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

[Sciwolf]

I did a dungeon with three other players and nothing bad happened !

[Mysterysword]

Doma Castle as PLD taught me that, when I have about 38-39k HP (swapped my gear throughout the dungeon as I luckily got some upgrades), a bunch of mobs each hitting me for 3-5k per hit hurts. I only attempted 1 mass pull. That was fun like pulling teeth!

[CatStarPrime]

I think the first dungeon or raid I actually recognized a stack marker, was Void Ark.

Seems like every single other dungeon or raid, to that point, had driven into my skull, that when I got a glowy ANYTHING above my head, I was supposed to run Far Far Away from everyone else. Scatter. Do the opposite of Stack.

(I can't remember any more, what I was supposed to do, in BCoB Turn 5, regarding "2 people here. 6 people there. If marked, (Conflag?) run under Twintania...)

Anywho, there I was on my first Void Ark run. Fighting Echidna. Got marked. Reflexively turned and sprinted away. One of the Tanks chased me. Apparently got close enough to count as stacked. Wham! We both took 30,000 damage and croaked.

The raid, in chorus, told me what I'd done wrong.

If you've got raid mates running away after getting marked, they're like me - haven't seen a "stack mechanic" before. or if they've seen one, they never recognized it for what it was.

A little coaching goes a long way!

[KeiranOlive]

Today was the first time that I have, as a healer, deliberately stopped healing someone so they would die. Roulette gave me Sohm Al HM and the run was uneventful until the last Scorpion boss when our bard got knocked back into the outer ring of lava. I threw him a cure 2 and went to heal the tank, but quickly noticed that the bard was still taking a ton of damage. I started spamming cure 2's and a tetra on him, expecting him to move back into the safe areas of the room, but nope, he didn't budge. After 10-15 seconds I realized I couldn't keep both the bard and tank up, so I just had to make a choice. Tank > dumb dps who stands in lava. How do you not notice 40% of your hp disappearing every 3 seconds?

[MoroMurasaki]

Lakshmi via Trial Roulette, only new player is my cohealer also on WHM.

Over the course of the fight she dies 7 times. I hate to be "that healer" but can I have back my 20k MP please? Died to knockback, died to not stacking, died to no vril on the ultimate and my personal fave died to just plain running off the edge.

I understand being new to a fight but this was a lot. It was so rough I recorded it to go back and count the deaths. I want to support all my cohealers out there but damn.

[VitalSuit]

Lakshmi via Trial Roulette, only new player is my cohealer also on WHM.

Over the course of the fight she dies 7 times. I hate to be "that healer" but can I have back my 20k MP please? Died to knockback, died to not stacking, died to no vril on the ultimate and my personal fave died to just plain running off the edge.

I understand being new to a fight but this was a lot. It was so rough I recorded it to go back and count the deaths. I want to support all my cohealers out there but damn.

Why do people keep running off the edge in Lakshmi. I haven't done a single run where the new players don't run straight off the edge.

[dayspring83]

Joined Leveling Roulette as WHM, pop into Aetherochemical Research Facility (crap..oh well, looks like I'm getting some bonus tomes to make it worth my while.) Throw up Protect, exchange pleasantries (which are only returned by DPS x2), and off we go.

Paladin Facepulls > Circle of Scorn pulls the first group (1 group, 2 mobs)
Second group, Facepull > Circle of Scorn again, BLM pulls aggro but burns mob down, no issue.
Third group Shield Lob > Circle of Scorn again, mobs are bouncing all over the place, I heal accordingly, we move on

Im thinking to myself, maybe this is the new person and maybe they're using Flash but I'm just not seeing it. Nope. MP never changes from 100%.

Me: [Tank Character Name], can I offer some advice?
[Silence]
Defeat first boss, still nothing.
Me: [Paladin] [Flash] [Do you have it set?]
Paladin: I knew it was going to be useless advice
Paladin: use flash more often
Paladin: not like I didnt get the shit 45 levels ago
Me: Hey man, I'm just trying to help, if you dont want the advice lets just keep moving.

I notice on future pulls the Paladin is now using Facepull > Shield lob > Circle of Scorn > Flash (x1) now.

I dont quite think that's how that's supposed to work but I'm done. We finish dungeon, tank leaves immediately.

I mean...ok...nvm

[Kallistra]

I made the mistake of running expert without a friend. Decided to heal it too, as I don't believe I've done so by myself. Ran into a MNK and DRG who both had multiple level 70's and neither of them knew how to AoE. Thank God the tank was a solid 10/10 and helping me out during his big pulls because these DPS weren't doing us any favors. Decided to call these two out after our second trash pull.

DRG responds with, "They took out my AoE skill in 4.0, dude. I don't have Ring of Thorns anymore."

The tank is backing me up here, the two of us are talking specifically to one DPS and explaining their AoE rotation to them. They give us a 'yeah, yeah' and the tank pulls the boss (which dies at a reasonable pace) and he goes off to pull big again. And guess what? Neither of these guys are AoEing... still. Tank and I once again try to explain their rotations, asking them to at least humor us and try them out.

MNK speaks up, "This is how we've always done things and we have never had an issue with anyone up until you, Kallistra. I hope you like being reported." I manage to see the tank saying, "If he goes I go." right before I am dismissed from the duty.

[Mysterysword]

MNK speaks up, "This is how we've always done things and we have never had an issue with anyone up until you, Kallistra. I hope you like being reported."

I have to wonder about people like these. Are they fine with taking upwards of 30-40 minutes for one dungeon run? Because god knows I'm not, I have things to do. Haven't they ever heard of runs from other people that only last 15-20 minutes? Don't they even think that they could just improve on their runtimes? God, if I was a DPS in a dungeon, not new, overgeared, and the run takes more than 30 minutes (in a leveling dungeon) or 20 minutes (in a level 50/60/70 dungeon) with all other party members being competent, I'd be pissed at myself.

[Sieben79]

MNK speaks up, "This is how we've always done things and we have never had an issue with anyone up until you, Kallistra. I hope you like being reported." I manage to see the tank saying, "If he goes I go." right before I am dismissed from the duty.

Hope you've got a better run after the kick. I can't understand those people. It doesn't matter which class I play, I always try my best independently of tank pull size.