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

[bounddreamer]

Examining gear in... Halatali? Normal? Next step what will be?
Kick out whoever haven't i15 in Sastasha?

LalaRu, did I say we kicked him? No, because we didn't. It was Halatali Normal. We tried to talk to him about his gear but he either didn't get what we were saying, or there was a communication barrier because he was on controller and not keyboard.

I always examine my party mates. I'm not sure why this is surprising. When I tank 24 mans, I look across other alliances and examine the other tanks. When I heal in 24 mans, I examine my co healer first.

What we were concerned about was a level 50 dragoon wearing crafting and gathering gear instead of his i90 relic armor. Which implied he hadn't even done his class quests.

[Endeleon]

So I am 100% not removing myself from blame here, because I did duty finder and got put into Steps of Faith without reading a guide. But wow.

I was kind of freaking out the whole time so I don't know who was really at fault the most, but only one other person was new, the rest were vets. But there was one poor soul who kept shouting in chat to stay under the dragon and then hit the adds with the cannons. I kept trying to run to the cannons to hit the adds but all the adds were all over the place. All three other DPS were on different parts of the bridge fighting one add at a time. I am not sure what the off tank was doing. Anytime I would get a chance I'd try to hit the adds with the cannon only to get hit by an AOE(The one that covers the entire front of the dragon?). I know I was messing up a lot in there too...

I think everyone died at least 3 times.

I'm really really sorry, whoever it was that was shouting. Truly. But really, what's so hard about reading the chat?

[Carvaka]

I actually make a habit of checking gear in any dungeon below level 30. I've pointed quite a few people towards the hall of novice by telling them about the +xp ring

Wait....plus xp ring? I returned to the games but missed the period the hall was introduced. Levelling all the classes atm. This ring sounds useful! Better go grab it. Thanks! Add one more to your list!

[HiroKonobu]

So probably not as bad as the Doctore's Fork in Aery example but still pretty bad in Hullbreaker Isle NM:



They had mostly 39-49 gear on the right side and a 49 weapon...

The WHM was just as bad with a 45 weapon and somewhat a somewhat bad side then again they were probably together...

[vp_cmc]

So probably not as bad as the Doctore's Fork in Aery example but still pretty bad in Hullbreaker Isle NM:

They had mostly 39-49 gear on the right side and a 49 weapon...

The WHM was just as bad with a 45 weapon and somewhat a somewhat bad side then again they were probably together...

It's just ok gear for fresh 50 leveling his main job. They don't have tons of tomes at that point.

[bardaboo]

Examining gear in... Halatali? Normal? Next step what will be?
Kick out whoever haven't i15 in Sastasha?

If he's got the relic he's lvl 50 and should have the i90 quest gear.... wanna rethink your rage target?

[bardaboo]

So I am 100% not removing myself from blame here, because I did duty finder and got put into Steps of Faith without reading a guide. But wow.

I was kind of freaking out the whole time so I don't know who was really at fault the most, but only one other person was new, the rest were vets. But there was one poor soul who kept shouting in chat to stay under the dragon and then hit the adds with the cannons. I kept trying to run to the cannons to hit the adds but all the adds were all over the place. All three other DPS were on different parts of the bridge fighting one add at a time. I am not sure what the off tank was doing. Anytime I would get a chance I'd try to hit the adds with the cannon only to get hit by an AOE(The one that covers the entire front of the dragon?). I know I was messing up a lot in there too...

I think everyone died at least 3 times.

I'm really really sorry, whoever it was that was shouting. Truly. But really, what's so hard about reading the chat?

This is all on the tanks. It's their job to keep the adds together and under the boss

[SaitoHikari]

Woe to the poor Bard who gets to witness a Dun Scaith run where NONE of the tanks have Awareness cross-classed.

[Kallistra]

I guess I bumped into someone who goes on the forums and spotted my post from the other day. I was doing a level 50 dungeon by myself and having a fairly average run, when it was over, while I was typing up "take care" one of the party members said they hope that my girlfriend and I have a good anniversary and quickly left.

So, I wanted to say thank you, kind stranger. I'm very sorry that I didn't have the chance to commend you or thank you in game. We did indeed have an amazing day (it was actually last month, I ordered my gift fairly late so we only received it recently). And thank you for giving me a nice story to share. I hope you see this post as well.

[Lunaxia]

So last night I joined a Bismarck group to help some newbies get a clear on a whim, and managed to get the whistle that dropped after joining farm groups for weeks. Apparently that stroke of luck leeched all of today's luck, because it's been... well.

Zurvan Farm Attempt #1: It was just... very, very slow and awkward. The tank seemed to be made of paper so there was no hope of stance dancing, and during the latter phase DPS just kept standing there for Wave Cannon and Southern Cross, so unsurprisingly, we go down like a pack of dominoes. After a few more runs like this, I give up.

Zurvan Farm Attempt #2: Turned out to be Sophia... I'm 90% certain this said Zurvan birb farm, but oh well, I can do Sophia too. Or not. DPS are flying off from Aero, running towards the blue tether, tanks don't swap and get annihilated... I ask if this is a farm, and apparently it's a clear for their friend. I stay to help them out, but evidently "clear" meant "carry" and "friend" meant "half the group." It was obvious none of them knew what they were doing, so I left.

Weeping City Attempt #1: Slow. Very, very slow, but the crap fest doesn't kick in until Ozma. The other alliances are messing up in imaginative new ways, my co-healer doesn't know what a raise is and sleeps through most of it, our BLM drop meteors next to us, another DCs, while the others go off to "help" the other groups because they "have no DPS." This goes on for about four wipes, until I point out they're really just screwing with raid mechanics and getting us all killed. The group gets very defensive, and I'm met with a black screen; turns out my entire alliance was from the same FC, which explains a lot. Just grateful to finally be out without a penalty, I move on to...

Zurvan Farm Attempt #3: Why? Because I hate myself, that's why. "Clear for a friend and then farm." No problem. We start off with my co-healer dying to the first set of fire circles... okay, maybe they're the newbie. No problem. Things rapidly head south however when Zurvan hits Soar and he's only at 83%; I was out-DPSing the DRG, who I realised was the proud owner of a Makai weapon. Circles then get overlapped, we all die. Take 2 doesn't go much better; DPS is still craptacular, (82%!) but we survive Soar... only for my co-healer to run into the AOE with their marker and kill us all.



At this point, I'm beginning to think I should just put down my controller and slowly walk away...