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

[Kakiko]

I wasn't in your party, but I was in that raid. Were you in Alliance B? If so, it was someone from our Alliance that double stacked with you!

Yep! I was in B. I was the BLM who couldn't stay on her feet! I think I was hitting C's water sphere or whatever it's called at the first boss because I've somehow never been in any other alliance than C. *sadface* I honestly don't know wth was in my head last night but that was my worst run of Raba. I was in party chat just like "ok, so I give up." Best part, I didn't even need to do it for any gear as I'd done it earlier this week. I was only going through it with a friend for her weekly and to "get a bit better at the mechanics" (ahahahahah!)



I went into World of Darkness later on with my FC leader. I went in as AST thinking (for some dumb reason, again, wth) it was Void Ark which is easy peasy to heal through. We had a TON of newbies and it was the worst WoD I've been in. Co-healer was allegedly drunk, as was one of their friends in our party. Two SAMs and a DRG couldn't stay alive for more than 30 seconds at a time. One of the SAMs would keep going to the home point after they died, just as I swiftcast/Ascended them (with a macro saying they were being brought back to life!) leaving me without a swiftcast a few times. Co-Heal was in Diurnal but didn't throw out any Aspected Benefics on anyone. I was in Noct and trying to keep shields on everyone. Wiped three times; once on the second boss, once on the doggy, and again at the last boss. I ended up with two comms, shockingly.

It was a weird night, but I've never been so embarrassed as I was in Raba.

[KaivaC]

I'll keep this one short since I'm on my phone, but ended up in Weeping City earlier this week on my PLD. That would be fine....except I've only done it once back in May, so I definitely didn't remember mechanics. And I had my mentor crown. I asked for help from my party, fully expecting to be kicked.

To my surprise, my party told me what I needed to know, esp for Ozma. Felt good to have that experience. Only died once due to not realizing that Ozma doesn't have guardrails.

[Kakiko]

*snip*

I was in Weeping City earlier this week, too. Really good run. Hilaaarious moment when we got to Ozma and one of the other alliance's BLM essentially did a swan dive off the platform almost immediately, followed by a message in alliance chat to the tune of "OMG YOU CAN FALL HERE?!" Absolutely everyone was lol'ing, a few "10.0!" and "9.5!" went out, too. Before that, I made a flub with my aetherial manipulation macro during Forgall. I accidentally targeted the boss and sent out a party message saying "Forgall! Take me with you!" which caused more than a few laughs.

[KaivaC]

Lol. I wish I was in those runs. I'm usually in one of two runs: we clear with few problems, or everything goes to hell with each boss. Is it me, or was Weeping City unusually popular in the DF this week?

[Astrapls]

Yep! I was in B. I was the BLM who couldn't stay on her feet! I think I was hitting C's water sphere or whatever it's called at the first boss because I've somehow never been in any other alliance than C. *sadface* I honestly don't know wth was in my head last night but that was my worst run of Raba. I was in party chat just like "ok, so I give up." Best part, I didn't even need to do it for any gear as I'd done it earlier this week. I was only going through it with a friend for her weekly and to "get a bit better at the mechanics" (ahahahahah!)



I went into World of Darkness later on with my FC leader. I went in as AST thinking (for some dumb reason, again, wth) it was Void Ark which is easy peasy to heal through. We had a TON of newbies and it was the worst WoD I've been in. Co-healer was allegedly drunk, as was one of their friends in our party. Two SAMs and a DRG couldn't stay alive for more than 30 seconds at a time. One of the SAMs would keep going to the home point after they died, just as I swiftcast/Ascended them (with a macro saying they were being brought back to life!) leaving me without a swiftcast a few times. Co-Heal was in Diurnal but didn't throw out any Aspected Benefics on anyone. I was in Noct and trying to keep shields on everyone. Wiped three times; once on the second boss, once on the doggy, and again at the last boss. I ended up with two comms, shockingly.

It was a weird night, but I've never been so embarrassed as I was in Raba.

That first boss was just a mess in general. Nobody soaked the north puddle, so it became a blizzard cube. THEN nobody killed it, so I was turned into a snowman (which is the first time that ever happened, and I must admit was really cute so I wasn't even mad). Somehow I didn't die and was left with about 1,000 HP. So I excog'd my PLD and healed myself up. I'm just happy we didn't wipe!

Rabanasty is just a breeding ground for frustration anyway. Somehow it's gotten worse!
I was also in there helping a friend, and they didn't even get their drop. They got the coin though, and that's all that really matters. Still, might run it again ;;.

Oh wow, usually when I get WoD I am pretty happy since it goes by pretty quickly.
Your run sounded all kinds of awful. I've been noticing a lot more lately that healers aren't using their HoTs.

Don't worry though, we've all had off nights. I was doing so awful in a Shinryu Ex run that I had to apologize to the party for my poor play and leave in shame.

[laurtias]

Ran The Vault for the first time yesterday and...
Oh boy.

That was the most challenging dungeon I have faced to date.
Three out of four of us were new, except for our bard, but everyone was polite and understanding.

After several wipes on the final boss, I was actually shaking; I was getting worse each time due to nerves. Every time he said, "This shall be a mercy," I messed up somehow shortly after. I offered to let the group kick me, but the tank insisted that we would get it if we kept trying.

The bard had played a white mage before and gave me some healing suggestions, which helped immensely. My healing game definitely improved from the trial by fire.
Unfortunately, I died again on the final boss, but the group pulled through and cleared it.

I'm hoping to ask my FC friends to help me run it so I can "git gud". Overall, even though it was hell, it was one of my most positively remembered runs because of the amazing people I had the good fortune to run it with.



Thanks all.

[Kakiko]

*snip*

Yep. 100% empathize with you. I did The Vault on AST back in November for the first time. Similar experience, only I ragequit in tears and my party ended up with another healer who cleared the final boss in under 5 minutes.

I had nightmares, hearing Charibert's voice, for at least a day or two afterwards and I haven't healed in there since.

[Aosha]

...My healing game definitely improved from the trial by fire.

By literal fire. "SICKNESS MUST BE PURGED!"

But yeah, Ser Charibert is probably the biggest Healer wake-up call up to that point in the game (excluding the really serious ARR stuff, of course). I do remember going through that at launch as WHM, was pretty scary even though I was with friends and had already been put through the insane masspulls of Brayflox hard.
Keep at it, and you'll improve for sure! You've already got the attitude right, now it just takes some time.

As a side note: Does ARR really pump your levels up THAT seriously nowadays? That Paladin has level 60 gear on, was he really so overleveled compared to the story? @.@
I'm kind of jealous, as someone who did all of ARR back when it gave no exp.
Except not actually, I wouldn't wish that 100-quest grind all at once on anyone.

[Ilyrian]

Ran The Vault for the first time yesterday and...
Oh boy.

Good for you! Trial by fire is the only way to learn - I'd say most healers gain their stripes in The Vault. Stick at it

[Thoosa]

I found the Vault horrible on Astrologian :P