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

[Avatre]

I'm starting to wonder if people even understand what a countdown is...
Every time now that I initiate one (10s usually), there's a RDM that casts Jolt at 6 seconds left, or something similar. One of these days I'll just let them eat the Tengu's tank buster...

Kind of like those RDM(why is it almost always a RDM?) that decides to do the ready check, and countdown, for the tanks.

Was helping a friend do his first runs of Deltascape(he tends to not be able to keep his attention on one thing/character for long...but he's getting through the stuff, if slowly), and in D3, a RDM instantly does the ready check(okay, this one admittedly isn't that bit a deal...though I did hesitate until it was almost timed out to say yes), then instantly does the countdown. Both my friend and I were the tanks....I was main tanking, and I was so tempted to just let them tank it(one of our other friends was a healer...she was encouraging me to let them die since we were in PS chat together).

Oh, and the best part of that run...the RDM died to SO many avoidable mechanics...and got turned into a frog almost every single time when you could avoid it.

[Iscah]

Tank and one DPS were a couple if I can judge by there last name. Both of them were above lv 30 and still had no job crystal. She an arcanist, he a gladiator. [...] The arcanist mainly casts Physick on the tank.

Should have told them to go get their soulstones so she actually *can* do that as her job!

[Maeka]

The only thing that flashes more then this Paladin I had was a drunk man in Los Angeles.

If he was flashing a lot, then the mobs should have been GLUED to him.

Did he not have Shield Oath up? Two flashes should hold the whole group for quite some time if you have ShO up.

Anyways, I had a dumb paladin today while leveling my AST, only it was Haukke Manor and not Brayflox which is worse in some ways.

The dude used his Shield Wall Limit Break "on cooldown".

The very SECOND that first Limit Bar filled, he used it on Shield Wall. All three times in the whole dungeon.

Though I will admit that in a Brayflox run after, I had this SMN that kept summoning and re-summoning their summon during battle. We'd pull, and they'd throw a few Ruins... and then I saw them casting Summon when they already had Ifrit out. One time, during the first boss, they had Ifrit out, and then they summoned Emerald Carbuncle (lol?) and then they resummoned Ifrit... only to, about 30 seconds later, decide they want to summon Ifrit again.

I was like "..... what is this guy DOING!?"

Needless to say, it took us about 10 minutes longer than usual to get through the dungeon and that was with me throwing as much Malefic as I safely could. I'm willing to bet I was doing comparable DPS that the SMN was doing.

Oh wait, I also forgot about the OTHER Brayflox run, where somehow the PLD tank was keeping enmity and everything, but he was somehow managing to dump ALL of his TP and I watched him for several seconds, and I cannot figure out just what this guy was doing that he was running out of TP. I didn't see him doing his AoE weaponskill. I don't recall running out of TP like that on my Paladin unless I was spamming that "new" AoE....

[AmemeAmeklin]

but he was somehow managing to dump ALL of his TP and I watched him for several seconds, and I cannot figure out just what this guy was doing that he was running out of TP. I didn't see him doing his AoE weaponskill. I don't recall running out of TP like that on my Paladin unless I was spamming that "new" AoE....

Shield lob. Single target, probably repeatedly cycling through all the mobs to whack 'em so he keeps enmity. (Shield lob is twice the TP)

[Esp]

Thanks for that xD. I seriously am taking a break from the boss for a few days, as you're right. Broken to the extreme. So a break is needed, it's just I rarely go into extremes like this you know? And hearing about Rath and being the huge capcom fanboy I am. I was extra hyped and needed to jump on this event. I just want a few wins and almost killed myself on my PS4 to do it. But you're right, a tiny break will do. - Hug-

That sucks. I think I remember partying with you on one of these practice parties while I was learning how to dodge.

I already got my mount and have helped my FC friend get the clear, so if I do run into your PF group, I'll see if I can join and help out. Hopefully I can bring a friend xD

[Ceridwenae]

It's always Brayflox.

Leveling Astrologian now. Hit Brayflox, first go. As I told my friend: The only thing that flashes more then this Paladin I had was a drunk man in Los Angeles. Constantly losing aggro, I'm having to try and keep alive a Bard whose currently getting her face smashed in by two adds as this Paladin focuses on ONE. It doesn't get better during first boss, we get past. Ok. Keep going, all good. And then the river. The one to the giant Salamander that Aiatar interrupts. It's always right here let me tell you. During my levelling of WHM the tank accidentally pulled one mob too many, got facerolled, and I barely managed to keep the DPS alive before they ran back.

This was a disaster. Unmitigated disaster (they didnt rampart either I think). Lost both DPS at this point, the tank, managed to rez one DPS, someone I lived and had a DPS alive. Finally one of my DPS told 'em "use flash. Liberally."

Why is it always goddamn Brayflox. If we get Dancer as a healer, please oh lord let it be gotten at level 60 so I don't have to suffer my Brayflox curse again.

I ran a Brayflox the other day where Aiatar literally knocked itself out of its poison pools* - I have never seen it do this before and wouldn't have thought it possible. The tank simply let the dragon sit in its poison so thoughtlessly. In my experience when I tank it, or have run with others tanking it, Aiatar is safely led around its pen for exercise at the right moments, leaving space for DPS and healer to do their thing. I'm not sure how the healer coped psychologically with the tank's shenanigans throughout the dungeon, but they got my comm as everyone lived, even the tank.

The kicker was this: the tank says "gg everyone" in Say at the end. Healer promptly exits, followed swiftly by two DPS.

* I say literally. It may be I was so traumatised by the paladin I wasn't sure what I was witnessing.

[ko_]

That sucks. I think I remember partying with you on one of these practice parties while I was learning how to dodge.

I already got my mount and have helped my FC friend get the clear, so if I do run into your PF group, I'll see if I can join and help out. Hopefully I can bring a friend xD

I'll let you know. I'm still on break currently tho. Just getting my bearings back full before I start it up again.

[AxHell]

So for the first time I've been kicked from a dungeon. And it was funny.

Stone vigil with my WAR. Group is composed of AST, SAM and RDM. All speak the same language as me and come from the same server so it's logical to think they were together.

I greet them but no answers and they run off with the AST not casting Protect. When I asked about it he just stood there and seemed like not happy about it but whatever.

The main point is that the RDM loved using Swiftcast to pull packs...and you know the good old Tank saying : "You pull it you tank it /sit".

He did that 3 times, died 3 times.

And I got kicked. Lol.

[Vlhana]

Hoo boy, this was a fun one. Got Castrum Fluminis in trial roulette, 2 new players. I'm perfectly willing to admit I wasn't playing well last night, either due to being sick or general stupidity. The highlight was when I tunneled trying to get in range to Verraise and walked right in front of the boss mid-tankbuster. Many of the other players could have been dealing with similar issues, so I don't want to blame people for general problems in the trial. However, two players kept making mistakes in no way related to the trial mechanics themselves:

1. The OT (who kept trying to main tank) had no idea how to do tankbusters. No cooldowns, nothing. Every time he tried to grab the boss post-phase change, he'd die to the tankbuster. I have no idea how he got this far without learning about cooldowns or invuln.

2. I was one of three red mages, and one of the others...this poor, poor man. All I saw him cast was Jolt II. Only Jolt II. I saw Verstone Ready pop up on his bar, so he at least dualcasted the stronger spells correctly, but he never used Verstone or Verfire. Or even Impact, which he certainly could have used given all those Jolt IIs.

Between these two and the general problems in the trial (not dodging fans, messing up Lunacy-totally-not-Akh Morn), I had to leave after we wiped a few times and one person graciously ate the penalty. The frustration was having quite the negative impact on my sinus headache. Quick question to y'all though...what would have been the best way to help out that red mage? He wasn't on my server, so I couldn't /tell him afterward, but I didn't want to embarrass him in front of an 8-man trial either. What should I do next time I run into that kind of situation?

[BillyKaplan]

I just had the most amazing Levi HM run. He did the thing where the elemental converter was on but not really ready to use, basically trolled us into popping it too early. I'm thinking well, ok, that's a wipe, but no! The PLD Covered me, I was on AST, I got the other healer up, we got the tanks up, and we cleared. It was beautiful, I'm moved.
Good on you, PLD. Good on you.