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

[Malicewolf]

Did WC and had an interesting run. I entered an in progress and we were at Forgall. It seemed like EVERY Healer had just entered from the look of things as we were all running together to Forgall. Overall, the run went well. No raid wipes, but lots of close calls. Got to give props to my co-healer though, they did amazing. I think his name was Kou. Like I said though, we never wiped... but I think the only reason for that would be due to the good heals happening all around. Cause people were getting hit by all the AoEs xD

I probably did a good dozen revives on just Forgall. My MP was seriously strained. Especially when I accidentally missed a green goo pool during a megadeath (I tried to get that last bit of my manual raise in and missed it by a second T_T). Will admit, our MT did die once or twice though. I didn't notice our tank took over as MT and I wasn't prepared with a heal after hellwind in time. Auto attack murder ftw. At the end, at least half the raid was on the ground, but we passed.

Next up, Ozma. Same thing here, the healing was on point, the D(er)PS seemed to like standing where they shouldn't. A few people in our alliance kept dying to some things, but overall, our group stayed alive just fine. But the other alliances weren't fairing so well. My co heal and I kept running over to res their healers. Same story, got through, but at least half the raid group was tanking the floor real hard at that point.

So now we're at Calofisteri. I don't know who... but someone pulled VERY early. Like, the half of our raid group that died were not back yet early. Luckily, my entire alliance was there, but B and C alliance were not. I think we had about 14 people there when the person pulled... You could see everyone hesitate too. Some attacked, some were standing near the gate deciding what they should do. I stood near it, but after a bit, it looked like majority went for it (which included my entire alliance) so I went in as well. Obviously.... this is not the way you should do it. Things were going fine at first, but when the orbs came, chaos ensued. I could tell there were new people as I watched them get murdered by the beams that come down and as they proceeded to try running away last second and get everyone else hit in the process. On top of that, 3 small orbs weren't killed in time. Somehow, we got all the larger orbs, but probably because people were ignoring the small orbs. *Sigh*

When I saw that some orbs went off, I just knew bad things were to follow. So I started putting stoneskins on people (it was a good choice). Anyways, things continue, more chaos ensues. At one point, I was the only one left alive in my alliance with about 6 other people from other alliances. My tank kept yelling at me to use the lb3 in the party chat. I tried to get it off 3 times before he said anything, but had to cancel to avoid mechanics. As I had to explain to them, me dying means I can't get lb3 off and won't do us any good. Had to avoid a haircut, and penetration. I took a depth charge to the face, but did get lb3 off at a good time. It was a very long fight, but we did get through it.

Once again, props to my co-healer. He did amazing and I can't even count how many raises he gave to the other alliances while I kept our alliance healed up.

[RopeDrink]

Last week, met a Paladin who told me not to DPS as a Healer (their aggro management was atrocious and our two DPS were half-asleep). The run itself (Haukke Manor) took over an hour, most of it due to tank stopping to type out nonsensical rants which they believed were correct because 'I have a level 60 [insert class here], I know what I'm talking about', while they proceed to fail at what they were currently playing. Easier to blame a Healer than to up your own game I suppose.

Yesterday, met a Paladin in Haukke AGAIN who spammed comboless "RoHalone" only. Poor guy had that lovely sapling icon, which I have no problem with, but seeing as they failed to notice that everyone BUT the tank was getting aggro every pull, I hoped they had no problem with feedback. They didn't listen, and I couldn't bear the thought of another 60min Haukke Manor (we wiped immediately after I mentioned the lack of combo'ing).

Typical day in normal PuG dungeons, really.

[LunaFaye]

got titan normal mode today as trial roulette and actually had more fun than ever in this game.

First tank falls off the platform, but not because he was bad, just underestimated the platform size. So we decided to just start over.
Next pull, dps falls off the platform, healer followed so we wipe again.
Another pull and at around 25% tank dc's, healer was already out of mp trying to keep the other dps alive since he was never in medica range.
Spam healing me on my blm because blm tanking at lvl 34 never a good idea, we then finally manage to kill it.

I know a lot of people would have rage quit already or kick players, but to be honest it was funny and everybody was very polite about it. Not that I wanted to do titan normal mode 3 times but hey it was fun, so all good at the end. Shout out to that group this morning.

[Acantha]

Actually had a lovely run of Brayflox last night
Levelling roulette on WHM (lvl 56 >.<), got newbie tank, NIN (who I think was also kinda new but didn't say much) & BLM. Tank lets us know he's new and would appreciate any advice, so I marked targets for him as we went, showed him the side "rooms" etc (& let him know he doesn't need to do them on every run) etc.
Got to the big room with all the pugils and efts and the BLM d/cs. So we wait 5 mins in case they're actually gonna come back but then assumed we offended them somehow and kicked (I hope it was just that they wanted to leave...?).

Got another NIN almost straight away, joked there'd be daggers everywhere, they're a mentor so they do some explaining too. I carry on marking for the tank (thinking about it now I should have let them know I was doing that and they might find it easier if they do this in future but forgot ) and we clear in good time he totally got the idea for moving the dragon out of his poison pools etc and I asked the DPS to try to stand near each other &/or me so there weren't pools errrrrywhere to make it smoother.

Lovely run needless to say the tank got my comm for doing well on their first run of Brayflox as a tank, although it was close with the 1st NIN who spoke up a bit more in the 2nd half of the dungeon and was obviously trying their best too. I wish we could comm everyone on awesome runs.

[cammi]

Why do people think rushing in deep dungeon is the best way to play? Skipping mobs and only going for a chest? Cause that's NOT the best way honestly. It's like people think not being 60 BEFORE you hit floor 41 is a good thing. No wonder people complain about not getting upgrades.. THEY KEEP SKIPPING ALL THE MOBS. People need to understand that the faster you hit 60 the more chances you have at upgrading your gear on the later floors. And sidenote... if you're skipping mobs cause you don't have time.. here's a small thought. DON'T QUE UP. Wait until you I don't know.. have time to actually play the game?

Edit. I'm not saying I'm perfect either. I've qued for a dungeon and had it run past my time to do something else, but here's the thing tho. I took the hit and didn't make my party rush cause I qued at the final hour. Just wanted to add that as it's one thing if you run out of time, it's another when you're forcing everyone else to rush cause you can't manage time.

[FinaSel]

Had two vastly different Weeping City runs today.

The first one.
First boss: 2 of the 3 webs were placed directly in the middle. Several people stood on them and died. The rest of us ran to the only safe one on the far side. Thankfully, we managed to kill the boss without a wipe.
Second Boss: One group wipes and our group only has 3 people alive. Me, the tank, and a BLM. The other healer says "alliance C wiped so we should just start over".
No thank you. I raise the healer and then raise one of Alliance C's healers. We work together to revive our fallen team members and kill the boss.
Third boss: Half the raid gets Assimilated. The co-healer jumps over the edge dodging a mechanic. Alliance C wipes again. I raise one of the healers, who raises the tank. Amazingly, no wipe.
Final boss: I notice both of alliance C's healers are down again, so I bring them up. Alliance C doesn't wipe this time.


Only got 1 commendation.

Second run:
2 people in our alliance are new. But both do fairly well considering it's their first time.
My co-healer is doing extremely well healing. But maybe too well. Only using healing spells and a lot of Stoneskin. But our group's DPS is so good, it doesn't really bother me. Things are going really fast. I have tons of time to DPS.
Do some revives and got thanked a lot by the newcommers. I even got thanked for dispelling Doom on the 2nd boss. (I guess there is a first time for everything.)
Healer and I are splitting revives and it all goes so smooth.
However, all in all, the other healer did a lot more healing than I did.

I got 5 commendations, but I feel a little bad because the other healer was healing a lot more than me. But at least I gave him mine.

[raela]

That is actually a valid concern I hadn't thought much about, although don't you need to know at least some English/French/German/Japanese to even play the game?

If you think about it, there are even people who understand the game's languages who don't read the story or tooltips - they prefer to figure it out themselves (or in some cases, want someone to tell them what to do). Quests all have map markers anyway. I've played ROMs in Japanese without even knowing the alphabet.

I am in a Spanish guild and there is a range of English familiarity. Some people do not understand any at all, some can possibly read some but not write, some can write very little.. All of which would be completely locked from the DF under that mindset. Other than a group of 4 from the FC. But it's not like dungeons/raids come with a guidebook, so it's not an issue.

[Lokier]

The problem is people (and English speakers are guilty of this too) ticcing languages they don't actually speak, in hopes for better queues.

I couldn't do that, I'd much rather wait 30mins for a duty than work with anyone who can't speak english on an english server... (which sounds mildly racist, lmao.)

[bounddreamer]

I couldn't do that, I'd much rather wait 30mins for a duty than work with anyone who can't speak english on an english server... (which sounds mildly racist, lmao.)

Duties very rarely require much verbal communication, tbh. For the vast majority, besides a "hello" and a "thank you for the party" nothing need be said.

[cammi]

Is there something I'm missing in deep dungeon, cause everyone in my parties today tell me you don't need to kill everything before you're 60. I just need to make a party on my own cause I'm sick of being held back in levels in that place cause people think being 55 on the last set of floors is a good idea. The last party I was in after them not doing all the rooms I just left. I wasn't rude or anything, I even thanked them for the party. But I had to leave cause if I continued it would have fucked me over on my last set, and I'm sick of running that place as is.

Yeah I'll rather eat the 30 mins then fuck myself on redoing those floors.