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

[Vidu]

Had some awesome roulette experience yesterday (some that reminded me why I'm not doing roulettes alone anymore but with at least one good dps-friend). So me (PLD) and my BLM-friend are making our way through roulettes...

Expert first! We get Lost City HM and a WHM&bard. While the healer is just freaking lazy (as in: no dps for most of the part etc.) the bard is dealing less damage than me. He forgot WM, turned Foes on when I asked for it (happy blm-friend though!), used WM later but dropped it from time to time for no reason, didnt used any buffs, didnt kept his crit-rate-buff up, used the "wrong" AoE and all in all played weird, if not to say: bad. I tried to give him some hints and even if he thanked me for those he still didnt followed them...
...but thats nothing compared to our level 50! We get Qarn HM with two green leafes (Scholar&SMN) and a bonus message - both are french so I figure I probably dont have to bother to much with explaining. I pull and notice someone is missing - there is no Egi! So I ask for it, using auto-translate. No reaction. The SMN is also not applying his dots, not having etherflow up and infact mostly casting Ruin II and nothing else. I ask a few more times for his Egi so that there would be at least a little bit damage coming from his direction but... nothing... finally I ask the scholar to ask for the egi in french. Still nothing. We leave the dungeon a bit confused - and agreed that this player either was not older than 6 or in some form mentally disabled (I actually mean this and not as some sort of insult but rather as explantion for myself how and why someone could ignore the chat and be happy with only pressing one button for 30 minutes).

[SaitoHikari]

I literally cannot. I...

That speed was insane even by my standards...

[Rita1989]

I literally cannot. I...

That speed was insane even by my standards...

If you have 2 casters + WHM that's not that insane I had a run pretty similar to that earlier this week in a group with a WAR, WHM, SMN and BLM

[Fluestergras]

WoD, first boss, me as BLM.
I got marked with that Death AOE, nobody was running out of it, I died.
I got raised, soon after I got marked with Flare, again nobody bothered to move out, I died again.
Another raise. Meanwhile, the MT and another tank started pingponging the boss without me noticing it, so while I cast my Blizz3 to heal mana, the other tank pointed it to me and even before I could finish my cast, I got blast off by that laser beam.
Third raise. This time I lived long enough to actually cast some Fires before I got marked with Death again. Guess what happened next.
I hate people.

Oh, and my trial roulette, which I was doing on AST, brought me to Sephirot HM the other day, which I healed exactly once before, so I was a bit nervous. I had a look at the party and noticed a dragoon watching the cutscene (and later claiming he was new) as well as a paladin with about 16k HP. People asked them if their gear was broken before the other paladin noticed that their right side was full i240 slaying accessories. I, a bit puzzled, asked if strengh tanks are still a thing, the 16k paladin answered, "beat me I'm an i235 dragoon". And they died like a dragoon by falling off the platform.

[sayafrost]

Lost City HM
3 wipes before the 1st boss.... tells everything.

[Acantha]

Had a nice couple of runs of Quarn last night. Levelling my WHM still, just hit 38 and got shroud

1st run was so smooth, we had a mentor in the party who had really earned their crown and were so helpful. Didn't even realise that at the start there's a bit that will tell you what to put in the scales at the end (y'know, if it's ever not flame and fruit :P). Made sure to mention I hadn't healed on this one before so to shout if I needed to change what I was doing and they just asked I focus on heals, I said no worries and off we went. After judging what I could get away with I managed to pop Aero on most things then heal a bit, do some DPS then back to heals. Everyone always seems to forget about the bees... Damn bees... but, no one died! Said sorry when Tank almost died from one bee but they were all very positive and said I was keeping a good balance between DPS and heals and they were happy and tbh they were one of the most coordinated parties I've run that dungeon with so was an absolute pleasure wish I could have chucked them all a commendation

2nd run was a bit more interesting, last run before bed since my bf had not long gotten home from work, I wanted to stick with WHM so he said he'd tank on DRK. He was a little squishy but hit the level while we were in there that he had his next lot of gear for and updated his stuff and was pretty easy to keep him alive, especially since we're on the phone when we play so I could warn him to dodge a bit more or be a bit more defensive if i'm struggling. The run was ok apart from the odd Machinist... always using spread shot... Like even on one enemy. I'm in no way an expert with MCH but i've picked it up and done the first 2 job quests so I know it's not hugely different to the archer side of my BRD, I always do an aoe to start so i've got all the enemies on my radar then focus the same enemy as everyone else and knock 'em down quickly. But anyway - probably should have mentioned it to him but the other DPS (NIN) was doing decent damage so it didn't make much difference. But then he lb'd... on one normal enemy... me and bf were just "wait, what's that line? is he limit breaking? what... why!? right before the 2nd boss? and then again right before the last boss????" no words :| made us chuckle though :P

[RyuSaarva]

Lost City HM
3 wipes before the 1st boss.... tells everything.

new healer and tank pulls the entire dungeon I assume?

[Noxifer]

LotA earlier [...] dragon needs to be pulled to the middle

Huh. That's a new one for me. Every time I've run it, the dragon gets pulled to the furthest end of the arena (not sure if that's what you meant with "to the door" or if you meant the entrance) and the skellies are supposed to get pulled to the edges mainly on the entrance side to give them longer ways to run (not that people seem to bother with that now)... I guess different data centres have different standard tactics ^^

[Erim-Nelhah]

Huh. That's a new one for me. Every time I've run it, the dragon gets pulled to the furthest end of the arena (not sure if that's what you meant with "to the door" or if you meant the entrance) and the skellies are supposed to get pulled to the edges mainly on the entrance side to give them longer ways to run (not that people seem to bother with that now)... I guess different data centres have different standard tactics ^^

It's a datacenter difference. When I played on Malboro (Primal) it was generally pulled to the far wall. Here on Gilgamesh (Aether), it's generally kept in the middle. In neither case, however, is/was it generally pulled to the door (yes, the entrance).

--Erim Nelhah

[Cnidarian]

It's a datacenter difference. When I played on Malboro (Primal) it was generally pulled to the far wall. Here on Gilgamesh (Aether), it's generally kept in the middle. In neither case, however, is/was it generally pulled to the door (yes, the entrance).

--Erim Nelhah

I've seen all 3 scenarios on Primal DC. Pulling the Dragon to the door is just the opposite of the first scenario you mentioned (i.e. instead of pulling skeletons to entrance you pull them to the furthest points from the entrance). It's easier for OTs to adjust to where the dragon is being tanked than to yell at the MT to place him into a specific location imho. Just pull the skeletons away from the dragon and make sure you don't overlap them, the biggest fail I see on that fight is DPS ignoring adds leaving it to healers and tanks to try to kill them before the dragon dies.