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

[HyoMinPark]

Been a while since I've posted here. o.o But, it's patch day maintenance day and I've been lurking since the servers were taken down so.... let's share some fun stories!

Last Saturday: queued up for CT (usually save it for Sunday night, but considering I had plans, did it Saturday night instead). LotA was pretty uneventful, except the DPS was ridiculously slow the entire run, and I actually got to see Bacon Floor on the last boss (I've only been playing for about a year, so I wasn't around when LotA was the current 24-man). Oh, and the Magic Pot boss actually made it to Alliance C. I was surprised since I usually expect it to be dead before C becomes invisible. ST was good: cleared quickly, and with no issues.

Come WoD. The shenanigans begin. I queued in with 3 friends--two healing, one on NIN, and me on BRD (proceed to cry as I continuously kept trying to do my lvl 60 skills that I obviously don't have--WTB Iron Jaws pls). The tank was a PLD, and the other DPS were 2 NIN and I think BLM? Anyways--first boss....wipe 4 times. Tanks fighting for aggro--spinning the boss and lasering like half the raid, DPS ignoring hourglasses, people getting Doom and not going to the platform. I died several times because laser + bard = bad. Would get raised and start DPSing again/playing Mage's for my healers since all the raising, all the time. Anyways, one of my healer friends says to please save lb3 for healer lb considering the amount of dying that was happening. One NIN then proceeds to use it right as it pops. Wipe occurs literally 30 seconds after that.

Friend and that NIN start arguing, and vote kicks continue to pop and be rejected. It became very obvious that there were multiple trolls in that run, just wanting to make things difficult. Portal mini-boss: portals--ALL PORTALS--ignored. Adds running amok everywhere. Tanks not grabbing them (BRD tank ftw), and people still dying. Dragon boss--LITERALLY EVERYONE EXCEPT MYSELF AND MY FRIENDS IGNORED THE HEADS. LITERALLY. I CAN ONLY WIDE VOLLEY SO MUCH PEOPLE. Vote abandons start. Half the raid leaves. We stay, refill, and clear with minimal issues on Cerberus and no wipe on Cloud of Darkness. Our new tank was very meh (wanted to MT but refused to use Grit, and was only in Ironworks, so ofc all the hate being ripped, all the time--BRD tanked Cerberus until he killed me essentially), and proceeded to bitch at everyone about how they will "DPS if they want to" while MTing. Surprised we didn't wipe on CoD since people kept trolling with the waymarkers and just being stupid.

Needless to say, I don't wanna do WoD any time soon, but at least I finally got my last aether oil, and my Hyperconductive Nothung. :>

[Bebekurenai]

As to cross-classing physick or cure, it's possibly just to animation preference; though cure should always be used on WHM past level 32, because physick doesn't proc freecure.

I totally agree with you. But at least there is "some" excuse if someone really dislikes the animation/sound, granted they won't benefit of any procs, at least the healing won't suffer as much as dps in the case of ruin/stone hehe.

[Kikoten]

Turn 9...

We never last more than 3 minutes.

Motherf*cking meteors.

[Lunaxia]

Experienced a funny glitch in LCoA a while back. I was healing on WHM when I noticed that though I could heal the SMN, I couldn't see them anywhere. I went to the gates and right back up the ramp but still couldn't find them, yet according to the map, they were nearby. What...?

I zoomed out the camera and looked around.

"Wait... is that...?"

"?!"

Somehow they'd managed to get stuck while trying to jump down, and couldn't move at all. The only option they had was Return... which was on CD because they'd used it just before the instance. And so the next five minutes passed pretty much like this.

[Acantha]

Has anyone else found PoTD a little... Odd today? They seem to have made the floors smaller and it seems easier... Until a random huge mob descends on you and you wipe :| happens to me twice in a row now, gotta go have a calm down lol. Lost one of those new special chests too :'(

[vanitaslaughing]

Got accused of being in cleric stance in A9. When I wasn't. At all. I saw a scholar and was prepared for solohealing this. Apparently as I dced due to the game booting me they complained about having to heal anyone but the main tank.
I repeat. I went in blind.
Then the game kept booting me randomly for no reason at all. Several times in a row. Got dismissed. Am vaguely upset if I weren't completely blinded by the intense Yellow in there.

That doesn't help on top of the breakdown I had earlier... I guess I have my poncho to keep my company but... Hhhhhhh.

[Heliantheae]

Has anyone else found PoTD a little... Odd today? They seem to have made the floors smaller and it seems easier... Until a random huge mob descends on you and you wipe :| happens to me twice in a row now, gotta go have a calm down lol. Lost one of those new special chests too :'(

I feel like they upped the number of traps. I hit an Everson or Landmine every other floor and a couple of monster houses too.

[Atoli]

So..I spent most of the day crafting and gathering and am only now starting to unlock battle content.
Still, it has only been a few hours since PATCH RELEASE.
Just zoned into Gubal Hard and as the cutscene ended, us DPS were there alone, chat revealed tank had left right upon entering with a "omg 3 newbs" and without tank, the healer followed suit.

I just...what? WHAT. It is STILL Patch Day! This has to be a friggin' joke..

[Lmcgyver]

Just tried my first run of A11 as a PLD. Our SCH kept dying, and the SMN tells them to go watch a guide and stop wasting our time, and successfully vote-abandons the instance (we were making good progress too). It's the first day of the patch; are there even any guides to watch? What's wrong with explaining the mechanic? O.o

[MeiUshu]

People want everybody to know all even before it is out . Wish there was some form of goal for people like that and stuck in there for a few days. I have yet to try any but i dread such moment