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

[SpiritMuse]

I was running Stone Vigil to get my monk to 50 (I like it better than the higher level dungeons) and on the first boss, about two thirds of the way through the healer dies. The tank holds out for a while, but already being low on health ends up dying too. So I pop Fists of Earth because now I am a monk tank. The machinist and I manage to get the boss nearly dead before he, too, dies to an aoe, and I end up doing the last 2 or so percent by myself. That was fun. The rest of the dungeon is full of friendly chatter (except for the healer who didn't seem to have a keyboard as the few things they said were via autotranslate), the tank and I find out we're from the same server and I exit the dungeon to a friend request from them. I also got a comm (we were all sad we had only one comm to give), reached my last 50 and got a whole bunch of achievements. So all in all, a very productive run.

[aesteval]

Aurum Vale, Coincounter as a caster. Guess who is the target of Glower every time? Me. Healer heals my HP, never bothers to cleanse paralysis. It's ok. I'll just stand here trying to cast and fail for 10 - 20 seconds. You know I'd much rather you leave my HP as it is and just cast Esuna instead.

Want to buy Esuna as cross class skill.

[Mysterysword]

Aurum Vale, Coincounter as a caster. Guess who is the target of Glower every time? Me. Healer heals my HP, never bothers to cleanse paralysis. It's ok. I'll just stand here trying to cast and fail for 10 - 20 seconds. You know I'd much rather you leave my HP as it is and just cast Esuna instead.

Want to buy Esuna as cross class skill.

The only healer job quest that truly punishes you for not healing debuffs is, sadly, the lvl. 60 SCH one. So some healers just never learn.

That said, Glower is easy to dodge, just sprint to the side if he's facing you. If all else fails, try some Spine Drops.

[MeiUshu]

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...

Do you mean Neverreap?

Neverreap yes that is it..for me is Nalloncques (cant spell that word for the life of me)

[Atoli]

That said, Glower is easy to dodge, just sprint to the side if he's facing you.

You don't even need to sprint, just jog to the side for a few steps as soon as he turns in your direction
If you stand at max range, you also do not get hit by the giant "all-around" thunder either, so as a ranged DPS, you can actually evade any and all hurt.
Doesn't change the fact though that if you DO get hit, it is the healer's job to despell & heal, which his healer obviously only did half..^^°

[Malicewolf]

Had a "fun" wiping shitty run yesterday. Things were bad. Just. So. Bad. First boss, things seemed decent. Forgall however, there were a few wipes. First, it was because all the DPS ignored the adds... so they blew our faces up. Next, we get to the 3 add phase. DPS stun lock the succubus and we all get terrorred. 3rd time, somehow, people didn't learn their lesson about killing the FRIGGIN adds before they blow up in our face. The tanks didn't bother picking them up, so they just ran circles around the map chasing every other person who hit them. Next go, we finally beat forgall.

So then that leads us to Ozma.... oh Ozma. First thing, alliance B decided to stand in Alliance A's spot (i was alliance A). Apparently I was the only one who was able to comprehend that they switched on us, so I was standing where Alliance A should of been. But then someone pulled before I could even ask my alliance to come over to A. So, all of Alliance A and B (aside from maybe 3 people in A with me) were at one spot. And no one frickin figured it out... they stayed there, even after I started telling people to move. So square comes up.... and orbs happen. And we have no frickin people to take the darn orbs. Long story short, people died. Lots of people died. Then we get sucked into the black hole and there's 3 people down when we go in there. So, I decide to asylum and medica II so I could attempt to manual raise my co-healer since my swiftcast was on cooldown. I guess my tank thought I loved having an add beat my ass while I attempt to raise someone. Cause he didn't even bother hitting it and I couldn't even heal myself before I went down.

Now the finger pointing game starts. Alliance B and C are calling mine out for dying so quickly. 3/4 of my alliance was not with me during the original phase part because of the switch up alliance B did and my tank decided I as the healer would be a better tank. So we all respawn and go back for more butt hurts. Yea... pretty much the same thing. Someone pulls ozma before my whole team is even on the platform (though, B did decide to let us have our actual spot again) and so our team doesn't even have frickin protect on them. Everyone made it in, but some were literally still running to get to the platform when ozma was pulled. The frenzied ensued and we wipe again. For us, it was more so just bad luck this go. During orb, i got clipped by the 1st orb. Then someone went for the 2nd orb with me still in the way T_T
Both heals died there. We wipe, my co-heal and I complain about the early pull. Every alliance is pointing fingers at us saying we're the weak link. This time, the alliances wait before pulling (and omg, we got protect and stoneskin off BEFORE we pulled). My alliance was doing great this time. I may or may not have been a bit salty and made a salty comment. :3

But we got through even though alliance A decided we should have an extra comet on our heads. Dunno how the hell we stayed up through that one, but we did. No issues with Cali though.... somehow.

[aesteval]

The only healer job quest that truly punishes you for not healing debuffs is, sadly, the lvl. 60 SCH one. So some healers just never learn.

That said, Glower is easy to dodge, just sprint to the side if he's facing you. If all else fails, try some Spine Drops.

Yeah, was running to the side but still getting hit. -_-

[Atoli]

Sorry about the following mini-rage:

NO you do not need to pull every single monster in all of PotD. For god's sake, learn how sneaking works! (especially if the next floor is already unlocked)
There is sound- and sight-based aggro. Stop forcing the party into unnecessary fights by attacking every. single. sight-based. monster staring at the wall!

YES bronze chests matter! Gold is actually the most worthless because you can't bring anything from it back outside.
Also, if I'm going for a chest, there is no need to follow me into the room and pull all the monsters by accident because YOU STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO SNEAK..

You do not need to step into every single giant flashy red sign on the ground if map is uncovered.
YES THAT IS A TRAP. Please do it even less if I am running next to you =_=

If you want me to believe that you have any idea what you are doing, just don't do stupid things instead of showing off your collection of Padjal weapons.
That's like showing me all your travel miles as proof that you can fly a plane. Just because you got from point A to point B does NOT proof that you have any idea what you are doing.

Also, NEWSFLASH - the mentor sign is not proof of how great you are either, even if SE was thoughtless enough to make it a crown

Oh, and if you don't like your party, either just leave or endure it and rage about it later instead of destroying people's pots or pulling all monsters and killing them.
Because yes, I WILL report that.

Phew. Sorry. Really needed to get that off my chest :x
I know those are mostly small things, but it happens again and again and again and urgh.

[MeiUshu]

Actually if you dont pull enough your level wont be enough for next tier but i doubt explaining this to you would do aby good..

[Vidu]

Actually if you dont pull enough your level wont be enough for next tier but i doubt explaining this to you would do aby good..

...if you dont KILL enough maybe, yes. But if your level is already high enough (or your even at max level, you know, thats a thing?) there is no need to pull enemies as soon as the lamp glows. And even if you do need exp, its pretty clever not to pull just everything you see but be careful and dont just run into rooms and face-pull stuff (you know, there are enemies you might want to handle one at a time and such...)