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

[Enla]

Seriously, if you're new to a raid and clearly haven't read or watched any guides on how it works - DON'T TRY TO MAIN TANK. I just got out of a Void Ark where the tank of my party seemed convinced that it was their job to pick up EVERYTHING regardless of mechanics. The morbol wind tunnel? In spite of someone clearly marking where each alliance needed to go, he ran away and tried to gather up /EVERYTHING/ in the room - leave myself and a DPS to mop up our party's responsibilities. Not once did he ever come into healing range either, so he was clearly still fighting for aggro on the mobs he had no business tanking. Sawtooth? He fought for aggro on Sawtooth and then tanked him SIDEWAYS whilst trying to also tank the tree, inevitably wiping because /hey/ he didn't seem to get that once the tree started glowing he needed to wait for the right moment to hide behind it. The rest of the trash mobs went about as well, with him trying to gather everything up in the middle of each arena, even the snakes that the last boss splits into. At some point before the second to last boss another tank got fed up and started MTing, but it was honestly astonishing watching the bosses constantly rubber banding between the two tanks as this one refused to yield.

If you don't know a fight, tell people. If you're not capable of dodging mechanics while MTing and someone else steps up, let them do it. I know it's old content, but seriously just watch a quick video or ASK. I won't say my own performance was stellar, but by the end I was just laughing out of sheer disbelief. Especially since half the raid kept on dying to simple and very telegraphed mechanics. I can't even imagine how bad Dun Scaith is right now...

[Revenaught]

Got a recent one.

Went into Hullbreaker Island (normal), tank is wearing mostly ilv 50 stuff. Search says he's lv 66 so, I rolled with it. It's just Hullbreaker, so no biggie. Gets to the first group and ONLY throws tomahawks at one enemy. The entire time. I ask what he's doing and get no response. Second groups goes basically the same, though he starts spamming heavy swing on a single target occasionally as well. No stances up or anything, just tomahawk and heavy swing. After this group I realized he was a Marauder. Not a Warrior. A Marauder... a lv 66 Marauder. That was the only class he had leveled. We wiped on the next group since he had control of nothing and I vote kicked him. Got a new tank surprisingly quickly. Finished fine after that.

I pray that was a troll, because I cannot even imagine what it would take to get there otherwise.

[Moonfish]

Sawtooth? He fought for aggro on Sawtooth and then tanked him SIDEWAYS whilst trying to also tank the tree, inevitably wiping because

Thank you for sharing this. I laughed myself to tears when I got to this part.

Edit -

This morning I decided to run Lakshmi EX to see if I could get lucky even though I already had 99 Lakshmi/Susano totems. Well, the group cleared it 4 times and 2 mounts dropped but my 83 wasn't good enough. So they decided to do Susano and I say "sure, why not" and off we go. We clear Susano 5 times, I roll 48 on the second mount that dropped. About ready to leave before rolls finished because how could 48 win? I'm glad I stayed, because I did indeed win it.

[Morgan]

Had the weirdest copperhell nm run yesterday.
So Im brd, casually waiting for lvling roulette to pop. I get an in-prog pop with 2min since start timer. I lol and accept. Upon seeing my party being already halfway to the first boss I send my thanks to Yoshi and run to meet my party in person. Here's the weird things started: mid-second pull healer leaves without word. We wtf and chill till another healer joins. After killing 1st boss we all go to the lift but our new healer seems to be afk in boss room. We call then wait for a bit, we still had item on roll so no kick. Turns out healer dc'ed. We've waited till he logged back, said wb, no answer, no movement. We waited for a minute or so more. Healer didnt seem to want to do anything so we sigh and kick. Soon enough we get 3rd healer and lol about uncontrollably. Rest goes well, 3rd time is a charm anyhow
It honestly felt like this run was cursed.

[NielleWiseeli]

Let's have a positive post for once.

Yesterday I was in the best pug in a while. I was spamming Ala Mhigo for verity and I came across a tank that stated they were new. My guess is that at least one of the dps were new to the dungeon as well.
We get to the bosses, I explain the mechanics for each one, no one rushes in before I finish, we lol at the soul extracting mechanic of the second boss.
At the last boss everyone pitched in and we discussed the mechanics and how we can go about not wiping. There were 3 deaths and the dps was a bit lacking(noticed at the swords where I had to go all out to kill them in time), but we pulled through and cleared with no wipes.

Guys if you're reading, you were great, loved being a part of that run!

[Ransom]

Had an Omega 1n party yesterday, should have been warned by the fact that invite was an in-progress 20 minutes in. Get in to find they're down both tanks (plus of course the dps I replaced.) Long story short, we did win once we got our tanks, but only after having to use healer lb3. Because neither healer could bother to aoe heal after charybdis. I mean really...

[MoroMurasaki]

This started the way it always starts - queueing for Trial Roulette and getting RM in progress by 16 minutes.

I'm on WHM with an AST cohealer barely breaking 25k health, then I see the tanks. One is a WAR with 70k+ health, cool. The other is a PLD at 15.6k... What? Aren't there ilvl requirements?

Before I can say more than "hi guys, hows it going?" my cohealer says that his armor is broken from trying this multiple times and never clearing and that her previous cohealer wanted to kick him and when she couldn't get it passed she DC'd to get kicked herself. Apparently everyone still present was okay with trying to carry this guy.

I am pleasantly surprised; decent humans in DF? Who knew!?

I am fairly secure in my ability to solo heal this fight so I say sure I'll try. My cohealer seemed on the ball with her explaination and even if she doesn't have a ton of stats if she has a good reaction time and just doesn't die a lot we should be okay.

I was wrong. So wrong.

I have my triangle marker/hat on for new people to follow me and it's going okay because between provoke, Shirk, Ultimatum and a NIN boosting the PLD's aggro he is staying above me on the list but when we get to the other floor it all goes to hell. I am second on the list then the WAR dies by falling right before an Ahk Morn which destroys me then wipe.

I have a habit of checking out people's search info in my downtime and our DRG has two tanks at 70 and the other at 60... Hmmm... I ask him if he would throw on some Vit accessories and he seems to get the idea, we are making a new tank.

This actually works! Everyone had their explainations before we started, we had a bit of a mess during ad phase and I was scared we might wipe from not killing them fast enough but I couldn't stop healing but then my lovely coheal steps in with some Gravity while I'm keeping our 3 tanks up and we make it. The downstairs (upstairs?) is not bad either. There are times that I'm taking a few auto attacks and it's a slow ass run because the DRG is doing less damage and so am I. The PLD is dead a lot because he gets oneshotted but our BLM is manashifting us fairly regularly and at one point my cohealer throws me an enhanced Ewer which I have never had before.

Point is we did it. Suboptimal AF but we did it. Other than expressions of joy I think everyone at the end said something to the PLD about never entering something with broken gear again.

So yeah... Kinda a positive story? Happy ending at least.

[Spiroglyph]

@MoroMurasaki: Every successfully completed RM run is a happy story in my book

No, but seriously though. Lately I've had some very nice teams for this instance in particular (I'm trying to get the card).

Just yesterday, out of the three times I got in, all three were clears!
Granted, a big part of both teams were >ilvl 310 and that obviously makes things a lot simpler - but it can still be tricky with new members, so I'm kind of surprised at how many unbelievably nice people I've ran into?

Or maybe they're just average nice and I'm just too used to people taking a look at the instance and leaving right after - or sticking around being turds until they get kicked.

I swear, this place brings out either the best or worst in everyone that lands in there.

Still a fun fight, though!

EDIT: Okay, um.
RM related. Just got out of a run where my keyboard stopped working for some reason - I spent the whole run manually clicking all my healing spells (all run until 1%, because at that point we wiped). I couldn't get it to work and I panicked, so I jumped off and left... to find out I had two mice with conflicting keybinds connected, which probably caused the whole mess. To the team I just bailed on, I'm really, really sorry D:

[Heliantheae]

Pretty close to levelling my WAR so I queue for MS. I get another WAR. I hit Defiance, he hits Defiance. We're Lv50 and don't have Deliverance. I start to pull and he fights me. So he wants to MT. I let him have it. He stops. Okay, so I grab the group from the other light. He runs over and tries to pull aggro again. Its like this for the rest of the run. Every time I start pulling, he tries to take it. On the bright side it was a little amusing to watch him go full ham against Lucia to no avail.

[Mysterysword]

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But... This was a PLD. He could've dropped out, repaired his gear, and gotten an instant-queue back into RM once his penalty wore off.