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

[Knahli]

I got Titan(HM) as part of my Trial roulette and we wiped the first time just to excessive deaths and a newbie healer that was..... really, REALLY slow to heal people despite just standing there unchallenged by AoEs(she literally let someone die because they were sitting at low health for a while and eventually got pancaked by global damage).

Anyways, that I can mostly forgive even if it was strange for a level 50 character. What caught my attention was someone with level 60 classes that died both the first and second time to Landslide rather early on into the fight. I was leaning toward believing that they did it on purpose so that they would get carried for all of the 4-5 minutes that the fight takes, but I guess I'll never know!

[Amirya]

Last night, my sister was levelling her DRK with my MNK. We go into the Vault.

I know she's a bit squishy, being slightly undergeared, and still learning how to tank. But damned if she wasn't super squishy... after the Grinnaux wipe, I see our SCH is in Ishgardian Chaplain (Dusk Vigil) and Daystar mix... with PotD book.

I'm surprised we beat Charibert.

[Lunaxia]

Joined a Weeping City run in progress as MCH (at Ozma, as always) for Trails. The run went fairly smoothly, no wipes after the initial one I joined at. Now, while I'm not a bad MCH, my gear is incredibly outdated (mostly eso with a few Proto Midan pieces), so after my opener I dropped from 3rd and stayed at 6th on the aggro table for pretty much the whole raid. No Aiming drops (or minion) either... oh well. Bit of a blah run, until I get out and realise I had four comms.

????

A surprise, especially as an in prog DPS of my ilvl, but a nice one nonetheless!

[Rhyku]

Decided to take my BLM for a spin in levelling roulette, ended up in Vault. Which went pretty well actually, with 2 BLMs until we hit Charibert where the tank suddenly went still in mid-combat. Needless to say, we died a much horrible death. Respawn, we wait for tank to return and just as we were about to initiate a vote dismiss, he comes back and.......... " sorry, I was freaking out over The Walking Dead!"

TL: DR, somewhere out there, a healer is thinking she's just partied 3 weirdos and I made 2 new TWD friends, one of the rare wth moments that turn out hilariously well

[iSunglow]

So, I've been leveling my monk over the past week after deciding that bard isn't really for me; today I queued for level 50 roulette, and got Snow Cloak. The run was mostly uneventful, which I appreciated since that gave me time to focus on using my skills properly ( and consistently). What stood out to me, though, was that the tank would reposition the enemies for me so I could hit all my positionals. I never had to chase him, either. It really surprised me since I've gotten used to tanks moving carelessly. I never got the chance to ask / thank him about it, but he made Fenrir a breeze for me. All in all, it was my best run as monk to date. c:

Also, first post in the thread, despite reading posts daily ~

[dragonseth07]

I just had the most frustrating experience I've had in this game to date.

So, I queue up for Urth's Fount. I've not cleared it before, but I've watched numerous videos, and I'm ready to go. Get in, other Tank sets up to MT right away, everybody lines up. I thought everything looked good. Oh, was I wrong.

Out of the gate, it becomes readily apparent that one of the healers and two of the DPS have NO idea how this fight works, which is a bit odd to me, since they were all synced down. The rest of us are dodging AoE's no problem, but these 3 are eating ALL of them, and dying constantly. That poor healer who was competent had to keep rezzing the bad healer, over and over, just for him to die again.

Past 50%, when the swords start hitting two areas in sequence, that was when it got real hard for them. NOONE but me, the MT, and the competent healer at this point could dodge both sets of swords. It's like nobody else had any idea how ground AoE's work in this game.

Somehow, we did managed to get Odin to Shin Zantetsuken a few times, but we never had the DPS to finish him because half the group was dead every time we hit it. The very first time we got him there, we had a chance, but none of the melee's would LB. One of them was silent when asked, the other said his DPS was poor, so he wanted the other to use it... YOUR PERSONAL DPS DOES NOT AFFECT LB DAMAGE! OH MY GOD, THE BASIC MECHANICS OF THIS GAME ARE NOT HARD, AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THEM BY THE TIME YOU HIT MAX LEVEL.

We nearly timed out wiping, and finally vote abandoned, as there were too many lead bricks in the party to carry. I've carried some bad players in content on my leveling so far, but this... this was abysmal. There is no reason someone with clear on this fight, at level 60, should be so much worse than my level 56 first-time ass.

Edit: I forgot, another thing that made this WAY harder than it had to be: neither healer (even the competent one) had Swiftcast for their raise.

[Frowny]

have NO idea how this fight works, which is a bit odd to me, since they were all synced down.

I literally did it only for WT. So level 60 players skipping it isn't surprising. Eating aoes tho? Yea...

I had a bad Qarn run.... I'm on my SMN, other DPS and healer are new. Cool, not terribly hard we got this. Boy was I horribly wrong. I explained the only mechanic for the first boss (and wrongly assumed DPS know to KILL ADDS) and... tank died, healer died. Crap. Res the healer, top him off. In the end tank died again, Nin tanked the boss and I bailed. WHM had the Clreic gear (level 50) as well... I just.... what?

What got to me was I explained the platform mechanic and the healer said "roger"... yet first doom, he died... sigh.

[dragonseth07]

Addendum: Second Urth's Fount party also vote abandoned. Our DPS was so low that Odin used Shin Zantetsuken from TIME, not his health. One healer had a parser and was able to call out the underperforming DPS, and they had nothing to say for themselves. Just silence. Is this what high level content is like in this game? Unclearable because nobody knows how to play?

[cammi]

I only have one thing to say... and that is. Hands up, keep em keep em keep em in the sky! Throw your hands up, keep em keep em keep em in the sky, throw your hands UP!

[ZhaneX]

Addendum: Second Urth's Fount party also vote abandoned. Our DPS was so low that Odin used Shin Zantetsuken from TIME, not his health. One healer had a parser and was able to call out the underperforming DPS, and they had nothing to say for themselves. Just silence. Is this what high level content is like in this game? Unclearable because nobody knows how to play?

No...well, yes, but here's the thing.

Urth's Fount is FAR from "High level content" at this point. The only reason anyone does it any more is Wondrous Tails checks, and they'll just form parties, run it unsynced, and clear in a minute flat. No one who knows how to do it does it in DF any more.