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

[Skivvy]

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... >.>

From the RAGE THREAD on Reddit, it appears they may have nerfed this fight so you no longer explode as a zombie. I've not run it since patch, so can't say personally :X


And for my own addition, I feel like a noob as I gave possibly very wrong information to a new player in Syrcus Tower. :X We were at the last boss, Xande, and we had a sprout that died both times to that platform move (name is eluding me atm). So, trying to be helpful, I told him that when it is first forming, you need to run away and not be under it, and then jump on top once they are solid. And then one of the other members spoke up and was like....uh......the black triangle is a stack move. In my head, I was like OMG THERE IS A BLACK TRIANGLE/STACK MECHANIC??! I'm just hoping the sprout had been around long enough to see the correction. Ooof.

The only bit of defense I can muster is that I had ignored Syrcus Tower for aaages until Alliance Roulette became a thing, and even now I rarely get it. But yeah, I completely forgot the triangle was a thing. When I first started going back, I did stack once and ended up dying, and so in my mind I just decided I was supposed to run away until the platform was formed.

For those of you who actually remember that mechanic, as a healer, are you actually supposed to stack as well, or is that more just for the DPS/tanks?

[Vaer]

For those of you who actually remember that mechanic, as a healer, are you actually supposed to stack as well, or is that more just for the DPS/tanks?

The black moon thing is a stack yeah, everyone should stack. Not really a big deal though. You just need one of them anyways. What seems to happen is 1 person from each alliance gets the black mark, and probably designed where they wanted each alliance to soak one. After the damage goes out the levitation platform spawns where the players with the marks were.

[Skivvy]

The black moon thing is a stack yeah, everyone should stack. Not really a big deal though. You just need one of them anyways. What seems to happen is 1 person from each alliance gets the black mark, and probably designed where they wanted each alliance to soak one. After the damage goes out the levitation platform spawns where the players with the marks were.

Oh boy, did I even have the shape wrong?? lol ._.

But thank you! I will be doing a proper stack as needed moving forward. I knew the moves after the platform, just that one tiny piece was missing.

[HyoMinPark]

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.

No, I know. This was after the crystals phase, so when the wall would zombifie you and you usually self-destruct after a time.

From the RAGE THREAD on Reddit, it appears they may have nerfed this fight so you no longer explode as a zombie. I've not run it since patch, so can't say personally :X

I’ll actually go in and test it again soon. But, if this is the case...le sigh. That’s disappointing.

[Iscah]

I was reading the Syrcus Tower instructions the other day. Apparently it deals X damage split between all the people in the circle when it goes off, so you want to group up and spread the damage.

[Nabril]

I had a BLM in Dusk Vigil which rotation was something like this:

Blizzard 3, Blizzard 3, Fire 1, Fire 3, Blizzard 3, Blizzard 3, Fire 3, Fire 3, Blizzard. Completely chaotic! Not even a thunder dot. I really didn't bother to stop him and explain the rotation because, based on the way he was playing A) He was not going to listen B) He was not going to correct his rotation in 1 run C) I really don't bother anymore in DF... I just do my thing, everything's good with everybody and leave the duty upon completion.

I also had a SMN that never used Bane. I was on SCH. I just asked out of curiosity why he was not using Bane with his dots. He said "I'm tired". So, he started to use it but... without any dot to spread. .-.

And the daily dosis of tanks that won't use a CD like ever.

Yeah... I'm much better now! (this wasn't me in your story, but I am guilty of ruining the rotation that badly!)

[Mesarthim]

I just can't win. I stopped playing AST in 8 man content to get away from ASTs who will potentially overwrite your cards so I went SCH for normal raid roulette.

...Co-healer AST went Noct.

[RobinMalvin]

Met a pair of AST in new ex trial who almost got me triggered since they would eat all Balance, Arrow, Spear and Ewer all to themselves. If you want parsing party, make your own and don't involve DF please...

[TyrTry]

There have been a few blood-pressure inducing dungeons I've been victim to. I think the one that sticks out to me recently is one from a couple of weeks back during Hell's Lid. I should have been warned immediately (the name literally signified a "trap").

I'm all for bigger pulls. All you have to do is ask. However, I personally don't respond well with either commands or pulling ahead of me. By commands I mean: "PULL BIG" or "MORE!"

I had this healer in my group pull ahead of me, so after I realized that it was intentional (because he literally ran off to find more "friends"), I asked him to "please don't pull. All you have to do is ask."

So, I get "ALL OF IT!"

I pull more, but doesn't seem to be enough. After a while, I asked one more time to please not pull. I was met with "I have to live up to my name!"

I had a strong feeling he was with friends or FC mates, and so I took the penalty and left (they were all from the same server). Had a nice cold drink and relaxed. However, this isn't the first instance in which I've had healers (because they're the ones I'm witness too more, I'm aware DPS do the same) pull ahead without asking or EXPECT bigger pulls from the tank. Just ask. I'm all for the biggest pulls imaginable. Let me at least get to know ya first. Let me buy dinner before you expect the ring!

[Karl0217]

So, I ended up with seven commendations from a trial roulette run today. And all it took was my character drinking Plastic-Surgery-In-A-Bottle, changing from a Moon Cat to a Duskwright Elezen and cosplaying as Haurchefant for a bit. Comms aren't tied to performance are they?