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

[Fluestergras]

Finished Sohr Khai in 16 minutes \o/

[Ignnis]

Was actually reminded of this event that probably happened around 1.5 years ago?

I joined a new FC since my previous one disbanded. One of the tanks in the FC asked if I wanted to do roulette, I said yes and joined as a WHM. Before we join DF tank says to me "yo (n word) you're on my side get it." Me not wanting to be rube dispite being faced with a racist officer in my new FC I said "OK" (was on edge about this guy).

We join and I think it was Halatali HM and this object I was with immediately said to the DPS "yo this healer is with me so you's better do what we (f word) say." At this point I want an eject button from life, DPS rightfully ignore this object. Throughout the run the tank was doing an awful job of holding agro and the DPS started complaining, I also backed them up, object takes offence to this, que more profanities. Eventually we finish, tank leaves telling DPS they're awful, once he has left I beg and profusely apologise to the DPS saying that they were great and to ignore him.

When I leave the dungeon object chews me out for not siding with his racist ass. I leave FC. Sad thing is I still see this person running around and probably terrorising people. Not sure about the FC but never again.

[Chrysy]

so i was farming A5/A6 last night for bolts to gear my newly leveled War and this happened:
we were at 34% of twinkledinks, and both of the healers died to the bombs, i was on war, the mt was a pld, we had 2 monks, 1 blm, and a bard
pld was at like 12k hp remaning and tank buster started
he was spamming cds and clemency to stay alive as long as possible, he died right after getting concussed, i took tank buster (switch from dps to tank stance when i saw the healers die) so i had about 25k hp, i lost about 3k hp from the hit because i couldn't even use foresight, it was an instant turn and hit.
a monk used LB2/3, brought him down to 13%
he used the aoe lightning attack, took out 1 monk
then went straight into boost, the bard sacrificed himself to keep the goo up for the blm, last remaining monk, and me
i was at about 20k hp left at this point, used every single cooldown and survived until 0.5% hp remaining
blm die to roomwide aoe after doing a flare,convert, flare combo
i was at like 5k hp, monk was at like 2k hp
i die
0.1%
monk kills him and dies at the same time
we got the clear.

Most insane run i've ever had of that place XD

[Aosha]

3 times this week alone, I have run into ROGs and NINs who fail to put on a poison at the start of a dungeon. 2 of them put on a poison after being reminded to, halfway through.

Of those 3, 2 were NINs, who also never used Huton.

That lovely feeling when you see 2 NINs, 1 using poison and Huton and generally doing everything a NIN should be doing, while the other uses neither, spams Raiton whenever it comes up (in level 50 content, great), and eventually dies.

Hmm reminded me of when one day I had a pair of NINs in ARF. At the start one was using Huton, one was using poisons. I pointed out how silly this looked. The huton NIN went "oh whoops", dipped his knives in wasp venom and then proceeded to be great at everything from there onwards. The other... I saw huton once on him. This was also the run where I learned that the second boss will eventually loop his transformations. I'd never seen that before.

[Mwynn]

Blubb

Wow and this on Cerberus, I have seen mostly good People (bad ones were actually exceptions)
I do not see the outer World mostly as I hide myself in the FC Area, things like Idyllshire though ... force me to get out of my protective Area.

Good Choice you did though, going for mentality the Tank had, that was just purely a Troll Attempt which in the end failed as he has shoot himself in the knees lol

[AnaviAnael]

Reporting in for another "I dun screwed up" moment.

I usually remove my accessories before trial roulette so I can avoid getting Sephirot EX. (I'm absolutely awful at it and don't want to subject other people to it. Yeah, that bad.) Well, I forgot to re-equip them. For trial and leveling roulette. I feel like a complete dunce now. >.>

[UnstablePersonality]

Reporting in for another "I dun screwed up" moment.

I usually remove my accessories before trial roulette so I can avoid getting Sephirot EX. (I'm absolutely awful at it and don't want to subject other people to it. Yeah, that bad.) Well, I forgot to re-equip them. For trial and leveling roulette. I feel like a complete dunce now. >.>

Don't feel bad, I forgot to equip one after yokai farming and did all of Sohr Khai with it equipped..my apologies too that party.

[JustPlainLucas]

I que for Aery as tank. Duty starts, no one's new, so I pull the first two groups and then have to go into holmgang because the SCH isn't keeping up, and then when that wears off, I die. Waiting for raise, no raise. Reset, SCH leaves. Yeah, if you can't handle the first two pulls in Aery, might as well stop rolling SCH. :|

[Brinzy]

So I was just in an hour long Sohm Al. Yes, an hour long. Proof:



String of events...

- I wanted to level my AST, so I queued as that.
- on the second pull, the tank fails to hold aggro on anything. I die.
- there are about another 10 deaths between respawns, and the trash resets
- tank leaves
- a DPS runs up and pulls the next pack; the other DPS leaves. The remaining DPS and I die.
- DPS leaves; two new ones join (the two in the screen)
- we wait for like 10 mins, and then I offer to leave the group as AST and queue up as tank to get us a healer. Sure enough, I requeue for in-progress and we get a healer
- we get to the first boss. I say, "tunnel boss" as I sit in damage stance to help burst it down.
- healer says, "one second..." and I notice she is targeting me on and off, presumably inspecting me. Then she says, "Nope, I'm getting out of here with this dumb tank that doesn't know his job." Drops.
- we wait another 5 minutes for a healer. A healer joins!
- ... this new healer is the tank from before. He says, "... oh boy" and drops.
- we wait another 5 minutes and finally get the healer screened.
- we finally clear the place.

At least the party at the end was full of awesome people, but yeah. That just happened.

[Mysterysword]

I vaguely remember the first time I ever ran Sohr Khai. I'm not sure how to spell it. I loaded in as BLM, and everyone in the party was new because this was like 3 days after patch day. We had nothing but a tentative reddit thread to guide us through the place. Still finished it within half an hour.

The latest run I had of Sohr Khai, there was me, a PLD, a WHM, and a BLM. Both WHM and BLM are new, and while BLM is polite enough to admit it, nothing from the WHM.

It took over a solid hour to clear that hellhole. This when we have countless guides out on the internet explaining every aspect of the boss mechanics. The PLD dropped halfway through, and luckily we got a replacement quickly enough. I honestly don't blame them for dropping, because this WHM managed to get us wiped to trash, multiple wipes at the pegasus, and generally left me wishing I could just leave too, but I queued as a BLM and damn those DPS queues...