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

[KaivaC]

Well this was definitely a first...ever.

Smooth run through Hullbreaker Isle Normal, we are doing well against the final boss (minus me getting killed by World's End). We get to the last tentacle and someone calls for an LB. I say what the hell, why not, and start casting for my RDM LB2. Then the tentacle hides under water. So I quickly cancel it and wait for the tentacle to pop back up. As soon as its targetable, I start casting the LB - and the damn thing friggin' disappears again. Cancel that, and have to wait once more. The stupid kraken knew...he knew what I was going to do. So he stuns me, tosses me to another island 'like a ragdoll', right where another party member just already dropped a whirlpool.

Needless to say, the following World's End kills me. Stupid kraken.

[HyoMinPark]

I am confused about this one paladin in Shisui...
Gear in the i260-i270 range, using cooldowns (after being asked to, after wiping on the first pull due to using none).
But it was like healing a tank made of tissue paper. Sometimes I'd get to throw in some holy-cure-holy-cure, but sometimes his health would just spike down from 90% to 5% in what seemed like one hit.
I have no idea...

EDIT: I checked my own lvl62 i270 dark knight and noticed I had about 8k more HP than that paladin did. Got down to his 28k by un-equipping both my chest piece and pants. I doubt a few pieces being 260 makes that kind of a difference, maybe some of his gear was broken. Which raises even more questions, as the game warns you about that now.

Your tank was probably sporting strength accessories. I do for stuff like quests, FATEs and 8-mans/24-mans but in dungeons I switched to VIT when I was leveling DRK since DRK is already lacking in defensive mitigation.

[MoroMurasaki]

Why do I always get in progress groups when I queue alone? I know I could uncheck the box but I can usually salvage most bad situations so I don't want to feel selfish.

My recent run through Susano on Trial Roulette begs to differ.

First off I'm so happy I felt like playing WHM because I don't think I could have turned this fight around without basically limitless MP.

We had 5 new players. I don't know if they knew each other and queued together or if it was just luck but somehow this was harder than getting my own clear during msq when no one knew the fight yet. Maybe that's why the healer who I replaced left.

New players are another WHM, PLD, WAR, BRD and BLM. The PLD is MT. They didn't leave time for me to explain anything at first so I rolled with it. First stack marker is just the MCH, WHM and me and my Cure III rips hate. I die despite Bene and Tetra because no one takes him off of me. Wipe almost immediately.

The next run the SAME THING HAPPENS!!!

This is my big pet peeve. If I explain a basic mechanic or something about someone's job to them I expect to not die from them not doing that thing because they now have the knowledge to do it correctly. I'm not talking O4S level mechanics either, this is a matter of holding hate as a tank in a level 63 instance. I almost get petty and leave but decide better of it.

We wipe 2 more times before clearing. The MCH and a DRG alternate getting orbs during the sword phase for the second sword, I just heal through them on the first. We wiped once around 10% because I got trapped in a gaol and my coheal (despite also being a whm, despite also having tons of MP) couldn't keep them up through an Ukehi even with my Medica II ticking.

I dunno. We cleared, I felt happy for them, but at the same time I didn't want to play with these people anymore. Does that make me a bad person? I wonder...

7 comms though! Only seen that a few times before, brightened my mood a bit. But hot damn was that thing a dunpster fire. Other healer know that I do not blame you in the slightest.

[AlyssaWildheart]

Mostly good stuff today, I ran Tam Tara and Copperbell on my Elezen Summoner alt I was leveling, found a great group. The tank and I were talking the whole time and we got a healer who was saying jokes in the chat- I gained a new friend today so thats awesome!

Later in the day I unlocked scholar so I decide I'll do some dungeons in my level- before I queue I start to feel incredibly sick to where I cant focus. And what do I do? Decide to heal even though my eyes were probably all glassy and weird while I stare into space.

Now I know it was a bad idea but I managed to keep everyone alive and do a perfectly good job! Probably no more healing today though- and the group was nice and patient when I kept falling behind cause I'd get distracted. So thanks to the people I got to meet today

[KaivaC]

Your tank was probably sporting strength accessories. I do for stuff like quests, FATEs and 8-mans/24-mans but in dungeons I switched to VIT when I was leveling DRK since DRK is already lacking in defensive mitigation.

This has nothing to do with your comment, I just really really like your character card signature. How can I get one?

[Meanken]

(Split into two because what kind of forum limits you to 1000 characters per post? That's hardly a paragraph.)

So here's one that happened mere moments ago. Cutters Cry, me on my level 40 MNK. Everything seems normal, first room is pulled, things die. We enter the sand for the second room. Suddenly, both the healer and the other DPS drop without warning. Must have been together given how closely they dropped. Me and the tank, a PLD, are scratching our heads as a BLM replacement zones in, at which point we get the first timer message. We stand around for a minute waiting for a healer. I give the PLD a gear check, he's got the lev 50 i115 vendor gear on glammed as the PLD job gear. Assuming he knows what he's doing, I encourage him to pull the next room and see what happens. He's a little hesitant but goes for it. Naturally, 2 seconds after he pulls, a SCH healer zones in.

[Meanken]

We continue, going through the hallway with the bombs. I screw up, thinking I could down it before it explodes. I eat it, die. Happens. As I rez and start running back, the second healer drops without a word. Me and the tank are throwing our hands up when a third healer, an AST, zones in. Rest of the run goes as normal, little trouble on the last boss with first timers and such, but nothing we coulden't get past.

Why are healers so quick to drop and eat a penalty when you haven't even been in a run for 5 minutes?

[Paladinleeds]

Oh boy, what a run.

So, we have Royal City. I've gone on my weakest healer (AST), because I wanted to avoid a double WHM or double SCH combo (double AST I find isn't so bad). My co-healer wanted to practice her SCH. So both healers not on their best healers... not our finest run but we pulled it off.

(Split into two because what kind of forum limits you to 1000 characters per post? That's hardly a paragraph.)

Edit your post. It bypasses the limit. Asinine I know but it works.

[Meanken]

Edit your post. It bypasses the limit. Asinine I know but it works.

Oh, huh, ok. Thanks for the heads up.

[silverlunarfox]

Why are healers so quick to drop and eat a penalty when you haven't even been in a run for 5 minutes?

It wasn't your group, it was the fact it was Cutter's Cry more than likely