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

[Metalwrath]

I remember this boss very well.Doom isnt avoidable.
I remember when we did the dungeon back in ARR in man mode(4 warriors) and it resulted in us wiping many times because of the unavoidable doom.
People need to learn the difference between a rumor and a fact.They are 2 different things.Contrary to the belief of the majority of the worlds population these days.

[KerriganV]

I'll just leave this here...

[Nedkel]

Playing tank on Midgardsormr makes me want shout like piccolo in DB Abridged, seeing those healers and dps struggling to dodge AOE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvS6zMThiZU

[JumperX]

I think that player is confusing doom mechanics from CT or confusion from the boss that can clone itself and become ghost. You need to kill a sphere and then get the buff and stand right next to the boss to make it and its clone visible. I can't remember the name of that skill "confusion/hysteria"? That you can face away from the boss and even if you are in that cone aoe and don't get hit.

What I tested is that SOME dooms in regular dungeons won't disappear evwn after healing the player to full HP. With the new cross skills mechanica NOW, healers are forced to have Esuna so you can dispell the boss skills. I was in qua....forgot that place name. I went as a healer and I was not able to dispel doom even though everybody got full GP bar. Everybody wipe and got to reset my corss skill and get esuna and that worked as a charm.

[Ilenya]

Of the Doom mechanics I recall offhand, only one is Esunable (Doomgaze), two require the Doom'd subject to stand on platforms (Qarn and...First boss of World of Darkness, which *can* be blocked by turning away) and the last boss of WPHM, which you heal to full to cleanse. I am sure I am missing some, but Esuna isn't needed in most cases. Still a good idea.

Trying to look some up reminded me of o4's Esunable Doom. Still seeing if I am missing any.

[Metalwrath]

The mechanic where you turn away to avoid Doom is the first boss in WOD.
And yeah most people dont dodge that still XD

[Chortle]

2 separate stories from last night!

~Syrcus Tower~

I queue up for Alliance roulette as Astrologian and got Syrcus Tower. I actually love this raid and am trying to collect the healing set, but still need a few pieces. Anyways, the dungeon goes on without a hitch until I notice a somewhat lack of heals and buffs aside from my own. Our group had double Astros and I was already in noct from a previous trial. The other astro went diurnal so I thought all was good, but something seemed off. I clicked his character and began observing his actions. This little lala was tossing out beneficts and malefics ONLY, was in all lvl 60 shire gear, and had a mentor crown, but he was not using aspected helios, benefict, or his card buffs. I honestly would not have cared at all if I hadn't been the one in nocturnal sect, but not having hots on an alliance is a huge detriment. I gave him a chance with the first trash pulls, the first boss, and even the second trash pulls to see if he maybe just was forgetting. After the second trash clear, I confronted him in party chat. I simply wanted to suggest he try using them in case he was new to the class or something. He said "I have been this whole time". I quickly told him I had been watching and that, no he in fact had not been using them and seemed to be only halfway paying attention at best. He then said okay, no point in trying to lie in an online game. Essentially conceding that he was not using them on purpose.

The only issue I had is that he had a mentor crown with this type of playing mentality.

~The Royal City of Rabanastre~

I decided to recruit some FC mates to run Rabanastre as my last run for the night to grab a coin for augmented lvl 70 gear. I ran as Astro and had two red mage FC buddies tag along. The first boss was a little bit of a mess. The other two alliances were scattered randomly across the map and were neglecting their waymarkers. This wasn't too big of an issue until the 3 snake things needed to be burned while Mateus was charging his ultimate. All 3 were tethered for quite some time, our tank finally broke ours off, and we were the first group to burn their add. The other two alliances needed help asap. We burned one and then the other stopping Mateus' ult at 99%!!!! Talk about lucky. I honestly thought we would wipe there, but we pulled through. Then.... then Hashmal. Group B healers were constantly dead with Group A falling behind shortly after. The scholar, 2 red mages, and myself representing group C were having to rez the other groups just to keep the raid from wiping. Our group was the only one to destroy their second Sand Sphere. We end up wiping from the other two "To Dust"s since A and B didn't have the dps for them due to deaths. This repeated almost exactly for a second wipe. The "vote abandon" notification popped up, but our group was determined to carry this raid through! Third time, deaths from groups A and B were abundant still. One of my alliance members began using a macro to alert people to kill their Sand Spheres. From then on, people would die on occasion, but received a rez shortly after. Hashmal was finally downed thanks to the competence of Alliance C! Rofocale was easy, but seemed pretty long compared to my other encounters with him. Argath took FOREVER! He went through 6 phases of obey/disobey if I remember correctly and 3/4 phases of proximity AOEs.

We did it though, but at the cost of our life energy.

[DE-Roxas]

I'll just leave this here...

I do enjoy how little effort it takes to proof how smart some of these posts are.

[Lord_Zlatan]

This is more of a vent post than anything... but nothing irritates me more than playing well and not getting coms.

Temple of the fist: Warrior decides to pull the first 2/3s of the last section. We get through it no problem, thanks to having to heal half the time (as RDM) and the Dragoon literally going bonkers with AoE (also: that Bloodbath + AoE combo is insane HP regen). We get to last boss. Healer can evade the ghosts, I end up swiftcast rezzing (didnt accept and released ><) and healing the tank. We get it to 4% from about 70% and wiped because i was OoM. Rinse and repeat on 2nd try except I raised the healer twice and on the 3rd death he released. DRG was dead too, so WAR and I took the final 20~ percent.

All the while, I was civil to everyone. Didnt offer any advice that could be misconstrued by the you dont pay my sub crowd. Just frustrating because it seams that the people that dont recognize good/selfless play are those that will probably repeatedly be bad and not learn anything from their experiences.

[KaldeaSahaline]

So I need to vent:

I did my level 50/60 roulette on my RDM and got Copperbell HM. I had a BLM, a WHM, and a PLD as my party. The PLD tank proceeded to not say a word, and pull literally one pack at a time, and if there was a singular mob they pulled that one at a time too. I said, hey *insert name*, we have a very strong AOE dps comp, feel free to pull more. They ignored me, and continued to pull a singular mob over and over until the first boss.

Not only does the PLD tank the boss in the beginning of the ramp sitting in fire, but they're not grabbing aggro on a single additional add. We wipe on the first boss due to a bomb going off. I don't know how it went off, because I was literally casting spells at it, but either packet loss (good old east coast primetime lag) or (do casters get interrupted if they're getting hit? I don't know I dont normally play a caster) something happened. I guess the PLD had enough and left again, not a single word all dungeon. We replaced them and quickly got through it with ease.

Then I queued up for Leveling and got Qarn. I had a sprout SMN and a sprout WHM. The WHM proceeds to cast protect 4 times during the first fight and literally doesn't heal the tank at all the first pull and the tank dies (he's a level 60+ scaled down, not undergeared). No big deal, mistakes happen. Then the tank dies the second trash pull... Ok what's going on? You didn't cast a single heal. They still haven't said a single word.

Third pull in, tank dies again... The WHM at this point is healing, but only when the DRK only gets to like 10% HP and he dies like 4 times before the first boss. We get to the first boss and the healer dies to doom, despite explaining the mechanic in extremely simple words. I did watch the WHM cast a really juicy Stone II though. Randomly...

We pull again, and naturally the WHM dies, and we move on and kill the boss. Throughout this entire dungeon the WHM stood in EVERY single telegraph AOE. Eventually when we wipe on the second boss because the healer is accidentally healing themselves instead of the tank and finally says something. "it's really hard to heal you when you don't stand still". At this point between all the deaths, the silence, and this comment I'm like mind******. "Are you actually clicking on the person to heal them? Use your party frames to heal". The DRK explains how to use Cure II and so that's all the WHM then uses. They naturally die to telegraphed attacks and the SMN swiftcast res's and the WHM doesn't accept. We eventually wipe at like .5%. Thanks...

We go in again, WHM dies naturally, but we clear. WHM does not use ANY aoe healing.

We finally get to the end with no more tank deaths now that they understand how to cure II the tank, and neglect everyone else. They naturally die to last boss due to telegraphs and we clear.

This WHM has 3 characters over level 50. I AM terrified to think of all the toxic experiences she put people through while leveling.

I really wanted to kick them, but as a DPS I try not to stir the pot too much because long queues and I don't feel like getting kicked myself.