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

[HyoMinPark]

I am so tired and so frustrated right now... trying to farm Susano Ex for the AST weapon (so, of course, joining on AST) and just getting bad group after bad group.

I had a big long post typed out... and then I accidentally ctrl+c my "edit incoming" text instead of ctrl+v my full post, and I just don't have the energy to type it all out again. But I think I'm about to just give up healing Susano Ex. Or maybe just give up AST in general, because I am really questioning my own skills as a healer after being in so many bad groups.

Maybe I'll retype it all later, but for now I just want to go lay down and get away from this game for a while...

[YitharV2]

I am so tired and so frustrated right now... trying to farm Susano Ex for the AST weapon (so, of course, joining on AST) and just getting bad group after bad group.

I had a big long post typed out... and then I accidentally ctrl+c my "edit incoming" text instead of ctrl+v my full post, and I just don't have the energy to type it all out again. But I think I'm about to just give up healing Susano Ex. Or maybe just give up AST in general, because I am really questioning my own skills as a healer after being in so many bad groups.

Maybe I'll retype it all later, but for now I just want to go lay down and get away from this game for a while...

According to a DRK in my FC, he had about 11 successful runs out of 40 or so. I think it comes down to how much of this game is team jumping rope.

[Vidu]

I am so tired and so frustrated right now... trying to farm Susano Ex for the AST weapon (so, of course, joining on AST) and just getting bad group after bad group.

I had a big long post typed out... and then I accidentally ctrl+c my "edit incoming" text instead of ctrl+v my full post, and I just don't have the energy to type it all out again. But I think I'm about to just give up healing Susano Ex. Or maybe just give up AST in general, because I am really questioning my own skills as a healer after being in so many bad groups.

Maybe I'll retype it all later, but for now I just want to go lay down and get away from this game for a while...

Aaawww, now I wish even more we'd had the chance to try stuff together for once! Cross-datacenter-PFs, please, SE!

Funny enough the story I have to share concernces Susano aswell - not the EX-mode though.
My monk-friend and I (on warrior) got the NM for our trial-roulette today. At least three new people and both healers are new-ish to the game aswell - a sproutling and a returner. Recalling the horrible hour I spend on saturday trying to clear this in DF for a friend I take a few seconds to explain to everyone that this fight gets a lot easier if everyone stacks behind Susanos butt; that the first marker a person gets means they'll get knocked back and that they should just let that happen (instead of running away) and that there will be a stack-marker afterwards (so they should just run back to the group that is, in theory, stacked behind Susano). Takes me maybe 30 seconds to type this in 3 messages (so everyone knows that I'm trying to explain something right now).
Apparently that 30 seconds that are meant to prevent a wipe later are to much for the SMN who starts a 5 second countdown and pulls - "Less talking, more action, mate!"
We wipe - due to both healers dying to a failed stack.

Now I get the time to explain again quickly why its so important that everyone stacks in one spot so that the marked person knows where to run.
We wipe. Both healers are getting hit with AoEs and the SMN doesnt seem to notice, so they dont get a raise. But! progress! This time we wiped somewhen in the second phase and the stack is working better now!

We go in again. Healers are struggeling to keep everyone alive - I'm not sure why, but maaaybe there is a slight chance that the scholars miasma-casts when people were down to 4k before Ukehi (or whatever that raidwide damage is called) had a part in it.
We wipe. I ask the scholar to focus more on healing and regret not being a paladin - those sweet, sweet emergency-clemency heals.
...those sweet, sweet emergency-heals that we got from my co-tank - an actual skilled paladin who pretty much had earned my commendation at that point.

Now, we're three wipes and about 30 minutes in, but the party is actually making decent progress. Vote abandon pops up - no way we're giving up now (I also dislike disbanding such parties when someone needs it for their story progress - hey, maybe that DPS waited half an hour for this to pop!)! We're improving and last try was 10%! Party agrees and declines. It pops up again - always annoying, so I tell the group that whoever wants to leave so badly should just do it and eat the penalty. No one speaks up and no one leaves.
I start my countdown again and charge in - after a while I notice that my co-tank, my actually until then good co-tank ist just standin there, doing nothing. I call him out in partychat - maybe he had to step away for an emergency? I dont want to believe that this paladin who knew how to use his skills, who used intervention, clemency, divine veil... who was nice and chatty, even is now standing at the entrance, sulking and refusing to help. Sadly during the fight it becomes more and more clear that thats the case - he jumps from time to time to prevent the auto-kick (hey, thanks for that, mate, at least you're saving our limitbreak that way...).

Funny enough: we made it that last try. Everyone was stepping up their game, the SMN started raising when needed, the Scholar kept people alive rather than throwing out that miasma and the WHM... well, died less, I guess.
At the end everyone made some comments about how having two tanks was the problem apparently.
I was still sad and shocked that this tank who made such a good first impression turned out to be a total jerk.

[savageink]

Now I can't say this was on purpose for sure because the guy didn't move an inch while waiting, he might have just gone afk, but it made me wonder something. Are people actually afking for the end of dungeon/trial loot? This morning I ran Titan hard for the relic reborn quest and to get it out of the way for HW on my alt on my brother's server. The chest popped the MCH weapon, and as a Bard I rolled greed since I love to play MCH, but I can't get it on this character until I get the Patch MSQ done. But it's a cool looking gun and at ilvl 80 it's a good starter weapon for level 50 content when I eventually get it to there.

I noticed the 2 other guys by the exit rolled then left so I checked to see if it dropped to one of them. Nope. I look around and there is still one more person in the instance. If he had rolled it would be over....and I probably would have lost. I had a lousy roll of 33. But no roll, no movement. I'm wondering "what the hell?" All I could do was wait and see what happened. Eventually, the timer on the chest ran down a little after the five minute warning and I hear it drop in my chest. So, all good. Just made me wonder if people do that on purpose to get the loot. Doesn't work if a person who rolled is willing to wait for the chest timer, but it would be annoying.

[Zukissa]

Tank unable to hold agro. DPS agroing mobs. Then the party saying why no heals. *insta leave takes 30 min penalty*

[VanilleFang]

Castrum second boss.

He's actually the easiest of the three bosses there. I have never been in a group who messed up the mechanics, but I can assume that would be pretty bad... if the mechanics are done right though? He can be beaten right after his second set of towers.

[Texa]

I love when a tank gets the party killed from overpulling then runs back and does the exact same pull.

[Sylvina]

Was doing leveling roullete in stone vigil. 90k. get back in 5 minutes later and another 90k. logs off and goes to play something else for awhile.

[sciondar]

Did a complete level run of PoTD as a WHM tonight and we had a standard party of 1 tank, 2 dps and 1 healer as a pug. The tank never activated his tank stance throughout all of the floors. When we got to the boss I asked him to turn it on and still nothing. We came extremely close to wiping but fortunately one of the dps was a SMN and he/she was able to help with raises while I healed until I got overwhelmed while certain skills were on cooldown. The really irritating part about the tank not activating his stance was he was a warrior and could have been doing more with his rotations as well as having a larger health pool. Again, thankfully we succeeded in completing it. Hopefully the next floor run I do if a tank is in it they take advantage of their stances.

Update: I didn't realize that if someone is leveling up a class that hasn't unlocked it's job yet they aren't granted the job specific skills in PoTD. Feel bad I didn't know this beforehand. Learn and grow!

[Mysterysword]

Expert roulette as BLM drops me into Kugane Castle with a SAM, WHM, and a new DRK. The DRK would probably have been fine, except for the fact that they could barely manage aggro on pulls, and then their tank bling broke, making things worse.

Still, we limped along to the final boss, who brought along a couple of buddies just to screw our shit up even more: The D/C Monster, and his evil hench(wo)men, Lag Lad and Lady Latency. Both the WHM and I start lagging all over the place, with multiple d/cs for the WHM. Eventually, the WHM tells us to give them the boot if they disappear one more time, and we're forced to.

After twiddling our thumbs for a bit, I leave and successfully return to the same instance as SCH, and my replacement DPS is another SAM... who's also getting slaughtered by more lag. What followed was my first ever attempt at healing anything in Kugane Castle, starring The Dead Samurai. And for the first time ever, I end up having to eat my fairy to maintain my MP for raises. Man, I miss 20% Aetherflow. But, at least the DRK managed to keep aggro after putting on their non-broken lower-level tank accessories.

For once, though, all this was pretty fun instead of frustrating. Maybe because Kugane Castle is just that pretty.