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

[ZhaneX]

I just felt the need to share how hype I felt at my last successful run against Sophia EX.

It was a smooth run overall, only a couple of deaths that were quickly recovered from. But when it came to the Meteor Stack -> Flee -> Balance Pairs bit, the last part got a tad messy, leading to a bunch of bleeds, and shortly after she cast execute both Healers were dead. So it became a mad rush to finish her off at somewhere around 5-10% HP. Just the sense of urgency at having no healers for that last mad dash to the finish was a lot of fun.

[Zigabar]

I just felt the need to share how hype I felt at my last successful run against Sophia EX.

It was a smooth run overall, only a couple of deaths that were quickly recovered from. But when it came to the Meteor Stack -> Flee -> Balance Pairs bit, the last part got a tad messy, leading to a bunch of bleeds, and shortly after she cast execute both Healers were dead. So it became a mad rush to finish her off at somewhere around 5-10% HP. Just the sense of urgency at having no healers for that last mad dash to the finish was a lot of fun.

Clutch wins are the best.

[HyoMinPark]

Just the sense of urgency at having no healers for that last mad dash to the finish was a lot of fun.

My favorite runs are when you are at 1-2%, and you see the enrage about to hit, and you clear it just before the enrage goes off. Best feeling ever.

Did a few SophEx runs tonight myself (catching up after all the NA server issues the past few days). All were really smooth except for one where, for some reason, the tanks kept dying? Both literally got blown off during the first Aero III, and I ended up tanking it because BRD tank best tank. One tank was raised. Literally didn't provoke it off of me until after ate that 30,000+ tank buster...when they had plenty of time to take it back before. Got rez'd right at the add phase, and ended up missing the Eternal Doom debuff. Of course, I get targeted for the PLDs Infusion. >.> One of the healer also kept getting blown off. 4 wipes and we just vote abandoned.

Got bored and joined a clear party for someone. We did pretty well, but kept dying at the part where you need to bait the meteors before she does her Thunder II Execute. The OT was one of the newbies, and kept stacking in the wrong areas when she would do the Thunder III/Aero III Executes. After several pulls, we eventually got down to 4% I believe it was before enrage hit. Finally ran out of time, but we made good progress considering the OT and one of the healers was new.

This BLM though. Quick to say "DPS need to step up their game lol" and then bail. Yet, I watched them throughout the fight: didn't dodge a lot of mechanics (would literally not move during some of the Thunder IIIs, get vulnerability debuffs), saw them laying on the ground dead a couple times...I understand that DPS is important when you are trying to push phases and clear content that has an enrage. But...you can't DPS if you are dead. Don't forsake mechanics to try and push DPS. Mechanics first, then DPS. We would have cleared the 4% wipe, but too many people were still dead, no lb3 for heals, and I can only play as much Mage's as my MP allows.

I think, considering it was a clear party, and we only were at it for an hour, we made good progress. People were learning, and listening to the advice me and others were giving them. Hopefully the two that wanted their clears can get them soon!



Story #2 right fast: Did ST for my Tails last night with an FC mate. During Scylla's fight, she actually got to the point where she did her petrification attack. Now, I never got to experience any part of CT when it was the current 24-man, and I had never seen this before, so my FC mate got a kick out of me being like "WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!" It was one of the other alliance's that had screwed us over there--they weren't on their pad to deflect the attack--but nonetheless, it made for a super interesting experience! I really wish I had gotten into this game sooner so I could have experienced this content with it was the current end-game stuff!