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

[AnaviAnael]

Just did PotD floors 41-50. Got 4 silver chests and 3 were bombs. X_X

[Acantha]

Sadness in the Aery

I actually had almost the exact opposite experience to you last night. I've also been going through those level dungeons as a healer, although luckily for me my bf is my tank (although I still get annoyed at him cause he runs off without stoneskin >.<). First 2 runs of the Aery were absolutely fine, little bit of a panic when we got to the last boss on the first run and I realised I needed to grab my wireless mouse because moving the mouse using the ps4 controller is abysmal and I can't target him without clicking on him (if i'm missing something here please tell me!) but kept him and everyone else alive and finished in good time

Then... the 3rd run... It might sound harsh but I really think our problem here was the 2nd dps, a BRD, which made me very sad as a main BRD. Never sang a song, even on the last boss when I completely ran oom, no foes for me during trash when I spammed some holy because mobs were taking a while, also noticed no BRD DoTs
Final boss i'll admit I was finding it difficult to keep in range of both Tank & Estinien so when something happened and my bf's "living dead" didn't kick in and the bene i threw him went no where, we wiped pretty quickly... apologised and tried again.
This time we somehow didn't kill the dragons in time, I couldn't chuck out any dps as I was running oom from ressing BRD more than once, no shield, wipe. 3rd try, this time the BRD didn't attack the sable so the other dps, MNK who could take down a sable to save the BRD on her own, died. I tried to bring them back, messed up my swiftcast (so embarrassing :'() so had to hard cast, during which the BRD died too. Wipe again.

At this point it was nearly midnight and I had to get up at 6.30 for work so I said sorry and bf put through vote abandon. Then felt even worse because they rejected it, should we have said we queued together? Because then they lost tank and heal and would probably have to abandon anyway... oohh /guilt
Typing this out now I can see I made my fair share of mistakes... so now I feel bad... really hope I can clear it again tonight and clear my name too.

[Acantha]

Just did PotD floors 41-50. Got 4 silver chests and 3 were bombs. X_X

Ohh PotD... i'm not really looking forward to doing this again to get additional weapons

[Watachy]

To the Aerys stories, hell i like this dungeon as a healer.
It's the only and real dungeon that give you the impression that healing is a really interesting/difficult job. I mean there are a lot of mechanics on the whole run and hell yeah i wiped a lot during my leveling phase, but i prefer to wipe and learn from my mistakes and Aery is a real challenge when u're new to healing.

Im sad for you guys that you get matched with stupid/afk DPS in the dungeon, but you should give it another try, it's really satisfaying to clear it when you had difficulties keeping your party alive ^^

[FinaSel]

Oh...my...god.

Just had the worst Castrum Meridianum ever. I don't even have the proper vocabulary to describe the badness!

First, three people do not understand the language they registered for. Both tanks, and a DPS.

First tank pulls all of mobs to the first boss, but doesn't get aggro on all of them. So some mobs begin attacking DPS.
Healers were amazing and somehow kept them alive. (I was in as Ninja, but I usually go as healer so I really appreciate their hard work!)

After the first boss, Paladin tank completely ignores the search light. Proceeds to pull all mobs EXCEPT mobs at searchlight.
That's the first time I have ever seen that!
So, almost all the DPS are both healers are standing at the searchlight, while single tank runs off into the distance. We run after him, but healers don't make it. He dies. 2nd tank picks up aggro. A healer revives first tank. 2nd tank dies. First tank regains aggro.

Move to the next area, and the tank only picks up half the mobs.
Then, the tanks and some DPS run to the first boss area...and just stand there twiddling their thumbs.

Anyway, one person says "You need to destroy the search light" in Japanese. So we point the tank to the search-light.
Again, the tank only takes aggro on two of the mobs.

So we pass the second boss, and then tank pulls the mobs before and after the cannons. All DPS are waiting at the cannons for the tank to come back.
He does not. So the healer is trying to heal the tank, but the tank dies.
2nd tank tries to pick up aggro and bring the mobs to the cannons. But the mobs use AoEs and destroy all the cannons and waiting DPS take massive damage.
So, 2nd tank dies.
And everyone dies. Maybe it's only the first time I have seen everyone die there. It was unbelievable.

So we revive and everyone uses warp point to return. Everyone goes back to the place we died.
Except the Paladin tank, who gets lost and runs ALL THE WAY BACK to the beginning.
So I tell him in English "[name] you are going the wrong way."

And then he begins cursing.
And then he tells us to use the cannons.
Which is strange, because he didn't even try to pull the mobs back to the cannons.
So someone says the cannons were destroyed and he gets angry.

Next he asks "Is this a Japanese server or an English server?" (I think he meant Data Center, but okay.)
I say "Japanese."
And he says "Does the other tank speak English?"
I say "French."
He says "That's better."

Kind of a strange comment. I guess he doesn't like Japanese? I wonder why he plays on Japanese data center then and registers for Duty Finder in Japanese then? What an oddball!

So one of the healers says "Both tanks are so terrible it's not even funny!"
And then the Paladin tank totally goes bonkers and curses a lot.

Right before the final boss, both tanks are losing control of mobs and DPS are getting massive damage. Thanks to healers we survive.

At the end, neither tank was pulling the boss. Some DPS began swearing at the tank to pull, but tank just stands there. So other tank pulls.

We finally clear it.

But I am too scared to use DUty Finder for main scenario quests again.

But please PLEASE allow us to block players from other servers.
I NEVER want to be in a party with that terrible bad-mouthed incompetent tank again!

[Genaxx]

Start 60 Roulette.

ARF every time.

*Leaves*



Might aswell change the name of it to ARF til you barf.

[Tsubaki75]

I can't target him without clicking on him (if i'm missing something here please tell me!)

You can use the up and down arrow pad to cycle through the party list. Hit X to hard target and just leave the name highlighted to soft target

[Acantha]

You can use the up and down arrow pad to cycle through the party list. Hit X to hard target and just leave the name highlighted to soft target

It'll let me do that with the party but not Estinian since he's not technically in your party, the only way i've found to target it by clicking on him. Which was a scary lesson I learnt during the Training Hall thing for healer >.<

[Genaxx]

It'll let me do that with the party but not Estinian since he's not technically in your party, the only way i've found to target it by clicking on him. Which was a scary lesson I learnt during the Training Hall thing for healer >.<

Use Focus Target and assign a key / button to switch to your focus target.

[Tsubaki75]

It'll let me do that with the party but not Estinian since he's not technically in your party, the only way i've found to target it by clicking on him. Which was a scary lesson I learnt during the Training Hall thing for healer >.<

Right, I usually hard target him at the start of the add phase then soft target the party or toss an aoe regeneration so I don't lose him when the adds swarm