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

[Dzian]

A11n on scholar

First run of the day. Kill the trash jump to boss room tanks pulls straight away locks my healer buddy out of the fight. Solo heal the whole thing no problems mechanics being done phases skipped etc. No luck on drops.

Re queue. One of the tanks is the same one we just had apologises and this time waits for everyone to enter arena. Fight starts everyone dies and gets smacked by every thing they can possibly take. Wipe.

Dps blame us healers. Tank says I just solo healed it a few minutes a go in another group.

Attempt 2. Repeat attempt 1. Dps dying all over the place struggling with mp from all the raises. No skips. All the Dps get confused. Wipe again.

Dps once again rip the healers and blame them. Vote abandon.

Queue yet again. One of the same Dps. Say to my healer buddy if he dies he can stay dead. He dies pretty quick decided to stand in 3 circles. Moans about raise we leave him but smn gets him up. Dies again minute or so later. Starts saying we both suck. Smn raises again. He gets pray so we both /goodbye him and lol. He dies leave him dead. And win the fight a couple of minutes later in 1 attempt.

My healer buddy then comments and says now you know why last party failed and it wasn't cos of us.... because this party basically 7 manned it with ease.

Said Dps then decided to make us wait for loot rolls only to moan when my buddy beat him on the spring

[Mhaeric]

At final boss, after bitching at healer for not healing him (dude seriously, why didn't you eat the damn fruit??), his attention turned to me for failing to aoe enough and "why didn't you use Flare. Fail blm, fail mentor, fail this fail that" on and on, even after I told him AV is max level synced to 49 and Flare is a lvl 50 skill. Also, why on earth would I use F2 on a singular target, unless I missed some memo that F2 is the new F1?

Not discounting the rest of your post, which sucks and I can totally see happening, especially in that dungeon...

There IS a reason to use Fire 2 during the final boss fight of Aurum Vale. Whenever the morbol runs over to a new spot and spawns a bunch of seed pods, casting Fire 2 on the morbol right as the pods spawn (and possibly a second or third time depending on your stats or if no one else is using/has AoE) is the best strategy to prevent the pods from hatching into seedlings which can easily murder the tank with sheer numbers. This mechanic happens a total of 2 times during the fight, so at most you would need to cast it 4 times. Ideally you'd only need to do it once each time for a total of twice, but that doesn't always happen and is certainly something I don't expect. Obviously you wouldn't use it when it's just the big morbol by himself.

I always bemoan the lack of Flare in that dungeon. It would be sooooo helpful throughout even on pulls of 3 mobs.

[Fluffernuff]

There IS a reason to use Fire 2 during the final boss fight of Aurum Vale. Whenever the morbol runs over to a new spot and spawns a bunch of seed pods, casting Fire 2 on the morbol right as the pods spawn (and possibly a second or third time depending on your stats or if no one else is using/has AoE) is the best strategy to prevent the pods from hatching into seedlings which can easily murder the tank with sheer numbers. This mechanic happens a total of 2 times during the fight, so at most you would need to cast it 4 times. Ideally you'd only need to do it once each time for a total of twice, but that doesn't always happen and is certainly something I don't expect. Obviously you wouldn't use it when it's just the big morbol by himself.

Actually, it's not "sheer numbers" as those baby morbols are extremely squishy. The problem with letting them hatch is that EVERY AUTO THEY DO is another stack of barbs. if 2 hatch on the tank with 2 stacks waiting for a fruit? he's at 4 now and getting interrupted.

it's kind of a "soft" enrage if you don't burn them down. I tell every blm to fire2 until they cant anymore when they use "sow". it's just not a mechanic you can really ignore, and so many people think they can

[Mhaeric]

Well, I am grinding for my weekly drop from Alex normal about two days ago, and I landed in A9N:
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As a heads up, your blackout of the names in your images is very poor and they can still easily be made out. Just thought I'd let you know before the post nets you a tos warning or something.

[Virgal]

So i was in a Duty "obviously", and something very sad and disturbing happens.... a very close friend of mine "DIED!!!"......

I think this video will help explain the story a little bit better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmSI9hy09JU

[SeriousxSarcasm]

So I queue in for leveling roulette, it plops me down in Haukke Manor with BRD/WHM sprouts (WHM's second time), and a DRK who mains PLD, just logged in after a 2 year break. Never tanked with DRK before, looks like she raided our BRD's wardrobe for spare DEX gear... I think you can imagine how this run went.

First few pulls go terrible. I can't even use a miasma without pulling things off her. I spend most of my time explaining what little I know about DRK skills in between rooms (I have played DRK for a grand total of 4 very casual Fate-grinding hours - around 3 months ago). BRD is doing awesome (usually kiting mobs/bosses around the room while me and WHM pick them off at a distance), WHM is on point, despite not knowing the run very well, she kept us up even when we were all taking damage from mobs.

Anyway, we're coming up to the last Boss, it feels like forever, but DRK has been slowly improving as we go. Something suddenly occurs to me, "I usually main PLD." See, I saw she had a DRK buff on her at the start of the dungeon, I just sorta assumed it was Grit, because why the hell wouldn't you use your tank stance? Her gear was so terrible, I thought that was the problem. When I hovered over it, yeah nope, it was Darkside.

She put it on when I explained, but I just felt like such a dummy for not thinking of it sooner. I probably wouldn't have thought to check at all, but trying to remember all those DRK skills throughout jolted me into thinking, "Wait... DRK has a tank stance... you get that tank stance earlier than a PLD would... what was that shit called again....? Is it 30? I think I remember using it on the first job quest..."

So she had it up for the last boss. You have no idea how aggravating it was when we had almost no aggro problems. :/ (I say almost, because healer snagged a couple adds during that faze and ran away with them instead of taking them to the tank haha).

Fight finished.

"You have 5 minutes to complete the Haukke Manor"

. . . OnO

Everyone celebrated (our sprouts were amazing. Nervous as hell, but they did awesome. They're really the reason I chose to tough it out), and I spent 4 of those 5 minutes trying to explain everything else I could remember about DRK before she went off on her merry way to give the next unsuspecting party a run like that.

[Louvain]

Not DF, but it might as well be; I've been joining Niddhogg EX "clear" parties with the intent to help people, but twice now I've found that the people who have set them up have 0 idea what they are doing and have not even watched a guide. We couldn't even make it past fang and claw. I don't mind explaining mechanics and helping progression, but I wish people would label their pf's more honestly.

[Mysterysword]

Qarn HM as BLM. DRK, WHM, and MNK.

DRK keeps doing single-group pulls, which I said nothing about. At this point, I don't really care anymore when a tank insists on doing tiny little pulls even with plenty of AoE firepower and even when DRK does better in large pulls anyway. Of course I don't like it, but I don't even care enough anymore to say anything.

No, the trouble starts when I, doing my usual Fire II and Flare AoE rotation, end up pulling aggro off the DRK. I never once used Raging Strikes in that run until the last boss, BTW.

DRK starts complaining about this. I point out that a well-played SMN (if that actually exists in DF, anyway) would be even worse than me in terms of AoE aggro. DRK claims that a well-played SMN, or any DPS, should know how to hold their fire.

I would probably be much more sympathetic towards this DRK's issues if they weren't level 60, completely overgeared for this dungeon, was actually doing their best to hold aggro instead of pushing out a couple of Unleashes per pull and doing nothing else, and maybe had GLA actually unlocked and MRD at a higher level than 15. Oh yeah, and if I hadn't tanked that very same dungeon, with that very same job, with equally good BLMs, all with no aggro issues whatsoever, in the past. Maybe I could've used Quelling Strikes or something, even though Quelling Strikes has a cooldown of 2 minutes and lasts only 15 seconds. Who knows?

But none of those things were true, and so I cannot care less about this DRK's complaining if you pay me to do so. Especially when I end up tanking the last boss after the DRK gets themself mummified.

[vp_cmc]

Ramuh Ex unsynced for WT, I am on MCH. I don't do this kind of stuff regularly, so I didn't have a solid understanding how exactly I should do my dps there.

Someone told to stop dps at 65%. Ok, I can read. We started, I was doing an ordinary mch opener, that has wildfire in it. Boss got to 65% at about 15 seconds, adds appear. I stopped dpsing boss, targeted one of adds. Then I hear wildfire explosion, adds disappear, we wipe.

P.S. It was ok 2-nd try.

[Cherub]

So I was doing weeping city with a few people from my static. Aside from every other alliance dying on forgall and my party killing him with ease and a little wipe on Ozma there wasn't much to it. It was actually fun.
However something spooky scary skeleton happened.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=76DJ3dMyZYo

This made me laugh so hard.
A guy standing on the edge of boss room and just .....dying. Didn't get hit by aoe, doesnt have a dot from previous boss. IS AT FULL HP. Just dies.