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

[Slirith]

Two stories today, one good, one bad.

Good story....

Did EX roulette before it reset and got Temple of the Fist. Got to the last boss and healer/other dps died so me(monk) and paladin tank ended up killing the bosses last 30% hp. Ended up close as the PLD was running out of mana to selfheal.


Bad story...

Ex roulette after reset and got Skalla. FFS TANKS DRAG KELPIE OUT OF THE RED STUFF ON THE OUTSIDE AFTER IT DOES THE PUSH/PULL MECHANICS!!!!!!!

[Bernkastelx]

Had a fun time in Rabanastre, on the second boss our party was struggling which you know I could care less people still learning mechs w/e. What hit me was that it was only me and our whm in our party alive near the end, so hey at least we still have a healer right rez/heals WRONG. After getting hit by 2 quakes I am sitting there like getting pretty low could use a heal so I look at their cast bar and behold. Aero III being spammed and im just sitting there crying not like this and I die to the 3rd quake.

So the raid wipes, I am pretty mad at this point so I say I wish I got a heal, instead of watching my whm spam aero III. They respond "Its not my problem if people are not in range/dodging mechs." and they leave. Apparently quake iv is avoidable and I am just bad.

[tinythinker]

I think from now on if I see Bardam's, I should immediately leave. I've had issues there in the past, where there was a 60-75% chance if a tank did big pulls it would be wipe. I've asked for advice on healing big pulls, etc, and tried to use it. But to be fair, I post something like (fyi still struggle with big pulls) now. No reason to let tanks think I can handle it without speaking up. Tank tonight is very nice and offers to pull small and does.

The run still sucks. On the fifth or sixth small pull tank dies. I saw him at 20% and tried to cast Benediction but he was dead before the spell reached him. Final boss, tank died 15-20 seconds in. I had put on a Regen was casting a couple Stones then had to stop to heal the tank but I had to dodge a mechanic and he was gone. We tried again, had to rez tank twice.

Usually it's me to blame in Bardam's and it may be the case this time as well, but, it doesn't matter. Every run I've had in that place has been awful and as healer when tanks die a lot you have to figure you shoulder a lot of the responsibility. Sorry to the party I ran with tonight.

[dragonseth07]

Ex roulette after reset and got Skalla. FFS TANKS DRAG KELPIE OUT OF THE RED STUFF ON THE OUTSIDE AFTER IT DOES THE PUSH/PULL MECHANICS!!!!!!!

When you drop the puddles in the middle of the room, there's nowhere to take him. ;_;

[Slirith]

When you drop the puddles in the middle of the room, there's nowhere to take him. ;_;

No no, I mean the outside where it's red(like when you first engage the boss the outside goes blue to red) that gives you a debuff, puddles are blue watery.

[dragonseth07]

No no, I mean the outside where it's red(like when you first engage the boss the outside goes blue to red) that gives you a debuff, puddles are blue watery.

Yeah, I mean:

I got this exact complaint in Skalla recently. But, I couldn't move him back to the center because the puddles were dropped in the center of the room. The only safe place to stand was on the edge. :P

[Lilseph]

Yeah, I mean:

I got this exact complaint in Skalla recently. But, I couldn't move him back to the center because the puddles were dropped in the center of the room. The only safe place to stand was on the edge. :P

Well, you move it a bit close to the center, then you rotate him sideways so the DPS can use their positionals.

Like the last boss from Skalla. I've found that tanking him sideways, at the north of the stage, is the best position. As you minimize the area covered by the tail and the DPS can chill with more room for maneuverability (and mitigating the proximity damage AoE).

[Slirith]

Yeah, I mean:

I got this exact complaint in Skalla recently. But, I couldn't move him back to the center because the puddles were dropped in the center of the room. The only safe place to stand was on the edge. :P

I get you. My complaint was for the tanks who don't move him/her(no clue what gender Kelpie is lol) period after the push/pull regardless of puddle placement.

[Azper]

So I signed up for my Trial Roulette this evening as AST and got Susano Normal with another AST. They went Nocturnal, which is fine, even though I do prefer that sect instead of Diurnal. They seemed okay even if they didn't really do much in the way of DPS—I'll take a competent, safe co-healer as opposed to someone that makes me do all the work.

Well...

Jump to after his ultimate and this person dies five times, leaving me to basically solo heal the remainder of it. I eventually just stopped raising them since it was a waste of MP at that point. Two other DPS bite the dust, but we still manage to pull off a win and I even threw out some AoE Balance and Spear to boot.

Do you think I got one stinkin' commendation? Nope! Not even so much as a thank you or good job.

Moral of the story and how it feels to play a healer in any content these days:

[Mysterysword]

So I decided to queue for Expert Roulette, as PLD, while I was half-asleep. Skalla loads in, an AST and 2 BRDs. I warned them that I was tired as hell, and off we go.

At some points, it got a tad rough - I'm ilvl 318 on PLD, the AST had barely 30k HP in the dungeon, and the BRDs had 38k and 34k HP respectively. But for the most part, I managed to hold aggro, even when the BRDs ripped it off. I didn't react to mechanics as fast as I should've, but c'est la vie.

But this AST. Oh, this AST. I don't think I ever saw Synastry. Or Earthly Star. Or anything except Benefic II spam to keep me alive. Combined with Gravity spam, they had serious MP issues even though they never had to cast a single Raise, and both BRDs were feeding them Refresh. I've never had to seriously spam Clemency on myself, in the middle of pulls, just to stay alive.