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

[Galaktica]

I think I've done about 3-4 duties this week as SCH and ended up with ASTs using Noct who refuse to switch sects,

That's why ASTs have two sects, to avoid this situation. The worst part is when the boss is about to do raid-wide damage, you get a massive crit Adlo, deploy it to the whole party, and the AST decides "HEY, NOW'S A GREAT TIME TO AOE SHIELD!" Literally the worst feeling and you just sit there like:

[Fluestergras]

Reminds of the Chrysalis run I had on my alt a week ago... As a WHM main, it made me die a little on the inside.

Dat poor machinist who got no Regen

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Reminds of the Chrysalis run I had on my alt a week ago... As a WHM main, it made me die a little on the inside.

At least everyone is high on hp?

^_^;

[Gemina]

To be fair, normal mode AK is balanced to be done in ilvl 50-60 gear.
Nowadays even just doing your jobquests you get gear that puts you way beyond the requirements for said dungeon,
so large pulls are the norm since it is really hard to die there, even with the ilvl sync set to "only" 110.
Personally, I find AK fun exactly because of the giant pulls that are possible there
(later dungeons usually have lots and lots of walls that stop progress until every tiny group of monsters got beaten by themselves because SE hates speedruns)
But I can see how that would be overwhelming for a healer who is new to the dungeon.
Don't be frustrated, try to think of how enjoyable it is to actually be forced to focus on healing for once and do everything in your power to keep the group alive ^-^

Believe me, I really enjoy having my limits put to the test and having to go into healer-berserk mode to prevent a wipe. I often tell tanks to pull large, especially in instances I am familiar with. I was just frustrated at the lack of communication, especially when I am trying to communicate. But I walked away from this PUG happy with my ability to adapt to my group. I can't imagine pulls getting any larger than those one haha!

[Lunaxia]

snoop

If only. I like going into 50 dungeons on my casters to AOE nuke All The Things™ on the big pulls... unfortunately, these past few weeks I keep getting new tanks who pull one or two, maybe three, monsters at a time.

Literally the whole dungeon I'm like

[Mysterysword]

I honestly cannot decide what's worse, an ice mage or a Fire III mage. I'm just going to tentatively say Fire III mage, because when I encountered one in Brayflox yesterday, I honestly felt like my soul was dying again.

EDIT: Also, in Wiping Shitty when you have 3 BRDs, and more caster DPS than you can swing a dead cat at, and there is no Foe Requiem. And when the BRD tries to claim they've been using it this whole time when their MP has not moved one iota except for when they died. Repeatedly. Maybe I should be concerned that I no longer expect or even care if a BRD sings Foe Requiem or not. DRKs won't use Darkside, the sky is blue, NINs think Huton and poisons are a myth, roses are red, and BRDs will never ever sing Foe Requiem no matter how much it would help.

[Ametrine]

I think I've done about 3-4 duties this week as SCH and ended up with ASTs using Noct who refuse to switch sects,

That's why ASTs have two sects, to avoid this situation. The worst part is when the boss is about to do raid-wide damage, you get a massive crit Adlo, deploy it to the whole party, and the AST decides "HEY, NOW'S A GREAT TIME TO AOE SHIELD!" Literally the worst feeling and you just sit there like:

I honestly think there is a huge set of fresh Noct using ASTs (you know, the kind that avoided the sect like the plague before it was buffed) that have no idea that you can't stack sheilds like you can regens.

[Khemorex]

eyes of the creator ^^ going in as sch , both tanks almost dieing , adds die slow , some people stand with MT and get hit , everyone has a dot >.> i burn through all my stuff to keep both tanks and group alive :P verly lucky for me that i had a very supportive whm in teh group wich casts cure 2 like every 20 sec :P /clap

[bardaboo]

Yay!! Two full pages without the "tank raise" argument!

[Killerkub]

I've finally decided to give a healer role another chance so I've elected to go the route of PotD for AST. Become more comfortable with it before I go into actual dungeons. So I que into floor 21 or 31 and end up with a machinist and two other healers, both white mages. I don't know how it is for everyone else but to have three healers, aside from myself being one, has never happened to me before and everyone shared their amusement of it when we saw the party set-up. lol. Then comes floor 22 (or 32) and we've already cleared up the map but for some reason the Machinist's hp is going down fast, so I went to him as quickly as possible. Turns out a Mimic is biting his butt pretty hard and ends up killing him. Thankfully one of the other white mages is behind me so I take this opportunity to raise him aaand then that white mage dies, the machinist dies too fast where my healing doesn't matter, then kills me, and finally the other white mage. It all happened so fast that I still can't stop giggling at it.

Lesson learned: Mimics are most definitely evil. xD