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

[Aosha]

Ultima(te) badness

At this point I'm wondering if the DRK even had provoke, based on what you've told. That crap is important to get...
Please, everyone considering using DRK in even semi-serious content, please get you gladiators to 22. Please.
Please.

[SaitoHikari]

But I come from a forum where I've had to deal with angry people who even went so far as to change IP address's and create new accounts just to post insults... Soooo maybe my tolerance bar is just too high...
I'm all for #GetSelliBack2016

Did we come from the same game @_@

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I ended up getting a Steps of Faith (regular version). Went really smooth. I decided to take dragonkillers and sing foe as much as I could. Told people to prepare to get snares ahead of time while I went up the tower for the second dragonkiller, because I'd never seen that successfully go off before. Dragon gets snared and it goes off without a hitch, though I was expecting a message saying it got hit, so I walked back down confused as to whether or not it actually worked.

Dragon dies before it even reaches the third ward. I somehow left with 6 comms. As a Bard.

Wat.

[Sentaryuu]

Did expert today as AST. Tank leaves before I even load in. MNK leaves, get DRG. Other DPS was BLM. Was Sohr Khai.
Went through the whole dungeon with no tank. Only wipe was on last boss. It went pretty good! Both DPS thought I did good healing which made me feel good. :3 Walked away with both comms and gave mine the DRG, but both did pretty well!

[bounddreamer]

I signed up as tank in progress for Trials, it was about 16 min in? I load into a party of ~4 people at Final Steps of Faith. The poor SMN says "I've been trying to clear this for three days."

Oh honey. I've got you.

I start calling for healers, dps, and another tank on linkshells and my server's novice network. As I start the call, the healer and one of the other dps drops. The SMN who loaded in with me sticks.

In a matter of moments about half the people I've farmed Nidhogg Extreme with have loaded in. We get a full team in a matter of moments and hand that hogg his butt nicely roasted. The SMN dies a couple times but manages to clear on their feet. It was a nice moment, coming back together to help someone triumph.

[Fluestergras]

So, a paladin from my FC tried to clear Chrysalis for the story and complained about people leaving after the first wipe, so I joined him in progress on my AST. Noticed that we're short a DPS and a second healer, and without asking if everyone knows what to do, I said that I can try to soloheal (at this moment I successfully repressed my last Chrysalis run with the MT in Sword Oath not using any CDs during Triple and my co-healer hardcasting Selene while my panic heal was on CD, I writ about that one in this thread too). Before we started, we got a 4th DPS, and so off we went. A DPS died during the first sphere phase, and the MT (the DRK) didn't pop any CDs during the entire duty (here I remembered that last Chrysalis run *cough*), so Triple kept me really busy... but this time I was prepared and cast Stoneskin on a regular basis and made sure to have Essential Dignity available. During the second sphere phase, too many spheres reached the boss, so everyone but myself and the two tanks died - I managed to raise everyone and get the party to the meteor phase, but one meteor not getting caught up and most of the party not being at full health destroyed us, I wasn't able to prevent a wipe

Before we tried the second time, a scholar joined. ...one of those "Selene does all the work" guys, and he didn't even bother to use his shields. Except for this moment when the MT suddenly said "brb, ordered meal" - he eventually lost aggro and as my paladin mate didn't notice, I was the one getting tankbustered to death More struggles during the sphere phases and the meteor phase, but this time we cleared. Paladin mate and a dragoon got the clear achievement and the paladin asked in FC chat: "what the hell just happened!?" Whoops, forgot to explain...

[FinaSel]

I had a Duty Finder Party where the White Mage only cast Protect and Cure the entire time.

While in Cleric Stance.

[Mysterysword]

(to the tune of a Hoedown)

Ohhh, running Weeping City, looking for healer gear.
Running as a healer, that fills me up with fear!

Running for the nth time, I swear and clench my fists:
If I roll another 7, I'll slit my goddamn wrists!

Aside from being jerked around by RNGesus on rolls, RNGesus decided to screw everyone over at Forgall by spawning 2 green pools exactly on top of each other. As the healer, I got to watch everyone be zombiefied, and the entire trainwreck of pain and desperation coming.

In another run, my alliance's tank kept D/Cing, which lead to me and the other healer dying, which lead to... unpleasant things. Eventually they came back and claimed that someone was using the microwave, which was what messed with their connection. I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry.

[Yudzster]

Loaded in Antitower for roullete 60 ( yeah, not ARF )

then immediately the tank said: "Oh sorry S rank-" and left

eventually after no replacement tank we all left, i requeed and got ARF, oh well.

[Joe_Schmoe]

Got a good 41-50 Deep Dungeon run this time around. It's me the ninja, and 3 healers . I actually got a good chance to learn how the ninja class works (far from an expert though, I wore the bunny hat 2-3 times in this run and I'm still putting DoTs on low health monsters lol), since I didn't have 3 other DPSers getting in the way, so I got a larger slice of the pie. I can relax because I got 3 healers that have my back. The healers can relax because they got 2 other healers at their back, and whole onus isn't on just one. This really needs to happen more often.

[Crysten]

PotD: Floors 21-30.

Got a DRG who did the absolute bare minimum. The second the exit relic started glowing, he was in there like a bullet and wouldn't move until we zoned up.

We booted him just before the zone up at floor 29. No regrets.