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

[Loyd64]

When you get aurum vale 4 days in a row from leveling roul., tempting to level a new class just so it can't pop up x.x.

Also, had a funny final steps of faith moment, i mt'd, and after 3 wipes (new people, so i knew it might take a few runs) the other tank left, we get a new one, who said they were new, pops tanks stance and charges in, now i got like 4k more hp then this guy, and one of our healers being new, i immediately ask " uh, you may want me to mt", no response, 10 seconds later, they bit the dust and left after blaming healer. I know i prolly should've just provoked back, but i was hoping the quick death would make him realize he couldn't handle it, since the new healer was freaking out over the damage the party was taking. All he had to do was ask whos mting x.x

[Aosha]

Just had my first legitimate use of /facepalm - the DF never ceases to amaze/disappoint me.

Void Ark - DRG in our party with 18500 HP, until you realise that his left side was all i120 Ironworks gear, with the right side being i200+ VIT accessories.

The party refuses to kick. "It's an easy raid, just carry him." The guy taunts me for the rest of the run.

Woooow... My personal term for these kinds of people is "General critique on Darwinism".

[HyoMinPark]

So. Serious question here: final boss Echidna in VA.

When she splits, how do the adds usually go?

Whenever I run it, I notice that A tends to go north, B left, and C right.

----A----
B-------C

I've even had runs where people put the waymakers down this way. Anyways, last night, I'm running it because the game-hubby wanted to run it, and we're double healing it. We're Alliance A, and we were on point. Anyways, after the first add split, I notice Sinister is tethered to Echidna, but the tank drags him to the left. No big. We downed them, she does her flashy explosion, we start attacking her again, when B shouts about A needing to position their add correctly.

Now, I watched her split again, and Echidna was pointing north. I'm not sure if it was because our tank was running north, or if that's how she naturally splits, but I've never done VA differently? And we had zero issues. I understand other 24-mans do A-B-C, and it makes sense, but...

Anyways, clarification would be much appreciated. ^^

And sorry if this is kind of a derpy question. I'm like super tired, but...^^;;;

[Ametrine]

Just sounds to me someone from B was just mad they had to pull theirs away verses everyone just getting to go full tilt immediately after break, which just happens sometimes. It sounds like it was corrected fast.

The actual positions and who grabs who doesn't matter that much, just that they are separated and the DPS are on them all.

[bounddreamer]

Took my brand new Sophic Axe into trials, other tank had the Sophic Edge and I admired it. Was about to ask if they were going to MT but they dropped while two people watched the cutscene. Sighed, called for backup in FC chat, a dps dropped as well.

Long story short, that DRK missed out on a quick, easy poetics bonus. And I got to comm my FC machinist for joining us in progress.

[Lmcgyver]

-Snip-

Adds will split, with Echidna spawning where the boss was (facing the same direction), Sinister behind and to her left, and Dexter behind and to her right. Sinister and Dexter are tethered together, with a stacking vulnerability down based on how close they are (so tanks should pull them as far apart as possible). Echidna will fixate on the tank from alliance A, Sinister to B, and Dexter to C. This is not based on aggro; if there is a tank for that alliance, they will fixate on it (if the tank is dead or locked out, the add will then go based on aggro).
Because of wanting to keep the snakes as far from each other as possible, their waymarks (B+C) go on opposite sides of the arena, with Echidna (A) going north, between them.

[Shika]

Howling Eye - Extreme in DF (needed it to finish off the quest to get an eye meltingly bright kettle). Thought, well if Titan Ex in DF was cleared no problem, then surely this one will be ok...

Party setup was AST (me), SCH, PLD, WAR, SMN, SMN, BRD, DRG.
First pull, everyone stands behind the pillars instead of the middle (which I didn't understand- I mean I took a year long break so I thought maybe I was missing something that had changed in the strategy since being away) and a few ppl ran out to get hit by mistral shriek, but survived. Ok, no big deal. The fun really started when the adds spawned, as in the WAR didn't pull their one away, and they proceeded to annhilate the pillars and the party one by one. Of course someone's first recourse was to blame the healers. Used to that, so whatever
The PLD put down markers and told the OT to pull theirs south and we tried again... Rinse and repeat a few times, with the SCH standing right next to the PLD and getting hit with every AoE possible, leaving me to spam heal him, the MT and the OT and anyone else getting hit.

We eventually make it to the next stage somehow after a few retries and what is the first thing that happens? You guessed it - bye bye Spiney. The PLD proceeds to ask if anyone has any questions. Silence. We try again, and Spiney gets killed once more. The PLD asks if anyone is new and yet again silence. I have no issue with people being new and learning, but at least say something so things can be explained ?

Anyway, we are now down to 26mins remaining, and after getting a drink (I imagine alcoholic) the PLD politely tells the group NOT to kill the Spiney plume until Garuda leaves the middle and off we go again. Huzzah ! And then it turns out no-one knows where to run to afterwards, and for some unknown reason the SMN's are pingponging over the green whirlpools and I don't even... More wiping and Spiney being killed again.

The SCH was dead more than alive but somehow we eventually clear the run- I can't even remember how much time was left, but I think it was close to the countdown. To cap it all, the achievement message popped up for not 1, 2 or 3 people, but 5. In the words of the PLD "Holy s**t", to which I couldn't agree more - grats on the clear guys, but seriously next time please at least one of you pipe up lol. The MT was nothing but patient, offering little bits of advice (to people that supposedly had no questions on what to do) and doing an awesome job to help get the clear with none of the party admitting that they knew zero mechanics. Neither he, one of the BRDs or I, having done the fight before (and having still stuck around to the bitter end), would have judged you for it

But I got a shiney kettle, so yay I guess.

[lvlagmarink]

Mentor Roulette -> The Navel (Extreme) as DRK

I initiated a ready check before pulling and my PLD co-tank which was the-only-one not ready telling me that I was rushed?, dude asked me where would I position the adds, to which I answered "anywhere around the edges". Our first attempt, PLD fell off at heart phase, leaving me tanking titan and adds, one of the gaol died at East and the other at around south east to which the PLD complained that they were too spread out?, whatever i didn't bother to comment on that. A fail is a fail.

We wiped for like 3-4 times and this PLD kept falling off mostly at or before heart phase. At one point he tried to provoke titan's heart and died soon after that.. On our clear attempt, PLD tried to griefed us down there by saying "do me a favour and kick me ty, fk that fail".. After winning, the respawning PLD said "it's simple after upheavel theres landslide but i don't fk get in action rolf"..

Meh... Players these days..

[Acantha]

Howling Eye - Extreme in DF
You guessed it - bye bye Spiney.
But I got a shiney kettle, so yay I guess.

Gz on your kettle ^^ Garuda EX though... must be one of the most frustrating DF things ever. Anytime my bf wants to run it I cringe. I know we can do it, but it's who we get matched with... that poor Spiny dies early so much >.< and the only time i've seen the horse whistle, I rolled a 2. Fml D:

[Vidu]

Did a level 60 roulette with a friend yesterday, me on pld, he on smn. We get a scholar and a blm (both well geared; blm even with his relic) - juhu! Big pulls! AoEs left and right!

...but stuff is dying slooowly...? Whats up with that, I wonder! And then I notice what the blm is doing: casting Fire III until out of MP, transpose, casting a few blizzard III, casting Fire III until out of MP... me and the scholar are aksing for Fire II (and maybe even some of the new HW-stuff... please...?) But, nope, nothing - except for the bossfights where they can use Fire IV and enochian all out of sudden... I guess it was someones little sister playing or so, probably not able to read...