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

[Rasikko]

Funny thing happen today in Stone Vigil(NM). I think the DRG assumed I was going to skip the room with the single drake and head into the first big room with the 3x aevis, drake and 3 of those flying baby dragon things. Not sure what tank has the balls to pull that whole thing, I mean I could, but maybe with 2x BLM. Anyway.. he comes into the drake room, with basically the whole big room in two. A combination of rampart + awareness + convelescence + healer being better than all three of those skills combined and a crap ton of AOE dodging, we survived, and the DRG hung back from that point on lol.

Just because when I'm the tank I move a tad slower than seemingly everyone else, don't pull huge groups and haven't perfected (PERFECTED NO LESS) the use of defensive cooldowns,

You can't be a tank if you have no tolerance for party mess to be honest.

Don't let em trigger you, with the rate at which we get queue pops, running into bad members is inevitable. Learning how to effectively use CDs is more of knowing an encounter and what attacks to expect, this will take time, and not something people can rush you into knowing. Some pulls you don't need to use one, because the mobs hit you for almost nothing. Then there are those encounters where mobs hit like trucks, then you need a CD. But in big pulls(talking > 5), you cycle through them all. Rampart > Convelescence, etc, maybe only need 1 CD depending on how fast they die.

Also moving slow: yeah that's due to not knowing whats ahead - that'll take time too.

Point: Group needs to know you want to be careful. Some gonna be jerks let them be a jerk. If they jerk-pull more than your CHARACTER can physically handle, yes a wipe is going to happen, but that ain't on you.

Err.. just realized you are a Paladin 70. Ok you already know all this stuff x_x

[KokoChibata]

Happened last night got into Fractal HM on SAM cuz needing gear. Party Makeup was SAM DRK BLM WHM overall good DPS well sort of SAM has AOE issues but whatever. Run was good took less then 20 min as we’re leaving the BLM tells me that I need to work on my damage... they spent most of the run dead and I was doing 20-36k crits on almost every other use of my big hitting skills with around 6k on normal skills with them criting around 10-12k...... feelsbadman.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Funny thing happened today in Stone Vigil(NM). I think the DRG assumed I was going to skip the room with the single drake and head into the first big room with the 3x aevis, drake and 3 of those flying baby dragon things. Not sure what tank has the balls to pull that whole thing, I mean I could, but maybe with 2x BLM. Anyway.. he comes into the drake room, with basically the whole big room in two. A combination of rampart + awareness + convalescence + healer being better than all three of those skills combined and a crap ton of AOE dodging, we survived, and the DRG hung back from that point on lol.

Hahahaha! Made a good memory there, I bet.

A smooth run is fun; but, sometimes, you need a major eff up to really kick in the adrenaline and remind yourself how exciting running a dungeon can be.

[Ayer2015]

Had a WHM today in 50/60 that didn't know they had Medica 2..... that was fun.

[Gemina]

My tank mentor convinced me that I was ready to tank some 24-man content, and offered to take his SCH into alliance roulette even though he also had yet to run 24-man as a healer, so total role reversal here. We queue, and get Dun Scaith. Talk about learning to swim in deep water.

If how the first rotation of mechanics is handled is an indication of how a run is going to go, nearly 1/3 of the alliance was blown off the ship on the first void Aero 3, including four from my own group. And yup. The run went as expected with tons of damage and deaths. It seemed senpai and I were the only ones actually staying out of the bad.

Despite the madness, we get to diabolos, and don't even get to phase 2. How the freak do we get past the Queen, but fail to push to phase 2 on diabolos?? Seriously, how does this happen? There's no incoming damage, just hit the freakin door!

So vote disband initiated and commenced. So after all that, no light for my DRK relic

[SaitoHikari]

I accidentally repelling shotted myself off the platform in O5S.

I thought I was beyond those days. D:

[Gurney]

I remember when Neverreap came out. The first time in there the tank goes "I am pulling big, if your numbers are not good i am going to kick you, blah blah blah". He takes off the WHM in say chat "Just stay here" The tank dies and the WHM in party chat ask "So what did we learn from this lesson". The tank comes back and runs off again the WHM say the same as the first time and the tank dies. The he demands we boot him. I tell him I got time to kill but I am not going to kick you. Which the other 2 agreed on. He he tried to DC himself so we kick him, but he log back on and still be in party, and we welcome him back. He finally dropped party and we got a tank that had no problem taking it slow for new people.

[VanilleFang]

People do realize that it's faster to just stand in the water pillars during Unbind instead of letting them turn into Blizzard III and burning them down, right? =_=

[KaldeaSahaline]

Happened last night got into Fractal HM on SAM cuz needing gear. Party Makeup was SAM DRK BLM WHM overall good DPS well sort of SAM has AOE issues but whatever. Run was good took less then 20 min as we’re leaving the BLM tells me that I need to work on my damage... they spent most of the run dead and I was doing 20-36k crits on almost every other use of my big hitting skills with around 6k on normal skills with them criting around 10-12k...... feelsbadman.

Your damage might still need work regardless of how big your crits are.

[JoeDono]

I queued Leveling Roulette as a Samurai. Got The Vault. My party is a PLD, WHM, and BLM. The WHM says "I'll be your mediocre healer for today" and the BLM says "I don't play this game. I'm starting my bot now. Have fun." The WHM then redballs (I'm not sure if it was intentional). The PLD doesn't notice. She runs off to pull the first set of mobs and dies without the healer support. Me and the BLM finish off the mobs and wait for a bit. The PLD and BLM then leave and I follow suit, not seeing the point in waiting anymore. What a messy waste of a 20min queue...

I queued up again. Got The Vault again. Everyone but me watched the intro CS and the "New Adventurer" message popped up. The run was a little messy, but good enough to finish with only one death (the tank stood INSIDE one of the black holes in the second boss fight).