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

[Texa]

Got to the second boss which is the dodge trial and the SMN started dancing behind the seal and didn't come into the boss arena .

That was a friend of mine. I apologize for the trouble he caused on his behalf. He started being a bit of a turd since he dc'd during Ixion earlier and I should've pushed him to just take a break for a while.

[Galgarion]

This kind of shit discourages me from tanking at all.

Keep tanking. Never let the creeps win. Whatever arrogant self-regard and lack of empathy that lets them believe they can treat a fellow human being like this, will be repaid in kind in a thousand small ways throughout their lives. It's guilt-free schadenfreude for you.

[Miste]

That was a friend of mine. I apologize for the trouble he caused on his behalf. He started being a bit of a turd since he dc'd during Ixion earlier and I should've pushed him to just take a break for a while.

Ah I see....well we all have bad moods so he can be forgiven of course. Hopefully he doesn't do that to any other groups anymore cause it is pretty rude to lock yourself out of a boss fight purposefully no matter the circumstances :/

Thank you for the apology on his behalf even though you didn't have to

[Aldora]

I’m normally not someone who shared Duty Finder stories, because i tend to go about my business and deal with anything that comes my way (both good and bad) with a sense of humor. However, last night’s EX Roulette and the “The Sirensong Sea” (Level 61) dungeon were kind of special.

I started of queuing up for the EX Roulette with my Paladin job when i logged into the game. When i was loading into the dungeon and greeting my fellow party members, a friend of my shouted “No! Don’t!” through the linkshell and that’s when it hit me. The daily server reboot measurement…

I totally forgot about it, because i didn’t get the system message about the reset yet. (>_<; ) I looked at the clock and we had a little over 20 minutes left to clear the dungeon. The rest of the group confirmed it and said “OMG! We are in! Quick! Let’s try and clear this!”.

I braced myself and pulled as much as i could, which meant going from wall to wall whenever i could and when i knew that we’d get 3 to 4 packs of mobs i’d split them up into 2 pulls. The enemies were hitting like trucks and our healer was doing everything she could to keep me alive, using clemency whenever i was starting to get into trouble.
We were all going all out, pushing our limits and it felt awesome! We only had 4 minutes until they would start shutting down the server when we reached the last boss of the dungeon. It was nerve wrecking to see those minutes pass by. (^_^; )

We managed to clear the dungeon, 1 minute passed the scheduled reset time and the sigh of relief me and my party let out made it all worth it. Guys, if you remember this run from yesterday, you were awesome. It was a pleasure tanking for your guys. /easternbow

After the reset, i queued up for a “The Sirensong Sea” (Level 61) dungeon in order to level up my healer. We had a group consisting of a Warrior, Samurai, Red Mage and myself as a White Mage. After leaving the ship at the beginning of the dungeon, our Warrior tank disconnected. After a few minutes, our Samurai asked if we would like to try continuing while we’re waiting for our Warrior friend to reconnect. Even if we would only clear some trash packs along the way.

I figured, sure, why not? Let’s see how far we can get. We didn’t take too many risks, but pulling everything nice and easy, 1 pack at a time. Slowly but surely we progressed through the dungeon from pack to pack, clearing the first boss with relative ease. Hate bounced between the Samurai and the Red Mage and there were plenty of butt clenching moments where either of our HP bars plummeted to below 10%.

After arriving at the 2nd boss, our Samurai said that we’ve reached our limit and that we should look for a replacement tank. I replied, by saying: “Nah, we haven’t reached our limit yet. I think we can make it all the way to the last boss. The mini boss at the end might prove to be a challenge, but i think we can make it”.

So, we pulled the 2nd boss and cleared it with relative ease as well (butt clenching moments included).

The first moment we wiped, was at the 2nd pull in the “prison cell”-section with the “Dual coffer”-guy and the zombies accompanying him. Those proved too much to handle with 2 DPS and a healer. The damage we took was too much to heal.

So, we wiped, returned to that spot and instead of pulling the “Dual coffer”-guy, i pulled the zombie that closest by on the right side of the room. That resulted in me pulling only half of the remaining zombies and the “Dual coffer”-guy. That was enough to make it manageable.

Finally at the last boss, we met our match. The boss dealt a 20k+ Head butt it it’s focus target without a cast bar, which would one shot each of us. Since i didn’t have a stoneskin or any other kind of barrier, we couldn’t prevent being killed in the end.

Our Warrior friend still hadn’t returned, so we ended up kicking him from the party and looked for a replacement tank (who joined us within a minute). It was smooth sailing from there. But, our 3-man adventure through “The Sirensong Sea” was really fun and a lot more exciting than a regular run.

So, Mez & Lulu, if you are reading this, thanks for a very fun run and exciting run. /easternbow

[Neophyte]

Shinryu, queued in progress, say I'm a newbie, they seem happy to have a new healer but I can tell something is off. We go, I try to follow along the best I can, and we hit the add phase. I rez a dead DPS, adlo him and the bombs start to land. I run to safety on the third round and two other DPS die, but I focus on healing the living party and the chains hit.

The DPS I rezzed in chat says, "Thank you for the rez but you should be healing the group and not wasting mana."

I just go "????" in the chat, and we very quickly die in the first rounds of the second part of the fight.

Wasting Mana is raising a dead DPS in a DPS check phase I had never seen before. I just can't.

Well, tbh to rezz "as soon as possible" is more often than not a reason for a wipe (or at least another dead player). Especially if you don't know a fight, let dead people lie on floor unless you're 100% sure that no heal GCD is needed to keep other players up.
The dps check on the adds is not hard, still another dps dead is a lot more worse than the one player being already dead not being rezzed asap (with death penalty and almost no ressources like mp after rezz anyway).

Not saying that in your case the rezz was wrong or dangerous, just a general Assertion.

Also you don't have to shield raised players like back in HW/ARR, because they don't lose any VIT anymore. Sure, protect has to be applied again at some point and the player needs to be healed, but a stoneskin (wait, what is a stoneskin? #stormblood) or an extra adlo is unnecessary.

[Anarnee]

Just finished getting my second character through the main story quests for Stormblood and it was just as amazing as the first time.

Just did the final fight for the second time, and with the the whining I was a little worried. I wiped about two times the first time I did it with my main, and this time we wiped once. Had a great group, and the fight is absolutely amazing.

Can't wait to do it again!~

[Xx-ReiN-xX]

I can't seem to win in DF 70 roulettes lately...
When I queued as Tank, I get horrid single target in big pulled DPS. (the one they hit was at 15% while the rest was about to be burned down by the other Dps and Healer...)
When I queued as DPS, I get single pulled tank (Temple of fist, the roaming tiger? they pulled that one alone...)
When I queued as Healer, I get either one of the above, big pulled tank with no cd and 123 only Dps (yes they still exist)

Before anyone say "they are new" no sprout, no bonus pop up...
I missed the first week players of Stormblood...

Edit post:
That's it i'm done tanking until next game patch... I can't stand the horrendous skills some players have in DF any longer...

[GospelVhae]

7 seconds countdown before pull on Lakshi/SusaNOPE. Seriously, where does the meme come from

[Averax]

Summoner in Doma Castle never used ruin 1 or 3, only used Ruin 2 and Ruin 4 procs. Went straight from Dreadwyrm trance to deathflare, and would burn through all their aetherflows asap.

Tired as i am, and knowing people's unwillingness to learn, i decided to keep quiet and seethe about our annoyingly long run.

[Ferrasper]

I will admit my own derpings here. I was doing my daily Expert roulette, and I go Ala Mhigo. I actually forgot that was even part of the expert list because I usually get The Temple of Fist. Even though it was only my second time there, I was like sure why not. Everything was going until the Zenos fight where I don't know what was going on with me. I was derping up like crazy with all his slash aoes hitting me even though I was trying to dodge them. I died, and I got raised like 3 times with all the stupid aoes. I honestly don't know what was wrong with me that fight.

In the end though, it was only the warrior tank that was alive, and he beat zenos down from 5% health. If anyone reading this was in that group, I do apologize for my incompetence during that fight. I am not usually that bad I promise you. lolz