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

[Aosha]

Went into Antitower because a sprout in NN needed it for MSQ. During Calcabrina boss both DPS (the sprout and a random BRD) kept trying to hit rear and flank side and kept getting parried when they cast Brace buff. Wasn't such big a deal until 9% the sprout used LB during Brace and succeeded to inflict 0 damage. It was hillarious I couldn't help but laugh. It's a good run

I wonder what it is about that mechanic. Any time I run that dungeon, I remind the group about Brace. And every time without fail, there's at least 2 people getting slapped with the parries. Weird how it's that mechanic specifically.

[Aster_E]

I wonder what it is about that mechanic. Any time I run that dungeon, I remind the group about Brace. And every time without fail, there's at least 2 people getting slapped with the parries. Weird how it's that mechanic specifically.

It's like the butt end of a running gag, or something.

[SannaR]

I find Brace bouncing done mostly by ranged dps and I blame Ravana for it as if you're a caster at least you can cheese his. I know there's other bosses that have a thing like that but other bad things happen so they choose to not get bounced.

[Frizze]

I find Brace bouncing done mostly by ranged dps and I blame Ravana for it as if you're a caster at least you can cheese his. I know there's other bosses that have a thing like that but other bad things happen so they choose to not get bounced.

Yeah, the inconsistency of that mechanic between bosses probly doesnt help. It also doesnt get used a ton, so people can forget. Course, ive been in groups where in preperation for Calca's brace i set myself up behind the tank and put down Ley Lines shortly before the cast - only for the tank to spin them at the last second and force me to leave my lines. Im 95% sure nothing it does cleaves(and i spend most of the fight standing to one side and not behind the tank anyway), so theres no reason for any of it. Course, the dungeon is over at that point so i dont worry about it. Just hope for the mini i dont have yet, and move on.

[Aosha]

And now that I've commented about Brace, the next group I got did it perfectly.
All first-timers too. :P

[TheMightyMollusk]

Queued for trial roulette yesterday. Right as Ifrit loads, my music play list starts with "The Devil's Dance Floor" by Flogging Molly, then goes on to "Fire and Forgive" by Powerwolf as he drops.

Switched to an alt to do roulette again. As Ramuh loads, the play list goes to "Riding the Storm" by Running Wild, then "Twilight of the Thunder God" covered by Sabaton as he dies.

I scared my dog from laughing so hard.

[Starvi]

Ran Skalla yesterday as WAR. Biggish pulls..all went well. Was a good run until we got to those holes in the ground where you have to transform into one of those demons to wobble over the abyss and get to the other side. As you might know, you can manually de-select the buff that transforms you. I thought it would be good to do that and run off to pull the next group. Unfortunately, I misjudged the distance of the gap we were traversing. So when I thought that I was safely on the other side, I deselect the buff and next thing I know, I fall down into the abyss and die! Absolute derp moment but highlight of the run ^^ It looked pretty idiotic!

Tried later to get some gear/seals for upgrade and ran Sigmascape 2.0 normal mode. What a spread in quality. Some really good runs, high dps, etc. And then there were the runs that were not good.
Pulled as WAR in tank stance...do my stuff and establish aggro. Switch to dps stance and go wild with fell cleave. All looked ok to me....one minute later I realize that the other tank had hate and when looking at his buffs I could see that he switched to tank stance. No idea why he thought that was necessary because I could hold hate quite well in DPS stance. So I let him continue but was def a bit surprised. Run was terrible though because nobody seemed to know anything about the mechanics and we wiped several times.

Sigmascape 3.0 savage clear party as RDM. I have relatively good ilvl, Tsukuyomi rapier and a mix of 370 and 360 gear. 2nd RDM joins the party...quick look tells me that he is undergeared with a 345 weapon among other things. Anyway, we start out...ppl die left and right as usual and we don't even reach virus. party leader dies because he attacks ultros before tank could get to him...nobody silenced ultros anyway, so pretty much a lost cause. Before that we had air force and I derped a bit on my add but still got it down in a relatively good time. Otherwise I would say my dmg on guardian and adds was good. When we are finally all dead, party leader complains about lack of ranged dps, so we all get out of the instance and suddenly i'm being kicked. It annoyed me at first but then...if he wants to continue with an undergeared ranged dps then that is his choice. Saw him in PF for quite a while afterwards, so obviously no clear...that gave me at least a bit of satisfaction ^^

[Vlhana]

Did Alliance Roulette yesterday and got Labyrinth of the Ancients. The entirety of Alliance B was wearing chocobo heads. The run went fine, no issues...just a lot of chocobo heads.

It was vaguely creepy.

[Azper]

Alliance roulette gave me Dumb Scaith with the most worthless co-healer in existence. When they weren't spamming Aspected Helios they were dead on the floor. Finally make it to the last boss and clear, the minion drops... I roll a 12 and they rolled a 99 of course. There is not justice in this world.

[HyoMinPark]

but I didn't see them use any emnity reduction

For BRD, if you saw Refresh or Tactician, then they were dumping their enmity. That’s all BRD has, and they’re both on 3 minute cooldowns. If they weren’t using either, then they were at fault for ripping hate. If they were still ripping after trying to dump, it was probably gear discrepancies, or they had a very nice burst.

They were probably RMT buyers.

Because all players who cause issues in dungeons buy UwU clears?