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

[Vidu]

I wish more people understood that if Palace of the Dead is soloable, it is definitely doable with 4 DPS.

I have only ever done PotD with friends so far, so this might be a stupid question, but... are mobs somehow harder when you go in with DF/random people? I keep reading this stories about how people are being little crybabies about party composition and yet my last run of 41-50 was with a friend, he on smn, I on bard, no one else around and it took us like... 30 minutes or so? So... did I missed something?

[Ersilon]

Had a leveling roulette last night with the wife (SMN) and an FC mate who's still very new to DRK, and we end up in Qarn. We get a random bard who, according to my tank buddy, was pulling mobs, and seemed to be in a rush. Bad stuff happens with Doom on the first boss and we end up wiping. Bard leaves and we get another summoner. The other summoner isn't throwing Dots around with Bane, but that's fine because my FC mate is still struggling with DRK early game and doesn't have it down yet. Doesn't matter, things are dying fast anyway. We cleared the dungeon easily. I don't get why people have to give up after one wipe like that bard did. If he was in such a hurry, he'd have been far better off staying with us than signing up for a 30 minute penalty.

[lvlagmarink]

I have only ever done PotD with friends so far, so this might be a stupid question, but... are mobs somehow harder when you go in with DF/random people? I keep reading this stories about how people are being little crybabies about party composition and yet my last run of 41-50 was with a friend, he on smn, I on bard, no one else around and it took us like... 30 minutes or so? So... did I missed something?

In matched party, the pomanders dont get carried on to later set of floors unlike how it does in fixed party. Then again all the randomness from players' playstyle always hindrance teamwork. Like that time when there was a single enemy about 5 or so level ahead of us, a dps tried to solo it ended up dead, me as a healer raised that player and warned them to avoid that mob. The player said "oh ok.. Didnt notice the level diference." the next thing i know the other DPS pulled it and let me tanked it as a healer until it was dead..

[Aylis]

did I missed something?

I only do PotD (and pretty much all content in general period) with friends. Its just more fun and less stress that way for me. So I guess in a way going in DF does make thing harder, just because its the people that make things harder then it needs to be.

[bounddreamer]

I queued for Void Ark last night separately from my FC leader/static main healer and we ended up in two different alliances. He jokingly trash talked me, telling C that we had a terrible tank, that I wouldn't be able to hold hate, etc. What followed was an extremely smooth, fast run. At the trash before sawtooth, our Morbol spawned and died first. I claimed and tanked Sawtooth. (My group expressed some skepticism: arent you the bad tank??) Our hound never did Abyssal Cry. The PLD who'd been MT offered me MT role for Cuchulainn, which I took - always nice to get those reprisal procs. And at Echidna I got Dexter all the way right, and grabbed adds immediately to keep them off the healers.

Was happy to tell my healer I left that Void Ark with six comms. 8D

Sure, they were probably in a group, but they didn't have to comm me.

[S-r-ex]

Queuing for Weeping City alone, tossed into a party with a friends friend and his six friends. Second time I've gotten full 7 comms.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Roullete : Guildhest
Queued as AST.Got the lv 16 Synced Mission
At some point,Tank got Paralyzed.
Tank : Why don't you esuna Paralyze ?
Me : I can't,its lv synced
Tank : and ?
Me : its available at lv 18
Tank : so what ? why don't you use it ?
Me : .....
Me(real life) : /facepalm + /sigh

Well, at least that's still better than Scholar...

Their cleanse isn't till about 40...
But, on the bright side, Selene gets one around 20...

[Atoli]

But, on the bright side, Selene gets one around 20...

Yeah, with a 60 second cooldown timer..xD
There is a reason why I hate doing Brayflox NM on SCH ._.
There is just so much poison thrown around, and you have close to no way to cleanse it :/

[Maerwen]

Library. We wiped on the first boss (my fault). I lagged and got stuck on the boss when it turned sideways and I was unable to make it on the other side on time. But both DPS went down very soon after for not avoiding AoEs.

Now after that wipe, we had a smooth run until the last boss where we wiped again near killing that sucker. I've run Library a few times and I know to kite away when you get marked (void sent light, I think is the name when it hurls you some orb thing?) and then stand in the middle of the circles when it lights up. Anyways, the tank insisted to make sure the orb (I think she confused it with the second boss where you have to walk the white orb through the boss) has to be in the middle. But instead of bringing it to the middle, I stuck the red orb at the end of the room, and tank just typed ".....".

So when I got marked again, I brought it to the middle just as she asked and she did it again. ".....". And I'm standing there wondering what the hell is her problem but couldn't ask because everyone taking too much damage that I can't even run to the circles when it lit. I had had runs where I am able to run to those no problem as a healer.

[DamianFatale]

I was in cutters cry today, and the tank got angry at me for not commendatimg him. He just stood there yelling at me to com him, and leave the instance. My response was "brb sandwich." When I got back there were at least three paragraphs on why I was such a loser, before he gave up and left. I didn't care. My sandwich was pretty good. It was teriyaki, with delicious lettuce, toasted bread, and Japanese sauce. I even prepared some green tea. Screw drama, make sandwiches.