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

[Natashio]

Too bad this line of thinking doesn't last very long, after a month you'll soon get the "veterans" wanting the run to be done in 20mins or less with no mistakes and if a new person is in the group the "veterans" will leave instantly because after a month even new people will be expected to have read up on everything because the "veterans" aren't here to teach people. ¬__¬

Because history can't help repeating itself :/

A month.. I give it till Friday when the pissy-weezies start to fill the duty finder..

[vanitaslaughing]

So me and my friend went to Hullbreaker HM for the first time today. Load in, lesser geared DRG than I, DRK, friend on SCH. All four of us are newbies. Nice.

Other DRG is certainly pulling their weight, with forgetting to dodge aoes that well because of that. 's alright, friend's an awesome healer, he's mostly in cleric stance anyway.
I'm ripping aggro. Huh.
Everything goes pretty well, we don't wipe or anything. At some point I notice the DRK is... pretty bad at dodging. Tell friend in linkshell. Friend asks DRK if they're even trying.
"cba"
Ah.

Last boss, everything goes fine, I figure it out as I go along. Waiting for lb2 to finish loading. Hit R1 to flip to the second hotbar with the lb, press the button. Right as I press it, the sound starts playing. Someone else is lbing. Oh bummer, guess the other DRG was faster than I! But, that should probably take out the last 18% or at least a good chunk of it anyway!

Shields go up.
Tank lb2.

Friend goes -_-.
DRG goes -____________-
I (accidentally in all caps), go "Seriously?"

Tank's reaction? "OMG. REPORT. I MADE THE RUN LAST 30 SECONDS LONGER."

Just... what?

[Rhyku]

So I went to Mhach for the first time on release day. The number of ragequits was incredible. No one was willing to put up with people new to the dungeons. Very disheartening, esp when you see ppl bishing in the alliance chat about it.

Sohr Khai was another nightmare. Had a tank who would mob a huge amount of mobs, and even with all my CDs and shiz, I couldn't keep him alive. After about the 7th or 8th death, he quit, calling me a shit healer and I should learn how to heal properly. I don't think I'm THAT bad of a healer but holy crap, watching his HP drop to butt clenchingly low (1pixel sort of low) in 2 seconds is not doing my heart any favours. We got another tank who was more cautious, and passed it, but darn... that was a real dent on my healer pride. :/

[AlphaFox]

So I went to Mhach for the first time on release day. The number of ragequits was incredible. No one was willing to put up with people new to the dungeons. Very disheartening, esp when you see ppl bishing in the alliance chat about it.

Sohr Khai was another nightmare. Had a tank who would mob a huge amount of mobs, and even with all my CDs and shiz, I couldn't keep him alive. After about the 7th or 8th death, he quit, calling me a shit healer and I should learn how to heal properly. I don't think I'm THAT bad of a healer but holy crap, watching his HP drop to butt clenchingly low (1pixel sort of low) in 2 seconds is not doing my heart any favours. We got another tank who was more cautious, and passed it, but darn... that was a real dent on my healer pride. :/

Just remember we can't heal stupid. Not your fault that his health dropped like a rock from either lack of good gear or poor use (or none) in cooldowns or even just pulling way more than he can handle.

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Why do people allow these types of tanks to finish, least I hope you guys kicked him. Being new content I'd assume tanks would be flooding into these ones, wait wouldn't be long. Just, can't stand people who "cba" to do simple things to help the team.

[Tchaktuli]

So yeah, got to Steps today and gave it a go. (As an AST) First group was doing fine and it only took two wipes to get the dodging down for the first phase. Sadly our damage was just not enough to push through the add phase as we downed the last one and it was too late by then as Nidhogg blasted us all. We gave it a couple more tries but no further. Vote abandon happens and we move on.

Now I want to get this done as I loved the cutscenes leading up to this battle and am still in the moment so I give it another go in DF. One tank pulls almost as soon as the barrier is down and we all scramble to get into position and get our cycles going. Insert wipe somewhere in here. The tank who pulled early rages at the other tank for not dodging and then goes AFK. We don't want to vote kick as that is what the childish one wants but after almost 10 minutes we give in and kick so we can get this done before maintenance. New tank comes in and we give it another go. But people keep dying to the black eyes or the fire. My co-healer decked out in i220 HQ gear drops 3 times our first retry and I am going OOM getting them back up and keeping the party up through the raid wide damage. I can barely do all that and keep the MT up and before long it is too much and we wipe. We talk a bit of strategy about working the black eyes on the floor like Titan EX... Only my co-healer and a few others still seem to not notice the eyes and go down repeatedly to the same bloody mechanic. At this point I asked politely if he could watch for the AOEs and move before they go off and he replies he didn't notice them. Ok, possible. One more try... Only to have the same thing happen yet again and again. We made it to the add phase but I could not keep both tanks up spread out and low on mana so we wipe.

Am a very sad healer right now. Will give it another try tomorrow and thank you to everyone who kept trying and made the adjustments and thank you to the replacement tank to MT'd very well for me at the end.

Wait for me Aymeric! I'll defeat Nidhogg and see you again...

[LyraMaru]

Me and a friend did mhach yesterday. Was really funny. We wiped a lot but in the end we did it - with 8 Minutes left. Pretty cool raid, i love it =)

[Rhodkr]

Woo finally got my Mhach clear. Took my entire party but me and a blmleaving to finally down the third boss. (After at least 5 wipes and someone spamming vote abandon) We cleared the fourth in one shot with under 4 minutes to spare.

All I can say is I feel bad for the people who rage quit before hand. Sometimes persistence pays off!

[Selli]

Ran WCoM today with 5/8 being my FC. The 5 of us are all in voip together, joking around and stuff. My boyfriend was explaining the fights as we went along and it was all going pretty good and we got to... uh... Stoneface? Stonehead? Idk what he's called. For whatever I thought we were Alliance C and went on over and started casting Stoneskin II.

"SELLI WHAT ARE YOU DOING."
"OMG COME BACK."
"SHE WANTS ME TO SOLO HEAL. D:"
"WE AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH."
"ELITIST."

So then I had to make the walk of shame back to Alliance A while telling the lot of them to stop twisting their panties 'cause the mini-boss hadn't even been pulled. SO DRAMATIC.

We only had one wipe and it was on Ozma (of course), but it we nailed it the second time so it was all good. The last boss almost got us, though. I was freaking out. XD I feel like everyone was running around a lot, the flowers that eat you got my co-healer a couple times and once got the both of us. The flowers with the AoEs were trucking everyone and I was scared we were gonna lose everyone and wipe.

And then we cleared and I even won one of the cards! ^.^

I also ran into someone on the forums who was very pleasant company, they were in a different alliance tho. Someone didn't roll on the minion so we got stuck at the end for 5 minutes and spent most of it /mdance-ing and chatting. Don't wanna call him out in case he doesn't want me to, but if you read this; /wave It was very lovely meeting you. ^.^

[RubyScarlett]

I had a GLD "tank" in Final Steps of the Faith today.

I believe I have now seen everything.

[Chiramu]

I had a GLD "tank" in Final Steps of the Faith today.

I believe I have now seen everything.

Did you attempt it? Did he force himself into MT role or was he certain gladiator was a DPS role?