don't know why he wouldn't unlock it to give him something do to between Qarn and SV, but hey.

[ShadowYomi]

Had a in progress vault with 51 minutes in progress and they were just at the second boss. One shot second boss but on final boss the healer kept getting killed by chains. They were at a decent MP it wasn't until I was connected to them that I noticed the healer was running after me with tether no matter where I went this continued despite the party telling the healer to separate. At 10 minutes left I decided to just leave than deal with that healer.

Second story another in progress run this time thousands maws get a marauder who couldn't hold aggro no matter what it was after a few pulls I examined them and they had on the level 1 axe they changed it when I mentioned it still annoying it happened though.

It is kinda annoying when you are in a run and someone barely meet the requirements to the point they have to wear gear from another class that doesn't benefit what they que for.

[VanilleFang]

Vault healing

I'd have to agree about the Vault not being difficult to heal. I was told by a couple of people that "Vault is the new AV" or "Vault is so frustrating as healer". I even had my party at the time of my first run of The Vault tell me that it was a difficult dungeon to heal (especially the last boss)... Yeah, no. I thought it was incredibly easy. I don't find AoEs and whatnot hard to heal around. I could see how some people might get overwhelmed by all the bursts of fire, but meh. I don't think it's difficult at all. My team was average at best, and I was running WHM (so no "easy mode" SCH).

[Immut]

But seriously? Who deliberately pulls a boss as a DPS and then freaks out when the tank makes one mistake? I've had 99% great DF experiences in this game, but this one was really unsettling. Faith in playerbase slightly decreased.

I've done this, minus freaking out (though I'll sometimes poke fun at you for being slow. It's not meant to be mean, just to let you know what's up with that particular fight) and I'll tell you why.

It's not that I don't appreciate trying to do it the right way, I do, and I wish the instance was capped at i70 so you still had to. But the people doing garuda hm have done it and/or will do it hundreds of times. Possibly thousands for people trying to get every zeta. Every single second you waste casting buffs that aren't necessary or waiting for people to be ready is multiplied by that amount and adds up to a lot of wasted time. You massively outgear the fight to the point where mechanics don't matter at all, you can live through being hit by every single thing without being healed, and you will kill her before sisters even spawn. So just hurry up and get it over with.

The same applies to all crystal tower instances, Garuda EX, Ifrit HM, and Void Ark because you know only like five dps out of the lot are actually trying anyway.

[AskaRay]

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....

I didn't even unlock CC until I had to do it for my relic weapon.
I didn't even know the dungeon existed until that point; I was like ilvl 110 or something.

[Fluestergras]

Some kind of a wtf moment: my warrior friend needed Keeper of the Lake for the story, and I joined him after explaining things he should keep an eye on, including boss mechanics. Well, at the final boss, he forgot about the bubble that protects you from Midgardsormr's big attack which kills you otherwise, so he didn't stand in it - and miraculously survived the attack with about 1500 HP left.

So, was there a meme about the fight getting nerfed that I didn't notice, or is it even normal for a tank to be able to survive the big attack without using their respective invincibility skill?

[KaitlanKela]

words

I didn't hesitate to run forward though. It's not like I was just sitting there for a minute or two. They had to have been pushing forward against the gate in order to beat me out. As soon as the gate dropped, I ran forward.

And furthermore, the point is that if you're going to go out of your way to make your tanks life harder, a decent person wouldn't complain when they mess up a little bit. In fact, you bring up an excellent point, if it was speed of the instance that are so concerned about, why did they spend so much time being trolls in the chat?