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

[SpiritMuse]

Wow, congratulations Selli! That's awesome.

On my own quest for the mentor mount (I'm currently at 65/2000 ;_; ) I loaded in progress at a nearly empty Nidhogg. Just me (BLM) and a dragoon. There had been one wipe, and he was the only one who hadn't left. Within a few minutes, the party filled up, and the fight was on. In the first flyover attack, both healers died - one because she tried to dodge the fire going to the very edge of the arena, which of course doesn't work even though it seems like there's space. We all had a laugh as we wiped, and then killed the dragon in one.

Another time I loaded into Nidhogg in progress during the add phase. Proceeded to boom them down and then won in one.

And one 1 minute in progress at Sophia, at her add phase, and another oneshot.

Always fun to get in at 1 minute runs, replacing an instaleaver and then oneshotting the boss and being out of there long before their penalty timer would have run out.

[Powe]

So, it's about 9:30pm today and I'm doing some work and Selli's ingame doing dungeons and all of a sudden I hear her start hysterically sobbing. I was really worried and rushed over (honestly I kind of thought someone was breaking into the house), and she's sitting there at the end of Ultima in absolute hysterics. And. Well. I'm just gonna post the screenshots she took.

For clarification, she was crying tears of joy. :^)
I'm not allowed to drive twoseater mounts anymore. Thank goodness we don't take damage from bumping into things.

I guess you guys won't be finding your Waldo for a while.

My god, those last 40 mentor roulettes must of tooked a lot out of her yesterday lol

[vanitaslaughing]

I'm a mediocre scholar.
I realise yesterday I still have the weekly quest for when I eventually get my second Anima up to the cluster phase (I'm at 26/50, and about 139/240 I think?)... with one levelling roulette needed for it to be done. So hell, I flip on scholar for a laugh, it's just levelling roulette, I'll either pull the Vault which I can handle despite mediocrity, or someone so low-level Eos can handle it.
Load into Cutter's Cry. Well, at least it's not Dzemael or Aurum Vale...? Tank's a sprout, ninja's a sprout, Grandmaster of Magic dragoon. I'm the only one level synched and they're all level 39, so the sprouts are probably trying to catch up to MSQ level, and the Grandmaster just levelling for fun, I've been in both situations myself.
First pull... Well, aggro's going just about everywhere, especially poor little Eos (how she never died that run remains a mystery, but I have the suspicion that I peeled aggro off her or one of the DPS plucked it off her).
Now, I'm mediocre but I know a scholar's supposed to be in cleric 90% of the time, too bad I don't have Rouse yet.

I couldn't. People were too slow to leave the Self-Destruct aoes which got nothing more than a heavy sigh from me at that point. I do what every healer does during the first boss - I put up Eos' HoT and haul butt over to kite adds... oh god why is the group following me. I tell them mid-haul (I play on controller, I can type while vaguely running into one direction) "it's okay, focus on the boss". Have to swiftcast Physick the tank before it goes down, but all's well that ends well.
The next haul... I'm known for nearly recklessly dpsing in most cases, ESPECIALLY as astrologian but... yeah, I basically couldn't. There was so much damage going out on everyone I had to assist Eos with a few adlos and physicks.
Sandworm boss passes without too much interesting happening, except it takes just a tick longer than normally.

By that point a certain kind of dread is settling in my stomach. I've healed plenty of Cutter's Cries with trainwreck parties, which in itself eventually gave me the emergency healing skill that I can save a near doomed party in Sohm Al even though The Last Song goes off... but the Chimera....
I have to point out here, no one's new to duty. We stumble through mobs with aggro on everything and everyone, at that point I have a certain rhythm going on and 0 dps because I can't afford that in a levelling dungeon in such a situation. I didn't even dare Whispering Wind on anything other than bosses and the occasional messy mob pull mostly because I kinda need Eos alive and healbotting to keep this mess running.

And then... the Chimera.
Mostly uneventful, other than a certain inability to dodge Ram's Voice, at some point the dragoon got hit by it for the... 3rd, 4th time? and just instantly died. That about amounts to the events in this fight. After the fact and after the loot I tab out to check Twitter if anyone said anything about waiting for me for Void Ark (no, nothing, but they were waiting), and I tab back in...

The tank called me "best healer" in say. I got three commendations (I had given mine to the dragoon for usually plucking mobs off me when they saw them, or even off Eos). Bweh...

[Mysterysword]

I'm a mediocre scholar.

...

The tank called me "best healer" in say. I got three commendations (I had given mine to the dragoon for usually plucking mobs off me when they saw them, or even off Eos). Bweh...

On the best of days, I can generously be described as "short of patience". When I'm healing, that patience shrivels up like a prune in the sun.

Which brings me to incidents in which I landed with a DPS who managed to get themselves killed by running straight into an exploding ball, while dodging an AoE. I ressed them, they got back up, and not 30 seconds later, they died to the exact same exploding ball, dodging the exact same AoE.

I then promptly refused to ress them for the rest of the fight. None of the other party members missed much, because this was one of those DPS who, at level 60, didn't have a job skill beyond 50, and couldn't even get more aggro than Eos.

A similar incident happened with another DPS, who was new to the dungeon in question. They died to the final boss, which is reasonable, being new. What I couldn't find reasonable was when, after being ressed and healed, they proceeded to stand inside a DoT-AoE for several seconds, having plenty of time to step out of it, but instead chose to die again. Again, I refused to waste any more MP on ressing.

But it all culminated in a run in which the tank severely annoyed me by doing huge pulls when we only had 2 DRGs, refusing to stop for proper mechanics explanations for the newbie DRG, or giving troll advice like "don't die", and basically insulting me and the other, mentor DRG for, you know, wanting to tell a newbie about mechanics.

So, again, I snapped, let said tank die, and healed the mentor DRG instead as they tanked the rest of the boss.

And things like these are why I'm not a mentor; I'm too petty and vindictive to be one.

[Killerkub]

I guess you guys won't be finding your Waldo for a while.

Because I don't have photoshop, enjoy this horribly done picture in Paint.
I regret nothing.

[Killerkub]

The other day I did Weeping City as my Black Mage and I received a nice surprise at the end. Especially considering I was prepartied with one of the tanks.



It doesn't always happen where DF groups you with super nice and fun people that aren't just all together. I think it was my puns that won them over. lol

[Averax]

I've had runs where the WHM spammed Cure so much, I got a headache from the sound effect. :s Though I know the Medica II sound effect could do the same thing.

Ironically, that's why i don't use physick as a scholar. I cross classed cure because i can't stand the sound of physick

[VanilleFang]

Why can I Like this only once?

[Ninster]

Got Stone Vigil for leveling roulette yesterday. Not-paying-attention white mage was not paying attention. I'm fairly certain at lvl 58 they weren't the one new to the duty. But when Chudo-Yudo charged up Swinge twice in a row, aimed almost exclusively at them, and they eat both without moving... I facepalmed.

[Cenerae]

Just got out of a Vault with perhaps the worst BRD player I've ever seen. Not only were they not using Minuet at all, there was not a single DoT effect to be found. They used nothing but Heavy Shot, Flaming Arrow and Wide Volley the entire run.

It took 40 minutes to finish, and that was without wiping. 40 minutes of watching this guy jump his high pitched squeaky catgirl all over the place nonstop playing like he's still a level 1 ARC. *sigh*

I guess it's a good thing I was the co-dps in that run (and that I'm at least a mediocre DRG), or we could have gone towards making it an hour long dungeon. :P