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

[Aldora]

I just want to thank all the people in the recent groups I've had lately who kept dealing with me being 90k'd.

I came back almost instantly and managed to make it but still, these disconnects are rough and I really do appreciate their patience.

I had the same problem last night. I was the tank of the group and I literally got disconnected with every single pull I did as well as multiple times during boss battles. In just 1 run, i got disconnected about 20 times. It was horrible...

I told the group that they could kick me if they had enough, with me disconnecting all the time, but they had the patience to see it through all the to the end. I even ended up with 2 commendations (I didn’t deserve).

Bless them.

[Ametrine]

I had a tank 90k in Royal Managerie at the latter part of the add phase. A Samurai in our team was designated by Shinryu as the off tank, and fortunately, he was on point with mechanics and dodging, so we somehow got Shinryu down to about 35% before the DC'd tank managed to relog. Sadly, we wiped shortly after.

She was super happy we didn't kick her, and was super nice, but I gave my comm to that poor SAM.

And Yoshi-P said samurais were better suited to DPS...

[Ghishlain]

There's a level of smug satisfaction when you help a friend (who is Savage capable) clear the Royal Menagerie with a stacked 7-man savage-capable team. We more or less crushed the boss just after the second dive bomb and add phases were being destroyed so fast. I love the fight as a whole as a healer but sometimes when you just want to ROFLCURBSTOMP the fight and smile.

[Sammix87]

Just got called a scrub in levelling roulette because I have more than one class at 70.....ok. thx. bai.

[Texa]

I got Urth's Fount on mentor roulette earlier with sprouts in the party that were brand new spanking fresh to the duty, including the tank. My immediate thought is this is going to wipe. I make it super clear to the whole party they have to be able to do their best 50 rotations to pass this and that it's healer intensive.

First go wiped about 2/3's in to people getting hit. Second we had 10% echo, but I was still iffy about whether we could do it or not. We managed to get him all the way down until he started casting Shin Zantetsuken. Our dps was very very close, and we hadn't killed him yet by the time he finished the cast and started the animation. Just riiiiiight as the slash went off the screen went black and I thought we wiped but the duty complete message came up instead.

That could not have been any closer.

[Yeol]

Just got called a scrub in levelling roulette because I have more than one class at 70.....ok. thx. bai.

Da hell? Not cool.
Some people already have 4 jobs at level 70. Which is normal if you play on regular basis and had early access.

[whiteblade89]

I derped so hard earlier today in a susano ex pf clear group. I've cleared it twice but still need some practice, so I like going into clear parties to get that extra practice. Within the first minute of the fight, I get the orange knockback marker, panic and look for the thunderhead. Lo and behold it's right behind the entire group. I get knocked back, the group get hit with the line aoe, and I die by taking the stacking aoe away from the group. Miraculously the healers managed to keep everyone alive and rez me pretty quickly. Only to wipe later during the thunder marker phases. Thankfully I wasn't the cause of that. To anyone who might have been in that group, im so sorry. Clearly I still need practice lol

[Elfidan]

I did Baelsar's Wall today as RDM. It was an awesome experience we pulled everything after boss 2 up to the final boss , and I got to Comet the crap out of it all. Then in the last boss the healer ,and other dps went down; but i managed to keep the tank up just long enough to finish. It felt pretty darn good.

[Naemisa]

Top 3 worst moments
1. Healer who pulled everything in Castrum Meridianum because she though tanks were too slow and she wanted a fast run. We wiped... on trash... more than once.
2. I fail the button spam mechanic in Menagerie (arthritis so too slow or it hurts too much, might have found a fix for this tho)
3. Healer who refused to ress anyone in Menagerie because cooldown on ress is too long (Idk what cooldown he was talking about since he didn't use swiftcast + ress)

Top 3 best moments
1. A tank asked how much he can pull before we started, healer said big pulls were fine, we wiped and tank just said "Ok, maybe that was a bit too big" and didn't rage or leave.
2. I did Antitower for the first time just before SB, got grouped with 3 other first timers. We had fun, we wiped, we tried again and calmly talked about what might have gone wrong. We cleared it in the end and it felt great.
3. When you see a mentor who actually wants to help and teach new players instead of being rude or raging or not saying a word.

[Ilenya]

2. I fail the button spam mechanic in Menagerie (arthritis so too slow or it hurts too much, might have found a fix for this tho)
3. Healer who refused to ress anyone in Menagerie because cooldown on ress is too long (Idk what cooldown he was talking about since he didn't use swiftcast + ress).

For 2, I am unsure if it was you with the similar comment elsewhere or if you saw the response, but if you are on a keyboard you can just spam-press buttons on it, each one will count towards the ATE.
For 3, I assume they meant either Swiftcast or the cast time on Raise. Either way, not the best response for a healer.

My fun, tanking Temple of the Fist, first time in there, so I tend to take it slow so I learn where things are (Especially since they seem to like adding extra spawns to areas we're fighting) when the healer eventually decides to pull ahead of me. I told him to not do it again, where he basically tells me to get better (apparently learn by doing not a thing), so I mentioned that if he did it again, I wouldn't be tanking the adds off of him. Not the best response, but rushing the tank's a pet peeve of mine, even when I'm not the tank.

He responds by not healing me at all the next pull...I assume to teach me a lesson?