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

[Mysterysword]

So today, I ran Rabanastre, again, as SCH, again. To make it simple: lots of DPS died for very stupid reasons. Such as: standing in perfectly avoidable AoEs, and perhaps the most infuriating: attacking the boss the moment they ress, even when said boss is in the middle of an unavoidable AoE and I can't heal them.

Annoyed by this, I decided to go back into Rabanastre, this time as a BLM, just to prove to myself that it was just those DPS being godawful-terrible and not the difference in our roles.

On one hand, I did, indeed, manage to prove that Rabanastre is that simple, even as the least mobile DPS job in the game. On the other, A's tank was new, still using an ilvl 285 sword and boots, insisted on MTing, drove B's (my) tank to ragequit, and apparently half of A decided to troll everyone by refusing to contribute in any way, which became more and more apparent as time went on.

I understand the ways in which this can be abused, but can we please just have the option to kick people from other alliances? Especially if the only decent people in said alliance are constantly being outvoted by the griefers.

[Miste]

This is a doozy. Strap in, folks.

It amazes me how salty someone can get simply because you eventually removed them and replaced them for the party since they were AFK for a long time. You can't join a PF expecting to AFK for like 10 mins and expect 7 other people to wait for you indefinitely. If you aren't ready to play the game (minus obvious stuff like bathroom breaks which shouldn't take you 10 mins) then don't join the PF. Simple.

If I had been any of the party leaders for those PFs I would have kicked that WHM for trying to start drama.

[Spiroglyph]

Week 3 of patch 4.1:

RDMs still haven't caught onto the fact that they can literally prevent wipes by missing a couple GCDs - I have tried to tell some, with varying degrees of success. I guess until we vastly outgear rabanastre I'll be on full time rezzing duty, when it comes to the second boss at least.

On a more positive note, I seem to find more and more ASTs willing to change from nocturnal to diurnal sect if the situation calls for such - time to give SCH a try again, hopefully with minimal DF-induced hair pulling!

[Ersilon]

I usually have good, or at least decent, parties in duty finder, though I’ve had a couple lately that really pushed the wrong buttons. Yesterday morning, I’m healing some random Deltascape normals with an FC mate who wanted parts. We land in V4, and I had only been in there once before. Well, my targeting was sticking, and I didn’t clear off the Doom. I’m not sure why my cohealer couldn’t, but whatever. People die. I die somewhere along the line and, before we can fully recover, half the party, including my cohealer, is down. It’s clearly going to be a wipe, and I own up to making the mistakes that started the downward slide. So, we reset, and round two starts. Things are going well, I cleanse Doom, and we’re doing fine. I get low on MP, pop Lucid and a Ewer card, and go from maybe 5% to nearly full. During mechanic dodging, two dps and my cohealer get marked with the meteor indicators, so they should spread out, right? Nope, they proceed to all run in the same direction and die instantly. Meanwhile, I’m dodging mechanics and can’t fling a raise. The moment I can, I do, but this warrior decides to snarkily point out in two word per line phrases that I’m an AST and that I have full mana. We still wipe, and I’m beyond frustrated at this point. I thanked the warrior for their snapshot analysis and left the party. I had made mistakes, yes, and I owned up to them. I’m far from perfect, but I don’t need to be judged off a three second analysis of my performance.

Second story, just now. I queued for Leveling on my pally and got Shisui. That’s fine by me, nice and easy dungeon. We get to the second boss, and suddenly I’m dealing with the explosion mechanic that chases the dps around the room. No, the summoner is still alive and there’s my chocobo-clad healer. Ah, the monk is faded, meaning he released and returned to the start of the dungeon. Okay, we got this, and the boss is finished with three people. Fast forward to the end boss. The healer is /cheer’ing at me (dunno why, I didn’t do anything overly special) and /slap’ping at the monk (which makes me think he released on purpose, ignoring her raise). I wait until everyone has Protect, then pull. About the point the Chum (Churn?) bubble mobs spawn, I notice they’re not dying very fast. Nasty suspicion time, so I look, and yep, the monk is on the wrong side of the barrier. Sunofa... Okay, time to do this crap again. Amazingly, we don’t wipe and nobody dies, despite a couple of very close calls. To that white mage on Cactuar, mad props, you did great. The bombfish minion dropped, and the monk got it. Icing on the cake? The monk is a mentor... from Gilgamesh. It felt very good filing that report, I must admit.

[Vahlnir]

RDMs still haven't caught onto the fact that they can literally prevent wipes by missing a couple GCDs - I have tried to tell some, with varying degrees of success. I guess until we vastly outgear rabanastre I'll be on full time rezzing duty, when it comes to the second boss at least.

RDMs are capable of far more than most people playing them seem to realize. Either that, or they know this and don't really care. I leveled RDM to 70 and I knew they could pocket heal, raise, buff and dps way before I even hit max level. This is why we need a mandatory hall of the novice tutorial for every class, maybe have people do a short instance every 10 levels to make sure they know their stuff.

[Texa]

I can recall one time I was running a trial on a noct ast with a whm that was going badly because the mt wasn't keeping the boss in place. Whm eventually left and got replaced by a sch, but the tank pulled the boss before I could change sects. We wiped two more times and lo and behold tank pulls as soon as they could before we could even get a protect in. I figured they were just doing it at that point so nobody would leave. After ANOTHER wipe I had the duty window open as soon as the screen faded in and just left.

[Aosha]

Hey, found the legendary "hardcasting Veraero/thunder RDM" in Brayflox today.

Another one in Garuda Normal. Even better, he was a mentor!

[Tzain]

I spent all Saturday powering through levels 66-70 on my White Mage, since I needed to get gear as well as XP I was only running the highest level dungeon i could (instead of roulette). As a result I saw quite a few tanks.
After a few runs with Dark Knight Tanks I started to wonder if there was something fundamentally wrong with the class. It was just so much more difficult to work with them and heal them even when their gear was more than sufficient. So when I started the duty and saw a Dark Knight up front I thought to myself "Oh boy, here we go again".
Man was I ever wrong.
Where other Dark Knights seemed to be made of paper, this guy was made of pure unyielding iron (and I don't think he was even level synched). I think the only thing I had to do was Regen, Cure II to proc a lily and DB to use the lily. It was nuts. I made a point of telling him how impressed I was at the job he was doing.
He, and another DK I ran into later, made me have to reconsider my earlier assessment of the job and certainly for the better.

Second short story: I was playing Red Mage in a DF party on friday and I was super excited after finishing a slow and rough Dungeon, I felt I had just 'carried' the damage for a group for the first time and was feeling particularly proud of myself =)

[silverlunarfox]

Got Sohm Al for roulettes as RDM. We get to the first boss, and all is well. A few seconds in, I draw aggro, displace backwards, flip back out through the entrance, which then closes.

The only other time something like this has happened is when I flipped backwards off the edge in Titan HM

This is priceless.

Ive flipped off on Titan too. Can't say ive had the "luck" of flipping out through the entrance and to have it close XP

[Tzain]

This is priceless.

Ive flipped off on Titan too. Can't say ive had the "luck" of flipping out through the entrance and to have it close XP

I'm guilty of both those things.
And I'm guilty of running away from the Dragoon buff that the guy mentions on page 1265.
In my defense I've only ever done those things once each. But the backflip out of the room caused a complete wipe because the tank and healer both admitted they were laughing too hard to play properly.