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

[Kittypryde]

I've never posted here, but I saw the strangest thing a couple of days ago and I just had to share...

I joined a 70 roulette, we got kugane castle, the party seemed pretty fine. Except, from the get go, the run was very slow.

Warrior wasn't pulling a lot, taking small packs at a time - must be new, I thought. I don't mind going a bit slow if he's learning.
But then! Then I checked his gear. He was decked out in full diamond armor, had the HoH weapon, the whole shebang. And then I start to pay attention to the abilities he's using, and he's spamming the aggro rotation, the standard 1-2-3 over and over, spamming overpower in groups until his tp ran out (had to goad him a few).


There weren't any wipes or anything, but it was still an incredible scene to behold. How the hell did he get his hands on that gear?

That warrior....wow. it smells like a bought/given account lol

[Iscah]

That sinking feeling when you get Sastasha as healer and the tank is wearing a weathered shepherd’s tunic.

I tried to ask if he had anything else - first in English, then auto-translate, then one of the others said something in Japanese. No change.

The rest of his gear was from Hall of the Novice, plus a Lv20 axe. Eventually he did equip the Novice chestplate, so he had it all along - maybe he was doing the quest that makes you wear that gear when he signed up for roulette, but you’ve done at least three dungeons by then and he also seemed very new and uncertain....

...and yet he was pulling double groups of enemies in the larger rooms.

With single-target DPSes and a healer who doesn’t have time to do anything but heal.

I just don’t understand sometimes. ;_;

[Ranetsu-Akagane]

I got siren song for roulette. Tank was a warrior, healer was an astro, I was a dragoon (go ahead and get your floor tank jokes out of your system) and a black mage. Tank tried to do big pulls, but healer couldn't keep up and we wiped. Nothing was said about the first or second wipe, but after the third the warrior called the healer a "Crappy healer" (cleaner version of what the warrior actually said). Tank did smaller pulls we wiped again black mage left at this point, and a bard joined us. We wiped a fifth time and after that we cleared. Here's a screenshot if you're curious.

[Aster_E]

I was in a Rabanastre party the other day that wiped on Mateus twice. I mean Ice Slaves everywhere to the point where we all died during the Rebind attack. No one stood in the water or helped pop bubbles.

The next run, Mateus got Frostwave up to 100%.

I would say things like this are why I tend not to run 24-man content at the moment, but chances are that shit like this happens because so many competent people like myself don't bother running it. I'm sorry. :-/

[Yuiipuru]

Oof- while I have nothing against using boosts, people should get practice with premade groups or easier content that doesn't have heavy healing mechs. (That mini boss in siren song can be brutal if the tank/healer don't know what they're doing, especially if the healer boosted without any prior experience in healing on at least a different class)
If you're gonna boost, practice with a premade and if you can't get one, the level 50 24man raids is probably a better place to start. Boost responsibly peeps!

[Vidu]

With little time on our hands my bf and I were a bit late to the HoH-party - specially the "Lets get to 100!"-one we made with two other friends, aka: our aetherpool was to low to continue, so the two of us started farming 21-30 to get it up.

Most of the time it was fairly uneventful and I'm pleasently surprised how fast the upgrades actually came in! Got from 30+ to around 75 in one evening.
And, as said: Most groups were quite usual. Get in, get your stuff, get out.

However we ran into those two french players, a bard and a maschnist, both with 80+ gear, so they must have been playing the content for a bit. Yet they pulled. every. single. mob. The maschnist was especially determined to literally clear every floor.
No chest in that room, but 4 mobs? Lets kill them all!
All chests collected, teleport active? Lets go back to that room in the corner to kill the last Fluffel (...thats what I call the green-hairy-things... Halgais?)!

I eventually snapped at them - told them that there is no need to kill all the enemies and asked them to please stop wasting time - and even though I snapped in english, they seemed to listen and we were able to finish the last 4 floors without them going on a wild killing spree.

[MoroMurasaki]

Got Fractal HM for Expert on WHM. WAR tank, BRD/RDM dps - both dps were from the same server and had Ultimate weapons.

Honestly I wasn't impressed.

The WAR was solid (max pulls and all, mostly Deliverance on bosses, held hate) and I know I do higher-end WHM dps in dungeons but on the second boss we still saw two of his three mechanics? With myself on RDM and a pug DPS I've seen him dead before he does his second mech. At least everyone knew how to handle Sophia circles though, that was refreshing.

Also they were in quite a hurry but I didn't see much Refresh or any Mana Shifts really - hi guys, likely the top AoE dps on some of these pulls when I have CS+PoM up, help me help you maybe?

They weren't bad by any means but it was just kinda annoying that they were pulling ahead of the tank and eating avoidable damage for no real reason.

[AzazelCaine]

I'll keep this short. Just curious when it became the cool thing to do - to spin Hashmal around (or Yiazmat for that matter, least on his controllable Rakes) until everyone is dead. This has been EVERY SINGLE week for a bit now - least 1 out of the 2 weekly. I main healer and this is really painful on my therapy bills.

[Saphri]

Do you have it set so that you auto skip cutscenes you have seen? If not, that might be why they exit before you can do so. If not, then it's just something you might need to fiddle with in your HUD for the placement of the commendation bubble pop-up.

I'll look for that auto-skip setting next time I'm on. Thanks

[Saphri]

Welp, I'm in Kugane area and have done all the side-quests. No choice but to drop into a dungeon now. Either for my next step as a Bard or Main Storyline quest. I'm nervous about it since, lately, I've been getting crapped on for not being able to keep up with the veterans. I'm going to try using Party Finder this time though and see if that works out better. "Lord of the Revel" is the next storyline quest. I did look for videos of it. I guess there's something one party member needs to do to stop a gigantic sword from wiping the entire party.