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

[Hrimfaxi]

I feel your pain, dude. Met bards
-not applying dots
-never using Straight Shot
-using Rain Death on single enemies
-constantly singing a song which is NOT Foe's Requiem
-shooting Flaming Arrow in the middle of nowhere
-NOT USING WANDERER'S MINUET
-spamming Shadowbind without noticing that it doesn't deal damage
-using Sitewinder without ever having applied dots

hahaha. It reminds be last tuesday i went for Midas fist of son with my FC mate who is a SCH. I was a bard, 1 dragoon and 2 other bards. Faust stage died twice. First time ever to experience death there. I kept everything up (Straight shot, dots etc) but dps was so slow. We went to boss and i start to take notice of the other dpses. Dragoon was fine...... except those 2 other bards. One didnt apply dots after timer finished (Hey you have iron jaw to reset the timer). Other bard..... OMG HE IS NOT USING WANDERER'S MINUET. Manage to complete the dungeon. One of my worst runs in Midas normal. D:

[Izularia]

Had a bard acting very strange in Pharos Hard. Okay, I know some bards refuse to use Wanderers' Minuet, though this one was even stranger.
Tank did the first big pull, no need to move around for a bard. He didn't activate Menuet, so mobs are dying slowly, even though I helped DPSing as healer. When there was one mob left, he suddenly turned Minuet on, just to deactivate it again. OK...
I decided to wait until first boss and said nothing.

Finally, tank pulls boss and the bard turned Minuet on again. After 10 seconds, it's gone, just to turn it on again a few seconds later. Note, he did not move a single time, even though he got marked with the orange line.

Okay, I really didn't get it and decided to ask why he is juggling with Menuet. His reply: "I can't spam this attack every time" I replied: "Wanderer's Minuet isn't an attack"
From this point on, he didn't say a single word until the end. He had his 230 Relic and was a mentor, it was so weird..

[I-Say]

soo I decided to run A5 in DF and this ended up happening...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGpg7CMvfYg
Long story short, I won my bolt <3!

[Hrimfaxi]

soo I decided to run A5 in DF and this ended up happening...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGpg7CMvfYg
Long story short, I won my bolt <3!

That was seriously epic XD

[OMGAFLYINGPENGUIN]

Got Bismark (normal one).
I great everyone with よろしくお願いします。 (Basic Japanese greeting.)
I see almost everyone has no greeting whatsoever. Completely silent.
So, check the party list and as expected, everyone is "E". (It's fairly rare to get an all "E" party in my data center. But when I do, things usually turn out really really badly.

I brace myself for a rough fight.
As soon as the battle begins, a DPS runs straight off the edge and dies.
"OMG I dropped my controller". He said.

Okay, whatever. We don't need him to win this.
We fire the Dragonslayers and Bismark comes to the island. One overzealous tank jumps too soon as completely misses, falling to his death.
Hilarity ensues.

The other members immediately decide "this is impossible without two tanks, let's all commit suicide".
Not even one person says "Wait let's at least make an effort!"
And everyone proceeds to jump to the death.

I'm surprised they just decided it was impossible. Why not at least try? Heck, there have times I've cleared primal battles and dungeons without even a single tank. And we had a summoner in the group. They could have at least tried using Titan-Egi (something I've done before and worked well instead of a tank).
I've never seen this type of behavior before, where everyone just gives up immediately.

We did manage to complete it on the 3rd try without anyone falling off or dying.

Woah, I was reading it and was like Deja'vu. I was in that party yesterday, and I was piloting my gf's account. (so I was the summoner). In my defence at that time 3 of the members have died (not sure if they suicided after the tank died), I improvised and tried to use titan egi but it was kind of redundant at that point, the Dps wouldn't be enough, even with the help of the titan egi. So I made the call to jump too.

I'm not one to give up quickly either :O, I've stayed through like 10+wipes on bis ex and rav ex in a single run because people were incompetent but I'm cool with that.

[FinaSel]

In my defence at that time 3 of the members have died (not sure if they suicided after the tank died), I improvised and tried to use titan egi but it was kind of redundant at that point, the Dps wouldn't be enough, even with the help of the titan egi. So I made the call to jump too.

Don't worry, I'm not blaming you at all.
I was just surprised that it just ended to quickly. As soon as someone suggested mass suicide everyone started jumping. There was really no time to suggest anything after the 3rd person jumped.

I think Titan-Egi would have been very hard to handle the situation, but I was shocked by the entire situation.
I've never seen anything like it before, and I wonder if I ever will again.

[OMGAFLYINGPENGUIN]

Yes it would have, even if the situation would've been contained the dps would've fell short to the mechanics the minute 3 players(2DPS+1Tank) died/suicided, aside from that phase the remaining phase will be more tedious too. But yeah it happens alot, I did quite a number of pub runs for the bird mount and I've encountered a lot so yeah it happens, can't help it since its a pub run, with little communication and little understanding of each other it will happen.

[LDR]

minor laugh

me and friend go dual smn into ex roulette, get Ruins/Lost City.

now after first boss you kill the dragon, then you have 2 platforms you could pull, the 3 people after dreg, and the flying bs on the next platform + the void monk thing.
ive seen and done this pull countless times, its easy as hell tbh and not very heal intensive for all the mobs there.
the tank asked for LB
me and friend just laughed to ourselves like, you have 2 SMN, you dont need that for this trash, and burnt it down in seconds like nothing.

nothing was said but it was a nice little chuckle to ourselves, bonus is our FC <<tag>> is actually <<LB!>> and so in fc chat we were just like
he asked for LB, he got LB!

[Ashkendor]

I had possibly the worst Ravana HM in Trial roulette this evening. Tanks (yes both of them at several points) just standing up front eating everything including all 3 hits of Tapsiya. DPS not even making an effort to move out of things like Prelude to Slaughter or Slaughter, so there were vuln stacks as high as an elephant's eye. Melee kept hitting him even through his directional parry/knockback and couldn't be dissuaded from it. The add phase was ridiculous with people focusing almost exclusively on the boss and barely even giving the adds the time of day. I was surprised when we only had two swords. Add to that the fact that since the tank was getting shoved around by Tapsiya, he kept repositioning the boss. The thing is, he'd choose to face Ravana right at the rest of the party just in time for the next Tapsiya to go off. At one point, I had aggro and had to die for a tank to get it back. The same thing happened to the Astrologian. Finally the DRK fell off and the AST ended up with aggro again, died and it went to me, I died and finally the WAR was able to get it back just in time to wipe.

After we wiped I asked in party why healers were ending up with aggro while tanks were still standing. No answer. Look at the levels on the Warrior... he doesn't even have Provoke. I advised him to level Gladiator to 22 to get it. I tried to tell people where to stand for things like Slaughter but they were just not listening at all and still picking up vuln stacks. I asked the MT to stop moving Ravana around during the add phase and he complained that he was getting pushed around. I gave up trying to give advice and just heal bombed the ever-living shit out of the party throughout the entire fight, but still several people needed to be res'ed. I commended my co-healer and got the hell out of there, surprised that we even cleared. e.e

[AskaRay]

"I can't spam this attack every time" I replied: "Wanderer's Minuet isn't an attack"

Jesus christ