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

[Raven_Darkstar]

So, I have my first true Df horror story. Did my first run of Stone Vigil tonight. 3 am, I knew the odds of a good run were not in my favor, bu t a girl can hope, can't she?

First off, shout out to the awesome Mentor Astro Healer who stuck it out in there with me. You rocked! The other two though... just, ugh.

Over here, we have Ms. Primadonna Tank who can't be bothered using any of her aggro keeping skills, and when the healer pointed out that she ought to have Shield Oath up, chewed him out and told him to "Mind His Business"

Really? Really?!

And with her, we have Miss Terribad Bard. Who did not sing a single song, or use any dots until several trash packs in and had seen me doing it.

This bard was the absolute worst dps I have ever seen. If there was floor candy, or anything else she could take damage in or die to, she did it. Didn't really seem to comprehend that maybe melee range facing mobs/bosses wasn't such a great place to be. Eventually, before the last boss, she had to be replaced due to d/cing and not coming back.

Her replacement? You guessed it, another Bard. This one was actually pretty decent. Except for one thing. I got locked out, due to watching c/s. I expected that, so it's whatever. I so wanted to yell at the person though. I'm sitting there, watching the fight through the barrier, watching the healers mp drop, and just thinking: What the hell man, sing Ballad for that poor healer!

So yeah, 3 am runs really not to be recommended. Only stuck with it for the healer, and so I could progress msq.

[vanitaslaughing]

Decided to take a break from doing all roulettes to get the last 5 Seeds for my Deneb, and took Paladin for a whirl in Sohm Al. First two runs were effectively eventless except for a wipe to Myath because Last Song went off.

I'm almost 54. I'll go again. First pull, I find it rather odd that I get healed a bunch. Being on PS4 with a controller and muscle memory to work for you is nice because you can keep your eyes on everything at the same time. Second pull, "Wait, is that AST spamming Benefic every time GCD goes off?". Third pull, "They absolutely are".
Fourth pull (Mind, I'm level 53 then and I use these first 4 pulls before the boss to gauge a healer's ability), I pop Hallowed Ground for the hell of it. I'm at full HP. I'm taking no damage at all. Benefic, Benefic, Benefic, Benefic, Benefic, Hallowed Ground falls off. Benefic.

I pretty much spend the rest of the run blinking in disbelief every time I heard the sound effect for Benefic. Which is effectively every 2.5 seconds. Without fail. I hit level 54 from it, though.

[Lunaxia]

I had to ask my healer on a Haukke run why they weren't wearing any pants.

I think you can imagine how that particular dungeon went.

[dekal]

I had to ask my healer on a Haukke run why they weren't wearing any pants.

I think you can imagine how that particular dungeon went.

You see Gaulle is a haunt house solo he ghost are taking over your healer

[Acantha]

Nothing bad just a bit of an odd one last night, Quarn, right at the start of the run (during first battle so not to slow everyone down) I cast stoneskin on everyone and would top up when I could. Right before the last boss, I cast on the tank and start channelling for the DPS, the tank then re-casts on himself and starts on everyone else. So I left them too it. >.> like... ok?

[Crysten]

A special shout out to all those WHMs in M4 that thinks it's a fantastic idea to Divine Seal > Medica II > Swiftcast > Medica as soon as the Brute Justice phase begins, and then go on to blame the tanks when they take a Double Rocket Punch to the face.

[Vele]

As for something more "ranty", I came across a couple of Dark Knights the past few days that seem to almost completely ignore the existence of Darkside, at least for large pulls and boss fights....

Yeah, whenever I queue for expert roulette, it's usually as a healer, and my immediate reaction when I see the tank is a drk is to groan and expect the worse. I'm already used to df tanks not popping any defensive cooldowns (even in large pulls), but it seems drks are squishier than pld and war... they stand in stupid half the time... and for whatever reason they turn on darkside only on bosses, or not at all. If you can't manage your mp and have no intention of learning how, then maybe you should play a different tank. :|

[NaesakiAshwell]

Yeah, whenever I queue for expert roulette, it's usually as a healer, and my immediate reaction when I see the tank is a drk is to groan and expect the worse. I'm already used to df tanks not popping any defensive cooldowns (even in large pulls), but it seems drks are squishier than pld and war... they stand in stupid half the time... and for whatever reason they turn on darkside only on bosses, or not at all. If you can't manage your mp and have no intention of learning how, then maybe you should play a different tank. :|

I would assume those DRK's are the one's who had yet to level a tank previously but also couldn't be bothered doing 1 - 30 on gld or mrd even though you can do that in a day with very little trouble so they took the "easy route."

[tinythinker]

Two positive stories. One from last week(end) where people were saying at the end (after a learning-from-errors wipe) that they wanted to commend the whole group. Apparently my hints on the Minstrel's version of Ultima Weapon got some double-entenre laughs...

(pic was taken after we won, initially I wasn't going for laughs but got some accidentally, so my summary after we got it right was a bawdy victory lap)

Just a few minutes ago, got the complete on the raid with Odin. Picked it up early last week, got a group after a long wait, we wiped a couple of times and couldn't get replacements for the dropouts, so we had to abandon. This group stuck through three or four wipes, picked up a couple replacements as needed, and even though we had many new people we kept at it until we *all* learned the AoE patterns and what not. I had learned them the week before so I knew patience and encouragement was key.

TYVM to all of the people in the game who makes groups, even when new people screw up but are willing to get and up try again, a fun experience.

[Fluestergras]

I met a machinist in the Great Gubal Library who had a full Garlond set equipped, except for the T13 weapon and the Sohm Al hat/mask/whatever, and apologized for their bad gear, saying they had horrible luck with the dungeon drops. The first boss dropped bard boots, and I said, "see, I made the dungeon drop some boots for you!". They had a good laugh about it, took and equipped them and was pretty happy about them.
Later on, the bard gloves and a bard ring dropped too, and the final boss finally dropped the bard chestpiece, making the machinist literally freak out for joy xD We had quite a good laugh about their sudden luck I seemed to bring them.