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

[Namallama]

First Ridorana raid went about as expected. Everything was pretty fine until Construct 7, where the math portion made a ton of people rage. I personally had issues with the rotating lasers due to lag.

Get to Yiazmat, die within the first 30 seconds because of all of the mechs happening at once. 3-4 people drop from our alliance, in the middle of the fight, followed by a couple in the other two. Defeat Yiazmat without a problem on the third try, we just needed to adjust to the magnetism mechanic and the arena wide Rake. Gonna be interested in seeing how this'll go once players learn the fights better, because I know Hashmal in Rabanastre is still the raid killer lol

[EorzeaHero69]

Does... touching the wall no longer cause instant death after you’re zombified in Argath’s fight? O.o People didn’t get the meteors, which exploded, and 5/8 of my alliance got chickenized... and then didn’t die after the zombie effect wore off. Did they seriously take this mechanic out? I feel like I need to go back in and actually test this... >.>

If I had to guess, they may not have taken damage at all while a zombie. There were times it took awhile for me to die because I didn't take a lot of damage at the time. In my understanding, if you do get hit, how long it takes for the zombie effect to kill you depends on how much damage you take while you're still a zombie.

[Namallama]

Did some of the new extreme primal prog, ran into a DRG who actually tethered me. No one ever tethers the bard in a random PF party (normally it's given to the SAM or BLM), but even better: he always timed the tether with the SMN during their Bahamut phase. Every time. I wanted to cry when I quit prog for the night because running into players like these in PF is so rare.

Whoever you were, Mr. Dragoon, call me. I love you.

[MoroMurasaki]

Does... touching the wall no longer cause instant death after you’re zombified in Argath’s fight? O.o People didn’t get the meteors, which exploded, and 5/8 of my alliance got chickenized... and then didn’t die after the zombie effect wore off. Did they seriously take this mechanic out? I feel like I need to go back in and actually test this... >.>

Until the reddish AoE shows up around the edge of the area there is no penalty for touching the walls so you can safely be chickened. I think the walls become dangerous around his first jump away mechanic with the proximity marker.

In our defense, both us healers were rookies to the fight. Was certainly glad for your bailing us out until we figured it out.

Oh yeah, you're fine. It's just odd that so far every time I've been in there I think both healers have died to those fans. I'm not sure why it seems to catch healers specifically, I almost wanted to queue for it on WHM today before I had to log out just to see if I could figure out why.

[Nestama]

Until the reddish AoE shows up around the edge of the area there is no penalty for touching the walls so you can safely be chickened. I think the walls become dangerous around his first jump away mechanic with the proximity marker.

It's after he uses Dark Ultima.

[Ransom]

I know Hashmal in Rabanastre is still the raid killer lol

Hashmal IS getting better. The real issue with him is that there's so many aoe's going off at once, many of them certain death, that until you learn the pattern well enough to position yourself well (And sometimes even then) you WILL regularly end up in situations where:
1: A certain death aoe is coming right at you.
2: There is only one direction you can run in to get clear. (Because all other directions are blocked by OTHER certain death aoe)
3: So you run that direction.
4: Oh, hello yet another certain-death aoe aimed directly at the place I just ran to.

[AxHell]

So Doma Castle again with my DRK for the xp and some gear. Party is BLM, DRG and WHM.

Up until the second boss and after that the run was smooth. WHM accidentaly pulled a pack but no biggie.

No it's during the second boss that things started to go haywire. Basically...everytime there was a stack marker on the DRG, he would run off.
Everytime it was one someone, he would jump out before it hit. The BLM died because of that due to him not dodging the lasers in time.

Also the pillars when only he could access them ? Haha nope.

I wished I kicked him for trolling like that.

[Darric]

Hashmal IS getting better. The real issue with him is that there's so many aoe's going off at once, many of them certain death, that until you learn the pattern well enough to position yourself well (And sometimes even then) you WILL regularly end up in situations where:
1: A certain death aoe is coming right at you.
2: There is only one direction you can run in to get clear. (Because all other directions are blocked by OTHER certain death aoe)
3: So you run that direction.
4: Oh, hello yet another certain-death aoe aimed directly at the place I just ran to.

Hashmal is still fun (too bad people don't see it the way i do) despite all the overlapping AoE smashfest.
Yet... i made it a habit to place myself at the "X axis" of the room so I can better see how the towers drop or which side is burning during his charge attack.
Much less deaths personally, but no time to explain it to the other people cuz who cares about someone giving advice per alliance chat?

[Tridus]

Oh yeah, you're fine. It's just odd that so far every time I've been in there I think both healers have died to those fans. I'm not sure why it seems to catch healers specifically, I almost wanted to queue for it on WHM today before I had to log out just to see if I could figure out why.

On the first one, she targetted the big AoE at the spot we were in, so we had nowhere to go to escape that without also being in fans. As it was also early fans we didn't know what pattern those would use yet, and didn't pick the correct escape.

Healers tend to want to be center-back position wise, so that's likely why it keeps happening to them specifically.

[Avatre]

Healers tend to want to be center-back position wise, so that's likely why it keeps happening to them specifically.

And most casters. I find it's because a lot of bosses these days have a half-arena AoE attack, so they can just sidestep it. Though, after a few runs of watching the most mobile of jobs(BRD) getting hit by the fans(always running to first one it seemed), and not stacking...it made me realize how many people super tunnel vision on stuff like that.