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

[Cold_Raven]

Ran WHM heals on an expert roulette - Kugane.

Tank doing big pulls, without cooldowns... but didn't matter, kept them alive.

I don't WHM very often, so wait until the tank pulls guys... then slap a regen on while I run with to prepare for the rest of the pull.
Slightly tougher to pull the second group, but one AoE enmity attack and it doesn't matter anyway.

Downed first boss.
Tank goes for big pull again.
I get a bit flustered with my buttons and can't keep up.
Or maybe it's the no-cooldown usage, but tank dies and party wipes.

Tank says "Stop putting f-ing regens on me until I gather everything up."
I say "Tank better."

Tank stops, I know a kick is being prepared for me. I resign myself to starting up another roulette. Whatever.
A few moments go by.

DPS says "I'm not kicking the healer."
I dunno why... maybe it was obvious what caused the fail and who was being a dink?

Anyway, tank says "Remove me then."
And that's it. Never moves, and never speaks again.

Same DPS says "Take your penalty and leave. I'm not kicking you either, I've got Netflix and all day."
Other DPS says "lol" and waits too.
Same DPS starts chatting about bad tanks and crying in the corner and all sorts of trash.

I load up Support and report the tank for swearing in chat and holding the party hostage.
In a few minutes, a GM /tells me while we're still in the dungeon instance.
GM requests, so I quote the lines from the tank to them.

Same DPS asks if tank will still get penalty if we kick them for being AFK.
I tell them no, but I have a GM in tells so just give it a minute.

And... poof, bum tank is gone and another joins instantly. Instantly as in less-than-1-second.

New pally tank clears 2nd boss. Then pulls all-the-things from there up until he can't go any more... is that all the way to 3rd boss? 3 or 4 groups together, anyway.

They do use cooldowns, including HG at one point.
I use everything I have in my not-very-experienced-WHM-toolbox and end up keeping them alive, somehow... probably because they rotated their cooldowns as efficiently as possible.

Party finishes last boss with no issues, laughs at other tank that (we think) got removed by GM, and part ways.

All in all, a pretty good day!

[kupokage]

Got called a noob tank in Sohm Al NM by a level synced mid 50 DRG in mixed NM/HQ MB and dungeon gear. Apparantly he took a look at my non level synced self and saw I was only in i130 gear (Dreadwrym). Of course that meant, by default, he was an elite and I was a noob. Because, well duh, he was higher level and in better gear than me. I mean, I DID ignore bees on the first boss and all but the green slime on the 2nd boss -_-

He died at the last boss as I pulled it to the wall away from meteor impacts. He couldnt dps on the move whilst dodging aoes evidently.

DRG apologizes to healer. "sorry nub mt"

*blacklisted*

[Mysterysword]

Kugane

I don't know why, but today, Kugane as SCH was oddly difficult for me. I've healed Temple before with no problems, even through major pulls, and with time to spare for throwing out DPS.

The PLD I had today, though, I just couldn't understand why they dropped so fast. Maybe it's something I'll only understand if I tank it myself. They died twice in that run, attempting double pulls. I wasn't doing anything different - throwing on Adlo and Exo, but somehow those shields got burned up in like 2 seconds. At one point, I tried taking 5 seconds off to Bio + Miasma + Bane, and they dropped from 100% to 20% in that time, even with Adlo and Exo. 49k HP, what appeared to be a full 320 set, I still don't get it.

The DRG and BRD in that run were pretty awful, though. I mean, the BRD had 37k HP, meaning they definitely had better gear than me as BLM, and yet when I run as BLM, I usually see 2/3rds of the triple summoning ninjas dead before they can pull out their heads. This run, only one of them died.

[Zefiris]

Today tying do roulette trial as red mage. But after 3 wipe against Shinryu, I leave. Better I continue doing trial only as bard. I die less and do more dps >.<

[KalinOrthos]

Tanked O2N today on DRK for my token. Midway through the first phase, during one of the Probes, both the healers and one of the DPS die. We didn't have a RDM or SMN, so that means a wipe, right?

Suddenly my cotank chimes in: "Keep going"

He's a paladin.

No, my mistake. He wasn't a paladin, he was a goddamn monster. I kept Grit up for the mitigation, the other DPS managed to take as little damage as possible, and this monster of a man solo healed the rest of the fight, a good 60% of the boss' health. Just. Wow.

[Rawrz]

Tanked O2N today on DRK for my token. Midway through the first phase, during one of the Probes, both the healers and one of the DPS die. We didn't have a RDM or SMN, so that means a wipe, right?

Suddenly my cotank chimes in: "Keep going"

He's a paladin.

No, my mistake. He wasn't a paladin, he was a goddamn monster. I kept Grit up for the mitigation, the other DPS managed to take as little damage as possible, and this monster of a man solo healed the rest of the fight, a good 60% of the boss' health. Just. Wow.

Pld's clemency is something like 650-700 potency, relative to a healers potency, since they dont have mend and maim traits to make it a true 1200 potency heal. Thats twol Vercures in one gcd. This in combination with reduced spell costs,being unable to be interupted while casting, infinite mp regen from riot blade, and other heavy support abilities (divine viel, cover + hallowed, intervention) makes them crazy capable. Its the reason pld shoudnt be able to raise. Lol

[Altena]

Hope your medica II spam don't get you in trouble.

Ciao.

Who's spamming? Using AoE regen after the first Holy or Celestial stun works well for me.

When I am tanking? I don't care when people use it, because I am not a bad tank and can keep hate.

[Nestama]

I kinda really wish people would do their level 70 Job quest before entering the final story dungeon and Trial... and learn after getting killed by Tidal Wave the first time that maybe it's a good idea to follow everyone else.

[KalinOrthos]

Pld's clemency is something like 650-700 potency, relative to a healers potency, since they dont have mend and maim traits to make it a true 1200 potency heal. Thats twol Vercures in one gcd. This in combination with reduced spell costs,being unable to be interupted while casting, infinite mp regen from riot blade, and other heavy support abilities (divine viel, cover + hallowed, intervention) makes them crazy capable. Its the reason pld shoudnt be able to raise. Lol

That paladin was still an absolute beast keeping the rest of the raid up through all that. Made me feel like a really bad tank in comparison.

[Vidu]

I kinda really wish people would do their level 70 Job quest before entering the final story dungeon and Trial... and learn after getting killed by Tidal Wave the first time that maybe it's a good idea to follow everyone else.

Yeah we had a BLM like that in the last story dungeon today - but we strongly adviced and hopefully convinced them to do their jobquest before the trial.

Its also nothing against our experience from yesterday:

Me and two friends did trials and got Cape Westwind... with an archer - a little sigh, but no biggy, really. Its Cape Westwind, so the archer there is nothing but a bad omen for what was supposed to follow...

...50/60 roulette - we get paired with a level 52 conjurer, wearing some level 45 gear, darklight-jewls (one of them for tanks - but that was quite a shock because them wearing darklight meant they had been running dungeons like this before and never got their jobcyrstal). Guy doesnt speak or gives any real hint that he understands what I'm saying (basically "Please, please, get your jobstone - you're missing skills and gear!") - at the end one of my friends suggest that this might be a bot, but at my request they actually start jumping when being straight out asked "Are you a bot?", so we guess its a real idiot behind that screen... we do manage to get through the dungeon, but geez was I pissed at that guy. Really hope he went and got his jobstone...