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

[AnaviAnael]

Iirc, isn't ruin worse potency than stone?

Ruin has a potency of 80.
Stone has a potency of 140.

So, yes.

[Rhuazie]

NEVER running leveing with my buddy as a healer again. I went as a healer to get an insta-queue (yay) and he was a lv 58 blm.

It was Sohm al! FU--

"Oh well, a bit longer but it'll be a piece of cake."

War does a mega pull in the first plant room. Now, I'm used to this, so I was burning my cd's and barfing HoTs...but for some reason...he was extra squishy. Not to mention he had ZERO control over his pulls at all. Eventually his hp dropped faster than I could heal and we all died. That's when my friend said "LOL HIS GEAR" in fc chat and i held my breath.

He had his job gear on, ironworks, and hero rings. 30/10 wanted to cry.

But that's not even the funny part. I was about fed up with carrying bad tanks. Y'know, the ones who already have a lvl 60 tank, but still finds it appropriate to wear paper gear to HW dungeons. So, I made a plan to kick him so my buddy and I could drop and re-queue without the penalty. I was going to queue as my tank and he was still going to go as blm. cool.

The buttface, my friend, didnt even press "yes" to kick him. He said "it was so funny I hit no". It was the other, quiet dps.

[DarthVella]

Got a couple of stories from my first attempt at raiding.

My first time in A10, we get to the boss and I hash out with the other Scholar who'll take care of the MT so we don't overwrite Adlos and such. Now this being my first run, I have no clue what exactly had happened but somewhere between 80% and 60% we hit some bad mechanics. I and a few of the DPS fell, then I was rezzed, then my co-healer died and released before I had enough MP to return the favour. The rest of the fight I'm screaming internally trying to keep health bars and MP from hitting 0 while learning mechanics by trial and error. Thankfully the PLD took notice and threw out Clemency whenever he could. I jokingly blew up at the other SCH for throwing me into the fire my first time but we didn't wipe so no harm done.

A12 the first time; nothing special happened aside from wiping a lot (me mostly) but the group stuck together and offered advice and encouragement, which was pleasant enough to mention.

Running A9 for the second time; I got dumped into a run in progress missing a few DPS and the other healer. Okay, fair enough, clearly a few mistakes were made and DF quitters gonna quit. So our party fills up, the two WARs decide on an MT. Then the MT starts getting torn apart like a tissue, the OT neglects to activate the adds, and we wipe.
The tanks had a few 250/260s... in the accessories. The rest was a mixed bag of dungeon gear, AF3, even some Void Ark stuff, none of which I would mind about except their defense and vitality were shot to shit. So the next round consisted of the two healers basically focusing on the tanks at the expense of everything else. OT forgot to activate the adds again at one point, and Full Metal Faust *almost* didn't die in time... but we cleared. Then the tanks jumped ship before they could be told to get some freaking left-side gear.

[Paladinleeds]

I now have a huge disdain for Snowcloak. In a dungeon with a friend, level 50 roulette. We get Snowcloak, I thought "No problem". We're going about our stuff, then we get to the second boss. One of the BLMs (as in, the one that isn't my friend), is killing all the Spriggan Icecutters, which you need to convert to snowballs. And I don't mean AoEing them down, I mean single target spells. So as my mate speaks German and this person was German, they tell them in German to not kill the Icecutters. They don't stop. So then I tell them in English (bear in mind at this point I'm ready to smash my face into my keyboard in frustration). I don't think they stopped even after that. I didn't kick up a stink in the group about it, but man did I feel my patience tested there.

[Rhyku]

Sophia ex, where I was Queen Derpina.

We were running out of time on first and third demiurge, so I hit lightspeed and malefic II. 1st demi had kenoma up. My sad lala ass was sent flying over the edge before I realized it and couldn't stop the 2nd malefic in time. Round 2, I overadjusted at the edge for one of the tilts, and promptly walked OFF the arena, to the amusement of the party. Then later, as I'm running around in a panic, trying to res as many dead ppl as I can while keeping tank alive and squeezing out the last bits of my MP, I run to the wrong end. The remanants of the party follow me and it's an oh-sh-..... moment before we get dumped to our deaths. We cleared, thankfully on 4th try, I got congratulated on living up to the lolgoon reputation and got 4 pity comms >_>;

Moral of the story: Don't run SopEx when you're still in lala-land.

[Mysterysword]

A10, with a PLD MT and a newbie DRK. No big deal, the mechanics aren't complicated for a tank at all.

Except that people keep triggering traps. The PLD complains about this, and I point out that he has the boss' ass planted directly on one of the buttons. I'm a BLM so of course I don't need to go anywhere near him, but the other 3 DPS are a MNK, NIN, and DRG, so yeah. So he moved it, or at least attempted to.

At the DPS check, I find DPS to be abysmally slow for some odd reason. Usually that phase can show up in less than a minute, most runs I'm in, but in this one the DPS check only happened at around 80-90 seconds into the fight, timed by Ley Lines cooldown. And Steam Roller got to cast 3 times before the thing died.

But we didn't wipe... until the adds showed up. An unfortunate series of events happened, like someone activating a trap just as I get a bunch of big yellow arrows pointing at my head. Did you know Bomb Toss hits you for 45k if no one else stacks with you? Then the NIN died, and the goblin adds exploded, and it was not a pretty sight.

I'm not really even annoyed about any of this, but what I am annoyed about is the PLD who paid no attention at all to the jobs of the DPS and stuck to crappy positioning for his own convenience, then complained about people triggering traps.

[Averax]

Ruin has a potency of 80.
Stone has a potency of 140.

So, yes.

I'm guessing she was throwing her personal RP into the mix, and casting stone didn't fit that bill. Much like ice mages or thunder mages.

[whiteblade89]

how do you access floor 101+?

To access 101+ you have to start from 51 with a fixed group. Beat 51-100 without any wipes, and you'll be able to get to 101+ ONLY WITH THE FIXED GROUP YOU STARTED WITH. There is no matchmaking for those floors just yet.

[Fluestergras]

Eh, some pages ago, somebody in this thread presented a text command to remove status ailments, and I think Frowny uses it to remove Arrows from his DRG. I can't find the command anymore, what was it again?

[Rhyku]

Eh, some pages ago, somebody in this thread presented a text command to remove status ailments, and I think Frowny uses it to remove Arrows from his DRG. I can't find the command anymore, what was it again?

It's /statusoff [status] I think :x