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

[Odd2oul]

Ran Bismarck for the first time and there's 4 new people in the group (all dps) including me. I watched a video beforehand but its understandable when people want to go in blind. so a new person asks about the fight and one of the healers immediately goes off about how we're gonna die and that new people suck (they were a mentor too which is even more discouraging), immediately bringing the morality down. Someone else politely explains the fight. We go in and we get to phase 2 before wiping and half the party leaves. We end up abandoning the duty. Its sad that the only mentors i meet are are immediately impatient, hate new people and leave at the drop of a hat.

[cammi]

Why are people trying to skip adds in Ravana ex? Why do people insist on making EVERYTHING a Sonic stage. Tell you guys what, you wanna go fast, go play Sonic Unleashed. It's fast and Sonic is a joy in that game.

[Seryne]

As far as I know, it actually is the in thing to try now. It rarely works, but people insist on doing it anyways. And if you have the gall to question the strategy even after a wipe with 6 swords you get yelled at and possibly kicked.

Maybe like 4 of the 21 groups I've been in today have been able to actually push past the add phase which was a pleasant surprise. I was called a crybaby and told to leave by one of the tanks in one of the groups I was in because I told them it wasn't going to happen if they keep trying to skip the adds :/

[Norleas]

This one time I did awesome and was super friendly and no one commended me.

Liek if u cri everytiem

Sounds like a day in the life of a ranged DPS. When I was leveling my bard, almost every dungeon I did till 50 I was out dpsing other dps and even stealing aggro from tank occasionally (while focusing main target). I got 5 or less comms from lvl 30-50.

[Vele]

Ignoring the adds and pushing Ravana without getting any swords is only successful with 1 healer, 1 tank, and 6 dps who know how to play their class (doesn't even need to be super amazing end game raid tier good, just know what you're doing). Months ago I made and joined a lot of bird farms on pf that could pull it off consistently, although I must admit it only takes 1 dps who clearly has no idea what they're doing for it all to fall apart. I suppose now that you can buy the whistles with 99 tokens, a lot of less skilled players are coming out of the woodwork...

Attempting it in duty finder with the 2/2/4 setup is just asking to die horribly, though.

[UnstablePersonality]

Yeah it works really well in ravana with 1/1/6 if you got decent people.

[Chrysy]

so today i decided that, since i had gotten my war to 56, almost 57, i would run crystal tower to get the level and some 24 man experience as a tank!

i queue'd for all 3 (horrible 30 min queue time for a solo tank q-q) and i got WoD, the other 2 tanks were both PLD and i was a WAR so i was like "yo, one of you 2 can MT" and i let my party members know that it was my first time tanking the dungeon, anyways, it went pretty smooth until the cloud of darkness.

the PLD that was MT died when her health was around 60%, the other PLD took over, and died literally 15 seconds later, so i switched on defiance and took over, did pretty well until about 10-15% when all the healers and dps died died to one of her raid wide attacks because they weren't able to kill all the adds fast enough so she had stacks of dmg up, and so only me and the 2 plds are standing, i die to the next auto attack+bleed upgrade combo, then the paladins die a few moments later.

run 2 went much better, about 35% 1 of my healers notices i was still in defiance (i had forgotten to turn it off) and said "you can turn off defiance, only turn it back on if the pld dies" and i was like "oh crap, you're right, forgot it was still on" i turn it off and 5 seconds later the pld dies and i thought "well, that was useless." turned defiance on and tanked us to victory xD

[Rhyku]

Today in Copperbell, I'm convinced my party was half made of bots. My tank did nothing but run up to mobs and spammed Fast Blade on it over and over, and the archer who spammed quick nock and nothing else. Tried telling the tank to lob/flash/1-2 but nothing. Zero replies from both tank and archer, no change in play styles even after being told to flash to aggro and stuffs. You can probably imagine the sort of aggro the poor whm caught trying to heal both tank and archer in that situation.

Poor sapling healer. She was so traumatized, I had to keep telling her that this sort of run wasn't the norm >_<

[Cakekizyy]

Don't have to bebot to ignore chat.

[Rhyku]

Don't have to bebot to ignore chat.

Which is why we didn't kick them. Saplings + possibility of console users.

Also, I don't know about you, but ignoring chat is fairly rude IMO. Especially if people are bringing to your attention about something that you've might have missed or are doing wrongly, as it was in this case.