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

[HyoMinPark]

Just had a really good run of Aurum Vale (say what now). I queued in on my SMN, since she's almost level 50 (yay).

We get a new tank (DRK), a new healer (SCH), and the other DPS was a DRG. I gave the tank the best advice I could on tanking AV, since I've only tanked it once or twice, but I gave him the same advice my FC mates gave me when I was learning to tank it. We cleared the first room with no hitch. First boss, we wiped a couple times because of the Gold Lung stacks. The healer said they didn't have time to eat between heals, and I told them I would take over healing the tank while they grabbed their fruit. We agreed on eating at 2 stacks rather than three to make it less stressful, and cleared. ^^

Pull outside the second boss was a little messy. Tank accidentally pulled too much but we cleared it. Second boss was okay until the healer got hit by the 100-tonze swing (the glowy blue one). They had paralysis from Glower, so they couldn't move away in time. I rez'd them, and they got Glowered again and died. I said my swiftcast would be up in about 20 seconds if they could wait while I kept the tank alive. They were fine with that. Rez'd them and the tank died. D: So I told the healer to keep the DRG alive while I raised the tank (sans swiftcast and with paralysis yay).

Up to this point, the DRG had been mostly silent. But they for some reason lost it there and started demanding we raise the tank (which I was doing, but again, no swiftcast, and I had paralysis). After the tank was raised, we killed the boss since he only had 5% health. DRG was still raging, and I told him that Resurrection has an 8 second cast timer, which was made even more difficult since I 1. had no swiftcast, and 2. had paralysis. I said we cleared the boss (which they did NOT die), and to please calm down. Well, they left soon after that (didn't even notice, since I was too focused on my DPS lol), and we got a MNK. Cleared the rest of the dungeon with no problem. :3

Minus the DRG, everyone did really well. The tank felt bad for wiping, but I said it happens, and we managed to recover each time. Told them to enjoy DRK (seriously, fav storyline), and left with their comm (and of course they got mine). AV is a pain, but it felt good helping someone clear it as a first-time tank. :3

[Ebonwings]

Yup AV is where I learned how to tank carefully, in my noob days XD don't wanna pull too much, position myself nicely so dps have access to mobs' rear and flank, tanking boss while watching debuff. The memories and experience from AV made me a decent tank.

[Obysuca]

So I was doing 50 roulette as ast for some extra exp, figured "this shouldn't be hard" >_> I was horribly wrong. The problem wasn't the tank pulling a lot, I can handle that, the issue was the two dps standing in AoEs that dropped their hp by about 40-60%, not to mention a couple of the mobs had other hard hitting AoEs (that can be silenced/stunned, but of course no one did). Let's just say it's hard to keep a tank up while they have 15-20 things on them, while two dps are getting destroyed by AoEs :/ It's runs like that, that make me want to stop healing

Also, during trials, I got ramuh, easy enough right? Well, it is until the ot is only running circles around the area, grabbing every single orb that pops so the people with the line can't get them, which locks two people from dpsing... The ot was a mentor too.

[whythehate]

So not a DF experience, this was actually a PF someone created for a rav ex farm party

Description as follows:
Rav ex Bird farm, bring high dps skip butterflys.







My sick paint skillz

Really tired of people doing this, FARM DOES NOT = FIRST TIME

[Vidu]

Really tired of people doing this, FARM DOES NOT = FIRST TIME

This actually sounds as if the Partyleader wanted to sneak in the kills for his friends... sorry you had such a bad experience - and kudos to your patience! I would have left right the second they loaded in.
(I'm all for helping people and stuff - but lying isnt cool)

[bounddreamer]

snip for Ravana not-farm party

This has happened to me multiple times since the Ravana birds came out.

I'd been farming it before the patch for glamor weapons, then the bird came out and suddenly everyone wanted in. I'm happy to join and arrange learning and clear parties. But joining a farm with a bonus and not telling the party is a selfish, time wasting thing to do.

When I get in there and see bonus I'll give them three strikes. Three runs and we back out and kick. Even if they clear with us, they're still out for misrepresenting themselves.

[Ebonwings]

Ahh good old Ravana. I don't mind helping people clear as long as they learn from their mistakes and willing to listen since the fight is a straight forward fight. IMO teaching people to dps in Ravana Ex is easier than teaching people to tank. XD trust me I helped my friend tank it before and ended up as solo tanking him, but at least she now knows the mechanic.

[Kaurie]

Really tired of people doing this, FARM DOES NOT = FIRST TIME

but they both start with F!

[whythehate]

Thanks for the kind words

I really don't mind helping people old with clears, I join seph ex kills and savage kills etc to help these people out. I'll give you the full 90mins as long as your learning and actually have legitimate progress to this stage.

But if I join a farm party I just can't tolerate this shizzle

So I joined another farm group just now, tank spinning boss and decides to suicide himself on charges both 'attempts'

What the hell man -.-

182 runs I done so far for this damn bird

[UnstablePersonality]

Thanks for the kind words

I really don't mind helping people old with clears, I join seph ex kills and savage kills etc to help these people out. I'll give you the full 90mins as long as your learning and actually have legitimate progress to this stage.

But if I join a farm party I just can't tolerate this shizzle

So I joined another farm group just now, tank spinning boss and decides to suicide himself on charges both 'attempts'

What the hell man -.-

182 runs I done so far for this damn bird

I've done over 300 and only seen the bird twice lol..I've pretty much given up for the time being otherwise I'd burn out.