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

[UnstablePersonality]

That's Khorchi, only obtainable through Gold Saucer and horribly elusive ;-;

I guess RNG was on my side cause I legit just got her about an hour ago...for once it was on my side lol

[vp_cmc]

Page 666, oh my

[Genaxx]

Just had a Weeping run with 3 bards. Not one of them used foe.

Quoting myself because this happens every week.

[Kallistra]

Got to meet Selli in World of Darkness yesterday. Not a bad run, but it's always nerve-wracking to end up in a party/alliance with some of the forumers. Especially when it's through Mentor roulette and I get this nagging obligation to say/do something to help/nag the new people about mechanics/things everyone already knows.

She says hello. She also says that she feels bad that she had no idea there was a forum-goer in the party. She says that if you see her again, that she'll be happy to chat with you and give you her commendation and she apologizes for being quiet that run.

On topic, had a really interesting Expert last night. Had a BRD who was seemingly impatient, always gone before all the mobs had even died and they rarely were in range for Swiftcast + Stoneskin II. At the end of the run he left before the chest was even opened and he ended up missing out on the minion. I just found it very odd that he was so horribly impatient, even though it was a speed run and the whole thing took about 15 minutes. Oh well.

[whiteblade89]

Just here to post on the Devils page 0.o

The other day something funny happened in my 50 roulette. Got Qarn HM (oh joy) with a friend. Me (drk) my friend (mnk) and the other mnk died on the first boss because it started casting the sand pit attack at 3% health. Usually we just burn through this portion but dps was a tad slow because my MNK friend and the other dps weren't synced. Before I realized it, all 3 of our characters heads were going under the sand and then BOOM! all 3 dead before I could even react. Luckily the healer burned through the last 2% of its health and saved us from a wipe. We had a good laugh over it and the rest of the run went off without a hitch. I found it funny because I had never actually died to that mechanic before until that run lol

[Dzian]

Technically Raid finder not DF. but Queued Soph Ex. Duty complete > completion on scholar. 20 minutes later group dings, everyone dies real fast. tank notices lots of people with unusual hp.

Whm using a 142 cane, and 250 fending accessories, drk using caster accessories and a 190 relic. and a brd sporting a 160 bow with str accessories. all friends apparently.....

needless to say we didn't make a second attempt....

[Paladinleeds]

Alexander 12... Seems everyone needed a warm up run. I saw the enrage for the first time EVER from that raid. Now I feel like DFing some "Forward and back and then forward and back"

EDIT: So... not so much forward and back... but I decided to try my first ever mentor roulette. Was nervous as all heck when A5 popped up. I say this is my first ever mentor roulette so go easy on me (after having a moan about the game not honouring my PvE Mentor status and changing me to standard Mentor status... dafuq?), which everyone had a chuckle about. I was tanking (rather than my usual healing)... I lost aggro every which way too (GG DPS, too OP for this paladin). We get through Faust with a couple of deaths because I forgot how to hold aggro.

Then we get to the boss. So, instead of trying to explain everything, I say "Alright, for our first attempt, let's just blitzkrieg it to get a feel for the fight, if we wipe, we'll see what went wrong". So we did, and we wiped. So I started explaining mechanics and getting information across in a calm manner. Use the waypoints moving them around to highlight positions for certain mechanics. Quite a tough thing to do I've found, kudos to those who can do it easily! So, with knowledge in hand of the mechanics that caught people out, we try again. And we beat it, somewhat messily, but without any really major mess ups. 5 new people, brought through the instance due to my guidance and support. Then this happened...

With 2 more comms not shown. I was blushing like crazy. To the people in that instance, you did a damn good job and you should be proud of yourselves!

EDIT 2: Since I aren't trying to name and shame, but rather name and praise, do I still have to edit out the names? Or can I show off the names?

[Awful]

Technically Raid finder not DF. but Queued Soph Ex. Duty complete > completion on scholar. 20 minutes later group dings, everyone dies real fast. tank notices lots of people with unusual hp.

Whm using a 142 cane, and 250 fending accessories, drk using caster accessories and a 190 relic. and a brd sporting a 160 bow with str accessories. all friends apparently.....

needless to say we didn't make a second attempt....

I got in with them today! They died really fast and the DPS was very very slow I couldn't believe that people just que to hinder other people in a raid setting :/ we wiped on the first Aero III because everyone but me and the sch didn't dodge it sigh. We kept trying and trying despite their gear but we didn't even get past the Demiurges DPS wasn't high enough even with me going war and Fel Cleaving everything.

[Natashio]

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[Hrimfaxi]

Yesterday in Thordan extreme and the other healer keep DCing every few seconds.

It was very unsual as he would appear and disappear and appear very second.
I am guessing nobody speak english and for some reason they didnt want to remove the DC healer but i am fine with it.
Instead they decided to go ahead with one healer instead and warn us there will be no LB 3.
Nobody said a word and we started.
I gotta say that run was super fun and awesome! Had a few people died and was close to being wipe on meteor phase as the big meteor coming down on us but we manage to smash it to bits.
I signal the monk to LB 2 and we won!
I didnt get the round lanner whistle and i forget to commend the healer. He solo heal through out the whole fight.
To that awesome healer, sorry i forget to commend you but i told my FC how amazing you were and they are impressed!
Cheers!