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

[MeiUshu]

What is this insta-kill-skill anyway? How do you trigger it? Didn't see this on my run, which was in a party composition without any stuns (BLM/BRD/SCH/SCH) :O

I saw it twice, once we wiped totally but another time, the WHM and myself countered it and we finished it (bless WHM), me with sacred soil and her with the WHM skill Asylum (our healths the 3 standing went really really really low). It killed only who wasnt Inside those two (aka one BLM), we survived and finished the boss but yeah is a sort of enrage skill room wide attack, someone told me if you are being hit by 5 AOES it trickers that attack. Have yet to see the description for it. I can say, is not an insta wipe but maybe one healer alone may not be able to counter that, not sure. Our group was, two healer and two BLM and yep we finished the lvl 41-50no problem actually

[TankHunter678]

There's no move that you can stun. If one or more players got hit by her room wide aoe (in health) without being next to her or away from her, depending on the orange indicator, the moment she casts dark harvest you get hit by a lot of dmg. You could have been full health, still would have died probably depending on how many people ignored her mechanics. Same counts for the cold feet mechanic, if you don't turn away and you get hit by hysteria, you'll end up standing in the "in health" mechanic she casts right after. If your party is to slow, you end up dodging the old tam tara hard mechanics (circles, statues etc), that move can't be stunned either.

Dark Harvest is her teleport, it does not inflict much damage its more for her to re-position for In Health. Black Honeymoon is the room wide unavoidable AoE that gets empowered by In Health, to auto-wipe levels at 5 runes.

[Bebekurenai]

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

Nothing to do with being console users ^^
Being ps4/3 users is no excuse to not read chat. Typing is no excuse either since there is a virtual keyboard; yes not ideal for long phrases, but a yes or no you can pull off no problem.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

What about potions?

Tons of potions drop in the dungeon and the cooldown time is pretty short.

The potion cooldown raises as the rank of potions go up.

For example, the HQ X-Potion is 43 seconds.

I would assume they were using all their potions on cooldown, whichever types they had, but I wasn't one of the ones with Pox.

We never got a purity Pomander.

[Aosha]

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 :/

The success rate I have seen has been 0%. A flat 0. For the standard 2/2/4 setup that is. For 1/1/6 groups (which I have been in exactly one of) it has actually worked.
Oh right, I don't think I mentioned. One of the 2/2/4 groups that tried to do the Ravana burn was on NORMAL mode. With first-timers who were barely geared to get in. And that's the one where I was threatened with kicks after questioning it.

[Aosha]

PotD final boss sadness

Every time someone gets hit by "In Health" a rune activates on the floor. More runes active = "Black Honeymoon" hits harder. 5 runes active = might be instant wipe. Hurts like hell anyways.
You can't stun any of that, so you can feel less bad about that. Then if you were the one eating the In Healths... less so :P

[Mwynn]

Every time someone gets hit by "In Health" a rune activates on the floor. More runes active = "Black Honeymoon" hits harder. 5 runes active = might be instant wipe. Hurts like hell anyways.
You can't stun any of that, so you can feel less bad about that. Then if you were the one eating the In Healths... less so :P

It's a Instant Wipe, it happened on my second PotD Run and isn't funny :x
Also the same is in Tam-Tara Hardmode, if those Zombies (When she cries...) enter Edda's Ground Circle, she will kill those and a Rune will lit up.
Though for the last Fifth Run to lit up, it takes 3 more Zombies and the next Attack she does will hit for 15.000 AoE Damage.

[Malicewolf]

Had a fun WC yesterday. We had a new tank, so I don't blame her for not knowing everything, but nor have I known many new tanks that step up to the plate lol. 1st boss, she's MT. I was very surprised by this as she was at 22k hp, which for a tank in WC is fairly low. Looking at her gear, she was likely around ilvl 210 at most. Mix of eso gear and ex roulette gear. On the first boss, no real issues other than my panic attacks when I forgot I have to heal her more often. My co-healer seemed to have forgotten a lot as well; we both ended up using our "oh shiz" heal buttons at the same time often. But at this point, we still didn't know our tank was new. I just thought she was leveling her tank gear.

Next up, Forgall. Our tank MT's once again.... Here... it becomes a bit more obvious she was new. We were alliance C. So first sign was when she let the add rampage on all of our faces. But one of the other tanks picked it up as our tank hit succubus. We get through. Then mega deaths happen. Our tank was still MT'ing when she didn't get into the green goo and of course, died. About 5 raises later, it became obvious and my co-heal spoke up and told them to stand in the green goo to survive that mechanic. But by this time, Forgall constantly changing targets took it's toll and most of the raid had gone down. So much so that it eventually came down to all 3 tanks being dead and I as a healer, became the new MT. I raise our tank and wait for her to pull it off me... it never came ._. I tanked Forgall's last 10% of hp. I honestly dunno how I survived. Luckily, my co-heal was awesome and we were both on point with healing the hell winds.

At the headstone trash boss, our tank finally mentioned she was new (none of us were surprised at this point). Surprisingly... Ozma was the smoothest of the boss runs... (how the F did that happen?!). I tried to explain the ozma mechanics before we started, but one of the alliances pulled. So i only got the basics in, like, square stand close, triangle get off platform, stand opposite of party on platform during square and comets are left and back. Of course, many don't know what to do when new, which is to be expected. During the square phase though, she freaked out and started to run back and forth, cleaving everyone with the beam lol. Then, to top it off, she jumped off the edge. I couldn't help but laugh a bit. I could literally see the panic as she ran back and forth on the platform trying to avoid the beams then just giving up and jumping off (to which then the rest of us were trying to figure out who the beam was targeting lol).

We get through Ozma 1st go though with relatively no real issues aside from that. However, we all asked our tank not to MT Calofisteri. Everything started off fine, but at one point, the MT literally turned the boss and cleaved the entire raid. This was around half health though... so things were slow as there was usually only about 8-14 people alive from that point on. Lets just say, the fight lasted so long, that our team alone used an lb3 and two lb1's during the fight. We somehow got through. Was quite the interesting run.

[Erim-Nelhah]

The success rate I have seen has been 0%. A flat 0. For the standard 2/2/4 setup that is. For 1/1/6 groups (which I have been in exactly one of) it has actually worked.
Oh right, I don't think I mentioned. One of the 2/2/4 groups that tried to do the Ravana burn was on NORMAL mode. With first-timers who were barely geared to get in. And that's the one where I was threatened with kicks after questioning it.

I can see a 2/2/4 group being able to do this...with an offtank and one healer capable of pushing good dps (while the other tank/healer do their jobs solo), and everybody being at least i225-230 with an i230+ weapon AND good at their jobs. Otherwise, not happening. 1/1/6 gives quite a bit of room for error (remember, you can push him with 1-2 swords and still do it).

--Erim Nelhah

[Fluestergras]

Qarn NM via leveling roulette on my sprout DRG alt. The warrior is new, so my inner mentor lets me explain everything important - boss mechanics, positioning the stone heads on the glowing platforms and the symbols you put on the scales before the final boss. It's a normal run, nothing special happens, then after the final boss, the BLM compliments me for explaining everything without being asked, and I get all the commendations. ...but I don't feel like I've done something special, I just explained stuff :O