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

[Ghishlain]

I was farming O11N on BLM to get a crank for my gloves and ended up queuing into a group that (I didn't know at the time) was either a 5/8 or 6/8 group. Double heals, single/double tank, double DPS. I lodestone'd the group later and found 5/8 of them from the same FC and the other tank might've been with them since I in-prog'd with them later (more on this later).

So, there is a new player bonus message, that's no problem with me. We have a wipe on Level Checker due to someone not being in the circles so we get a damage down debuff. Even with LB3 from me it wasn't enough to push the damage out.

We then have a wipe on the second attempt due to tether target remaining in centre of arena and everyone gets wiped on the subsequent Atomic Ray.

We then have a third wipe on... the very first Star/Lar mechanic (it kills both healers and every other DPS but me).

Vote Abandon is tossed out and passed.

I re-queue on BLM and eventually get a 9m in-prog pop. Sure, what could possibly go wrong? Every in-prog I've done to Alphascape normal thus far has been successful.

I zone into O11N with 6/8 of the same members from the previous run.

Well, I'll give them another shot.

I don't recall when but I think both healers got wiped out on a Lar/Star mechanic in the final half of the fight and since we had no SMN/RDM it was a wipe.

Another Vote Abandon, which passed.

Sooooo... I decide if I'm going to farm and that group is going around making a small mess of things, I'll just go on WHM and avoid them entirely.

Well, at least as a WHM I can pick up a lot of pieces. And boy did I pick up a lot of pieces. At one point during that run we were down to 2 tanks and 1 Healer (me). I'm just happy I got enough people back online before the next Electric Slide mechanic >>;

Twas... quite the evening to farm O11N. Got my crank two runs later after this one. Thankfully, those two runs were much less chaotic.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

If you and your friends make up 3/4 of the party, what's the point of using Vote Abandon?

[Kuroka]

no penalty of cause... >_>

[HyoMinPark]

Two crappy SCHs today—

One in V12N where 4 people died, no healer LB3 yet (LB3 bar was halfway full), and they refused to raise a single one of them. I had no MP to raise more than 2, and the BRD that subsequently died to AOE damage said they had Refresh ready. Asking them to raise, and they just... stood there. With 75% MP. Doing...nothing. By the time we got healer LB3, 3 people were dead, including the BRD and SAM that had been dead for about a minute, so I just healer LB3’d to get them up. Because I didn’t have any MP to actually raise them.

And then V10N where the SCH never had a fairy out. At all. Ever. And then them and their little BRD friend who did less damage than both tanks with zero deaths tried to say the SCH did all the healing during the run. Yes, that 1,700 HPS with that 500 DPS you had was very impressive. Totally did ALL the healing. The SCH died at about 15% and I just left them dead. Waste of my MP to raise a co-healer who would rather AFK instead of heal.


But I had an amazing AST co-healer in Alliance Raid Roulette (Dun Scaith). We kept drawing Expanded Balance after Expanded Balance, so Diabolos had about 100% Balance uptime with Diabolos Hollow at about 50% Balance uptime. XD But then someone ran the black ball that chases you into the party and killed half the raid, so we had to damage control instead of fishing for cards. They were super cool, though.

[NolLacnala]

You thought my i310 SMN in Saint's last week was good?

[Fayt1203]

Had really interesting alliance run thx to ddos attack.

was playing asta on the last boss of The Ridorana Lighthouse (Yiazmat) when on of the attack's happened and the fight got really challenging after that. Yiazmat had around 15 to 30% health left. and only one´s that was left after the dc was the one tank in my group 2 dbs and myself, in group B was one healer a and one or 2 dbs and in c was similar to group b everyone else were offline. the fight go even harder when Yiazmat whent into Growing Threat stage and my mana was low because of the raiseing that had to be done after the dc, Me and the tank were the only ones still alive after the dc and ofc lot af people where still offline but with like 8 people we still killed Yiazmat its was hard but also kinda fun

[Aster_E]

I started farming Omega normal for some music, and am nearly done with Sigma (just Movements I and III to go).

I had a run of o8 where the other healer, also a Whm, just used so much Medica II for every healing need. They also died a lot, including right after I used a Swiftcast to get one of the DPS up that wasn't doing too well either. So I used Presence + Thin Air and got the Whm up, went back to combining heals and DPSing as needed be. Then we won the fight...

Bad Whm: "Next time help use medica2!"
Me: "II is overkill"
Bad Whm: "USELESS!"
Me: "I was plenty"

They left before I could finish, saying Assize and Indulgence help too, more than the ticks from Medica II. I also would have called them out on dying and barely DPSing at all, something easily seen without a parser (I'm on PS4), but again they were no longer present. I did, however, get two of the comms. *shrugs*

Meanwhile, I was having a long night full of PUGs who just couldn't even. That run of o8n was the first after a friend joined me. Once we were out, he said "Damn, no wonder your brain is fried," as I had explained before he joined. Oh if he only knew. @_@

[Hiss13]

I've been running healer more often than bard lately for roulettes/trials etc and I ended up getting Hell's Lid on my AST for a 70 roulette. Everything seemed normal, Diurnal on, Protect, start down that slope to the first set of 3 crab adds - and the tank left party. Didn't say anything at all. NIN, MCH and I hung around a couple of mins before going "whatever" and set off 3manning the dungeon. MCH was in full 380 crafted so ended up tanking and just. I had so much fun in that dungeon doing it a 3 man. Obviously it was slower since I wasn't able to DPS so much what with keeping the MCH alive but I still got out a fair amount of DPS.

We'd just finished the 2nd boss when a tank from my FC queue'd into help and we promptly blasted through the last pulls and boss. Honestly I really wanna do that again =D

Is there a thing with tanks and Hell's Lid or something? I remember my first run of Hell's Lid started with the tank leaving the party before I even got out of the opening cutscene. It was...an experience.

[Heliantheae]

Just had the best PvP match. I got the 24 man one, which I love. There was me on SCH, a PLD, and six DPS. And this PLD, let me tell you. He was nigh unkillable without my help. And us SCH's are slippery and ourselves and need teamwork to be taken down. And even then I pop Sprint if things get too hairy. There was this one fight where the red team tried this teamwork thing. I pushed back by a WHM and then Holmganged by a WAR. But our PLD was having none of that and popped his Limit and then I popped my Limit and we got out of there. But this one BRD was persistent. I hit him with Chain Strategem and like all six of our DPS jumped them. We were up by like 200 points by the end.

And PLD if you read this, you were great. You left before I could comm you.

[Jade3173]

was doing o11n for the weekly and decided to go in as BRD since it's getting the gear anyways. Was surprised when someone took the tether that does the AoE paralyze away cause normally it's a frantic mess with that thing. So being BRD figured I'd do the nice MNK a favor and Paean them. Then in chat they go "bard commd" cause apparently they don't see people playing their classes well