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

[Heliantheae]

I joined a 2 Chest V1S party. The other tank immediately goes, "I'll OT I believe in you.". I've never MTd the fight, but if the other tank believes in me. So I go, " I'll get N". Things go okay, I get chomped by the first Clamp. Glad to see that doesn't change. Get to the icy clamp and I misjudge the distance and slide off. There's a couple of sloppy runs after that, people running into others Bolts, others sliding off, more clamp shenanigans, general stuff. But the last run was perfect. Everyone did everything right, I don't believe anyone died. Then we get a 6 of 8, 1 chest message. Everyone was nettled. One of the DPS opened the chest and bailed as quickly as they could when it was a healing necklace. Most likely one of the two who already cleared for the week.

[Ametrine]

Unfortunately, good players are the ones no one notices.

[MADJAM]

Unfortunately, good players are the ones no one notices.

They "Make it Happen".
They don't need all that attention...

[Mysterysword]

Steps of Faith as SAM. We actually got it down in 1 try. The part that makes me sad is the fact that Vishap went down before we even hit the second barrier, and the one dragonkiller missed thanks to the moron of a WAR firing it off too early. All it took was having all 4 DPS do nothing but wail on Vishap and two cannons on full blast.

Said it before, saying it again: I miss it when Steps of Faith was an actual challenge that you couldn't get carried through.

[Berethos]

Bardam's Mettle, second boss. I think this has happened with the roughly 80% of the groups I've been through this place with - when the big donut shaped AoEs appears over two different players, where the easiest way to handle it is for those two players to run to each other, and the other two need to either run away or run to stack as well based on how close they are to the two that are marked (more often than not everyone stacking together in the center works just fine and is easy to do)...

At least one of the players seems to want to avoid the other as if they were carrying the plague, and this usually results in there being very little safe place to stand that also happens to be moving, instead of the nice big safe areas in the center of the AoE that is present when both players simply run to each other.

Fortunately I've yet to see a group fail the boss because of this, or I'd be pretty salty over it.

[SixtyLove]

Snip.... re Bardam's Mettle.

Most likely due to people not knowing what to do on that part, in my first run back at launch of SB the tank was the only person who wasn't new to the duty and his explanation was literally this; "Have fun!"

At least it doesn't wipe the whole run I guess?

[WhyAmIHere]

a DRK *in Doma Castle believing that Darkside was a skill you only turned on some times, otherwise you'd never use it.

[Seryne]

Just got out of a Doma Castle run with my boyfriend. Group is me as WHM, boyfriend as SAM, another SAM, and the tank is a DRK. Tank starts off immediately into a big pull which is fine because I'm used to it there. Except it isn't fine since the tank is melting to the adds. I blow all my cooldowns keeping him alive while the DPS kill everything. He does a big pull again on the second set and nearly dies yet again. He has to pop living dead and I have to fight with his HP to keep him alive.
Bosses go fine except for the second one where I pulled it somehow (still dunno how). He then tries to pull all the ninjas before the last boss. Guess who pulled them off him after tossing out one Cure? This girl! I died because I wasn't able to benediction myself fast enough and everyone else dies shortly after. Do you know what he says after that? "Okay to much" !?!?!?!? I DIED BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T EVEN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH AGGRO ON THOSE ADDS! I didn't say a damn word to him but I lost it in my LS with my boyfriend.

I'm still freaking angry over that tank. Why do people think it's okay to do HUGE pulls in these leveling dungeons when things hit crazy hard? It isn't freaking cool, man.

[AngeloFlick]

So this just happened.

Spouse (WHM) and I (PLD) queue for the expert since I haven't capped tomes for the week and we get Ala Mhigo. Our two DPS are BRD and SAM. Somehow, I out DPS the bard on the first pull. And the second pull. As we enter the corridor my spouse notices his weapon is one of the old bard bows and checks to see what he's glamoured it to. But there's no glamour, he's using the i230 bard anima weapon. In Ala Mhigo.

We proceed at a glacial pace to the first boss, wherein the bard stays in his target reticle after placing it and dies. Repeatedly. Then he decides that he must need to stack these reticles so he drops it right next to my spouse right as he runs out of his own. Both die. SAM dies to to a lack of heals and the boss's butt cannon at 49% and I am left alone. I decide to see how long I can solo the boss and actually manage to kill him (he doesn't hit hard if you don't stand in the bad). Spouse and the SAM stand outside the arena and watch while the bard fakes a disconnect and never comes back.

After the dungeon is over we speculate that perhaps he hadn't completed his level 70 job quest so I looked him up on the Lodestone. He was actually wearing two pieces of his level 70 artifact armor along with some i310 tomestone gear so I have no idea why he wasn't using his artifact bow as well.

[Fyce]

I thought Ice Mages were the pinnacle of terrible BLM players... Oh boy I was wrong.

I just met my first "Thunder Mage".