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

[Mirateski]

3s woes

It's a shame you're not on my data centre - my static's diurnal ast is on holiday this week, and I think healing with a reliable cohealer would do you wonders. (That, and our SCH is dreading the inevitable "sch main heal I don't like pressing the regen button" whm that we have to sift through when we're missing a heals).


In other news. It's reset day so back into the deltascape I go! 3n with three folks from my FC - I'm sch, one is tanking, the other two are dps.

The ot is a drk with a distressingly small hp pool, who decided to stay in grit after FC tank pulled. nbd, I told them to turn it off, they did so. Everything was fine until the great dragon came to feed on your flesh.

Turns out it was REALLY HUNGRY FOR FLESH. I don't know if a dps ripped aggro (FC sam said they didn't, at least) but the damn thing turned around and cleaved EVERYBODY. So there's only FC tank, the ot (which is why I think someone ripped aggro) and FC smn left alive.

FC smn immediately rezzes me, then dies to the dragon. I rez cohealer, during which time mt dies to the dragon + hali wombo combo. I manage to rez fc tank before I succumb to the sweet embrace of death, and honestly we were only saved from a wipe because of the sand game, during which only me, my cohealer, and the mt were alive.

I keep mt alive while we wait for the dead people to be booted out of meteor town, during which time my cohealer dies again, this time to holy aoe during reapers. At this point I'm screaming internally and on basically no mp, but I rez the fc smn as soon as they're targettable and we both become the world's most mp starved rezbots until the lb3 is available. My cohealer uses it immediately, then dies right after to god knows what, so I rez them AGAIN and pray that nobody dies before I can resummon my fairy to immediately eat for aetherflow because you bet your ass I was going through lustrates at a mile a minute.

Anyway, we oneshot, and then I had to sit down for five minutes and contemplate existence. I only got one comm, too.

[KaivaC]

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Oh, no worries...at this point, I'm just venting. I know I'm capable of clearing the fight - heck, most of the time, I'm the only non-tank that can get through her reaper phase without a problem. I'll clear it eventually.

That is one hell of a clutch performance from you and your co-healer. Honestly, even at min iLvl, the drk shouldn't have lost aggro on the dragon - I mean, he should have a good lead built up for the dragon, but maybe that's just me spoiled from having to stack on MT during the beginning part of that phase in 3S.

[Deli]

me as whm kept party hp full while healthy 50%+ mp and Holy spam (when 3+ mobs)+ AoE Aero when I can.

Tank: "You need to use more stone"
me: /shock "but I use Holy all the time..."
Tank: "No, you need to use Stone III/IV."
me: (:O :O :O but but...)inside

Above was said by a tank only pull 1 group at a time, use Raw Intuition without Awareness, moved during Raw Intuition and got crit all the time.

[Gislin-Dahl]

Kudos for a PF caster who tossed me a couple Mana Shifts when I was on as Astrologian and running a little low from using Gravity. I didn't ask, they just shifted the mana over because they had it and I was using it.

[Miste]

Weirdest thing just happened lol

I queued mentor roulette on tank and I got a 50 something minute in progress Dun Scaith so I hit commence.

I zone in and try to head to the group but suddenly get a cutscene. I guess they just cleared it lol.

Someone in alliance chat is like "give me comms!" to which someone in the party I just unceremoniously plopped into just to get an immediate clear was like "I'm giving my comm to Miste Vaer".

I was like "but I didn't do anything! D:" and another person in my party says "for showing up".

I left with 4 comms for just plopping into the group a second before they beat last boss lol

People are so silly sometimes lol, but thank you; you guys made me smile and I am sorry I was a bit late to the party and wasn't able to actually help

[Sylvina]

Got a really "special" dark knight in Royal Menagarie who kept running from me at Akh Morn (tanks are supposed to stack) and then blamed me for "not using cooldowns" when I was making quite good use of my cooldowns thank you very much. Ah the joys of Duty finder.

[Mocita]

Queue'd for 50/60 roulette as NIN, so I wait patiently. After the queue finally pops, everyone gets zoned in and I see the new adventurer bonus. But above all else, I look at everyone and notice something. The tank is the only non-lalafell in the group! I immediately said "Tank is babysitting us!" and they finally noticed and was like "Oh, no..."

The run went pretty smoothly while I put out a few "words of encouragement". During one of our exchanges, I say "Are we at the boss yet?" and got a great reply. "One more word, and we're going back." We finally made it to the end, and it turns out the healer was new and died to meteor, followed shortly by the tank. I took up the mantle of tanking, and with the help of my DRPGOON companion, we dropped the boss. I left there with 3 comms and great satisfaction.

[KalinOrthos]

Finally starting to feel confident enough to heal expert roulettes and Omega normal and I want to hug everyone I've run the roulette with and all my cohealers who carried my terrible noob butt through to the end. I love you all and you're all amazing.

[KaivaC]

I really have to give a huge shout-out to the group I linked up with a good number of hours ago. Thank you for not immediately kicking me on O3S when I informed you I hadn't cleared, but have seen enrage. Thank you for trusting me to be a good co-healer. And thank the Twelve that we all stayed together for the only two wipes (not on me, I promise).

But most of all, thank you for getting me my first clear since I started challenging O3S a month ago. Now I can rest easy. Whew...pugging is not the most ideal way, especially when you keep grouping up with folks who claim they know the fight, but either tank the dragon add way too close to Helicarnassus (so you can either choose to eat a ribbit or a frost breath), or bring a stack marker to a green book in the library phase.

[KaivaC]

Oh, and of course, I always have a new story to share. I…generally do not like going into Susano Normal. At all. Even though it’s the same three successive patterns, I hate that you can’t control where to drop the thundercloud AOEs. Through the Trials Roulette, I go in with two FC mates (I’m AST, they are WAR and BLM).


My god….
I don’t think I’ve seen this many deaths on an Extreme run. My BLM mate has lag, so I can understand him. Not so much my co-healer and the other three DPS. The whirlpools give you enough time to move…so why don’t you move at all when they are up? And my co-healer…I am not entirely sure what they were doing. It got to a point where I was spamming heals, Lucid Dreaming, rez the RDM so he can help me get people up rez the WHM, rez the RDM yet again, top off the PLD for Stormsplitter, AOE heals for Ukehi…etc.

That first run got us to the point where it was literally just me and the two tanks. The second run…we came out with only two downed DPS (yup, the RDM was one of them). I was healing and rezzing so much that I didn’t even have time to draw a second set of cards when we did that 2nd run. I didn’t even stay for comms – I was so irritated.

Take me back to Susano Ex, plz.