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

[Natashio]

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

It's the nature of today's video gamer. "You don't play a game, you watch other people play a game for you".

[Acantha]

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.

Yeah it seems a little... haphazard now tbh. I was excited about the new chests but the best thing I got was some demimateria, apparently one of the new hairstyles is a drop from them too :/ after 3 attempts I finally finished off floors 41-50... on weapon 30 and armour 27 >.<'

[Fluestergras]

So, PLD friend wanted to run Gubal HM but didn't meet the itemlevel requirement, so we did 60 roulette with a fellow AST and myself on BLM, and got Hullbreaker HM with a SMN.
No egi out, at some poined they pulled out Ifrit.
Barely used any dots, never used Tri Disaster, never used Bane.
Couldn't manage Aetherflow stacks for the sake of his life.
And... cast Deathflare right upon entering Dreadwyrm Trance O___O
On top of this, he screwed up pretty much every mechanic - I was so thankful when our AST decided to leave him on the floor when he died to the last boss when it was at about 40%. The rest of the fight didn't take any longer than the previous part.

After this, Gubal HM! Everyone but myself was a firsttimer, I announced that I'm gonna let the party run blindly, and the random NIN was like "Good, it's day 1, it's supposed to be run blindy". The party was relaxed, we were joking around, and had a lot of fun discovering details of this dungeon, such as the notes you can read there (like in NM) or the glowing books. Our AST really loves books and I think she felt like in paradise Previously to every boss, someone said something along the lines of "let's wipe", then we laughed about not wiping on bosses #1 and #2 - and kinda about wiping twice on boss #3, too.

These were enjoyable 40 minutes, and the NIN definitely deserved his 3 comms - I just wish every run could be this fun and relaxed, but instead I read things like:

chat revealed tank had left right upon entering with a "omg 3 newbs"

[lockey_breezewalker]

Every times i run the vault and Ser Grinnaux transform and say "I have the power", i shout "HE MAN!"

[Acantha]

Every times i run the vault and Ser Grinnaux transform and say "I have the power", i shout "HE MAN!"

I did the same with Tales of Xillia, "by the power of Maxwell!" ... "greyskull" :P

On topic ish - I ran Satsasha unsynced as WHM last night, killed everything apart from the bosses with Aero :P very easy way to tick off a Wondrous Tails task!
I'm doing the other ones properly through DF though for the possibility of a "second chance" etc - glad there seems to be a decent variation on what things you need to run too. Mine had 2x PVP, 2x Coils, 3 that could be done via the roulettes and some EX primals.

[Annah]

Shor Khai

2 Black Mages. I thought, "Yes! We're gonna breeze through this!"

Yeah...not really

Took forever to take down "Pegasus" boss. And at the end of the dungeon run, we only had one platform left.

I haven't seen dps this poor in ages. I never run out of manna healing in this dungeon. At the end, I was pulling every trick out of the book just to squeeze every ounce of usable manna I could.

[Annah]

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

I wouldnt be as mean about it. But as a Healer, I ALWAYS watch a guide before I play a dungeon. I feel its the right thing to do...unless its a brand new dungeon on day 1...if people complain about that...they need to SIMMAH DOWN NOW

[LionFranco]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with going into a fight, even a9-12 blind. No one should be berated for wanting to learn as they go.

[ManuelBravo]

ToD floor 45 join party in progress. set up: 2 pld 1x me , 2 nin. I'm on sword oath Pld constantly on 10-25% HP keeps pulling and mobs spawn behind us. he marks I follow. I take hate constantly saving him being we have no healer, without a warning I get kicked. I was wow really?

[Atoli]

I just wish every run could be this fun and relaxed

I wish that were the case
Actually, a while later I got the same DPS again (and another, but also new in there, healer) with a tank who had run it before, it everything went (mostly) well
Tank wasn't interested in telling us mechanics (which I actually apprechiated, since the fun of playing on patch day is to figure out things on my own, although I wouldn't have been mad or anything if he did give an explanation either!), but if you played any content before, (CT, A3, looking at you :P) it was fairly easy to figure out. Which made the reaction of the previous tank even less understandable, because none of the mechanics were hard to deal with, which could have at least explained why someone wouldn't want to deal with newbies on top of that.

Only wipe we had was at the final boss when the tank didn't realize we all got a little cutscene there upon reaching the boss room, so by the time it finished playing/skipping it manually, even with sprint, both healer and me didn't make it into the boss room before it closed off..xD

..unless its a brand new dungeon on day 1...if people complain about that...they need to SIMMAH DOWN NOW

That's the problem right there. There aren't even proper guides out yet, and even if they were, are we not even allowed to go in blind on day 1 anymore?
That's actually what's fun about patch day, that no one has any proper idea yet what things do.
There is a time and place for everything, and I also dislike inconveniencing others (especially as the healer, which is central to the party's survival), but it's new content...at least wait a few days after patch before telling people to watch stuff instead of playing it themselves *sigh*