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

[MoroMurasaki]

I had a nice run of the Aetherochemical Research Facility the other night.


I'm leveling RDM on my alt and my boyfriend is leveling PLD. We had a BRD and an AST. The AST greeted us with a hello and then said that they hadn't healed this before. My boyfriend is a solid tank so I wasn't worried.

The AST was doing great through the dungeon. I Mana Shifted a few times but it was because they were spamming Gravity which I was not mad about one bit. Kept everyone alive.

On the last boss the AST and BRD go down to fireball AoE almost instantly bht then I realize my boyfriend and I both have self-heals. There isn't a tankbuster to worry about and the raidwide damage (if you do mechs and dodge properly) is really limited. So we solo'd the boss through the rest of that phase and the Ascian Prime, even killed the fire and Blizzard spheres. I woulf melee combo one down while he focused on the other then jump over and help him finish his off.

It was the most fun I've had in that place in a long time because it required actual thought and playing in a way that was certainly atypical. I loved it!

Made a friend in the AST too, answered some AST questions for her that she'd had trouble getting clear responses too. It was nice.

[DevonEllwood]

Medica II is a thing, especially in alliance raids where there's usual amounts of aoe damage. I'll admit, I wasn't doing my best, but I was using all four of my healing skills. I had Selene because I figured hey, white mage has medica II. This white mage only had cure II, stone II, and Medica. That cast bar barely did anything. And no, I don't count constantly raising the dead bard as healing. I wouldn't have minded nearly as much if the white mage was dpsing. But again, cast bar barely did anything. Why not use Medica II when you can literally heal an entire alliance raid up within a handful of seconds with one button and not have to spam physic and Succor because that's the best a scholar has at level 50. I guess I should use Eos from now on just in case a white mage is healing like they never passed their level 35 job quest.

[killstein]

i queue'd in prog on an alt into leveling roulette as a sch, i'm almost 52 and get stone vigil. i don't realise anything as being wrong until i notice the tank can't keep hate on anything. i type in "shield oath" and the bard pipes up, "he doesn't have his soulstone." lvl44 gld in stone vigil... somehow he unequipped it before queuing in (idek WHY you would) and needless to say it was annoying having to deal with it.

last boss's frontal cleave nearly killed the tank every single time and it got to a point where 2 were dead and i wasn't sure we would make it. we did, though and i bolted asap. the bard made this run a little leas painful so ty for that...

[Enla]

Had a Rabanasty, which is how I'm going to be referring to it from now on, last night that really took the game. As with last time two alliances kept messing up but one of them messed up so often that it caused countless wipes. We literally took so long DPSing down Mateus that I saw a mechanic that I haven't seen since the week it dropped, to the point I'm convinced some people were literally just spamming one button because there's no way our combined DPS should be that bad. It got worse on Hashbrowns, no matter what happened that one alliance was almost always dead and almost always to things that inevitably hurt the rest of us. Sand Spheres? Didn't get theirs down in time multiple times. Golems? They saved their LB for a Healer LB twice, though given the circumstances I can't blame the competent ones who did that. Incoming damage? I literally watched one of their healers stand right under the three dropping pillars while everyone else was running to the far north corner and bite the dust.

And of course because a lot of Hashbrown's mechanics punish /everyone/ if not done properly and come in quick succession we'd end up having most of our health eaten by the Sand Sphere exploding with little to almost no time to recover before the rest of the alliances were dead as well; with the poor DPS on top of most of that alliance kissing the floor for 80% of the fight meaning we'd get a second set of Golems inevitably that would just smash people down before there was any time to recover. It was the first and only successful vote abandon I've seen in /months/.

I don't know what it is about this raid... I really don't. It's not hard.

[Metalwrath]

Ran WOD todayFun times
Wiped twice on the eye.All 3 tanks managed to die tanking and my red mage died twice tanking adds for the off tanks fighting for agro on eye boss.Im quite sure they kept getting doomed.

5 head dragon.Was tanked in mid after me explaining to them where to bring the boss.

Cerb somehow went fine but i saw some unknowns getting slayed XD.

Cloud of Darkness -Wiped once.Honestly not sure what happend on this one but it looked like the cloud phase and orb dps check managed to stack on each other along with shadow lurkers.

[Ersilon]

I unlocked DRG yesterday, and decided to take it into Leveling. Toto-Rak, no surprise given my level. Get a BLM, an AST, and a lala WAR. The WAR pulled the first couple mobs, then stopped, but after a couple of seconds, ran to pull the second group. As soon as we’re down to one mob, he’s off again, on until the first boss room. We wipe on the first boss because there’s three trash mobs in with us. And so on through the dungeon. It was one giant bum-rush, and halfway through, it’s obvious the tank’s not even trying to hold aggro. I admit, I just kinda tunnel visioned and just did my own thing for the rest of the dungeon. When we killed the end boss, my response was U>LeaveNowHeckWithWaitingForCommsOrLoots. I just wanted out of there.

[SavageCipher]

Was doing Keeper of the Lake...with an experienced tank....and two very bad dps. One literally "stepped in the fire" countless times...the other produced zero dmg output. Gave it three tries on the second boss and just one on the final boss, no one was acknowledging the number markers, and ignored the flying mob for the group shield. We died of course, and I'm a more cynical healer as time goes by.

[Katie_Kitty]

My worst experiences have been with DPS who struggle in the Aery boss fight and healers who can't stop dying to the bosses in cutters cry/dzaemel darkhold.

[AlyssaWildheart]

Since I have a lot of alts I get forced to running Sastasha, Copperbell, and Tam-Tara a lot,

Anyway, I load into Tam-Tara, party is average: one new player, experienced white mage, everything should go smoothly. Except the healer just spammed medica/cure when we were at full health and stood there doing nothing for most of the run. I was tempted to say something but didnt want to start anything. Throughout the whole thing they did one or two stones, on the final boss.

I did however get a nice group for Garuda, explained the mechanics and everything went smoothly.

[cactusbees]

So this just happened. Was running Skalla/Expert roulette with an FC mate. Throughout the dungeon, I will admit I was distracted because my toddler started coughing in her sleep (The weather has been wonky af, so..), so yes! I was not doing well in the least. We get to clickyboomdragon and halfway through, the other DPS pipes up with, "pretty sure they're a bot" and "spams arrow and no dots".. I answer with, "me?" and "No, just sh*tty at the class."

Never seen anyone book it out of a finished duty so quickly. Sorry, love. Not a bot, just busy! Thanks for the giggle! (I REALLY need Beep Boop for a title now.)