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

[DumdogsWorld]

'Took some pretty potent painkillers this morning for some severe eye pain. It seems to be unrelated to computer use, because I get it from sleeping and doing other things as well.

Immediately, it would be illegal for me to drive or anything. You know, DUI's and all.

So what do I do? I queue for a trials roulette.

Low and behold, the dice roll decided on The Navel (Hard). Some time into the fight, I realized from looking at the party member list that both the healers were dead. I don't know if was the landslide move or the bomb boulders, but I don't think anybody else was able to rez people.

First, the other DPSs die.

Then one of the tanks. MT or OT, I don't know. I'm still stoned as of writing this.

Then the other tank gets trapped in a boulder. The fetters boulder.

Then I die trying to get him out.



In what kind of screwy, messed-up world is the last party member standing before a wipe the stoned dragoon?

[Valdima]

In what kind of screwy, messed-up world is the last party member standing before a wipe the stoned dragoon?

Are dragoons not stoned by default?

Anyway, I don't know how people fail at navel. I'd rather get that than get bismark or susuno.

[Aosha]

When I asked why they did not play Refresh their response was “Not on hotbar.”

I almost had a damn seizure when I read this.

[Anarnee]

Leveling my RDM, decide to do Leveling roulette as my final roulette.

My queue is surprisingly fast, I end up in Sohm Al. I love Sohm Al.

I start the dungeon with a "Hello there~!" and get no reply.

It's me, a DRK, a WHM and a green leaf DRG.

I assume the DRK and the WHM are together cause the WHM prots, then the DRK runs to the WHM and they just look at each other for a good few mins before we actually start.

The run is smooth, or at least I felt it was. The WHM didn't heal me during the first pull, I had a poison stack that just ticked me down slowly, I thought nothing of it cause the I'm RDM, I just did it myself.

with the exception of the DRG dying on the second boss cause no one helped me with the Green add, and all my CDs were on CD so I didn't have as much burst as I'd have liked, I got it close but not all the way down. I helped them heal up after the thing burst but the DRG died because they had the fire stack. No one stacked because it was clear we'd die if we did.

We finally get to the last boss, which is always fun, I'm not worried though.

The healer and the DRG leave the comets near the tank, then proceed to not run away from the aoe, and the tank is right in the middle. All three of them take a lot of dmg.

So I do my best to try and catch up with the healing, but the healer stands in the middle of Chaos blast and seemingly makes 0 effort to dodge, they die.

The healer says the first thing they've said in the run here "omfg" cept not abbreviated. I thought nothing of it. Maybe they're frustrated with themselves?

So I start healing, but we're not even at 50% so I try to switch between healing at dps.

The DRG leaves the comet next to the tank again, they don't dodge, and the tank dies cause I ran out of range of the comets and couldn't heal them. They die, the DRG dies, and then I die.

The tank takes the time to explain the fight for the DRG, and we go in again.

We get a little further this time, I decide to help with the healing a little sooner, but the healer is... Terrible at placing the comets? The DRG puts theirs down on the edge, and the healer puts theirs in the middle and sandwiches themselves in the edge between them? They get close to dying, and I heal them up again.

I'm healing everyone up, because this healer just seems to be having trouble.

They end up dying to another Chaos Blast, but this time we're past the wing phase, so it's a breeze to heal for the most part, a little close when the tank drops the comet and then nearly cleaves me with the boss.

At the end we do it and I type my usual "Happy journeys"

and the healer is the only one to reply "stfu"

...Ok...

Not like I just carried us through cause you couldn't do your job...

[Aosha]

And here we have a Black Mage with the AoE rotation of Thunder II, Blizzard III, (possibly Transpose based on the casting speed of the next one) Fire III, Fire III, Fire III, Fire III... and single target rotation of Blizzard III, Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire, Flare. Sometimes. It varied oh so wildly. I'm not even sure how one ends up with that. At level 68 (duty was Brayflox hard though). Confused.

[DevonEllwood]

I went through Castrum abania as a scholar with a warrior (260 axe, some level 60 accessories, only used his cooldowns outside of battle) and a red mage and samurai.

The second boss caused probably 4 wipes. It would start and end the same. Samurai gets agro from the tank, I have to heal two targets, I get agro from the tank, lucid dreaming doesn't help as I'm getting the agro right back, I didn't read what element I needed to be in in time, I die, we wipe, we repeat.

At that point I was thinking of leaving or I could find the best way to ask the samurai to use diversion. I asked them if they would use it. They said they were thinking about it. They end up using it once through the fight. It was enough for the tank to hold agro so I didn't have to heal multiple targets and everyone was able to read what elements they needed to be in in time. Just one button was all that was needed.

Aether wasn't safe either. I had to level my alt up and ended up in steps of faith via roulette. Warrior tank kept holding the adds dear the dragons butt so they never got hit by the cannons. We wiped at the dragon being at half health. Second time I ask people with add agro to bring them to the front of the dragon. I tell this to the tank two more times through the fight. Enough adds get killed this time so people can focus the dragon, one of the dragon killers worked, and we just barely squeaked in a win. I caught someone out of the corner of my eye in g-pose right in the middle of combat when the music starts picking up.
I am really not looking forward to the Shinryu fight.

[Anselmet]

At the end we do it and I type my usual "Happy journeys"

and the healer is the only one to reply "stfu"

...Ok...

Not like I just carried us through cause you couldn't do your job...

I'm sorry if this was me I would have absolutely lost it and reported them as soon as I left the dungeon if I didn't take the route of calling them out for their inability to heal.

[gumas]

iam tank and i just had the most either newbie or total bot party just now, the dungeon is not even that hard (stone vigil normal)

- no one talk/chat from start until finish

- ALL OF THEM NEVER TRY TO DODGE RED AOE, yes you saw it correct, they just stand and take it, from normal mobs until boss, ALL 3 OF THEM. they take damage and just keep doing their stuff, next red aoe come, they just keep doing their stuff. the only time they dodge aoe is the blue aoe attack from the last boss.

- healer (whm) just spam cure I, iam not joking from start until finish i never see him cast medica or stone or regen or cure II, nothing. only cure I AND only to me (tank), the moment i take damage he just spam cure I, everyone take damage, he dont care, only at boss he care though. but 80% of the time he just cure I to me until he out of mp or i die or he die.

- ALL 3 OF THEM ignore mechanic, 1st boss facing toward them, take the big damage, boss run to other side? take the big damage. boss 2? no one firing canon. boss 3? red aoe on one of them? stand and chill.

so basically, they never dodge aoe, healer only heal me (and only cure I) if someone else die, he keep cure I on me, dps doing their stuff but ignoring all mechanic, didnt even know limit break despite i spam limit break using auto translate feature.

what is this? a bot with wrong programming? toddler playing FF14? what? i can understand the mechanic part but, red aoe hurt you and still didnt move? not just one guy but ALL of them? wtf did i just party with?

[Noitems]

I assume the DRK and the WHM are together cause the WHM prots, then the DRK runs to the WHM and they just look at each other for a good few mins before we actually start.

Usually when this happens it's the tank and healer checking out each other's gear to see what they can handle. You don't want an extremely low IL tank dying to a couple of hits before the healer can heal and vice versa for the low IL healer barely keeping the tank alive. Could also be that they do know each other but in most df dungeons that's generally what happens.

But regardless that does sound like a mess. I can understand the DRG struggling as they're most likely new to the dungeon but that healer just sounds rude.

[Aosha]

Ran expert as ninja for once (why ninja? no clue!), and got an excellent party. For once, felt like I was the weakest link, and that's just from occasionally overcapping Ninki and letting Shadow Fang fall off for a few seconds here and there (I really feel like I should not play ninja...).
Everyone was nice in chat too, what a great run.
Guess my axe really is cursed.