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

[KaivaC]

I just had a confidence boost that I really needed after my last three stories that I shared here. V10N, when learning the boss' patterns (in, out, cross - you know what I mean if you fought there), I pretty died to every single one of them, even after the initial wipe, because I got so thrown by the boss doing it twice before casting. I apologized to my party for screwing them up and told them that it was my fault we wiped, told them if they wanted to replace me, it was understandable. I don't recall a time when the whole party took the time out to cheer me up. One of the tanks cleared up the in-out-cross pattern for me, and even though I messed up and ate a vuln stack, and died to another attack later on in the fight, they told me not to give up.

Wasn't expecting to get 7 comms. I want to give thanks to that group, if they happen to visit the forums. I even ran V10N again, and did much better this time, so you guys really helped a lot.

[Namallama]

This s the first patch I’ve had a bad experience with. Queued up for o11 as DRK, the WAR was in their dps stance so I took the lead. This was my first time (obviously, it’s the first day) but the SCH called me a shitter and a useless monkey anyways. Someone put up a vote kick on him but it failed, then a vote kick went up for the AST - who accidentally use nocturnal and immediately switched to diurnal after the wipe - and it went through. I left before a replacement healer joined, requeued right away to one-shot him without anyone calling anyone names.

Yeah, I don't remember people being this nasty, not even during Day 1 Ivalice raids where everyone has a bad time lol

It's sorta left a sour taste in my mouth for something I should be hyped for, but I just need to let it stew for a few days until I get over it. It's whatever, I'll likely never see them again. They were probably in the same FC or something too, all things considered. OH WELL LOL, live and let live.

[Heliantheae]

The Burn
It's an MSQ dungeon, how hard could it be? I went in not expecting to have to do stuff. The boss set me right. The first wipe was 100% my fault because again I wasn't expecting anything to unforgiving. All those AoEs and freezes. After that, I set up and started paying closer attention. There were a couple more wipes. I swear the hitbox on that spread attack is bigger than it shows. There were times where I wasn't even in it to begin with and I still got frozen. Fourth attempt, I went full on "raid mode" and used everything in my toolkit. No one dropped below 50% health and it was super smooth. Even though people got frozen when they were out of the AoE.

Auspice
After two wipes of failing the DPS check we cleared. The tank was the only one who wasn't new. He was like, "Watch out, you can fall in the middle after this." Guess what happened a little bit later. He fell in. Then some point later the other tank fell in. Does she have a pull? I loved the DDR section. And the exploding platforms was neat. I got hit twice before I figured it out. First time I thought I had to stay opposite the bird. Second time was when all the orbs showed up together and I stood in the first one. That was on of the funnest fights.

[Mixt]

Rathalos Normal in Trial Roulette.

SAM uses LB 3 while the boss is flying, does basically no damage.

SAM: Why it no do damage?
Others: You should only use LB while he is on the ground
SAM: The more you know
Me: One would think it was obvious with the defense buff he has while flying...
SAM: WHO FUCKING CARES!

And then he leaves instantly.

Gee, someone's offended

[Skivvy]

The Burn
It's an MSQ dungeon, how hard could it be? I went in not expecting to have to do stuff. The boss set me right. The first wipe was 100% my fault because again I wasn't expecting anything to unforgiving. All those AoEs and freezes. After that, I set up and started paying closer attention. There were a couple more wipes. I swear the hitbox on that spread attack is bigger than it shows. There were times where I wasn't even in it to begin with and I still got frozen. Fourth attempt, I went full on "raid mode" and used everything in my toolkit. No one dropped below 50% health and it was super smooth. Even though people got frozen when they were out of the AoE.

oOOF. That last boss. With my first group it also took us four tries to clear the thing. I wasn't looking forward to getting into that fight again so soon.

So a little bit later I was trying to queue up for the new trial, totally forgot I still had The Burn checked also, and I ended up right back in it. D: Thankfully we had an easier time with it in the 2nd group, although we still had a wipe at the end.

[ChaoticCrimson]

Queued yesterday to do Suzaku normal for the first time. Ended up getting dropped into a duty in progress. I say my greetings saying I was new to the fight as I see a couple brief lines with one person making a frustrated comment (can't remember the specifics) and another reminding them it's new content. Group is still at seven members, and before I even have time to ask what's happened or say anything else I'm back in Reisen Temple, with a message in the chat stating the duty is ended... I was too baffled at the time to realize I was probably kicked for... literally no reason? Thankfully it didn't take too long to get back into another instance, but that was such a bizarre thing to happen.

[Ghishlain]

Using Rescue to pull a SMN all the way out in left field into the AoE range of my healing partner's Earthly Star when 7/8 people were already standing in it after raid buster goes out in O11N.

^___________^

[SannaR]

Yesterday for my 1st time in The Burn I got an inprog at the last boss on healer. I'm not sure if the dps that ended up leaving told everyone including the healer I replaced or not that they were on a time limit at the start or not, but I entered and said hi only to get a complaint about the last healer having the balls to go afk for 10mins. We wipe twice on the last boss the 1st time gave me an Ah-ha moment in that it's Rydia's mom mist dragon fight from IV where you don't attack the boss while it's in mist form. Anyway the short on time dps had to leave and another quickly replaces them and we easily clear.
I loved the group I did the other dungeon with as everyone was new and stuck with it as we figured out what to do on the last boss and how to deal with the slimes.

[Kacho_Nacho]

I'm one of those people who love Aurum Vale. I find it to be one of those dgns that is everything it's supposed to be: it's topographically inclined to give players a challenge, the roaming mobs tests your positional awareness and the boss battles keep you on your toes. When I think of what kind of harder content I want out of dgns, I think of Aurum Vale as the ideal template to start from.

Me too! I enjoy the challenge of it.

[Mesarthim]

Saint Mocianne hard's last boss is going to drive me nuts in pugs. Last group kept hitting the slime to the wall.

Did anyone order damage downs? Wiping is pretty much impossible in there though while I'm on healer.