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

[Anienai]

But here's the kicker: instead of just backing up and saying "hey, I'll let someone else MT this" each of them spammed provoke, talked smack to each other and pretty much everyone else who spoke up to say a healer needed a res or something that had nothing to do with them. Aggro went everywhere, three full raid wipes, lots of smack talk

/roehug

[Aosha]

I unlocked RDM a long while back and recall Jolt is great for proccing that faster cast thing, is there another non-AoE that is fast as well in the mid-60s?

Well, there's Verfire and Verstone, if those happen to proc from your Verthunder/aero. And then you get Impact at 66, which becomes available every time you've done Jolt.
Simple RDM flowchart because I like making these :P
(the bit about Impact going over Verfire/stone if it'd otherwise fall off I'm not sure is accurate, that's just what I heard somewhere).

[DumdogsWorld]

This is not a tale about a specific run, but rather a specific trial - Vishap.

I main DRG. Usually, I'm lucky to get any commendations at all, and I'm okay with that. I still get them here and there, but it's usually like one or two at most. Not for Vishap, though. It seems to be the norm for me to get 3 or more on that fight.

I don't mind at all, but I simply don't get it...I'm really not doing anything special, let alone anything to earn those commendations. I just stand in the middle of Vishap's ground circle and hit him over and over again. I dodge an AOE here and there. That's it. That's literally all I'm doing.

[LilMightBeACannibal]

Had the three tanks in a pissing contest in wipehouse last night that i felt like DPSing. Final boss, they had had enough of each other, argued over who was doing what wrong and in our party, our WAR was saying that the other two were "f--king morons" and should "off themselves." Granted, no one was doing great as a tank. One was a PLD who was tanking against the back wall exclusively, our WAR who instead of mitigating would try to dodge moves (like the tank busters and autos) and keep moving the boss, and a DRK who just had no awareness of the party (would stand in AoEs, turn/drag boss into majority of raid, etc.). But here's the kicker: instead of just backing up and saying "hey, I'll let someone else MT this" each of them spammed provoke, talked smack to each other and pretty much everyone else who spoke up to say a healer needed a res or something that had nothing to do with them. Aggro went everywhere, three full raid wipes, lots of smack talk, and I just left them with "please don't have a pissing contest when you're all equally trash, thanks." And people wonder why I insist on MT'ing for raids.

"Why are mommy and daddy fighting?" - All of the onlookers

[Enla]

I get that healing can be intimidating. Hell there was a period of time I got extreme anxiety even trying to do it myself. But if you're solo-healing an instance, even an old one, please make sure you're up to the task. Spamming medica when no damage is going out then complaining about a lack of mana is not going to help you out much. Let alone when the two DPS who could have helped you with mana shift have been dead for several minutes due to no one else stacking with them and you show no signs of actually remembering you have raise on your hotbar.

Thankfully after that I had a very blissful farm of the same instance with another party. Even got a dog out of the bargain after switching to healer myself so all's well that ends well. I just wish people who don't know their class as a healer would avoid trying to solo-heal... With two healers someone else can pick up your slack, but when it's just you then every single flaw is magnified to the nth degree. Don't do it unless you're confident you can handle it. And if not that's fine! Just practice more outside of a farm party.

[Callinon]

This is not a tale about a specific run, but rather a specific trial - Vishap.

I main DRG. Usually, I'm lucky to get any commendations at all, and I'm okay with that. I still get them here and there, but it's usually like one or two at most. Not for Vishap, though. It seems to be the norm for me to get 3 or more on that fight.

I don't mind at all, but I simply don't get it...I'm really not doing anything special, let alone anything to earn those commendations. I just stand in the middle of Vishap's ground circle and hit him over and over again. I dodge an AOE here and there. That's it. That's literally all I'm doing.

You put pointy thing in big dragon, make big dragon fall down go boom.

[Odd]

I had a really strange run of Amdapor Keep last night. Not one trash mob appeared between the 2nd and last boss. I’ve been there at least 100 times, and know the route like the back of my hand. But I began to think we were going the wrong way, back to the start. Then I saw the purple aura of the last boss doorway, and knew we had just experienced a welcome glitch.

[Callinon]

I had a really strange run of Amdapor Keep last night. Not one trash mob appeared between the 2nd and last boss. I’ve been there at least 100 times, and know the route like the back of my hand. But I began to think we were going the wrong way, back to the start. Then I saw the purple aura of the last boss doorway, and knew we had just experienced a welcome glitch.

That's not a glitch. By any chance did you join an in-progress run? And so did the rest of your party?

A common bot leveling method is to manipulate all the trash mobs in AK to the starting area, blow them all up for the exp and drops, and then leave the instance. Sometimes normal players get caught in this and end up with an in-progress run that has no trash mobs.

[griffinborn]

That's not a glitch. By any chance did you join an in-progress run? And so did the rest of your party?

A common bot leveling method is to manipulate all the trash mobs in AK to the starting area, blow them all up for the exp and drops, and then leave the instance. Sometimes normal players get caught in this and end up with an in-progress run that has no trash mobs.

I figured it was bot related. This happened to me twice on AK.

[Odd]

That's not a glitch. By any chance did you join an in-progress run? And so did the rest of your party?

A common bot leveling method is to manipulate all the trash mobs in AK to the starting area, blow them all up for the exp and drops, and then leave the instance. Sometimes normal players get caught in this and end up with an in-progress run that has no trash mobs.

Nope, we were all there from the start.