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

[SannaR]

All of them obviously so that their healer friend doesn't have to heal them.

[Cheremia]

I've not run Ex primals in ages, but...

H-how many cooldowns does the ninja think you need to use per tankbuster...?

Isn't it obvious?
ALL OF THEM
FROM EVERY TANK

what do you mean you can't because you're not that class??? TRY HARDER!

And all buffs from dps/healers, too.

Obviously.

[Mixt]

Yeah, i've had that happen in my weekly O10s run.

I'm down to 30k HP from auto-attacks, the tankbuster is coming up.
So i jump into Shield Oath, pop Sentinel and Sheltron, and put Reprisal on the boss.
I promptly die anyway because that thing hits hard.

Cue the "We have a problem with the tank" comment from one of the healers.
Yeah sure, because that was totally my fault, the lack of healing or shields surely had nothing to do with it...

[Bright-Flower]

Isn't it obvious?
ALL OF THEM
FROM EVERY TANK

what do you mean you can't because you're not that class??? TRY HARDER!

And all buffs from dps/healers, too.

Obviously.

You need a four paladin party. Main tank uses every cd including hallowed ground while the other three hit sentinel + intervention.

It is the only way.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Unfortunately I've come across way too many healers that don't realize CDs aren't some magic "I can't die" button outside of actual invulns

Unless you're a dark knight, in a roulette with healers who don't realize that you still need healing to survive your invuln, and get pissy when you hit the floor.

[HyoMinPark]

Had quite the gem in a Suzaku farm party tonight.

Everything goes relatively until we pass her transition phase. I, on Warrior, pop CDs for Phantom Flurry yet proceed to hit the floor anyway. This persists for both myself and my Dark Knight co-tank as we die twice each—despite rotating cooldowns. In my case, I only ever one vul stack, which has never been an issue in the past. Afterwards, when I bring up these repeated death, the Astro points out I never had a shield. Turns out the Scholar only used Adlo for random autos, never bothered with it for the buster itself and relied entirely on Succor. Funny thing about that, it never hit me once. Even better, they were Physick spamming me through the actual hits. No Excog, Lustrate or Fey Union. When this got pointed out, they insisted they were shielding (my magic abacus says otherwise) and blamed the one vul stack... even though I died to the very first Buster... as in the one before colors even happens. They then blamed my gear. Yes, my i380 overmelded crafted gear was totally a problem for Suzaku EX.

That wasn't the best part. No, that came when their Ninja friend promptly chimed in, saying I should have used Anticipation. Vengeance and Rampart didn't save me, but that 30% Parry would have been a real game changer! I'm sure of it.

You forgot to mention how the SCH was actually Adlo-shielding the OFF-TANK during Phantom Flurry.

The OFF-TANK.
You know.
The one NOT currently taking the buster.

But, yes. 30% RNG parry will save you when your SCH doesn’t know how to play their job.


(I was the Diurnal AST in this party that pointed out the SCH wasn’t using shields apart from Succor on the MT).

[Dornob]

Tried to do a couple runs of Suzaku EX, and every time there was this one ninja who didn't get their bird (even after being told which one to grab) and I ended up dying because of it moving to me. And then the constant deaths (of others) on Simon...

I'm just so tired from the past couple of days of attempts and now I don't even know if I want to join clear parties at this point when I'm able to do the things right and yet I'm smacked at every turn.

[Bright-Flower]

Tried to do a couple runs of Suzaku EX, and every time there was this one ninja who didn't get their bird (even after being told which one to grab) and I ended up dying because of it moving to me. And then the constant deaths (of others) on Simon...

I'm just so tired from the past couple of days of attempts and now I don't even know if I want to join clear parties at this point when I'm able to do the things right and yet I'm smacked at every turn.

This is largely why I shy away from doing savage or extreme content.

I did Susano and Lakshmi ex in 4.0. Not difficult fights really. But I got so tired of people that couldn't run their lightning markers to the other side of the arena or position themselves with the cloud knockback safezone mechanic, forget what it was called. I'm not interested in committing to a schedule with a static but don't have the patience to deal with pugs in difficult content either. Not that I don't make mistakes, I don't mean someone making a couple mistakes and then learning from it as you learn a fight, I mean making the same mistakes over and over.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

I can't listen to Susano's music anymore. It makes me remember far too many hours spent watching pugs blast the party with lightning or failing to break me out of gaols in time.

[dragonseth07]

I mean making the same mistakes over and over.

Repeated Identical Failure.

It's why fights lose their fun factor VERY quickly.