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

[SpiritMuse]

Last night a friend and I were in Aleport and answered a random shout from a sprout archer who needed Sastasha. I was on pld, my friend drg'd and we got a scholar through the DF. The run was going smooth and so after the first Rambade I pulled two packs in the next room, upon which the scholar commented how he finally was able to do his job because there was actually something to heal. So I made sure to pull double packs when possible throughout the rest of the dungeon and he seemed happy with it. With the archer aoe'ing as much as possible it started going very fast after that, and between that and the banter amongst the four of us it was one of the most fun runs I've had in a while.

[Jib]

Ex roulette as a WHM. Antitower pops. Normal hellos from everyone. We go to first pull. I give 1-2 seconds put cure+regen on tank, cleric stance and start my usual Holy spam.
I noticed after the second Holy the adds turning "yellow -orange" on the party frame."Fine" i think, i stop my Holy, switch of cleric, and decide to wait to help tank and just cast the usual cure when needed.
The thing is adds leave tank and start attacking one of the dps. I think dps did the same and just gave a few seconds.
Tank grabbed them again and Eventually they die. No one says anything we just go through the portal to the next adds. In my mind i was thinking "ok its gonna be a bit slow but fine".When we get to the next adds we noticed tank didnt follow, check party frame and see next to tanks name the red signal. And then he went....Ragequit... No chat nothing....I make a remark in chat regarding what happened and both dps were the same... Noticing tank inability to hold adds but noone had said anything.

[Jib]

(cont) We give a couple of minutes but no new tank comes. I give the suggestion to start going while we wait for tank.We did the whole antitower 3 men without the slightest problem or sweat, so so smooth. I was able to heal and dps the whole way on bosses and adds.

Kudos for those two dps. We juggled hate between us three.
Only Calcabrina last boss was a problem.Yes you know what....The tankbuster attack. Even timing a stoneskin before it either to myself or the two dps.. It still was a 1 hit kill.
One of the dps asked for a guildie tank to come and we killed her... But almost did all antitower 3 men between random ppl... Just that only mechanic...A shoutout for those two dps (i forget the classes) and...

Yeah still dont know about that tank... Ehhehe (had to shorten a lot - nr characters)

[Singularity]

Not necessarily a ragequit - could have been a genuine connection failure. If the connection was deteriorating before failing entirely, that might explain the tank's inability to hold aggro as well.

[Jib]

Yep you do make sense. It could have been. The whole time tank was moving and doing abilities though, so it gave me the sensation of a quit, but Im not sure. But this situation gave me the oportunity to 3-man antitower. It was a nice change from the usual. Just a shame the tankbuster of calcabrina

[Erim-Nelhah]

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I've only done Midas a few times, but here's my take on tank swapping in there:

A5 I've only been told to not swap once (by a PLD). That tankbuster just hits too hard in current gear to not swap in most cases.

A6 I think my very first time in back on Malboro the other tank didn't want to swap. Since I've been on Gilgamesh, we always swap.

A7 I've found that here most other tanks prefer to MT and not swap due to the tank jail mechanic. I don't mind, since I find that mechanic easy to handle.

A8, it's been about 50/50 whether the MT wants me to provoke after perp ray as OT. If I'm MT'ing in there, I pop a CD for it just in case.

Myself? I'm geared enough that I could handle solo tanking with proper CD usage and a competent healer. Do I want to? Not really.

--Erim Nelhah

[RLofOBFL]

I've tested it a few times & I'm PRETTY sure the a5 Tankbuster does 90%ish hp of the max hp NO MATTER WHAT on the debuffed Tank & only adlo/noct can mitigate as I've tried rampart to no avail & even when the tanks had low max hp, they'd always survive with 1-2k.

[hobostew]

I'm having the absolute worst luck with DPSers in roulettes this week. It's not that they aren't grasping their overly complicated rotations or anything because I get that and it doesn't really bother me all too much. What does bother me is when I do a big pull and NO ONE AOES. How do you fail at spamming ONE button?!

[xJimmehx]

I hate spanish speaking players who run their mouths about people and think its ok because nobody will know what they are saying on an american server. Not all spanish players. But just the ones who do what I'm describing. Funny enough. A lot of public schools teach spanish now-a-days and they have made tons of translators to aid the common american. SOOOOOO, I just reported some people. :P

[Hrimfaxi]

Went to midas burden of son to get the midas shaft yesterday. It was pretty hectic in there. Debuffs and more debuffs. Tank 1 one hit KO by tank buster. Just as Tank 1 raised, Tank 2 dies. Half of dps on the ground. We win but it was funny to watch.