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

[Galaktica]

I find it simply fascinating that someone could make it all the way to Baelsar's Wall and still have absolutely no idea how to play their class at the most basic level.

Okay, so I queue in and right away I notice the dps seems incredibly slow. Tank can barely hold aggro, but whatever, that's the least of my concerns at that point. I don't have a parser, but MNK was just above ilvl and seemed to putting out good numbers as everything they targeted seemed to go down in a reasonable amount of time. So, I swing my attention over to the BLM...and dear sweet baby Jesus.

Fire 3 > Fire 3 > Fire 3 > Thunder 3 > Ley Lines> Enochain > Fire 3....wait...wait...wait...Blizzard 3 > Blizzard 3 > Thunder 3 > Flare. Didn't matter if it was a boss or a group of trash. That was pretty much her rotation throughout the whole thing. No

I wasn't even mad, just...baffled. It's one thing to not know how to properly use Enochain, but it's something else not being able to grasp your basic spells after clearing all the content up until now. Even if she just got carried thru PotD or something and that's how she got to 60, I feel like a simple browse of the tooltips would make it abundantly clear how those spells are meant to be used,

I dunno, it was super weird. I felt like I should have said something and ended this horrible cycle right then and there, but I honestly didn't even know where to begin. It's just one of those things where you pray that one day they catch on or someone with more patience than yourself comes around and offers to help.

[Meillquei]

Tonight was just a night of headache inducing runs for me.

Did leveling roulette and got Dzemael Darkhold. Run was going fine. But about halfway through the run the healer said he was having storms and his house was flooding. Ok then. I told him to stay safe. I tried to be patient but he didn't leave group so we had to kick him. Hope he's OK.

After that was over I decided to do Bis EX for WT. Found an unsynced party finder group. The bird dropped but I didn't get it.

So then I did 50 roulette. Got Amdapor Keep Hard. The healer was an AST who spammed Yu-Gi-Oh quotes every time he used his cards. Tank kept pulling very large groups of adds and kept dying. He kept pulling large groups and kept dying over and over again. First and second boss weren't the smoothest kills ever, but we one shot them. When we got to that demon wall part, Crash Down actually went off and everyone except the tank died. On the last boss, I managed to die because the Suppuration add wasn't killed fast enough and I got hit by the AOE he does. I was rezed and used LB to finish off the boss. I was so tempted to just not give anyone a commendation because I was so frustrated, but I gave it to the healer. And no, there was no first timer bonus.

[SilverObi]

Finally started on the last portion of Alexander (I know right how last patch is that?) and I just have to gush at how fun those fights are!! Had to spoil the mechanics for myself with a couple guides because I didn't feel like derping around too much figuring things out. Still have one more fight to go but then maintenance happened but now I got a super finale to look forward to once the servers are back up!

Cruise Chaser was such a blast even though I died a couple times ^^; I think a lack of sleep had me misjudging the actual range on some of the AoEs but we got through it! Major thanks to all those awesome DF people who were along for the ride!

[Texa]

DUN SCAITH CLEARS BE LIKE-

[CatStarPrime]

DUN SCAITH CLEARS BE LIKE-

HOLY MENPHINA.

Everyone but you is ACTUALLY WATCHING THE CUTSCENE.

:::faints:::

And the DRAGOON is the only one still alive?

:::faints again:::

[Erim-Nelhah]

DUN SCAITH CLEARS BE LIKE-

Looks about right...bunch of dead players watching the cutscene because it's their first time in there.

Our blind FC run looked about like that at the end, too.

--Erim Nelhah

[Texa]

HOLY MENPHINA.

Everyone but you is ACTUALLY WATCHING THE CUTSCENE.

:::faints:::

That was my second time in there.

I've been queuing parties in progress and explaining mechanics to groups that have been struggling. Something I've found that helps a lot is putting markers down at opposite ends of the arena on the last boss to help people split and keep away from the alliance for prey and earthshakers.

[Pells]

DUN SCAITH CLEARS BE LIKE-

This looks familiar.

[Kanitezz]

Dzamael Darkhold. Me as WHM. We had a WAR who was new to the place so was goin kinda slow, ok with me. Right after the cliff part with the nixs. We beat the mobs directly AFTER that.The MCH we had died to the two crystal explosion aoes because he kept trying to race the tank to packs because he didnt like how slow we were goin. I made him lay there for a while and I admit, it felt good. I guess i was mean there. But i dont like it when non-tanks try to lead charges like that, it annoys me.

[bounddreamer]

Dun Scaith last night. 45 min to get in. Two people dropped after 30 min bc it took so long. Dropped another person from Cross server party.

Really good run except for the SEVEN PIECES OF MONK GEAR

square pls