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

[Sentaryuu]

For some reason I had some terrible lag today. Worst I've had since switching to Sudden Link.

Anyway, I que for Expert (get Sohr Khai) as BRD just for the Eso. Run went great, good damage, but for some reason I died near the end on the first boss to a cleave. I never once died to this boss till now. I didn't think I was in cleave range and the boss wasn't exactly straight. Most of the run, I didn't lag much, till last boss.

I lagged throughout pretty much during the entire fight. My attacks, I'm pretty sure were not going though. I felt like I wasn't contributing to the damage. And then I ended up dying when a pillar was destroyed. That is also the first that has happened to me. I felt so bad. I even took the BRD chest piece that dropped. Anyway, good job guys for pretty much 3 manning the boss! So sorry for the lag! ;_;

[lvlagmarink]

Another duty finder tale of mine, I queued for mentor roulette, got join-in-progress into A5 as a scholar. Some of them are new but we proceeded with me doing the gorilla job.. Things went smooth until the DPS and co-heal WHM kept dying due getting caught in the bomb blast, up until around 40% only me and the tanks were alive, and the tank died due to incoming damage and me needed to punch that bomb away. The OT took over and i used Heal LB 3 to revive the party, DRG returned back to entrance thinking it was a wipe, so we were only 7 for the rest of the fight. Things got hectic after they got revived, like DPS dropped the poison on the boss and players started to die one after the other. Then I died around 15% when the boss casted boost and one of the player already stood on the center before the boss casted "Boost" I didnt change to bird in time because i was healing the tank. WHM raised me and died not long after that..

Also.. I am kinda curious in what's that red debuff that appears during the puddle? Goblixer something.. I got it as high as 10 stacks and it really tingling my scalp throughout the fight..

[Aosha]

Also.. I am kinda curious in what's that red debuff that appears during the puddle? Goblixer something.. I got it as high as 10 stacks and it really tingling my scalp throughout the fight..]

The Goblixer debuff itself does nothing. But if you let it fall off (don't step in puddles for too long) you will get a massive DoT with a side of Heavy. Also, in Savage, (not sure if applies to normal too) the more stacks you have the shorter their duration. Apparently bad things also happen if you get 12 stacks, but I've never seen anyone reach that many stacks, nor any evidence of such happening, and I have no idea what it would do. Probably the same as it falling off.

[Mysterysword]

Lately, every time I queue into main scenario roulette as a PLD, I end up with a party full of idiots who insist on being as stupid and irritating as possible. And I wind up snapping, acting like the usual jerk tank, because these healers and DPS just keep doing shit like:

- Pulling bosses before I can.
- Pulling mobs before I can.
- Pulling mobs that don't even need to be pulled at all.
- Running Livia around in circles despite being told repeatedly how the fight is supposed to go.
- Refusing to use the cannons for whatever asnine reason.

And then blaming the tanks whenever we can't control the situation that they messed up on purpose. Once again, shit like this is why there are so few tanks, and they're all either jerks or idiots.

[Seryne]

Lately I've been getting healers in Wanderers Palace HM who don't fully heal the person who has doom. Most of the time that person is me. I've told multiple healers "If someone has doom on them you have to heal them to full to remove it from them". Do they do that? No they don't. When it ends up them though they heal themselves to full

[FinaSel]

PvP : Shatter. 72 man.

3 healers in my group. I am a ninja.
I get summoner and bard dots applied to me before ice spawns and both teams retreat.
I'm at about 30% health.

We are running and I notice none of the healers are healing me or removing my DoTs.
And there is one other person on the team (forget their job) with the same problem.
SO my HP gets to about 20%. I use Second Wind. Not much help. Use a potion, not much help.
I can see the healers all around me, doing NOTHING. Just riding their chocobos.
The other person with DoTs dies before my eyes, and I know it's only a matter of time before I share his fate.

And, sure enough, I also died to the DoTs , malms away from any enemy, because not even ONE of the 3 healers nearby couldn't be bothered to remove them.

I honestly never thought such a thing would happen.

[MeiUshu]

Nalloncques....40+ mn of that run

AST, PLD or WAR (cant remember), 2 BLMs

BLMs stood in every single AOEs, even in the water when they spring from ground, single target mobs, didnt attack the bees, one of them was standing on top of mobs, or Boss, we even nearly wiped to the second boss because they were moving the statues all in the same places. Tank was placing them away and next you know they were placing statues where tank placed his.

For the life of me I dont know why the DPS was so slow.. I dont understand why the DPS was so slow.. no clues... one of them wa using giga ice (whatever is called) only. never Layline or any of the sort.. I rarely if ever complain in game because of DPSs or lack of DPS but here....my goodness.. When I said something finally...all they said is they are not pro and I should make my own party..Worst run ever in my entire gaming life they were even worse then me at my worst moment and believe me is hard...

40+ mn to finish that fight...last boss was a pain they never attacked the adds and I couldnt help as they were taking soo much damages for standing on top of targets...I cant even describe I should have recorded that fight ..

[Meimi_chan]

I finally reached Castrum Meridianum with my alt, I tried to queue for it but it never seemed to pop.
So my bf carried me through the whole duty and that allowed me to watch all the cutscenes (thing that I've not been able to do my very first time).
I died 2 times because I foolishly went to the cannons and actually got bombed and cleaved (cannons destroyed).
Let's just say that in that bit I was completely useless while my bf obliterated everything as a WAR. xD
After that run, bf has to log out and I unlock the Praetorium.

I queue for the duty but same thing as before, it takes ages and never pops.
Out of curiosity, I queue for the main story roulette that I just unlocked and it pops immediately.
I mean, if I am lucky enough I can get Prae, right? Turns out I get Castrum again, no big deal as I was curious about how much exp I would get out of it.

Tank facepulls everything, my cohealer puts regen on tank and chaos ensues. We wipe.
I was dreading someone would start to leave but everyone stays and the rest of the duty goes smoothly, sans for the monk running to the cannons after the first miniboss pulling everything and destroying cannons.

After all of this I was finally able to run the Praetorium to finish that chapter of main story. Had to skip everything, but I'll probably watch the cutscenes when it will be my turn to carry my bf's alt.

[Fluestergras]

one of them wa using giga ice (whatever is called) only.

I remember "Giga Feu" being the French name of Fire IV, so I guess the Giga Ice you're referring to is Blizzard IV but...

Nalloncques....

Do you mean Neverreap?

[Masquerade]

Most groups I get in that has a ninja is a horror.
I have such a hard time keeping the aggro off them. =/