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

[Cincierta]

Last night I queued up for roulette as healer, and rolled the Vault. I said my hellos and checked the group's gear (this is becoming a habit at this point for me); everyone's got decent gear thankfully...though the tank really needed to update their right side. Normal ironworks gear and that brand-new ring really don't belong in mid-HW content.

Party comp was WAR, NIN, SMN, and me on AST. We get a notice that someone was new to the dungeon. For the most part of the first hallway everything is going normally, then we get to the first boss. The second the smn asks about mechanics for the first boss the war pulls.

While I manage to keep the party alive (save for the smn nearly getting one-shot twice by the green marker and the nin eating a double bleed), I suddenly see our war tank sitting at 3k hp and start mashing cures and ED when I notice something else: he was stance-dancing at the worst possible times (you know the first boss' frontal cleave? He'd swap a couple seconds before that so suddenly his hp would get nuked). When we finally down the first boss and loot the chest, I check the tank again...and I wish I didn't. He had swapped from his lvl 56 vendor gear on his left side to lvl 53 dungeon gear. I'm fairly certain it doesn't give you as much hp and defense as 56+ gear does, though if I'm wrong someone correct me with ye olde napkin math.

I start playing it more and more safe with the tank when they continue to stance-dance up to the second boss. Hoo boy. I pointed out a few things about the boss to the smn before the tank could pull, and the Bull boy fight starts off normally enough to phase change. However the minute he starts opening up tears and dropping his balls around the arena is where things go south. Second knockback after he dumps 4 tears somehow the tank eats 4 vul stacks, and nearly dies. During this time the war tank is still stance-dancing when they really shouldn't be.

The second the gravity well hits the floor, the ninja, of all people in our group, moseys on over and manually pops them himself. Yes, a dps eating a perfectly dodgeable aoe that the tank really should pop themselves. Third knockback everyone but me eats more vul stacks, leaving the ninja at 4, smn at 3, and the war tank at a whopping 8 stacks. The icing on the cake was when the boss drops yet another ball on the floor and the ninja, sitting at half-health, runs over to pop it.

Needless to say he died instantly. I hit my macro to swiftcast res the ninja and get him back up, and suddenly the war went from 3/4 health to dead from a frontal cleave. She hit Holmgang too early and I couldn't save her, on top of being in Deliverance. We wipe and respawn, and reminded them that everyone needs to watch where they get knocked back to avoid getting vul stacks from tears, otherwise having that many makes it pretty much impossible for me to save you. Second run goes better (tank still got 4 vul stacks, but it's a lot better than 8). We open the chest and suddenly our tank is off sprinting, but stops for every trash pull and continues to do this to the final boss.

I inform the party about the mechanics to watch out for (run away if you're chained, dodge ground aoes and chess knights), and for the most part it goes smoothly until the last 10%. Somehow server ticks were still working on the smn when the chain broke and left him at critical hp and he immediately got deleted with Altar Pyre. And yes, during this time the war was still stance-dancing at the worst possible times, so almost the entire boss fight I couldn't even pop off a consistent Combust since I was busy healing.

I ended up comming the ninja for being a real trooper though.

[Astrus]

[...] He had swapped from his lvl 56 vendor gear on his left side to lvl 53 dungeon gear. I'm fairly certain it doesn't give you as much hp and defense as 56+ gear does, though if I'm wrong someone correct me with ye olde napkin math.
[...]

No, you're quite right there, the level 56 gear should've served them better.
Even when taking into account vendor bought NQ gear the level 56 vendor tank chest in NQ has 183 Defense and 54 Vitality, the level 53 tank chest as a dungeon drop, being inherently HQ, has 167 Defense and 59 Vitality.

I didn't really delve into the numbers but the 18 additional Defense should outweight the 5 Vitality or come close enough to make switching make no sense.
If it was HQ gear it was just plain better in all respects.

[Bamboofox]

This guy disconnected in the middle of Alphascape V2.0.

[Aramina]

This guy disconnected in the middle of Alphascape V2.0.

At least he was honest? I guess? Lol.

[HyoMinPark]

This guy disconnected in the middle of Alphascape V2.0.

S Ranks are srs bsns.

[RenAshdoll]

Feel good moment once in a while when doing Expert Roulette; Queue up as a nin ( raiding main, but I have a preference for smn when doing roulettes), and got another nin dps for GD. Mobs were getting burned faster than I thought it will be, with the 2 dps goading each other (the skill lol). Send a comm to the nin when the run ended (pretty sure the comm I got was from him lol).

I decided to dust off my whm and queue for a trial roulette and got a party when 2-3 new players. Wiped once near the start as the adds weren't burned down at the start, with the 2nd run being butt clenching due to the large number of death (at one pt, only 3 players were alive) including me due to loss of concentration. Thankfully we managed to clear the fight lol

[HyoMinPark]

Just had an... interesting... Orbonne. 18 mins in-progress; I’m on AST—I come in to the add right before TGC. About halfway into TGC, I realized why the healer before me left.

Between TGC and Ultima, I think I cast Raise at least 30 times on just people in MY party. And I wish I was exaggerating that number.

Every T.G. Holy Sword? BLM and DRG got hit by it—after the first two (with 2 vuln stacks each now), they died to it. Someone ran through the party with Crush Weapon, killed me and the other healer, and literally everyone except the tank (I was literally standing up TGC’s butt inside his hitbox and they still ran into me—like why).

Before Ultima’s little intermission, I had raised the DRG once, the BLM twice, and my co-healer twice. During Ultima’s intermission, I was the only one alive except the MCH, because DRG/BLM died to Earth Hammer, and everyone else ran the wrong way for Hashmal’s dash (major Rabanastre flashbacks). After the intermission, the alliance decided LOL WE DON’T NEED TO STAND IN THE LITTLE CIRCLE THINGS FOR THE ADD GUYS—massive vulns on the entire alliance. During the maze, half my party blew up to Acceleration Bomb (Weeping City flashbacks). I was like “Come on, guys. You’re killing me here...”

Only the BLM was new, btw. Everyone else had multiple pieces of gear from there.

And, of course, one comm. Despite me doing most of the raising and the healing. I’m sure my co-healer got the rest of them, despite dying 8 times.

Healing really is a thankless job...
I would like to thank the BRD and MCH for all those Refresh they were giving me. I sure as heck needed them.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Just had an... interesting... Orbonne. 18 mins in-progress; I’m on AST—I come in to the add right before TGC. About halfway into TGC, I realized why the healer before me left.

Between TGC and Ultima, I think I cast Raise at least 30 times on just people in MY party. And I wish I was exaggerating that number.

Every T.G. Holy Sword? BLM and DRG got hit by it—after the first two (with 2 vuln stacks each now), they died to it. Someone ran through the party with Crush Weapon, killed me and the other healer, and literally everyone except the tank (I was literally standing up TGC’s butt inside his hitbox and they still ran into me—like why).

Before Ultima’s little intermission, I had raised the DRG once, the BLM twice, and my co-healer twice. During Ultima’s intermission, I was the only one alive except the MCH, because DRG/BLM died to Earth Hammer, and everyone else ran the wrong way for Hashmal’s dash (major Rabanastre flashbacks). After the intermission, the alliance decided LOL WE DON’T NEED TO STAND IN THE LITTLE CIRCLE THINGS FOR THE ADD GUYS—massive vulns on the entire alliance. During the maze, half my party blew up to Acceleration Bomb (Weeping City flashbacks). I was like “Come on, guys. You’re killing me here...”

Only the BLM was new, btw. Everyone else had multiple pieces of gear from there.

And, of course, one comm. Despite me doing most of the raising and the healing. I’m sure my co-healer got the rest of them, despite dying 8 times.

Healing really is a thankless job...
I would like to thank the BRD and MCH for all those Refresh they were giving me. I sure as heck needed them.

At least u got a comm for it

My o11n RDM run I got zero comms despite ressing both healers who died on every single star/larboard on top of ressing the DPS and tanks who were dying from the lack of heals

I didn't even get the simple gesture of a "thank you" comment in chat which sure I can't always expect that but when I'm literally the one keeping an entire party of 8 alive while the two healers are busy consulting the floor........at least the simplest form of appreciation or heck "a B for effort" would've been fine rather than the "I'll take my loot and leave" that people always do

[Anarnee]

I ran into another gem of a BLM in WoD today.

I didn't start watching them until Cerberus thankfully cause I probably would have had an aneurysm. They kept using the LB. So I started watching them and realized their rotation consisted of Thunder III, BREAK, FLARE, FLARE... Wait for a minute.... FLARE... THUNDER III, FIRE II (On a single target...) FLARE... WAIT... BREAK. FLARE. LB. FLARE. WAIT...

......

-covers mouth-

I'm having flash backs to the time I was healing WoD and I had the FIRE III, BLIZZARD III, FIRE III, BLIZZARD III.

I'm so triggered right now.

[LyraMaru]

I ran into another gem of a BLM in WoD today.

I didn't start watching them until Cerberus thankfully cause I probably would have had an aneurysm. They kept using the LB. So I started watching them and realized their rotation consisted of Thunder III, BREAK, FLARE, FLARE... Wait for a minute.... FLARE... THUNDER III, FIRE II (On a single target...) FLARE... WAIT... BREAK. FLARE. LB. FLARE. WAIT...

......

-covers mouth-

I'm having flash backs to the time I was healing WoD and I had the FIRE III, BLIZZARD III, FIRE III, BLIZZARD III.

I'm so triggered right now.

I'm so sorry that you had do go through this but it makes me a really hard laugh

I personally don't understand why it's so hard playing a BLM properly. I've ran into some Icemages, Thundermages or Freezemages and sometimes they've made me really annoyed. Especially if the tank does big pulls.

I don't get it why a tank does big pulls if one or both DPS aren't AOEing and the healer just heals and then stands around.