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

[Averax]

I was doing Xelphatol yesterday trying to cap quickly, but the run was not quick...

The Tank and the Ninja appeared to be IRL married, and the Ninja was gone 90% of the time because "baby aggro", and when she was able to pop back in, she'd die to nearly all of the mechanics, but not before spamming those annoying macros that some ninjas use to emulate Naruto.

A simple run that should have taken 20 minutes ended up taking 45 minutes.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Did level 50 roulette as a BLM today.


Got Wanderer's Palace Hard.
New Healer.


The other DPS was a Black Mage as well...
They were using Flare in their single target rotation. >,<;


I did try to say that flare was useful on groups, but not on single targets.... But they didn't reply.

Between packs I looked up their search info and saw every single class was 60, then I figured it wasn't worth the hassle to try and correct their rotation.

[Fland]

Everything was going pretty well, we were both using our AoE cards for the raid. I set up an AoE arrow and the MNK in the party got pretty snippy about it.

Then when you toss out arrow, it actually makes them use abilities even faster than normal and they end up flooring tp very quickly. I stopped using arrow as much because of how fast it makes the melee and tanks run out of tp.

In short, Arrow on melee is a no-no period. Even with TP refreshers we can hit a point of draining again.

Yeah, I've talked to monks about it in instances about their comfort with Arrow, and they shred TP apart on good days, so it's more harm than good extended fights.

aoe arrow is fine if there are 2 or more casters and the healers are dps-ing... even brd/mch can benefit from arrow...
the melees and/or tanks can just click the buff off, it's not a big deal....

[JMadFour]

I queue for Neverreap, and it is my first time running it.

I say to the group, as I always do, when I am new at something, "This is my first time in here, please take a second to explain the mechanics if you don't mind."

one of the guys in the group decides he needs to be on super savage raider status and says "you should have looked everything up online before queing as a tank, all I heard was "please carry me". "

my response to this was "well, you do have a point." and I promptly left the dungeon. ate some food during 30 minute lockout and glanced over the boss mechanics. i wondered for about 5 seconds how long it took them to find another tank. then i moved on and joined another queue group, told them the same thing(that it was my first time in doing the dungeon), everyone was cool with it, and I tanked the dungeon with no major issues.

now I know that I need to be an expert on every single fight in the game before queuing for a random DF dungeon.

[Dragon_Sanders]

Did level 50 roulette as a BLM today.


Got Wanderer's Palace Hard.
New Healer.


The other DPS was a Black Mage as well...
They were using Flare in their single target rotation. >,<;


I did try to say that flare was useful on groups, but not on single targets.... But they didn't reply.

Between packs I looked up their search info and saw every single class was 60, then I figured it wasn't worth the hassle to try and correct their rotation.

I really dislike the long cast of flare, thus when somebody told me it's not worthy on single target, I adjusted at once. As for group mobs, choosing the one with most HP left to cast my flare is quite a...er, neurotic thing.

[Sigmar_Heldenhammer]

Arum Vale with a Ninja who never moved out of any mechanic (died almost immediately every boss fight), and a BLM who was out of MP 99% of the time.

[Kanitezz]

[QUOTE=JMadFour;3899864]I queue for Neverreap, and it is my first time running it.

I say to the group, as I always do, when I am new at something, "This is my first time in here, please take a second to explain the mechanics if you don't mind."

one of the guys in the group decides he needs to be on super savage raider status and says "you should have looked everything up online before queing as a tank, all I heard was "please carry me". "


No ones obligated to research a goddamn instance before they go in for the first time. If your party mates want to be little shits about you asking for mechanic explanations.........! I dont know im sorry... the morons should just realize that they are most likely making their run even longer than it would be had they explained stuff to you. Ya know... cause a wipes and other stuff.

[HyoMinPark]

Incredibly frustrated right now.


Doing some Sophia Ex because I would like to get some of the weapons, and of course the bird. Do a clear party in PF (on DRK): clear in one shot. Do another in raid finder, and end up with 3 new people. Wiped a couple times, but still cleared. Co-tank was new, and kept Shield Oath up the entire time so there were times when we were fighting for aggro, plus they tried provoking it off of me several times before the tank buster, resulting in them eating 2 in a row and dying. But it's whatever, we still clear.

Third run in raid finder: had to vote abandon. Idk, maybe I was experiencing latency, but every time I would get hit with a tank buster, I would pop my cooldowns, and still get one-shot. I had to have been lagging because I watched my Living Dead animation go off (since I had no more cooldowns), and the tank buster still killed me. Anyways, the SCH in the party started accusing me of not using my cooldowns when I was. Sorry if I'm having unexpected latency. :/ But I literally watched my cooldowns go off. And it's not my gear....my ilvl is 236, and my first clear I was 232 and didn't die once to a single tankbuster.

Just ugh...so frustrated.

[Rita1989]

You know you can select duty complete in raid finder and you won't get new people

[HyoMinPark]

You know you can select duty complete in raid finder and you won't get new people

That wasn't the issue at all. A lot of the new people were actually doing very well, and I usually don't mind the bonus runs. And when I told the new tank to watch their oaths after one wipe, they actually listened. The issue was the unexpected latency on my end, causing me frustration, and one of the healers in one run (who wasn't new because that run had no bonus) accusing me of not using cooldowns when I was smashing them each time, and then attacking me and my so-called poor gear when my gear wasn't any better than the other tank's.