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

[Confidence_Trick]

Each day I do my roulettes in the DF in the hopes of connecting with someone and assuaging the yawning chasm in my soul that has slowly taken over my life over the past six months. So far no luck, although I daresay I'm looking in the wrong place.

[bounddreamer]

@Kallistra, apparently a lot of mentors have been gaming the system on mentor roulette lately, dcing when they get a duty that's more time consuming to complete. So the party may have thought Selli was one of those. Anyone who know Selli would know otherwise! :P

For my own tales lately, last night I signed up for a mentor roulette and got a guildhest. That was quick and easy, so I signed up for another and got another guildhest. ^^;; Signed up for yet another and I got Lost City of Amdapor normal, which went smoothly from start to finish. Signed up for another on DRG and got Titan EX.

That poor group. We were at it for about 40 minutes and the group was up to 25% echo, making decent learning progress, but a lot of people kept making the same mistakes. Ultimately they voted abandon. So I signed up for another and got Wiping--er, Weeping City in progress; I was locked out. They wiped, we tackled Forgall again, got to the trash before Ozma.

I was on SMN and attacked the Void Fire add, got dots up, baned when the snakes appeared, got ALL the hate, tank never picked it up and I died. So I told the tank he was supposed to pick up those adds. Rinse, repeat, baned off the Void Fire, got hate, died... then the whole alliance wiped at the trash pull. Not sure if someone didn't stand on the side shield activator or what.

After the trash wipe, my party voted to kick the tank for afk, and he must have had a friend in there because he screamed obscenities at the alliance before the kick went through.

[Aosha]

Well, I found something interesting in Weeping City:

Apparently he was there like that just for fun.
No complaints about that though, the little archer was apparently competent enough to never be in danger of dying. One haircut excluded, that was timed poorly with the hammer/axe plants, but that one got me too.

[Fluestergras]

And the title "weirdest BLM rotation" for this week goes to the dude I met in Cutter's Cry today who never had more than two Astral Fire or Umbral Ice stacks although he was level 40 because his rotation was like Fire - Thunder - Fire - Blizzard - Blizzard - Thunder - Fire II - Fire - Blizzard. Congratulations, dude!

[vanitaslaughing]

Reset Tuesday's evening Weeping City has been very educational. I learned the following things:

- I resent tanks who don't turn the Croc mobs around, that Critical Bite I didn't see took off 19k HP. I have 16-something on my MCH.
- Apparently Costa del Sol got literally translated to "Sonnenküste" in the German version for some reason. Thanks, SMN.
- Ozma apparently is called Jaspsis in German. Or something. I'm SO glad I play this game in English and not in German.
- Speaking of Ozma, Ozmashade does a second Assimilation. Haven't seen that even on release day so I had no idea it existed
- Three Void Fire appearing phases make me lowkey wish I were somewhere else

[SilkaN]

Reset Tuesday's evening Weeping City has been very educational. I learned the following things:

- I resent tanks who don't turn the Croc mobs around, that Critical Bite I didn't see took off 19k HP. I have 16-something on my MCH.
- Apparently Costa del Sol got literally translated to "Sonnenküste" in the German version for some reason. Thanks, SMN.
- Ozma apparently is called Jaspsis in German. Or something. I'm SO glad I play this game in English and not in German.
- Speaking of Ozma, Ozmashade does a second Assimilation. Haven't seen that even on release day so I had no idea it existed
- Three Void Fire appearing phases make me lowkey wish I were somewhere else

I took one look at the German localization of this game and my cringe meter almost broke.
Yes, the English script is far from perfect but way ahead of the German one.
Duty Finder for example becomes "Inhaltssuche" (content search), ugh. I need to stop thinking about it.

[Fluestergras]

- Apparently Costa del Sol got literally translated to "Sonnenküste" in the German version for some reason. Thanks, SMN.
- Ozma apparently is called Jaspsis in German. Or something. I'm SO glad I play this game in English and not in German.

Well yeah, the "Sonnenküste" thing is awful, specially as the FFVII place is called "Costa del Sol" too in the German version, so actually "Sonnenküste" makes no sense at all although both names mean the same.
And Ozma's German name is "Yadis" in both FFIX and FFXIV ^^

[UnstablePersonality]

Wiping city this morning...death everywhere..90 minute run...Alliance B had a healer that kept crashing, apparently their tank was his friend so when they kicked the healer I just assume he got salty because by the time we reached the last boss he kept purposely stealing aggro off the MT and killing people.

[Lunaxia]

Jumped in to solo heal a Thordan party today. I've done it before and managed pretty well, but a combination of a series of bad Weeping runs and spending most of my time on my DRG alt had made my confidence a little shaky. The first run goes okay, but after that a series of awkward mistakes ensues, and on the final try, I was taking a lot of damage throughout before eventually dying again during meteors trying to heal a DPS who just didn't seem to be healing. Ashamed and frustrated, I abruptly left.

A few hours later, I log back in, open the character screen, and notice my gear is red.

...ohhhhhh.

[vanitaslaughing]

Forgot to change classes before my friend queued us to get him and my other friend Weeping City loot (I like helping them, okay), so I went in there as... bard. I'm a bad bard and I knew it was gonna be wild but...

Long story short, to summarise this: Before I completely lost my nerves with the tank and vote dismissed them for apparently deliberately ignoring EVERYTHING, thanks to them the entire alliance wiped to the Headstone. I repeat: We wiped. To the. Headstone. And judging that no one used aggro skills in the party I was second highest dps in there on Forgall in my party. As Ilevel 215 bard with approximately 0 idea how to play it properly at level 60. Hoo boy.

Don't think I've seen the timer in Weeping drop below 30 minutes since release week. It did today. Welp.