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

[Anyan]

Just got out of PotD.
Me on drg, and three brds. Arrows flying everywhere, mobs running back and forth (still managing to hurt them all) and me running after like a mad man. Chest blowing up, traps exploding, and one brd getting the pox. It was a mess in there.
Ten minutes in we're still on the first floor!
I reluctantly said:
"I hate to be that guy but I don't we can do this."
The brd who got the pox took this as a personal attack on them and got angry so I noped out of there. I usually never give up or leave. I can recall doing it three times after playing for over a year. I feel absolutely awful but sometimes you get that gut feeling that it's not going to work out. I hope the three of them got someone who was able to be of better use.

[KaitlanKela]

Just wanted to point out re: all the drama in brayflox about being a scholar and purifying the poison
.. you could just heal through the damage until fey caress is up. That's what I did my first run of brayflox, which I did as a SCH. Wiped two times cause I was using Eos, after I was told to use Selene cleared np. I even had her on six at that point...

[Rhyku]

Got out of prae with a monk who had macroed almost his entire skill tree to some lame battle quote. I had to turn off notification sound for party chat for that run.
*draws circles on the ground in a corner* ;_;

[Lunaxia]

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There's no need to be defensive. Whether you're dating or not is irrelevant, I'm just questioning the sense of it being permitted when they've effectively been barred from the forums; I don't think I ever see you post anything that isn't to do with the individual involved and by and large, your account merely seems to be their mouthpiece.

[Millerna]

Not much to note of this recent Lost City of Amdapor run other than apparently a dps dropped because of mold phobia. I'm not really mad or anything, and I'm posting this because I suddenly started wondering what kinds of dungeons we have currently that can be problems for specific phobic people. The only other dungeon I remember is Antitower because someone made a thread awhile back talking about his/her doll phobia.

Not a phobia, but I refuse to do any DPS on the gorilla type creatures, and when I'm healing, I face my camera away from the gorilla so I don't see it get hit. I also turn sound off...

[bounddreamer]

There's no need to be defensive. I'm just questioning the sense of it being permitted when they've effectively been barred from the forums; I don't think I ever see you post anything that isn't to do with the individual involved and by and large, your account merely seems to be their mouthpiece.

Unless you're a GM, you don't really get a say on what's within the rules and what isn't? Please don't call someone out on their behavior when it's not really your place.

I've seen Kallistra post. They're not very active because, as stated, they don't particularly like the forum, and there's plenty enough evidence why that might be the case.

I welcome these secondhand stories because Selli's ban was extremely unfair. As stated, Kallistra is given the option of sharing stories that aren't theirs. It's not like they're Selli's sock puppet.

I can still share stories that happened to my FC leader, and he got banned for an extremely stupid reason as well.

[MeiUshu]

Just wanted to point out re: all the drama in brayflox about being a scholar and purifying the poison
.. you could just heal through the damage until fey caress is up. That's what I did my first run of brayflox, which I did as a SCH. Wiped two times cause I was using Eos, after I was told to use Selene cleared np. I even had her on six at that point...

how could you die when using Eos is beyond me. The skill of Selene to mass heal is a recent addition (3.0)as the SCH is out since the start, tell me how were they doing it back then ? yeah right. Of course if all the dps and tanks stand still in the pool and the aoes and take all full face...yeah but then no fey caress or what not will prevent a wipe.

[thejthar]

Had an interesting trial roluette yesterday. Got Final Steps of Faith and the group had three wipes before we vote abandoned.

Wipe 1
Phase 1 goes smoothly, add phase goes smoothly, third phase goes smoothly. In the final phase the first Akh Morn pops up, a healer is targeted. We begin to stack but right before it is cast the healer runs from the group and dies. And everyone is sitting there like 0.0 "Why you run from stack"? Which the rest of the group besides me and the other tank dies to the first hot wing cast.

Wipe 2
Right before the add phase one of the healers died and the other healers starts to revive them when the adds showed up. Me and the other tank take our adds but get no heals so we both died from our adds and they go off and murder the rest of the group.

Wipe 3
Both healers died to the first attack where Nidhogg does the fly over attack and the rest of the group just let Nodhogg kill them.

Before we abandoned one of the dps calls out the healers and says "We're not going to clear with these healers". Which of the healers says to something to him but I forgot what. The Dps replies "Stop dying". Healer responds with "Eat a ****"

Wow so much anger. Must of been having a bad day or something. Shortly after that lovely exchange we vote abandoned. Good times.

[Atoli]

Not much to note of this recent Lost City of Amdapor run other than apparently a dps dropped because of mold phobia. I'm not really mad or anything, and I'm posting this because I suddenly started wondering what kinds of dungeons we have currently that can be problems for specific phobic people. The only other dungeon I remember is Antitower because someone made a thread awhile back talking about his/her doll phobia.

In real life, my body just freaks out on it's own when a spider is in the same room and nothing is there between it and me to protect me.
Luckily, the computer screen is somewhat of a protection, but there have been videogames I had to stop playing because the spiders looked fairly realistic and I was too close to getting a panic attack (if we are talking about MMOs, namely LotR).

I had no big troubles in FFXIV yet, mainly because spiders aren't used as enemies. The Deremites are really close though, and while I CAN deal with them, they make me very, very uncomfortable and I will stay away from any area and dungeon of which I know has an abundance of them (like the Northern part of Central Shroud a bit right to the giant tree root, or the dungeon Toto-Rak). I mean, I did it for the story, but I never returned to help friends or newbies and I'm pretty sure it's one of the few dungeons I actually dropped upon getting it in roulette. Yazons too, but they are mostly low level overworld mobs so not much I have to worry about avoiding as a max level character.

Funny enough, Arachne Eve is no problem to me at all. I don't know if it has to do with the sheer size or anything, but all I see is a yellow striped giant blob with no spider features, so I'm good

[Mysterysword]

Queued for Main Scenario Roulette as a PLD, dropped into an 8-minute in-prog. A bit unusual, but sure.

It's Praetorium. The other tank is a WAR in ilvl 90 AF, with ilvl120 Ironworks Slaying accessories. They have 7.3k HP in Defiance, 5.8k without. That's less base HP than some of the casters in the group.

DPS consists of a newbie DRG with 4.2k HP, and 3 SMNs. None of whom knew how to play the job in the least. I just started out boss fights in Shield Oath, switched to Sword after a few rounds of my aggro combination, and had no issues with aggro whatsoever. I barely saw any DoTs on any of the bosses, at one point I saw one of them spamming Tri-Bind for some stupid reason, and instead they just seemed to stand around doing nothing most of the time.

Did I accidentally land in a party with a bunch of SCHs who decided to DPS and thought their pets would do all the damage for them? I totally understand why the tank I replaced, left right after the first boss.