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

[ko_]

I got lost and DD today, ran all the way back to the start after a few pulls. We all had a good lol moment cause of that.

[Gemina]

I got lost and DD today, ran all the way back to the start after a few pulls. We all had a good lol moment cause of that.

I've done that more times than I care to count. Probably my biggest tanking flaw.

But yes, for some reason, it is always funny when it happens xD

[KaivaC]

Had the weirdest Susano normal fight today on my Trials Roulette. Two newbies, one of them being a PLD in Shield Oath. I immediately pop into Sword Oath, do my greetings, and ...wait. Literally. Nobody is moving, but the majority of the party are ready to go. The SCH already threw out her Succors up, the WHM threw up a Medica II, some of the other DPS are ready....but nothing. And wouldn't you know it, my keyboard batteries died, so I can't say anything.

I literally start pacing behind the party as we wait for the PLD to pull. A full minute goes by before I get annoyed enough to do something I rarely do - I turned into a jerk. Maybe. I dunno.

I swapped into Shield Oath and pulled Susano myself. Sometime during the fight after I go back into Sword Oath while being MT, I notice that I'm losing aggro incredibly fast to the newbie PLD. Like, super fast. I had to waste a GCD going back into Shield and spam the hell out of my aggro combos - turns out, the PLD was repeatedly hitting their aggro combos as well, which meant that for 3/4th of the fight, I was fighting to keep my aggro lead.

In the last quarter of the fight, after an unfortunate Rasen Kaiyo caught me (I ran out of safe spots due to bad positioning of susano on my part), the newbie PLD FINALLY switches to Sword Oath. At the point, it's too late to have any noticeable effect - I haven't spammed my aggro combo that much outside of the early ARR dungeons. I didn't even bother to wait around to emote goodbyes or victory poses.

Yes, something little like that bugged me. Leave me alone :P

[Meillquei]

Was just grouped with the most toxic person I have ever seen. Was doing Syrcus Tower for alliance roulette, and for the entire run, this guy was on a drunk incoherent rant about politics. He basically wished death upon certain groups of people and did a lot of country bashing. At one point, he kept dying and everyone just said to leave him on the floor. I reported him and blacklisted him as fast as I could and I really hope everyone in that group did too.

[KaivaC]

Was just grouped with the most toxic person I have ever seen. Was doing Syrcus Tower for alliance roulette, and for the entire run, this guy was on a drunk incoherent rant about politics. He basically wished death upon certain groups of people and did a lot of country bashing. At one point, he kept dying and everyone just said to leave him on the floor. I reported him and blacklisted him as fast as I could and I really hope everyone in that group did too.

I'm honestly surprised nobody kicked him, to be honest. In addition to reporting and blacklisting, I'd have suggested that, at the very least, my alliance refuse to fight any battles until they kicked that individual. I don't believe Syrcus Tower can be cleared with only two alliances.

[Kaabi]

Yesterday, doing Senpai Roulette on SCH for those sweet instaqueues and hoping for a dungeon I can be the green DPS in. Queue instantly pops (yay): 2 minute in progress. Suspicious.
I go in anyway, Amdapor City HM with the tank disconnected, SMN and a NIN (I think) just loitering about. So I do what any sensible person would do: I go from green DPS to green Tank! Was a lot of fun pulling stuff and keeping aggro, though the Titan summon definitely helped Right after we killed the first boss we got an actual tank though, so smooth sailing afterwards.
Sometimes suspicious In Progress queues can be undiscovered joy!

[Driskus]

Had what is probably the 5th or 6th WAR tank in Baelsar's Wall in the past month that tries to do the whole dungeon in Deliverance and doesn't even at least build aggro for the final boss. End result: wipe because failed DPS check since one of the DPS was already in weakness. Literally one tick of Aero III = mobs all over me permanently. Like, I have no issues with tanking the trash & the first two bosses as WHM since they do basically no damage, but when a boss has an attack that will one-shot non-tanks, why not at least try and prevent a wipe?

[Chortle]

Had one of the best raid parties last night! I queued up as astro for my daily alliance roulette and it turned out to be The World of Darkness. Not too shabby! Pretty nice raid, but sometimes people miss mechanics especially later at night (which it was).

Anyways, we get to the first boss Angra Mainyu. Things seem to be going okay. I did notice that the fight was seemingly taking forever, but I didn't think much of it. Everything was going swell until the boss reached 30-ish percent. He cast 100 flare and unfortunately half of my group brainfarts and dies including me. Out of the 4 other healers, no one resurrected me or my other party healer. So we just chatted in party channel until they wiped since they didn't have enough dps. I consoled my group saying "maybe they didn't notice we died so early ;]". Second time, we beat him just fine. It did take a really long time though. Worst raid dps I have seen in a while.

5-headed-dragon goes smoothly enough although slow again. Then we get to good old Cerberus. We end up wiping because only 3 people got themselves eaten. Apparently group B didn't know it stood for "belly". So my group rallied after the first wipe! We decided all of group C will be going into the belly. Someone saying "C is for carry". We beat him no problem on the second time around. The final boss was the only one we took down the first try XD. Everyone was so positive and having such a great time even though it was one of the slowest and sloppiest runs we had seen. I really love finding people like that in this game.

Don't forget. Group C is for "carry".

[Lord_Zlatan]

LoTA last night.

This is one of those situations where I just cannot stand the amount of ignorance have about proper tanking. So I tanked the first boss, tanked the 2nd boss, we get to Behemoth, run in, unmend and start my aggro combo and one of the other tanks provokes it. I Dark Arts my Power Slash and rip it back, and bring him to the correct position. Adds spawn, the other tanks dont pick them up. People dead left and right. We beat the fight without a wipe and someone puts in alliance chat "tanks wanna grab the adds"? I said "yeah, sorry, didnt want to move behemoth"... the guy starts telling me how "you were in grit and not picking up adds" so I respond politely by saying "I was tanking the boss" to which he said "yeah u lost aggro nub"...

I literally lost aggro for .5 seconds on the initial pull, and didnt lose it from there on out. I really get agitated when people think they know what happening and call people out but dont actually have any clue.

[Tridus]

LotA last night for the seemingly billionth time this week, and had other people saying the same thing. It's like nothing else pops in Alliance roulette.

Anyhow, alliance B was hillarious. We spent the whole thing joking around about Costco, Tim Hortons, donuts, the glaze waterfall on a conveyor belt at Krispy Kreme, donut burgers... the entire run was really entertaining chat. Run itself had a mishap when somehow ancient flare killed us (looked like everyone was on pads), but everyone was upbeat and we got it next time.

Certainly took a "oh not this again" initial reaction and turned it into a really fun time.