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

[Sieben79]

Thank you to the amazing group I had in the new Fractum Hard dungeon. Cleared in 9 minute rush with only one knowing some of mechanics; literally finished and logged right as emergency maintenance hit. You guys are so awesome! Such a fun run! XD

My group wasn't so fast, but maintenance hit in at last boss dying sequence. Hope it count as solved.

[Tridus]

Thank you to the amazing group I had in the new Fractum Hard dungeon. Cleared in 9 minute rush with only one knowing some of mechanics; literally finished and logged right as emergency maintenance hit. You guys are so awesome! Such a fun run! XD

9 minutes? Wow.

[SavageCipher]

I've been maining AST for quite a while now. Initially when I started, I blamed any deaths on myself and would drop out of bad runs with shame and give up the job for weeks at a time. These days I'm covered in undiluted universal industrial strength cynic concentrate.

There was a time where I blamed healers as well (very early on in my MMO foray with WoW and CoH), then I realized people are addicted to proper heals. So much so that they'll pull three mobs at a time, thinking healers have zero cast times. The most common problem that has held true throughout the many years; is that DPS will go gun ho and pull packs to the tank, only to die in the process or forget how aggro works. What topples all of that? Warriors who only use fell cleave once and wonder why they cant hold aggro.

[VanilleFang]

TFW You use Healer LB3 twice, allowing your team to clear and avoiding 2 wipes, and only get 1 comm. :'(

[Anarnee]

Dear @#$%^&* Blackmage, that died because they were not doing mechanics, and then complained that they needed healing. @#$% you, next time do the mechanics and you won't end up on your face in the first place.

And dear PLD, how about waiting for the people in the cut scene before pulling. Literally not even a minute and you leave the SAM behind?

In other news, I had a lot of fun in O6, even though we used the healer LB3 TWICE to bring back the raid cause the dps just would not do the mechanics. lmao.

[VanilleFang]

O6.

What is it about Sigma 2 that makes people go full head-in-ass? Yes I'm aware it's brand new but... its not even hard and the pattern is so predictable it's laughable. Stop dying to things that are telegraphed for 30 seconds please.

[Anarnee]

What is it about Sigma 2 that makes people go full head-in-ass? Yes I'm aware it's brand new but... its not even hard and the pattern is so predictable it's laughable. Stop dying to things that are telegraphed for 30 seconds please.

LOL yeah, like I failed the first fire one, and then from there on out I had it. XDDD and I'm sitting there watching people just not get it and I'm like "REALLY"??? It wasn't bad though, my cohealer was good (even friended me after) and I had a lot of fun!!! It wasn't even hard, and no one was negative. It was just... A lot of rezzes.

[Rasikko]

TFW You use Healer LB3 twice, allowing your team to clear and avoiding 2 wipes, and only get 1 comm. :'(

All 6(I don't know who you comm'd) probably went to the tank.

[SavageCipher]

Dear @#$%^&* Blackmage, that died because they were not doing mechanics, and then complained that they needed healing. @#$% you, next time do the mechanics and you won't end up on your face in the first place.

And dear PLD, how about waiting for the people in the cut scene before pulling. Literally not even a minute and you leave the SAM behind?

In other news, I had a lot of fun in O6, even though we used the healer LB3 TWICE to bring back the raid cause the dps just would not do the mechanics. lmao.

Throughout the many MMO's I've healed and tanked in, over the course of a decade, I learned one thing never changes;

someone will always step in the fire.

[Tlamila]

Mh a few I can think of now.

Tam Tara, when this character was fresh. Tank runs away by himself (for a change), aggroes the world, dies, curses something, rage quits white I was ressing. This at the very start. We were all noobies and there was an arcanist, so she just brought out topaz carbie and we went on like that for a big part of the dungeon until a new tank popped in. And we went a lot smoother than when we had the first tank, in all the while, was so fun.

On ther other hand, always in Tam Tara the other day (was doing levelling roulette on lvl50 alt so not many options sadly), archer just decides she's the tank and proceeds to pull everything. I was a bit distracted so she died, for a moment I was about to say sorry, as I hate having people die under my watch, then I realized maybe that'd teach her the lesson. Nope. Last boss, she's actually lagging behind so we're waiting for her to arrive, but she goes the wrong way so I signal her to come there. She comes running and right away, even from behind the purple line, she just aggroes the boss directly. lol.

Today I ended up in Dusk Vigil, all smooth enough till last boss. As I saw all three the others were new to it as they got the Mapping, I thought I should say something about mechanics but wasn't sure myself since i hadn't ran it in forever. The BLM gets the mechanics, but the DRG is so lost that halfway he doesn't understand what is happening and why he's taking all that damage and being sucked in. We wipe, so I explain they should hide behind the rubbles...to which he and the tank say they thought they were for aesthetics. I'm still not sure on whether it was a joke or not, but I suspect it wasn't, which made me laugh in a good way. It's satisfying when you get to help someone get better, even though you suck yourself. :P

Labyrinth, I don't know what it's happening lately with it. Went with two friends, one co-heals, and says at the start "I'll just let the fairy heal, no need to heal in this place anyway" then right away first room, with all that easy trash, almost all the dpses almost die from a cone. Ok nice start lol. Then I reply "I wouldn't be so sure, lately I've had almost wipes at Behemoth because people can't place comets" and in fact the same happened and almost wipe. Ooook. In the mean time there was a war on aggro stealing for main tanking, don't ask. Last boss, super easy, right? No way it could go wrong. Wipe from flare. I'm not sure how this can happen as I'm not sure I've ever seen it even when it was still brand new content? I guess not enough people on other alliances was on plates, as we all were? But I don't know, it's ridicolous. No wipes on other raids, which are newer and harder (I haven't been to Rabanastre yet though, which I imagine being all another matter) but constant screw ups in the easiest and oldest one?