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

[linay]

My static cleared UwU today. I could not imagine ever doing anything remotely close to that level of content back when I first started playing this game about three and a half years ago. I can't really process my thoughts into words.

Well, putting my thought into word: Congratulations!

[Tofuuuu]

Had a Vault run earlier for my alt on leveling roulette as summoner.

Everything was going smoothly and tank kept aggro until the last boss for some reason they dropped defiance prior to pulling or maybe they dropped it after starting the fight but they weren't in deliverance either.
I was creeping on aggro while lucid/diversion was on cooldown, so the other dps stole it after I used lucid dreaming & they died after orb phase. Swiftcasted raise them, healer was halfway low on MP so I manashifted them.
Healer took aggro from the boss as well while the entire party's hp was half depleted and glad the fight didn't drag any further. I'm sure we would had wiped since swiftcast had another 30s left on cooldown since it was starting to become a bit dangerous.
Gave the healer my commendation for going through that.

[Aosha]

Sohm-Al with a first timer who did everything just fine (contrast to below), and a great scholar who helped with explaining things.
Aery with a (non-1st timer) Samurai who ignored others getting trapped in the sable price, causing a wipe since the healer died. Didn't use Higanbana at all.
Vault with an excellent White Mage, and two Samurai (no 1st timers at all). One skipped out on Higanbana, the other used it on everything, even things at 2%. Neither could do chains right on the last boss, just happily standing in the middle while the healer is mashing her face into the furthest corner, which is still not far enough (both SAMs died to this once, as the WHM still managed to barely keep herself alive through it.
Wanderer's Palace with a Bard who'd DoT at most one enemy at a time, would only sing during bosses (and not necessarily even then), wouldn't Quick Nock, always used Rain of Death over Bloodletter, and actively tried killing the adds in the lats fight despite me putting a "don't hit" marker on them.

My DF luck is quickly developing into a minor meme with my FC.

[Mistyregions]

I'm so confused how do you get through the area without killing the bosses to activate the trigger?

[kidalutz]

I'm so confused how do you get through the area without killing the bosses to activate the trigger?

Obvious cheating

[Alteriius]

Just did duty roulette and ended up in Sastasha and actually wiped. Tank was brand new. So busy trying to avoid enemies that he ended up pulling pretty much half the dungeon. Wasn't using any cooldowns, so naturally ended up dead before I could heal him. Tank didn't know how to control enmity, so naturally I ended up with it from healing him constantly and the archer tried to convince me it was from using aero? And before anyone asks, no I wasn't attacking first. Barely even got to.

I'm not even mad; I'm just confused.

[RokkuEkkusu]

When I did "Alliance Raid Roulette" as PLD (tank was "Adventurer in Need" at the time), I ended up at Rabanastre.

For the Hashmal battle, every other member in my party except me got knocked out once by either Hashmal's divebomb attack, purple aoes, or proximity aoes. I used Clemency and timed my defensive cooldowns when big unavoidable hits came out to stay alive. The healers and Red Mages in the other alliances were kind enough to res my other party members.

But the real shocker came during the Argath Thadalfus battle. All of the other party members in my alliance except me got knocked out by taking too much stacks from failing the Truth/Lie mechanic, get hit too often by avoidable aoes, or being too close to the proximity aoe (most of it happened from the Truth/Lie portion.)

We beat the alliance raid without wipes. But I became the sole survivor of my party only because I was geared to the teeth with full i390 with the Seiryu EX weapons, and the other alliances were competent enough to survive. I got 4 commendations after leaving the instance.

At the end of they day, don't let your guard down and don't underestimate bosses who are easier than the earlier ones (people getting knocked out to Argath Thadalfus's mechanics continuously come to mind.)

[Alusan_Ilossa]

Oldie but a goldie. Ran Aery with my wife who mains healer, I main tank. This run, she wanted to level up her ninja, so no pocket healer for me. Whatever, most healers in the game have no real trouble unless I do massive pulls, and even then, this was well after the majority of players (myself, my wife and our random healer) had hit HW max. I had Full Shire (maybe augmented even, I forget honestly) gear for DRK, Healer had full Augmented Shire for AST. Most of the dungeon goes okay, if not a little close for comfort, as healer's pumping out gravity like it's going out of style. We get to the part where all the pillars fall down and make a path right before the room with all the like 2-hit dragons. We've cleared out way up the ramp to the last 3 trash mobs before that room and my CDs are down aside from Living Dead, and suddenly I notice I'm at 1/4th of my health. I know better than to stand in AoEs so I'm sitting here like "What's happening, why am I dying?" I take a good quick look around (battle chat) and notice the healer hasn't cast a single healing spell since before the ramp. Needless to say, I died. When I asked him what happened after respawning he says "It's not my job to keep you alive, use your CDs." He got booted REAL quick after he said that.

[MisterMKay]

Ran MSQ Roulette the other night and got Castrum. Easy enough run, right? From the get go, the main tank starts pulling all of the mobs and proceeds to kite them around. For the entire dungeon. Which meant I couldn't Holy down mobs and struggled to catch him to heal. The other tank is new and didn't really try to take over. The MT kites most trash around the dungeon and after the second tower down, the main tank proceeds to say "I'm drunk. I don't know where I'm going. I need an adult!" Like... come on... If you're going to drink, that's fine. Don't don't play trashed to the point where you can't play well. Or at all.

[DumdogsWorld]

Ran MSQ Roulette the other night and got Castrum. Easy enough run, right? From the get go, the main tank starts pulling all of the mobs and proceeds to kite them around. For the entire dungeon. Which meant I couldn't Holy down mobs and struggled to catch him to heal. The other tank is new and didn't really try to take over. The MT kites most trash around the dungeon and after the second tower down, the main tank proceeds to say "I'm drunk. I don't know where I'm going. I need an adult!" Like... come on... If you're going to drink, that's fine. Don't don't play trashed to the point where you can't play well. Or at all.

Reminds me of the time I got a drunk tank on Xelphatol in a 50/60 roulette. The tank fell asleep after the 2nd boss, and for some reason, we didn't bother to kick him. Instead, we finished up the remaining mobs and the 3rd boss with me being the guy to hold aggro (as DRG). Well, at least we won.