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

[whiteblade89]

So I queued up for Sigma normal today on Sam for the first time in weeks. Got into O8 and I'm gonna be honest, I was the shit show in that fight. The truth is, I never fully grasped how Graven Image works, because I never really had to. The fight is so easy that you can avoid some mechanics purely by accident. And even with a couple vuln stacks, healers have always been able to just heal through it. Today though, good Lord. I couldnt have dodged a freight train, let alone any mechanic in that fight. I wound up with 8 stacks of vuln before I finally hit the floor. I'll give it to the healers on that one. They gave it their all to keep me alive, but apparently I wasn't havin any of that nonsense. Funny part is all the dps wind up dead at one point, and the healers are kinda struggling, but they manage to rez a dps here and there until everyone is back up.....except for me. I imagine it was the healers way of saying "you're done here," and I don't blame them one bit. I sucked so bad in that run lol I tanked the floor today, and I tanked it hard, folks. Shout out to those healers. I'm sorry I was such a burden, but you guys were aces all the way haha cheers

[Mesarthim]

The truth is, I never fully grasped how Graven Image works, because I never really had to.

Whenever he uses that you need to keep an eye on the idol off the platform. First phase is 2 of those green knockback beams ,which may or may not jump across the field (need to be closer to it before it fires or you get knocked off). Second phase is a purple or yellow light which dictates which side of the field you should not stand on. Last phase is Yellow eye (stare at idol) and purple eye (look away from idol).

It's easy once you get the hang of it.

[tinythinker]

Well, at least it beats the awkward healer experience where you think you’re desperately healing the tank then realise you didn’t lock on properly so the spells have been targeted at yourself instead...

That happened to me multiple times when I was playing healer in this game.

[KaivaC]

Today was a fine lesson in remembering that players are still new to Deltascape. Went into V3N through the Normal Raid Roulette as a Monk and got her. Naturally, mechanics were likely new to everybody (even I forget that her opening rotation is much different in normal than it is in Savage). All of the Queen's Waltz through one of the tanks, a PLD, for a loop in that they missed almost every single mechanic, even the ones where they needed to be a frog (they were a frog, but for whatever reason, did not get on the panels with the rest of us to pass that mechanic). In the cave phase, I ended up tanking the dragon - threw out Diversion and I still could not get the dragon to stop aggroing me. Noticed the same issue after the desert map phase - I have diversion in my opener, but for whatever reason, I shot up from 7th on the aggro list after using Diversion, to almost snatching hate from the PLD in about the span of 2 minutes.

Couldn't really be mad at the PLD, though. They tried and to be fair, a new 290 PLD trying to hold hate against a bursting 360 Monk could be problematic if they didn't have Shirk and were using their DPS rotation. Nothing that I personally had against the PLD - they didn't give up, so that's something.

[Karl0217]

So anybody else dealing with lag issues tonight? I just unlocked Castrum Abania. No lag before I entered the duty finder but about two minutes into the duty my ping starts going haywire with that receiving number doing things like going from 0 to 7439 to 123 to 4673 then to 598 then to 0 again. Get disconnected twice and when I finally get back in after the second time I was no longer in the duty. So I just want to apologize to the other three people in the duty for any trouble I caused because my connection to the server started acting up.

[Ceridwenae]

I want to both apologise and thank the people I was in Rabanastre with last night. I'd queued with PL hubby signing us up for alliance roulette, and I expected LotA, or Syrcus, since those are the only raids I'd done (just once each, at that). I was confident we wouldn't get anything I hadn't run. Welp, I'm still very much a noob with a stack to learn, and when Rabanastre fired I had many kittens. I've not even so much as looked at a video guide, or know anything of what happens in there. I'd just picked up the quest because I thought I might do it, many months in the future.

Somehow, the thing was cleared with no issues. It was fun, but I really, really hate being unprepared.

So, apologies to my group for my likely stupid deaths, and much thanks to the on-point healers, particularly Tiny Terror (IIRC). You definitely had my idiot back, and got my com. I'd give you many more if I could.

[MOZZYSTAR]

I did so well in the Lighthouse raid for my second time. ;w; I only died three times (first time I died 900 times ;w; ). I even got some math right /excite/ LOL.


But then I accidentally clicked greed on gear that didn't apply to me.... and won it... only for my bard boots and gloves to drop right after... orz Sob. orz

[RokkuEkkusu]

I am in the phase where I got a clear on the new EX primal for all 3 of my active characters, but have trouble farming it after the first clear. It's either misplaced meteors, miscommunication on where to bait the spears, and/or people are running like panicked chickens during the Lunacy/Fan Circle combo resulting in not splitting damage properly. Sometimes, I'll admit guilt on botching one of the above mechanics, but not as much as some of my other teammates do.

It looks like getting weapons for my main roles will take quite a while.

[Barachim]

Ran Ridorana yesterday, and it somehow went well for the most part. We had an overeager Red Mage Lala, no names, who would constantly rush into the zone and pull the boss. Because he wasn't willing to wait another 20 seconds for the other Alliance members to arrive. Because hey, now we all get pulled into the arena anyway, so why even bother to wait? They eventually left, or better, got kicked by the Alliance, so we didn't have to deal with that headache anymore.

[Frizze]

I want to both apologise and thank the people I was in Rabanastre with last night. I'd queued with PL hubby signing us up for alliance roulette, and I expected LotA, or Syrcus, since those are the only raids I'd done (just once each, at that). I was confident we wouldn't get anything I hadn't run. Welp, I'm still very much a noob with a stack to learn, and when Rabanastre fired I had many kittens. I've not even so much as looked at a video guide, or know anything of what happens in there. I'd just picked up the quest because I thought I might do it, many months in the future.

Somehow, the thing was cleared with no issues. It was fun, but I really, really hate being unprepared.

So, apologies to my group for my likely stupid deaths, and much thanks to the on-point healers, particularly Tiny Terror (IIRC). You definitely had my idiot back, and got my com. I'd give you many more if I could.

Congrats on your clear. Hopefully hubby was able to help you with the most important/confusing mechanics. I learned awhile ago that roulettes dont care what content you have cleared, just what you have unlocked. Good luck on your eventual attempts at Ridorana, WoD, and the Mhach series - each a lot of fun in its own right... and each potentially terrifying in its own way if you arent prepared.