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

[LelenaLena]

Decided to run some Mentor Roulettes to close out the night, on my WHM.
First up was Odin, with 4 sprouts (1 tank, 3 dps). The non-sprout dps, a SMN, literally stood still, and cast only his dots. I never saw a ruin, or any other off-cd skills from him. He also stood in the stone, and ended up dying 4 times during the run. However, he was the only one who died during the run, as the sprouts did an amazing job dodging and dpsing. We cleared the fight without wiping.

The other Mentor Roulette ended up in Tam-Tara Derp-croft. The tank was a completely new character, and only had lvl 15 gear equipped. Being BIS, I significantly out geared him, and ended up tanking 1-2 mobs each pull. I ended up tanking the final boss at the end as well, because I ended up with threat just a he went invincible, so it became impossible for the tank to take back the boss. I didn't mind.

After that I opened up my WT to check off the <50 dungeon sticker, and realized I hadn't picked up this week's book... and guess what? Odin was one of my trial stickers for this week too... -_-;

[Mixae]

OKay thanks guys, I want to stick with it I'll lvl PLD with PotD now then

[Chrysy]

so yesterday me and a friend went to run EXR, me on whm and her on BLM, we get in there and the rando tank was a PLD and the rando dps was a MNK, we were thinking solid comp, this'll be easy!
by the time we got to the first boss, my friend and i have noticed that aside from using the stance changing abilities (i've not played monk so i can't tell you what they are) he was only using auto attacks, and when i called him out on it, no response, so we keep going and by the time we reached the final boss (took about 40 minutes) we were beyond annoyed at this monk, so i stop right before the final boss room so the tank wouldn't pull, and vote kicked him.

the only good thing that came out of that was that the bard who replaced him aa mere 5 seconds after he was kicked had newbie bonus, we got bonus lore, he got the fastest sohm al hard he'll ever have \o/
but honestly, why would you queue up for anything and use nothing but auto attacks? do people really have that much boredom and free time that they purposely try and waste other peoples' time by being an ass hat like that? /salt

[Vidu]

Not so much DF but PF - Khloe wants me to clear T12 this week, so I figured joining a T11-13 bonus-party might be a good idea. I get my clear and a few second chance points to shuffle - perfect, right?

Except... it turns out that not only have most people not cleared this but also dont have the slightest idea about whats going on in T11. Expecting some sort of faceroll-party we jump into the fight, with three dps actually having less than 12k HP (aaah... memories of good old days...) and the 30k HP ninja constantly standing in the Baro-field - you guys remember, that nasty little thing Kalia casts under her that you have to avoid. The bard isnt singing Foes which would be their only contribtion to the fight, since they're level 55 and probably below the actual ilvl for the fight. Adds appear, I - as scholar - end up tanking one until it hits me for 30k, flies over to the other one and gets absorbed. We wipe - I quickly remind everyone about the stuff with the adds and ask the tanks to call one out. Neither of the tanks does - my bad, should have asked in french for the one guy and german for the other one!
Ninja still stands in the baro-field and we wipe again. Tanks finally discuss the adds and I remind them that they need to keep them moving. The DPS is spread out all over the place but remembers how to stack for the lightning stuff which constantly kills 4 of the dps (with their low HP-pool there is no way to heal through that... its just instant death). Ball absorbs egg because tank is to stupid to move it.
We get to the last phase and theters with the two tanks, the ninja and me alive. Tanks get thetered, but one of them chooses to stand behind Kalia (Cant blame him for perfering her butt over her faces, really) and the ninja (who still loves the baro-field!) runs away from me - probably because he likes moving and things of me like a little dog who will follow him no matter what.
We wipe because theters are a mess and since I'm really not in the mood to teach that fight to a bunch of people who dont seem to understand what I'm even saying, I call it a night for me - only to have the ninja blame me for wiping us on the last attemtept. Me. The ninja. Who happly collected the max-amount of vul-stacks by stepping into the freaking baro-field instead of, I dont know... not staying in it maybe?!

...not that that was what wiped us, mind you - that was a collective effort - but it really put the nail in the coffin for me.

[Wyntir]

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Can't speak for everyone, but I know I sometimes tunnel heal, especially when I have tanks allergic to cooldowns and dps who stand in the fire and forget about the cards since I'm so busy keeping the derplords alive. I'm personally still getting used to AST, but usually I'm pretty good about it, but I def need to keep a better eye on it in general.

Maybe the people you're encountering just don't use it when soloing so forget about it? Idk

[Raven_Darkstar]

I have a story similar to yours Raven..

Okay, so I queued into Dun Scaith by myself for the first time (usually queue with friends ), and thought, why don't I try healing it this time? (Spoiler: not a good idea.)

Snippy - Dun Scaith Horrors

Ouch <winces>. Sounds like your run was even worse than mine. /comforts. At least my run was pretty quiet; sometimes that can feel like you're running with bots, but other times you're grateful for it. I've also been lucky enough not to get paired with other ASTs. Only had it happen once, in an MSQ roulette on my alt. And I went out of my way to make sure to not be one of Those ASTs; picked the opposite sect, and waited for his card buffs to drop before throwing mine out there.

Now for some good stories. Got my other two weeklies out of the way last night, and got to experience actual co-healers. Void Ark especially was a smooth, very relaxing run. Now knowing that with WHM/Noct AST, Noct is MH, I had no confusion about which sect I should be in. VA being pretty easy now, my co-healer didn't actually need to do much. Just help out a bit during Cuchulain (sp?), and otherwise dps.

Weeping City on the other hand... well, not exactly smooth. We had someone in one of the other alliances (I was in C) that was pull happy. And nope, it wasn't a tank. It was B's AST . Just... why?! It made things very chaotic for the first half of the raid. What made this run a good one though, was my amazing WHM co-healer. Whenever I needed help with the healing, she was on it, throwing out her aoe heals and helping me scoop people off the floor. The couple of times I died, she raised me right away, and I did the same for her. Except when Megadeth got us both :/ Think we were both too busy healing and didn't notice the cast in time to get to a poison puddle. After that though, Ozma and Calo were both very smooth. Normally in these things, I comm the tank, but our tank was a bit of a derp and this WHM absolutely deserved it.

[SachiBear]

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You know, I thought the whole thing about bad players getting the drops wasn't true, but I was so wrong! lol

On everything you said about sects, I totally agree. I don't like the whole flopping sect thing (I would prefer to stay in the same sect the whole instance), but if they at least say something, I'm fine with changing. Not like what that person did to me, haha.

Luckily I've never had an AST that overwrote my card buffs with anything bad at least... But a spire over a balance in a party full of bards? ;-; I'm sorry.

[Crushnight]

Had a Belsar's wall run where it took all my patience to not leave. Went in as my main ast and the 1st few pulls felt little slow we had bonus so i wasn't so worried 1st 2 bosses went ok new person got hit constantly by 2nd boss's stop moving mechanic explained mid fight since takes age to type on ps4. But everything changed once got to last boss. IT was terribad, had to explain 2 times for the 1st bard and 5 more for 2nd bard (new person was tank not dps) to have both dps attack the restraint coller to free me or i'll die took 7 deaths but on the 8th attempt loe and behold thanks to an lb1 from the bard twice to free me we finished it. I can help with not knowing but i cannot help with le stupido (all good english speakers as talked throughout the run so not a language barrier thing).

[HyoMinPark]

Luckily I've never had an AST that overwrote my card buffs with anything bad at least... But a spire over a balance in a party full of bards? ;-; I'm sorry.

I was like: *looks at Balance buff fall off, replaced by Spire* *single tear*. If I'd been one of the DPS in there (or even the tank), I would have been pissed about someone taking away my Balance and replacing it with a Spire! Probably even more angry than I'd been as the AST that had USED the Balance!!


I decided to run Dun Scaith not too long ago. I didn't have much else that I wanted to do, but I did still need to get a drop so I queued in on my AST (already sitting in Noct). Co-healer was a WHM.

Everything was pretty okay up until Scathach. Some of the melee were getting hit during the large AOEs in Ferdiad, and then several people had gotten blown off during Deathgaze Hollow, but nothing too major that wasn't recoverable from.

So, Scathach. Our tank is MT because the tank that had been MT up until Proto Ultima started lagging out, and asked our tank if he could take over. No big. Tossing shields on him, Essential Dignity when I need to, popping in and out of Cleric Stance as needed. Just doing my thing.

She's down to 5%. Everyone had used their LBs, and the add spawns. Well, neither of the other tanks grabbed him, he tethered to Scathach, and then sad things. The majority of the raid was dead. At one point it was me, the MT (who I was shielding and healing between trying to raise my co-healer and at least the bard because I was running out of MP and Luminiferious Aether was on cooldown), and maybe two or three DPS. We get her down to 1%, but I'm completely dry and my co-healer died to the shadows mechanic because they moved and got the hand thingies/DoT on them. I can't raise them yet (I was trying to wait for Swiftcast, but at the same time my MP was just getting lower and lower), but I keep trying to shield the tank, praying as hard as I ever had for a Ewer (didn't draw one, of course...as the stars would have it!!!). Anyways, the hands appear, and I'm tethered to one. So I'm praying the tank doesn't die, and try to kill it. Of course, there's not enough people to down them both, and mine explodes, killing what few others had been raised in the process. The add spawns a third time, and it's all over then. I can't keep the tank up, so he goes down, followed by me, and then the last few DPS died to the add/Scathach.

1%!!!! We were so close!!!! I was like "I'm so sorry guys, we almost had it! T^T" But this is why we always want to pay attention, grab the add, and kill it, even if she only has 5% health left. Don't ignore the add!!! Don't try to burn her! It never works!! D: I am sad though. I really wish we'd been able to beat her!

Diabolos went well, and was uneventful for the most part.

But I actually enjoyed the run because the people in our alliances were pretty cool. They were cheering for those of us remaining on Scathach, and one of them was like "Yeah dude, give that kpop star your comm" while we were barely hanging on. I always think it's funny when people make a connection to Kpop and my character, even though the fact she has the same name as a Kpop singer is entirely coincidental. But the people we were grouped with just made me smile. Wish all my Dun Scaith alliances were that cool.

I walked away with 4 comms. I gave mine to the tank, and I sincerely hope that he received the other 3. He deserved them.

[Mysterysword]

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I'm not talking about instances where these ASTs have to heal constantly. I'm talking about runs where nobody was in danger of dying, people were handling mechanics well, and the tank only needed a heal every 10 seconds or so. Which is plenty of time to throw out some DPS, but no, these ASTs just... stand there, not even drawing cards.