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

[FinaSel]

Had a very interesting "Ultima's Bane" run yesterday.
It was my first time. Of course, I prepared by learning the strategy.

After a very long queue (12 hours), and help from 3 FC members, we got in.
We queued for "Japanese", because 3 FC members don't understand any English.

Fight begins interestingly. Bard pulls Ultima immediately. My FC tank saves Bard.
He gets 3 stacks debuff and other tank (DRK) does not switch. My FC tells him to switch (in Japanese).
Tank still does not switch. 4 stacks. Tank says again in Japanese "Please switch at 3 or 4 stacks. If it reaches 5, it's instant death."

Tank still does not switch.
MT dies. DRK finally picks up aggro. Many DPS are dying. Bard who pulled Ultima has died 3 times during the first fight.
No one shares damage on orb phase. We wipe.

Try again. I checked Party List. Yup, DRK only understands English. No Japanese. But queued for Japanese party. Okay. I will explain in English.
I explain to the DRK about switching before 5 stacks.
No response. Okay. We try again.

The same thing happens. Except this time we get a little farther because I Stoneskinned myself and ate one of the orbs (survived with about 46 HP). We passed first orb phase, but some DPS died.
MT dies again and DRK does not switch. I raise MT, but we die on 2nd orb phase.

Try again. Now MT is using auto-translate function and I am explaining in English to the DRK to switch. Still...no response. No switching. I explain in English and Japanese that orb damage must be shared. Some people made an effort.
Again, Bard pulls Ultima as soon as barrier is down and we tell him "Calm down".
But we died on final orb phase.

One more try. Same thing. No switching. But this time, fewer DPS die because we master orb phase. I can focus on raising MT healing the DRK, and Stoneskinning people before orb phase.
Raised MT twice because DRK refused to switch aggro.

We finally won after the very very tough battle.

[Joe_Schmoe]

Fourth time not quite getting there as a rogue in Deep Dungeon, wiping twice on floors 18-19 and twice more on floors 28 and 29. I JUST WANT TO GET TO LEVEL 30 - ONE STINKING LEVEL - SO I CAN FIND OUT HOW THE NINJA JOB WORKS!
Looks like I'll have to normal leve my way to 30. *sigh*

[SaitoHikari]

Wow, I didn't even realize Selli was ever banned. Jesus. I remember that post and her reply to it and I don't even remember anything that leaps out at me as breaking the rules in any way.

Selli got perma banned from one colorful post reply to anonymous d***s?

Yet what about all the helpful & kind things she said & actually not being super negative about every aspect of this game?


That is a complete s*** decision & something needs to be done about it.

I learned a while back that this forum has a certain reputation. A few months ago, my own FC leader that people here might know as Ashkendor got into a scuffle with someone on these forums that took 'JAPANESE SERVER MASTER RACE' a bit too far, to the point of basically outright saying all English players were bad in a really racist way. She got permabanned for calling that person out.

The person who started that is still walking around these forums too, last I heard.

[MeiUshu]

PoTD

Case 1

3 healers 1BRD

Everything went down at hyper speed we finished the last floor with 30mn left and we skipped very very few rooms; everybody was kind of top of DPS....

Case 2

2 healers, 1 tank, 1 NIN

WHM said he didnt want to use holy becauses uses too much mana, so stood still waiting for one f us taking damages..things went down fast enough and said WHM had very little work if any at all.

case 3

2 healers, 1 WAR 1 BRD

I call that run the holy run...everything was holied...we finished with 20mn left no death no complains nothing.

2 healers 2 NIN

Asked WHM to use holy to ease a bit the run not sure why was kind of slow..said he mained BRD, asked to try after that he became the pro holy caster..

No seriously...healers are OP in PoTD.

[SilkaN]

I learned a while back that this forum has a certain reputation.

I've only been here for a week or two and I can agree with this.
This forum has the ultimate blend of idiocy: entitled, pretentious whiners and some really special snowflakes, with a few decent people in between (we need more of these).
I can already foresee my very own ban in the future, given that I have already offended people with sarcasm and reasonable opinions.
Well, let's see what the future brings.

[Mysterysword]

the ultimate blend of idiocy: entitled, pretentious whiners and some really special snowflakes, with a few decent people in between (we need more of these).

offended people with sarcasm and reasonable opinions.

Isn't this basically the internet as a whole, though?

I used to leave quite a few reviews on various stories, on Fanfiction.net. I set high standards for what I consider to be good reading, and when I review, I always do my best to include constructive criticism, as well as discussing points about the writing that I liked or disliked.

Well, one day I left reviews on a couple of stories that, in my opinion, weren't all that well-written. The characters were terribly boring, overpowered cardboard cutouts, the prose sounded like something that I would've written at the age of 10, and the plots were about as fascinating as that of Tetris.

Still, I did my best to explain how to improve on their writing, pointing out what I disliked and why it didn't work for me. I never called either of those authors names or cussed at them.

Somehow, this pissed off a fanboy, who subsequently went around anonymously reviewing other peoples' stories, people who had never even heard of me and whom I had never heard of, ranting about how I was disrespectful and insulting to two of "the best stories on this site". I only even heard about him because one of the authors whose story he spammed then went on to contact me, saying how they read my reviews and actually agreed with what I'd wrote. Funny part is that one of those authors I'd supposedly insulted also PMed me, and we had a long, civil discussion on writing. At no point did he ever tell me that he felt insulted by me.

And so, that's the internet for you.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Fourth time not quite getting there as a rogue in Deep Dungeon, wiping twice on floors 18-19 and twice more on floors 28 and 29. I JUST WANT TO GET TO LEVEL 30 - ONE STINKING LEVEL - SO I CAN FIND OUT HOW THE NINJA JOB WORKS!
Looks like I'll have to normal leve my way to 30. *sigh*

Actually, unless you queue into PotD as the job, you don't get the job skills when you get to those levels.

[Joe_Schmoe]

Actually, unless you queue into PotD as the job, you don't get the job skills when you get to those levels.

I should've been more specific I guess lol. I meant once I hit 30, I was going to do all the required quests, become a ninja, then go back to Deep Dungeon and try it out. Oh, level 30 achieved, by the way. Got a group that had 2 tanks and a monk that were all between +25-+30 that knew what they were doing. So, I'll be heading back in there. :]

[AnaviAnael]

Wow, I didn't even realize Selli was ever banned. Jesus. I remember that post and her reply to it and I don't even remember anything that leaps out at me as breaking the rules in any way.



I learned a while back that this forum has a certain reputation. A few months ago, my own FC leader that people here might know as Ashkendor got into a scuffle with someone on these forums that took 'JAPANESE SERVER MASTER RACE' a bit too far, to the point of basically outright saying all English players were bad in a really racist way. She got permabanned for calling that person out.

That really sucks. I'd been wondering where Ashkendor had been. I figured she got tired of the same old BS and left. I'm sorry to hear this, she was always a great voice of reason.

[Zigabar]

#GetSelliBack2016

I hope you don't mind me adding this hashtag to my signature. Her ban was unjustified.